Registration

All registration will be conducted online on http://www.tabroom.com. We cannot accept email or phone registrations, but are happy to help you navigate the registration website. Payment is not due until onsite registration on December 4th. If there are any questions concerning registration, please contact princeton@tabroom.com. The IE event speaker codes given to you on the online registration system will be those used in competition unless you are notified otherwise. Field reports in the debate events will also be posted in advance of the tournament. Some schools in the past have not reported all their drops to the tournament; this harms our ability to panel rounds for good competition. Schools with unreported drops will be assessed a fee of $50 per drop. Please notify Tab immediately if a student falls ill or withdraws from competition during the tournament. We’ll panic otherwise, and probably be very angry at you if we find out you knew about it. The safety of students demands nothing less.

Caps and Limits

Princeton has limited space. In order to keep the tournament manageable, we have limits in LD. Each school will be able to register six debaters in each LD division, until and unless the divisions hit their entry limits. LD will be capped at 160 debaters; Novice LD may be capped lower depending on space. If a school registers more than six LDers in either division, debaters beyond the first six will be placed on the wait list. No schools will be given a 7th LD entry (or more) until 7 PM November 15th, to allow other schools a chance to register. Seventh and further slots will then be given on a first-come, first-serve basis, except that a good way to knock yourself further down the list is to pester us, individually or collectively, for additional slots.

Registration freeze deadline

The registration freeze deadline is November 27th, 2009 at 9:00 PM. At 9:01 PM, registration fees and judge burdens are frozen. At that point you will have to pay judge fees and registration fees whether or not you attend the tournament. So you must decide definitively if you are coming one way or the other by then, or you’re on the hook for the fees.

If you drop a student after that date, the event you’ve dropped the student in is full, and we get another student off the waitlist to take your student’s spot, we’ll waive this registration fee. But otherwise, the rooms are paid for, the food ordered, the trophies bought — the costs are sunk.

Yes, I know this is the Friday after Thanksgiving. The trouble is, at tournaments with caps, sometimes schools will sit on “entry slots” until the deadline and drop at the very last minute. So I’ve extended the registration freeze date forward, to encourage you to drop unneeded slots in time so that students who would definitely like to come and are on the wait list have time to make arrangements to attend. Please make final arrangements & commitments before the Thanksgiving break.

Eligibility, Adult Supervision & Independent Entries

All students must be actively enrolled in high school, or if (and only if) they are home schooled, they must be of high school age (14-19 years).  All students must be accompanied by their parent or legal guardian, or a school-approved guardian or coach. All registrants must provide a name and phone number for an adult contact responsible for their students in their online registration. Said adult must be present at on-site registration for schools to register.