Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:46:58 -0600
From: "Tang, Wayne L." <wtang@mayerbrown.com>
To: <timalderete@yahoo.com>
Dear Colleague:
On behalf of the Maine East H.S. Debate Team and Maine East High
School, we would like to invite you to the Eighth Annual Maine East
Debate Tournament (Regatta). It will take place on February 22-24,
2002. Our tournament has been designated as a finals level qualifier
for the Tournament of Champions. Last year we were able to host 62
teams in the open division and 40 teams in the novice division. Morgan
Park H.S. defeated Dowling H.S. in the open division while Glenbrook
North H.S. defeated Cedar Rapids Washington H.S. in the novice division.
Please note our tournament has six preliminary rounds in both divisions.
We hope that you and your squad will be able to attend a hopefully snow
and misdemeanor free tournament.
Dates: Friday through Sunday, February 22-24, 2002
Place: Maine East High School
2601 W. Dempster
Park Ridge, IL 60068
Tab Room: As they did last year, Linda Oddo of New Trier, Matt
Whipple of Glenbrook South, and Tim Alderete of East Grand Rapids will
be supervising our tab staff.
Events: We will be offering a Novice Division (first year debaters) and
an Open Division in cross examination style switch side debate. The
format will be 8-3-5 with 8 minutes prep time. There will be six
preliminary rounds with four powered rounds. Elimination rounds will
begin with octo finals or partial doubles if numbers dictate.
Topic: Resolved: That the United States federal government should
establish a foreign policy significantly limiting the use of weapons of
mass destruction.
Awards: Top eleven speakers in each division and all elimination round
participants.
Chaperones: Each school must be supervised by an official coach or
assistant coach
Judging: Each school will be required to provide one judge for
every two teams entered in the tournament. High school students must
have at least 3 years debate experience to judge the novice division.
Judges are obligated one round beyond the furthest advancing team from
their school. A limited number of hired judges will be available at a
rate of $90.00 per team. One judge is needed to cover each team, thus
if you have two teams and hire a judge, you will owe $180.00. We
understand that these fees are high but these fees are designed to give
teams incentives to hire their own judges.
Fees: $40.00 per team. Please make checks payable to Maine East High
School.
Lodging: Limited housing is available for teams needing to stay
overnight. Maine East is in close proximity to a number of relatively
inexpensive hotels at the Milwaukee and Lake Avenue intersection.
Baymont Inn (847) 635-8300 Fairfield (847) 299-1600
Courtyard (847) 803-2500 DoubleTree (847) 803-9800
Best Western (847) 965-6400 Radisson (847)
298-2525
Motel 6 (847) 390-7200
Hyatt Deerfield (the Glenbrooks Hotel, but twice as far) (847) 945-3400
Meals: Inexpensive meals and snacks will be available throughout the
day on Friday and Saturday.
Registration: Please fill in the attached registration form and send
or fax it by Thursday, February 14, 2002. You may also e-mail your
entries to wtang@mayerbrown.com. The fax number at school is (847)
692-8499. Entries must be confirmed between 10:00 AM and noon, Friday,
February 22, 2002.
Tentative Tournament Schedule
Friday, February 22, 2002
Confirm entries between 10:00AM and noon by calling (847)
692-8500
Registration: 3:00 PM
to 4:00 PM
Round One (the Abrahamian-Velazquez Round):
4:30 PM
Round Two (the Ahmed-Volpert Round):
6:00 PM
Dinner: 7:30 to
8:00 PM
Round Three (the Ghoshal-Laurin Round):
8:00 PM
Saturday, February 23, 2002
Round Four (the Ghoshal-Konieczny Round): 8:00 AM
Round Five (the Muench-Patel Round):
10:30 AM
Lunch:
12:30AM to 1:30 PM
Round Six (the Lenny Gail Round):
1:30 PM
Octos (the Brook Dooley Tutorial):
3:30 PM
Awards Assembly 5:30PM
Quarters (the Lauren Kaplan Tutorial): 6:00PM
Sunday, February 25, 2002
Semifinals (the Jon Holbrook Tutorial): 10:00 AM
Finals (the Nancy Wallace Tutorial): 12:00 PM
Directions: Maine East H.S. is located at the corner of Dempster and
Potter Roads in Park Ridge. There is a Dempster Road exit on I-294
north which is just west of the school. Coming south on I-294, exit on
Gulf Road East, take a right on Potter and go down to Dempster. Please
call for more specific directions.
If you have any questions contact Wayne Tang at work (312) 701-8609 or
home (773) 871-5349 or by E-mail wtang@mayerbrown.com. Thank you and we
hope to see you in February.
___________________________
____________________________
Ed Eubank, Heather
Moore,
Director of Fine Arts Captain Maine
East Debate Team
___________________________
____________________________
Wayne Tang, Martin
Zacharia,
Debate Coach Captain Maine
East Debate Team
MAINE EAST DEBATE TOURNAMENT
DEBATE COACH: _____________________________________________________
SCHOOL: _____________________________________________________
ADDRESS:
_____________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________
PHONE: _____________________________________________________
NOVICE TEAMS
TEAM #1 ____________________ & ________________________
TEAM #2 ____________________ & ________________________
JUDGE: __________________________________
TEAM #3 ____________________ & ________________________
TEAM #4 ____________________ & ________________________
JUDGE: __________________________________
OPEN TEAMS
TEAM #1 ____________________ & ________________________
TEAM #2 ____________________ & ________________________
JUDGE: __________________________________
TEAM #3 ____________________ & ________________________
TEAM #4 ____________________ & ________________________
JUDGE: __________________________________
Use additional sheets if you need to enter more teams. Please return or
fax this form by Thursday February 14, 2002. Please make checks payable
to Maine East High School.
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