Dear Colleague:

The Speech and Debate teams of the University of the Pacific and San Joaquin Delta College are pleased to invite you and your forensics squad to attend the Pacific Meets the Delta invitational forensics tournaments. The swing tournaments, held in Stockton, CA are comprised of the Mustang Invitational (November 2) and the Pat Kennedy Parliamentary Round Robin (Nov. 2)/Paul Winters Invitational (November 2-4).

San Joaquin Delta College’s Mustang Invitational. Two preliminary rounds of competition in Novice and Open divisions of all eleven AFA/Phi Rho Pi individual events will be offered. Events with seven or more competitors will advance to a final round. Judging Pool will be separate with the Paul Winters Invitational.

The University of the Pacific’s Paul Winters Invitational is a full-service tournament featuring NPDA Debate, NFA LD Debate, and Individual events. NPDA and IE’s run on Saturday and Sunday, with NFA L/D happening concurrently on Friday and Saturday. Two preliminary rounds of competition in Novice and Open divisions of all eleven AFA/Phi Rho Pi individual events will be offered, advancing to semifinals (as appropriate) or finals in each event. Five preliminary rounds of Novice, Junior, and Open divisions of NPDA Parliamentary Debate will advance to appropriate elimination rounds.

SPECIAL NOTE: This tournament will feature two minutes of flex time after the PMC and LOC, as well as one minute of flex time after the MGC, and LOR. This time may be used for prep, CX, drinking water, etc.

Additionally, five preliminary rounds of NFA L/D Debate (advancing to appropriate elimination rounds) will be offered.

On Friday, November 2, the University of the Pacific will also host the Pat Kennedy Tournament, a modified Round Robin. This one-day tournament will draw many of NPDA’s best programs to compete against one another. Applications are due to Steven Farias (sfarias@pacific.edu) by October 26. 2018 All entries must be received by Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, at 11pm. Entries will be taken electronically at tabroom.com. Changes (but no additions) may be made until Thursday at Noon. If you have never used this method for submitting tournament entries, you will find this page straightforward and efficient. The forensics teams from the University of the Pacific and San Joaquin Delta College Colleges hope to see you and your squad here on November 2-4. If there is anything we can do, please do not hesitate to contact us.

For Pacific Forensics,

Prof. Steve Kalani Farias

Tournament Director and Dir. of Forensics

University of the Pacific

(209) 946-3050 or (209) 628-6331 (cell)

sfarias@pacific.edu

For San Joaquin Delta College Forensics,

Kathleen Bruce
Tournament Director and Dir. of Forensics

San Joaquin Delta College

(209) 954-5191

kbruce@deltacollege.edu