Dear fellow Forensic Moderators and Coaches:
The Bridgewater Raritan High School Forensics Team cordially invites you to the Bridgewater Raritan
Tournament on Saturday, January 18th, 2014. January is right around the corner so we are hoping you
can make arrangements to attend our event. There will be good competition as well as good food and a
great overall tournament experience.
We are offering all ten NJFL speech events including Humorous Interpretation, Dramatic Interpretation,
Duo Interpretation, Prose Reading, Poetry Reading, Original Oratory, Extemporaneous Speaking,
Impromptu, Improvisational Acting and Declamation*(OPEN TO 9TH &10TH GRADERS ONLY).
Varsity and novice Public Forum Debate and Varsity and Novice Lincoln-Douglas Debate will also be
offered, along with Student Congress (Novice LD and PF is open to 9th or 10th graders in their first year
of debate).
Students may double enter in any of the speech events, but may not double enter if competing in
student congress or debate (LD or PF). There will be three preliminary rounds and a final round in all
speech events, as well as two sessions of Congress. There will be four rounds of both debate categories
and no finals. Awards will be presented to the top six competitors in each event and the top three
schools. There may be awards for the highest ranking novice in each category as well.
We ask that you register your novice speech competitors separately from your varsity on Speechwire.
Speech Events
Student Congress
Improvisational Acting
Extemporaneous Speaking
Impromptu Speaking
Original Oratory
Declamation (9th & 10 graders only)
Prose Reading
Humorous Interpretation
Poetry Reading
Public Forum Debate (2 divisions)
Dramatic Interpretation
Lincoln-Douglas Debate (2 divisions)
Duo Interpretation
Debate
In Lincoln-Douglas debate students will be debating the January/February topic:
2014 January/February Topic
Resolved: Developing countries should prioritize environmental protection over resource extraction
when the two are in conflict.
In Public Forum Debate students will be debating the January resolution:
2014 January Topic
Resolved: Development assistance should be prioritized over military aid in the Sahel region of Africa.
Congress: ****Please submit all Congress bills to Namor720@yahoo.com no later than Friday, January
10th, 2014. We would like to add the bills to SpeechWire by Saturday, January 11th.
Judges
Team will need to abide by the standard procedure of supplying: 1) One judge per five speech
contestants 2) One judge for every 3 PF debate teams 3) One judge for every 3 LD debaters or fraction
thereof is required.
PF and LD judges will have their own separate pools; however, we will use Speech judges for PF rounds
as needed. If you drop contestants on the day of the tournament, judges still must be provided for
those dropped slots. If you have no choice and have to drop a judge will result in a $125.00 hired judge
penalty fee. It is very likely that a very limited number of hired judges will be available. Please make
every effort to bring your own judges and stress to all of them that they must remain for the entire
tournament. All judges must be available to judge the final round of any event.
PLEASE designate any student judges by adding the word “STUDENT” after their name on the judges list.
Hired judges may be commissioned for $85.00 per judge on a first come, first serve basis.
* We will be adding documents to upload for the judges in an attempt to limit the amount of printing
that needs to be done. PLEASE forward this information to each judge and have them print their own
documents. The judge’s packet is in the “uploaded files” section on speechwire. They can also be
emailed to you as well.
Deadline for Judge Requests: Wednesday January 15th, 2013.
* If teams have judges that can be used as “hired judges”, please let me know and we will put them on a
list and pay them.
Registration: We hope to have all registrations by Thursday, January 16th 2014. Please adhere to this
deadline and if there are any special requests contact me using the information below. Registration will
be done online at www.SpeechWire.com. All adds can be made without penalty on the website up until
9 p.m. on Thursday, January 16th. A nuisance fee of $20 will be made for any drops made noon January
17th. Any additional late minute additions the day of the tournament at registration will result in a $25
fee nuisance charge. If we need to provide judges because a judge was dropped that will result a $125
penalty. Registration will begin Saturday at 8:00 a.m. and continue until 8:45 a.m. and we are hoping to
begin Round 1 promptly at 9:30.
Registration Fees: Please present payment in the form of cash, check, or purchase order on the day of
the tournament. Registration fees can be found on our tournaments page on Speechwire.com
Please make all checks out to: “ Bridgewater High School Forensics “
Food: There will be breakfast foods and beverages and lunch served, as well as snacks and drinks all day.
We are hoping to have a variety of homemade comfort foods as well as the usual eats.
Location of event: Bridgewater Raritan High School - 600 Garretson Road, Bridgewater NJ 08807
As a first year coach I would like to personally thank all of the coaches, moderators and representatives
from the NJFL that have provided me with feedback, assistance and support.
If you have any questions, please contact:
Mr. Roman Panczyszyn
Bridgewater Raritan Forensics Speech and Debate Coach
Email: Namor720@yaho.com or Rpanczyszyn@brrsd.k12.nj.us
Cell phone: 646-734-4799
* any emails that are time sensitive, please send to the yahoo address