The Naaman Forest Speech & Debate Team proudly invites you to attend our 1^st VIRTUAL tournament on October 16-17, 2020. We have an EXCELLENT tabroom staff in place to ensure success!!

We are proud to announce we are a bid tournament for NIETOC   

The NIETOC Virtual Tournament Best Practices Guide can be  found on the right side of this page 

We offer Humorous and Dramatic Interpretation, International, Domestic, and Novice Extemporaneous Speaking; Congressional Debate; Novice and Varsity division of Lincoln Douglas, Policy and Public Forum Debate; World Schools Debate; Original Oratory; Poetry; Prose , Duet Acting, Duo Interp, POI and Informative Speaking. 

Four prelim rounds of debate will be offered. Novice divisions are provided in Lincoln Douglas, Public Forum and Policy Debate.   Congressional Debate will occur on Friday, and all Individual Speaking Events will occur on Saturday. Congressional Debaters will be allowed to compete in IE's, both asynchronously and synchronously. According to TFA rules, no student may be entered in more than one synchronous event. We will not be able to allow debaters to cross enter in the extemp categories.

All IE’s will be asynchronous except for extemporaneous speaking.

VIDEO uploads for asynchronous events will be due Wednesday, October 14^th. Instructions for that and the extemp draw will be posted on this website prior to the October 14th deadline. We will also post the settings you will need to make sure you have cleared with your IT departments if your competitors are competing from their school or using a school provided device. You must follow these to be able to compete online with the platform we are using. Make sure all of your students are linked to and have a Tabroom.com account.

WE HOPE YOU WILL JOIN US OCTOBER 16-17!!

Rhonda Martin

Tournament Director

rkmartin@garlandisd.net