National Forensic League points
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National Forensic League Points (NFL points) are employed in the scoring system used by the National Forensic League to rank competitors' lifetime progress, and to determine how many competitors a school may register in an NFL District Tournament.
In debate events, the winner (or both members of the winning team) each earn six points, and the loser earns three. In speaking events, points vary with the speaker's place in the round. Competitors in events that involve creating original material such as: Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking (FX), Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking (DX), Original Oratory (OO), Lincoln-Douglas Debate (LD), and Policy Debate/Public Forum (CX) each earn more points than competitors in events that involve interpreting previously published material such as Prose (PR), Poetry (PO), Humorous Interpretation (HI), Duet Acting (DA), and Dramatic Interpretation (DI). The least expected points are categorized in "Speaking" events. These include the famous Impromptu (Imp), and any other optional speaking events. In Student Congress (Stu-Co) each speech given receives a score of up to six points. Commonly more than one judge scores each speech in Student Congress, so in this case the scores of the judges are averaged and rounded up to calculate the speech score.
Rank:
| 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th |
Points Earned:
Original Speech | 6
| 5
| 4
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| 1
| 1
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Points Earned:
Interpretation | 5
| 4
| 3
| 2
| 1
| 1
| 1
| 1
|
Points Earned:
Speaking | 4
| 3
| 2
| 1
| 1
| 1
| 1
| 1
|
Members can only earn up to 750 points in each of the three areas of competition: debate, speaking events (original oratory, extemperaneous speaking and the interpretative events), and Student Congress. Points earned at NFL District Tournaments and the NFL National Tournament are not subject to the 750-point cap. The point limit was raised in 2004 from 500 points. In reality, and member can have unlimited points if he or she qualifies to nationals. State Points are no special occasions either! They also follow the 750 capacity. Competitors can earn NFL Points at any State Tournament, as they all make up the bulk of the Organization. The Ranking a competitor earns at any Tournament, including State, always follows the same point status. A competitor can never earn more or less points than what is currently given!
Members can also earn "service points", which accrue for certain activities outside of speech competition. Delivering speeches before audiences of twenty-five or more adults, for instance, earns a fixed number of service points.
As a member accumulates points, they earn NFL degrees. Each degree corresponds to the jeweling pattern of an NFL pin which the degree-holder is authorized to wear, and to a seal which will be placed on the degree-holder's diploma. The following are the Membership Degrees:
Degree
| Points
| Jewels
| Seal
|
Merit
| 25
| None
| White
|
Honor
| 75
| Emerald
| Bronze
|
Excellence
| 150
| Sapphire
| Silver
|
Distinction
| 250
| Ruby
| Gold
|
Special
Distinction | 500
| Double
Ruby | Rose
|
Superior
Distinction | 750
| Triple
Ruby | Blue
|
Outstanding
Distinction | 1000
| Quadruple
Ruby | Purple
|
Premier
Distinction | 1500+
| Quint
Ruby | Black
|
It should be noted that NFL pins are by no means ubiquitous; some competitors in some areas are more likely to wear them; other competitors in other areas may abstain from them, and even consider them to be mildly pretentious. In some forms of speech competition, advertising one's standing with a pin may also place one at a minor tactical disadvantage.
Point Archive: Coach/Instructor
School Instructors also receive points. However, they receive it according to their student's rank. The instructor receives 1/10 of a point for each point received by one of the instructor's students. The better the team, the better recognition of the instructor. Instructors follow the exact same degree as students; however, an instructor receives a Diamond for each 3,000 points attained. Also, an instructor with two decades of experience within the organization automatically receives a substantial amount of points. In any case, all instructor points depend solely on the performance of the instructor's team.
External links
- NFL Manuals contain the official rules regarding NFL points
- NFL Points contains the NFL points of all active NFL members.
- TFA: State Points The Texas Forensic League tournaments, the finalists, and their points.