The Student Congress docket and seating charts for the 2023 Novice Championship have been posted on Tabroom and below.
Category: Congress
Grand Finals Congress Materials
Student Congress legislation (including Super Congress), chamber assignments, and seating charts for FGCCFL Grand Finals, to be held at St. Petersburg High School on February 25, are now available on Tabroom and below.
Riverview Congress Points
Note to Coaches: Student Congress at the January 28 Riverview tournament was NOT autopointed to NSDA. Coaches will need to manually record these NSDA merit points from the paper ballots. (The usual procedure is to average the two scorers’ points for each speech and round up. A missing speech score is treated as a 6; a missing PO score is treated as a 12.)
Riverview Congress Materials
The Student Congress docket, chamber assignments, and seating charts for the January 28 tournament at Riverview High School have been posted on Tabroom and below.
Please prepare to debate all eight items on the docket, regardless of your assigned chamber!
Congress Manual Updated
The FGCCFL Student Congress Manual has been updated to Revision 23.01 to reflect the structure of the 2023 FGCCFL Grand Finals. There are no substantive changes to the rules of the event.
Pine View Congress Materials
The legislation, chamber assignments, and seating charts for the January 21 tournament at Pine View School have been posted on Tabroom and below.
December Congress Docket
The Student Congress docket, chamber assignments, and seating charts for the FGCCFL tournament at Newsome High School on December 17 have been posted on Tabroom and below.
November Congress Docket
The Student Congress docket and seating charts for the November tournament have been posted on Tabroom and below.
Preparing for the Tournament
Chamber assignments were made randomly, except to ensure that delegations and authors were divided more or less evenly between the chambers. Seating charts were generated by random draw.
The legislation is sorted by the chamber of its author. Chamber A can expect to debate items 201-207 first; Chamber B, items 208-213. Each chamber will set its own calendar using all 13 items, giving preference to items with an author in the chamber and rotating schools so that all delegations have an opportunity to present one B/R before any presents a second. Calendars must be approved before floor debate begins.
You should prepare to debate all 13 items. There is a high likelihood that each chamber will complete its sponsored items and move on to “the other house’s B/R.” DO NOT be caught unprepared when this happens!
Good luck and happy researching!
October Congress Docket
The Student Congress docket and seating charts for the October tournament have been posted to Tabroom and below.
Good luck and happy researching!
Congress Legislation Guidance & Examples
When drafting Student Congress legislation, please refer to the guidance below, from the FGCCFL Student Congress Manual. Examples are also provided for your review.
Legislation Templates
Legislation for FGCCFL tournaments should be written using the FGCCFL legislation templates, which may be downloaded from the Congress page. “Using” a template means downloading it, opening it in a word processor (Microsoft Word, Pages, Google Docs, etc.), and editing the document by typing over the highlighted guide text with your own content. The finished product should then be saved in Microsoft Word format, reviewed for content and style, and uploaded to Tabroom.
Advance Review
Coaches only may have their legislation reviewed by the Congress Coordinator, Josh Schneider, by e-mailing it to him at the address shown in the tournament invitation. (Please be sure that the legislation is attached as a file, not as a Google or OneDrive link.) Please allow 48 hours for a response.
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