All registration will be conducted online at http://www.tabroom.com.   We cannot accept email or phone registrations, but are happy to help you navigate the registration website.  If there are any questions concerning registration, please contact penn@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.

Ballots and Awards:  Awards will be given to all competitors reaching eliminations.  Please pick them up during the awards ceremony, or arrange to have someone else do so on your behalf.  We do not mail trophies.  If we had a nickel for every time we had to repeat this, we’d all be retired right now, enjoying our very own Caribbean island.  We also do not release ballots early to teams who cleared entries into elim rounds.  Non-clearing teams can pick up ballots, but they won’t be ready & sorted until Sunday morning after the first elim round.  If you anticipate leaving early, bring a self-addressed, stamped envelope of sufficient size and postage to mail your ballots, label it with your school name, and deliver it to tab.  We will put your ballots into the envelope and send it after the tournament.  Please don’t just staple enough money to the envelope; bring actual postage; our asking for stamps is a time/hassle thing, not a money thing.

The Brotherly Love Award will be given out to the team that travels the farthest distance to the LBC as a thank you for showing such dedication to forensics and the LBC.  This will be determined by multiplying the distance between the high school address and Houston Hall’s address as determined by Google with the number of competitors (teams count as two competitors).

The University of Pennsylvania Dedicated Service to Forensics Award will be awarded to prominent individuals who have dedicated themselves to the forensics community.  This award may be given to active or retired coaches, parents who have judged at tournaments long after their children have graduated, or philanthropists who have generously given back to the forensics community.  There are many individuals in our community who have given so much to transform students’ lives.  Penn for Youth Debate will recognize individuals every year with this award.  To nominate an individual for this award, please email pfyd@perspectivesdebate.org with the subject “Dedicated Service to Forensics Award” and include the nominee’s:

• Name
• Email address
• Phone number
• An explanation of their dedication to forensics and why they deserve the award