Colleagues,

Thank you for your interest in the 2020 Spring High School TFA/NIETOC Invitational Qualifying Tournament. In addition to being a qualifier towards TFA State, we are pleased to offer qualification in all relevant events for the National Individual Events Tournament of Champions!

We are excited to venture into the world of online tournaments this year. All individual events (except for extemporaneous speaking) will be asynchronous. We have also recently made the decision to extend asynchronous competition to Finals as well.  Video links will need to be submitted on Tabroom.com by Tuesday, November 3, 2020, by 9pm. Asynchronous prelims will run on Wednesday and Thursday will all ballots assigned due by Thursday at 7 pm. Semifinals will be asynchronous on Friday, with ballots due by 7 pm. Finals will be synchronously judged on Saturday. Extemporaneous speaking will begin and end on Saturday. Congressional Debate will begin on and end on Friday. Debate will begin on Friday and end on Saturday.  We are excited to offer every TFA speech and debate contest, Prose, Poetry, and extemp for your novice competitors.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have additional questions or concerns. Our students and I look forward to hosting you!

Sincerely, Marilyn Ocker

Spring High School Speech and Debate

Lion Players Theatre Company Theatre Director mocker@springisd.org

Cell: 281-701-4154