Cascade Commons Tournament Hosting
Interested in using our platform for your tournament? Contact support@cascadecommons.org.
Secure
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Secure site only accessible by tournament participants
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Asynchronous speech videos only visible to judges
Reliable
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Wix, our site-host, has a near-perfect record; their sites are live 99.8 % of the time!
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Video meetings are hosted by Microsoft Teams -- the same service used by our military and 100+ of the biggest companies in the world.
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Teams has a financially-backed 99.9% uptime.

Scalable
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Our site has unlimited bandwidth -- we can handle tens of thousands of visitors at once.
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Microsoft Teams has over 75 million daily users -- each call can have 250 participants at once!
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Microsoft and Wix take care of servers; this means that numerous, big tournaments can safely run at once without crashing.
Smooth Interface
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Once signed-in, reaching your round only takes three or four clicks!
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By embedding certain Tabroom pages on our site, we let competitors see their pairings while staying on our site.
Comprehensive Support
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The nature of service means that major tech issues -- like the ones Grapevine experienced -- are extremely unlikely.
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A large majority of tech issues can be solved by referencing our easy-to-follow support guide.
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We plan on having live support available for select tournaments.
Tried and Tested
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Our platform smoothly ran a middle school tournament with no tech-based interruptions to debate rounds -- that means even 6th grades were able to easily use our website!
Exclusive Speech Solution
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We're the only affordable website with an online solution designed specifically for speech.
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Tournaments can opt to have students pre-record speeches.
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By integrating Dropbox with our site, and adding some anti-cheating measures, we are able to limit the amount of takes a student can have at their speech -- this prevents students from having months to perfect a video and then submit it.
Optimized for Privacy
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Microsoft Teams encrypts data in transit. The service is even HIPAA compliant, meaning that it's privacy features follow strict federal laws surrounding medical information.
Harnessing Automation
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We have customized and automated some processes so you can focus on the tournament, not the technology
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Site members will be auto-approved if their emails match one from a spreadsheet of participant emails.​
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Support requests will be sent directly to the emails and phones of the tech support crew.
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Connectivity For Everyone
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Our website and Microsoft Teams both have versions optimized for phones -- this means that even if someone lacks access to reliable WiFi, they have two options:
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Call-in to the round, this works even off an old landline!
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Join off the Teams app, this requires a cellular data connection.
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Made for Speech + Debate
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Integrated Teams chat allows quick and easy doc sending.
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Google Docs and SpeechDrop integrated links for PF and LD streamline online evidence sharing.
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Website chat simplifies communication between squads.
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General purpose tournament rooms.
Additional Features
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Hand raising
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Event recording
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Feature requests
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Extemp rooms
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Pre-approved observers
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Document repository for tournament invitation and congress bills
In Development
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Event live streaming
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Display of times, timers, rules and topics
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Secure school squad rooms