Other+Leagues

From an e-mail by C. Grecco, 09/05/08

The attached form is the one used for the NCFL for school information. I know some of you were thinking of joining the Philadelphia Catholic Foresnic League this year. You can check either the PCFL website http://www.pcflonline.org/calendar.php or the NCFL website http://www.ncfl.org/ for events (we follow the rulkes for our Cx, LD, PFD, Dramatic and Poetry/Prose). If you plan join here are the options: 1.   If you'd like to affiliate, the cost is $25.00 payable to PCFL. Checks and forms would be mailed to me at home address (603 Harvard Square, Bensalem, PA 19020.   That would allow you to compete at the following tournaments (nominal fee of $5 that day) (some dates are still tentative as coaches have to check with their schools... October 11 - All Novice events (Debate, speech and congress site TBA) October 25 - All varsity events (site TBA) November 15 - All Novice events at Notre Dame Academy December 18 - Bishop Shanahan all Novice events January 10 - St. Basil's Academy - All Novice Events January 17 - Possibly at Upper Merion - all varsity events February 21 - Unionville HS - All events, varsity and JV Thus, you would be able to take students to all of these at a fee of $25 for the league and a registration of $5 day of tournament. 2.   If you fully join the PCFL dues are $100 for the year and $ 4 per contestant for all the national qualifiers and the JV finals. Also, in order to compete in a varsity final at student must have competed in an earlier tournament in that event (CX and LD and Congress) or that area (Speech). If your students finish in the top 6 at any varsity final, they qualify to nationals in Albany on May 23 and 24. Those dates are: March 7 - Varsity CX and LD final at Jenkintown March 21 - Varsity Speech final at Holy Ghost prep April 4 - Varsity PFD and Student Congress final (TBA) April 18 - All JV events final at Truman 3. All awards from # 2 are given at the PCFL banquet at King's Caterers on May 13. 4.   A novice is any new competitor in 1st year or a sophomore with 1 year of experience. In January Novice becomes JV. Only change is that coaches may decide to keep new juniors in novice; seniors must move to varsity If you have any questions, they can be answered at the SPDL meeting. I also suggest to all that you check out http://www.nflonline.org/Main/HomePage and consider affiliating with the National Forensic League for your students to achieve points and membership for their transcripts we well as other benefits.