The Rock Springs High School Speech and Debate Team is excited to host an in-person, novice/varsity tournament November 4th-5th at Rock Springs High School. We will offer all customary Wyoming events as well as impromptu. Judging obligations will be kept low to facilitate travel to our fair corner of the state. :)

Awards: We will award very tall "Triple Threat" trophies for the top 6 prelims scorers who compete in at least three events in both novice and varsity divisions, medals for the top speaker in each debate event/division, trophies for novice and varsity competitors placing 1st through 6th in each event, and photo-worthy shiny trophies for the top two placing teams in 4A, 3A, and 1A/2A. The awards for novice and varsity are the same.

And yes, there will be ducks.

Double/Triple Entering within a pattern - Please use common sense. Do not double-enter policy and duo (or anything else, if you're doing policy!) in the "D" pattern, try to do all 7 events in HOPE, etc. We will allow double-entry with, for example, PF and POI, or Extemp and Humor, but all doubling or tripling is at the competitor's risk! Communicate with your judges and respect their time. If rounds are missed, the relevant entries will be dropped, the entry fee forfeited, and we will give the offender serious stink-eye.

Novices may ALSO ENTER THE VARSITY DIVISION in the same events - novice and varsity divisions will run opposite each other. This also allows varsity to judge novice rounds if they have an "off" pattern.

Schedule

All debate rounds will be single-flighted

Ds = Policy Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate

HOPE = Humor, Oratory, Poetry, Extemporaneous Speaking, Congress, Informative

Debates will have four preliminary rounds, IEs and Congress will have three

Friday, November 4th

2-3 Registration

4pm         Round 1  Varsity Ds Round 1 - Novice HOPE

5:30pm    Round 1 Varsity HOPE - Novice Ds 

7pm         Round 2  Varsity Ds - Novice HOPE

8:30pm    Round 2 Varsity HOPE - Novice Ds

Saturday, November 5th

7:30am    Round 3  Varsity Ds - Novice HOPE

9am         Round 3   Varsity HOPE - Novice Ds

10:30am  Round 4  Varsity Debates - Novice HOPE semifinals

12pm       Varsity HOPE Semifinals, Congress Supers 1, Novice Debates Round 4

1:30pm    Varsity Ds Semifinals, Novice HOPE Finals

3pm         Varsity HOPE Finals, Congress Supers 2,  Novice Ds Semifinals

4:30pm     Varsity Ds Finals - Novice Ds Finals

6:30pm* (or sooner! - Awards)

*Rounds will be moved up as we are able to do so

**We will collapse divisions in events with 4 or less competitors, and hold a fourth round then cume scores in events with 8 or fewer.

Questions? Email RSHS Head Coach Stephanie Cozzens @cozzenss@sw1.k12.wy.us