IN CASE YOU MISSED THEM, here is our "top 11" list of reasons to attend our tournament...
1) IT’S IN LAS VEGAS—This point requires no further explanation.
2) HIGH QUALITY COMPETITION—We were the 5th largest debate tournament in America last year and will only continue to grow in size and competition quality as time goes on.
3) LOW COST—You can find incredibly cheap flights to Vegas (especially on Southwest and Allegiant Air, but also on all other major carriers). In addition, we’re charging ABSOLUTELY NO ENTRY FEE for our round robin tournament.
4) HOSPITALITY THAT IS OFF THE HOOK!—Seriously…we’re going ALL IN on the hospitality front. Our goal is to convince you that this is and will continue to be the most hospitable tournament in the nation. We have a professional massage therapist giving free massages. We will serve serious breakfasts and lunches on both Saturday and Sunday. We will provide a TON of snacks throughout all 3 days of competition. Finally, we WERE going to plan a big post-tournament party for Monday, but then we realized there is already a party going on....it's Vegas.
5) COMPS—One hallmark of classic Vegas is the comps system (basically, “you come here, we give you free stuff”), we are going to give you a TON of free Vegas-related schwag.
6) CENTRALIZED LOCATION—The airport, campus, and tournament hotel are all within 5 minutes of one another (they all also are 5 minutes from the Las Vegas strip). Almost all of our debates will take place 2 buildings in the center of campus just a 1 minute walk to our brand new student union (with 5 good restaurants, a Starbucks, and a Jamba Juice)
7) FREE WIRELESS—In the hotel and at the tournament.
8) AWESOME TROPHIES—Although most of what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, public evidence of your success at our tournament will be both gaudy and fashionable as we will be awarding the top teams in the Round Robin with boxing belts, and the winners and finalists in all 3 divisions of the Invitational Tournament very nice poker chip sets. Other classic Vegas accoutrements like dice sets, stainless steel flasks, and gigantic belt buckles, etc will round out the trophy selections.
9) SUPPORT A NEW PROGRAM—Despite recent lamentations about the decline of NDT/CEDA debate, we just started, and we’re here to stay. All of those who purport to support new and/or beginning debate teams should come to our tournament to evince a public display of that support.
10) SUPPORT ALL 3 DIVISIONS OF DEBATE—We will offer all 3 divisions of competition (N, JV, V)… We expect that the novice and JV divisions will stay viable and distinct from one another. All of you who purport to support novice and JV competition should pony up.
11) IT’S IN LAS VEGAS—Seriously…your school will pay for you to take a trip to America's ultimate vacation destination. How can you say no?
We look forward to seeing all of our friends again in Vegas this year.
Jake
Director, Sanford I. Berman Debate Forum
Assistant Professor In Residence
Greenspun College of Urban Affairs
Department of Communication Studies
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway Box 45052
Las Vegas, NV 89154-4502
office (702) 895-3474
fax (702) 895-4805
cell (702) 809-9670
Rebel Debate on the web:
www.unlv.edu/orgs/debate
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