Bus at 7:30 am.
Varsity LD and PF. Also Novice LD. Policy. IEs (but for HHHS, conflict with Sacred Heart precludes).
Leave HHHS 1:00. Staying Friday night at Holiday Inn Newark Airport.
LD (N & V), PF, Varsity (Jrs and
Srs) judge novices (with luck, for half of the rounds). Leave 12:30
(one hour ride) on Friday. Housed.
Lv after school (2:30) on 2/17. Staying at the Crowne Plaza Philadelphia Downtown, 1800 Market Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103. It's the tournament hotel; it's a short transit ride (tokens provided). All events start Saturday. Return
Sunday evening (leaving UPenn at 4). $125 cost per Sailor.
Leave at 2:15. Get your own transportation to and from Copper Beech after that.
For Speech and Congress, a special chance to qualify for States, the
annual culminating forensic event for some programs.
Attending
Regionals is a commitment to attend States, if you win. Ignoring this
commitment will result in suspension from the team next September
through October.
Once again, and this time probably forever and for
all time, Menick has no intention of attending States. If you wish to
go, you must provide your own chaperone/judge.
3/10 Last chance speech @ Monsignor Farrell
Double-entry allowed. The point is to get that last State qual.
7:00 bus.
3/17 NYCFL Grands @
To qualify for CFL
Nationals:
LD: We're allowed 3 debaters (although we can put in for
the swing). Highest status (win/loss record) during the year is how the
debaters are chosen. Each debater must bring an experienced judge
with a minumum of three debates under the judge belt.
PF teams
welcome!!! But same commitment/judge issues as with LD.
Speech: Ex,
OO, OI, Duo, Dec, DP.
Bus leaves at 7:00.
3/24 (?) - 3/25 NFL Districts Tournament, Pelham Memorial
To qualify for NFL
Nationals.
Hendrick Hudson is not a voluntary member of the NFL, so whether we will be participating depends on the (un)kindness of strangers.
3/23-25 Woodward
For novice and second-year debaters
3/29-4/1 NYSDCA State Tournament @ Bronx Science
All debate events.
4/14-16 NDCA in Las Vegas
LD, Policy, PF. JM probably tabbing.
4/28-29 NYSFL State Tournament in Albany
This will be the speech complement to NYSDCA for the debate Sailors.
The Tournament of
Champions for Debate. You've got to earn at least 2 legs to go to
Kentucky, or pre-qualify by breaking at the previous year's TOCs. If you
don't know anything about TOCs, you're not in the running, and you'll be
happier in the local circuit.
The conflict with States will make one of these rather... interesting.
For more on the CFL, click here.
If you're wondering, after that it's Philadelphia and Chicago. And then NYC???
6/10-15 NFL Finals in Indianapolis
2012
9/10-11 Vassar Round Robin
Invitational for debaters
in their second/third year.
NY CFL Directors' meeting
Greenhill (see Joy of Tournaments)
TOC @ octos
2 1/2 hours. Debaters leave at 9:00 from Hen Hud.
Speech folk leave Hen Hud Friday after school.
Hotel: the Clarion.
2260 Whitney Ave , Hamden, 203-288-3831. There's a shuttle to the
hotel.
The optional status of this tournament means that expenses
will be passed to the students attending; this year we are setting the cost at
$250 for this tournament ($100 if you bring a judge). NOTE: All meals must be paid for by the debaters.
Bring enough money to cover two breakfasts, three (two if you're a Speechonaut) lunches and two dinners.
Debate: V & JV -- TOC at Quarters;
PF — TOC at Octos
Menick tabbing LD.
Speech: DI, Duo,
Extemp, HI, OI (P/P), OO (Double entry, please; work hard over the
summer to bring something to the table other than the desire to take a
trip to beautiful New Haven and waste your parents' money)
Congress
Judging (1-3 in LD, 1-5 Speech)
Info:
Drivers: Fastest
route: Rt 22 to Long Ridge Rd to the Merritt Parkway (Rt 15).
Hotel
is located just off exit 61. Map
10/6 ? CFL @ Regis/Loyola
Speech: JV-Prose, V-Prose, Duo (w/ mandatory binders), JV & V
Extemp, DI, OO
NOTE: Sept. PF resolution, if you're of the pffft persuasion.
Invitation on
tabroom.com
The usual Columbus Day celebration. Second-year
LDers get a shot at accessible varsity. Go for it! There's also PF.
Leave HHHS at
12:00.
1 1/2 hours by car, 2 by bus (max). Best food on the circuit
(for judges). Housed. Afterwards, Beach Chinese. (Or Montwegian Chinese, if it's late.) (Or home for chicken soup if we're speedy.)
Menick tabbing. We usually stay at the Best Western.
Metro-Hudson League Workshop at Bronx Science __ CANCELED
A free one-day debate seminar for students and coaches and judges.
Leave HHHS at 7:30.
10/ -- Parents' Meeting
7:30 p.m., in room 113. Find out all about forensics, and organize Bump while we're at it.
10/ CFL at St. Joseph Hill
Dec, Congress
10/11 Dinner at Japonica
The Bronx Round Robin is also this day, but most people are just there for the food.
10/12-4 Big Bronx -- Bronx High School of Science
Debate VLD (TOC at Os), Policy, PF (TOC at Os),
Congress, Speechifying.
Three days of solid debate competition, endless award ceremonies (and pre-award ceremonies and post-award ceremonies), 7 prelim rounds plus
run-off for 5-2s. Menick wouldn't be caught dead tabbing LD (until Cruz reads this, which I estimate will be somewhere around late October 2011).
Debate leave HH @ 12:00 friday.
Housed Friday night.
Leave 8:00 on Sunday (for those
still in it or observing).
Speech starts Saturday at Fordham Prep (bus at 7:30); Sunday at Bronx (bus at 7:00).
10/20 First-Timers' MHL
Novice debating the novice
topic. Also offering JV LD and Novice and JV PF (and, of course policy).
Novices must be at the
absolute first tournament of their lives. If they've debated in middle
school, they cannot participate as novices at the MHL. JV is limited to
persons in their second year of debate.
10/20 CFL @ Regis/Loyola
Speech events (JVX,VX,OO, JV & V Prose[?], Duo, Dec, DP, Congress)
Bus at 7:30.
Walt Whitman
New weekend for relatively new tournament.
10/27 CFL @ Regis
Debate events, all levels.
Leaving by car from Hen Hud at 7:15.
Scranton?
Policy debate.
11/3-4Apple
Valley
11/3 MHL @ Monticello? Poughkeepsie School for the Halt and the Lame?
7:00 am leaving time, bus or car tbd.
SATs
November 9-10
This is Hen Hud's own
tournament -- the Malcolm A. Bump Memorial, winner of the 2011 NDCA Tournament of the Year.
Mandatory participation by
all HHHS students. Parent participation desperately required too.
11/9 CFL @ Fordham
All speech and congress
Conflict with Bump makes this impossible for Hen Hud.
Novice and Open LD; PF. Considered by many Sailors to be the preeminent social event of the year. Up
to 8 entries allowed (but we usually can get more). Leave Hen Hud after
school, 2:30, on Friday, dinner (you pay for it) probably at the Italian restaurant, house with Lex families Friday
night, debate begins bright and early Saturday morning, return Saturday
night. Judge/chaperone stays at local motel. Return dinner at Reins at
exit 65.
11/16-18 Villiger (St. John's in
Philadelphia)
Strong IE tournament.
This is one you pay for yourself. All speech events, LD (not
recommended), Policy and Congress.
Debate in the suburbs of Chicago.
TOCs at octs. A strong national debate tournament. You gotta pay a
lot, and you may have to qualify to go if more than 2 Sailors are interested.
$250 per student. There's V and Nov LD, PF, plus IEs.
Leave HHHS @10:00 to join up with Scarsdale. (2 1/4 - 2 1/2 hour
trip by bus).
12/3 MHL at Newark
The economical debate alternative to
Princeton. At least one parent will be required to chaperone.
12/1 CFL @ Ursuline
JV-Ex, OO, JV
& V OI, Dec
The economical speech alternative to
Princeton. Bus leaves at 7:30 a.m.
12/1 SATs ?
12/7-8 Ridge
Debate
Leave HHHS at noon. Roughly 1 1/2 hour travel time from HH.
Students housed, adults at Courtyard by Marriott Basking Ridge.
Directions:
Route 287 South - North Maple Avenue - Basking Ridge -
Exit 30A
Turn right onto North Maple Avenue.
Pass AT&T on your
left.
Continue through the traffic light and at the 'Y' in the road
bear right.
At stop sign, turn left into the town.
Travel
straight and the road will bear around to the right. (A stone wall is on
the left.)
At end of the stone wall, the school will be on the left.
Excellent burgers and shakes behind main street!
12/14-16 Blake (Minneapolis)
TOC @ Qs. If you've got the
$...
12/15 CFL @ Regis
LD, PF and Pol: V, JV, N; CONGRESS
Bus leaves at 7:00
The Bobcat at Byram Hills
VLD, NLD, Policy, PF (V and Nov).
Leave HHHS after school (2:30). 2 rounds on Friday. Leave HHHS 7:00 Saturday am.
Chaminade
All speech events.
Extemporaneous Speaking, Original Oratory, Dramatic Performance, Oral Interpretation of Literature, Oratorical Declamation, and Duo Interpretation. Judge ratio 1-6.
Bus at 7:00 am.
V and
novice LD. PF. -- 5 hrs travel time -- leave Friday
9:00 bus.
Adults stay at the Aloft hotel.
From the invitation: Route 128/Interstate 95 is the best approach from any direction. Exit 30 is the second Lexington exit, regardless of the direction you are coming from; it is marked ROUTE 2A. Follow ROUTE 2A EAST into Lexington. Travel for a little more than a mile until you reach the first FULL traffic light; there is a Dunkin' Donuts on this corner. Then turn left onto WALTHAM STREET; pass through another traffic light; Lexington High School is immediately on your left.
Or, go west off exit 30 to go directly to the Aloft.
CFL @ Regis/Loyola
Father Rippon
Invitational
JV-Ex, V-Ex, OO, JV OI, V OI, Duo, Dec, DP, Cong
Bus leaves 7:30 am.
Menick tabbing. Come home by bus each night.
Saturday bus 6:30 am.
Sunday bus 6:30 am.
LD (TOC @ Ss), PF, Congress, IEs.
SATs
Pay for this one yourself, and bring a chaperone. Don't bother
going unless you're TOC-worthy (or at least think you are).
LD &
Speech. TOC at octs.
1/26 MHL @ Beacon?
Lv HHHS at 7:00.