Mars Pre Qualifier Spring Invitational
2025 — Mars, PA/US
ASYNC News Broadcasting
Event Description:
The two-student teams will be seated during the event.
● The teams will read three-minute newscasts. In rounds I, II, III, and IV the scripts are prepared by the
students covering current events of the time period from Sunday two (2) weeks prior to the tournament through Round I of the tournament.
Round I will focus on international news,
Round II will focus on the "lighter side" of the news
Round III will focus on national news.
For Round IV the teams will select a script from the previous three rounds.
● Fabrication of news stories is prohibited and will result in a team being disqualified from the tournament.
● In all rounds a 15-second grace period, both under (2:45) and over (3:15) is given to all teams with no
penalty. If a team does not meet these time limits, the team may not be ranked first in the round.
Excessive time violations should be penalized more harshly. To emphasize, unlike other speech events,
THIS EVENT DOES HAVE A MINIMUM TIME (2:45).
● Please assign each team in the round a rank from 1 to the total number of individuals in the round, with
the top rank being 1 (e.g. if there are 5 individuals in the round, each would have a rank from 1 to 5).
There should be NO ties, so each individual should have a unique rank.