Council of Forensic Organizations
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BGSU Cyber Falcon Classic
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BGSU Cyber Falcon Classic
October 17, 2020
Forensic Friends
The Falcon Classic goes synchronous! The BGSU Ohio Eta Alumni Chapter of Pi Kappa Delta (PKD) cordially invites you to join us online for our 80th annual (yet all new) “BGSU CYBER FALCON CLASSIC” on Saturday, October 17, 2020 (INVITATION ATTACHED). Yes, at BGSU, the early bird gets the worm … and has ever since we began hosting tournaments back in 1940, so it is with great pride that we invite you to join us again this season! Though we wish you could join us face-to-face, in our current viral world to keep you 100% safe, we have gone virtual. Our tournament makes use of Yaatly tournament software with registration, tabulation and eBalloting through SpeechWire.com. For your convenience, secure registration payments are accepted by check, or credit card through Square. In addition to the fun and educational forensic experience, we offer open and novice (as warranted) competition in all NFA/AFA-NST/PKD events, PARLIAMENTARY & IPDA Debate, plus the wildcard categories of Media Broadcasting, Research Paper Presentation and Virtual Public Narrative. We hope you will include us in your tournament plans!
Tournament Features
- Two preliminary rounds and finals of competition in All 11 NFA/AFA-NST & PKD I.E. events.
- PARLIAMENTARY & IPDA Debate in open and novice divisions as warranted by entry.
- MEDIA BROADCASTING (MDIA), Virtual Public Narrative (VPN) and Research Paper Presentation (RPP) as wildcards.
- Team Sweepstakes awards for the top three teams plus debate Team Sweeps.
- Quadrathon competition for individual sweepstakes.
- Real Mailed Awards for the top six finalists, top novice per event (except novice sections) and top four in Quadrathon.
- PKD award for the top Pi Kappa Delta member chapter.
- Unlimited team entry per event & students may triple enter (TE) per flight!
- A Lunch/Forensics Health Break!
- Full Access Technical Staff to answer your questions so your team has a smooth tournament experience.
We reserve the right to organize sections to make use of all judges; debate judges for all formats will be combined into one pool. The tournament begins at 8:00 with an Opening Ceremony to assist with the virtual format. PARLI & IPDA round I topic announcement will be dropped at 8:30 am., Extemp. draw at 9:00 am. and IE Rounds begin at 9:30 am. Entries are accepted through SPEECHWIRE by Tuesday, OCTOBER 13 before 6:00 pm. Please join us as we continue our commitment to innovative quality competition in Forensics & Debate. On behalf of Bowling Green State University, PKD and PKD Alumni, we look forward to seeing you online!