GENERAL INFORMATION

• School Address: Walnut Grove High School, 3500 E. 1st. Street, Prosper, Tx. 75078

• Tab Room: The tab room will be in the Library at the circulation desk which is just across from the cafeteria. Racy Grant-Kane is the meet director and can be found there most times. 

• Registration: A representative from each school should come to the tab room to register and receive their updated invoice as soon as you arrive on campus. 

• Adult Food - Hospitality will be available for coaches and bus drivers upstairs above the library and the office area. 

• Student Food - We will have the cafeteria open with several restaurants open including. 

• Drop Off, Pick up and Parking - Please drop students off at the main entrance. Cars and buses can park in front of the main entrance or on either side. If parking in the front, buses should park in the back closest to the road. 

• Student Holding - WGHS has a large cafeteria for holding. Please make sure that your students know that they should not be in any classroom without the supervision of an adult and only in classrooms designated for competition. Furthermore there are several areas where they can sit but are marked to be NO FOOD OR DRINKS in that area. Please help us enforce that with your students.

• Drops/Adds - Drops, Adds, and substitutions in testing events can be made in the testing room from this point forward. Additions will be invoiced after the tournament. We can't add to speech/debate, but drops need to be emailed IMMEDIATELY upon your knowledge of them to rlkane@prosper-isd.net. Please provide school name, student name, and event..

• Grading - Schools with students in an event are expected to have a representative available to grade.  Please report to the first testing room indicated on the schedule for grading 10 minutes before the end of testing. 

• Verification - With so many schools,, verification will be done in the grading room once grading is completed with coaches only unless there is a concern that would necessitate bringing a student in for clarification.

• Computer Science - the information will be added to the website.  Please note that participants in Computer Science MUST bring all of their equipment with them including flash drives, extension cords, etc.  Host schools do not provide this. In addition, computers need to be compatible with Hackerrank. Please see the instructions on the website. 

• Testing equipment and materials - Students and coaches should bring with them the materials needed for testing/competing (i.e. approved calculators where allowed, pens, paper, pencils, etc.)

• Results - Results will be announced after verification is completed in the cafeteria. Awards not picked up at that time will be placed in competition bags to be picked up after the tournament.

• Testing materials - Your testing materials will picked up after verification.  Because we are at the beginning of Set B, I can't provide a "clean copy" until the window closes but will email you all of those at that time. 

• Journalism/Ready Writing - Based upon coach feedback from last year, we will be coach grading this year.  We will give awards for each event in several conferences including awards in 1A-3A, 4A-5A, and 6A.  We will split grading up to accommodate.  Note that if we have low entries in some conferences, they may be combined with another conference. We will have computers for use, but your students are welcome to bring their own equipment or hand write if they would like.

• Speech/Debate Judges - Schools providing judges MUST be available throughout the tournament. Please make sure that your judges know that and know not to leave without checking in with the tab room. Judges who don't fulfill their obligations when placed in a round will cause the school to incur the $150 judging fee that will be invoiced after the tournament.  Ballots will be digital so all judges will need a digital device and a tabroom account.