Green River Speech Tournament

2021 — Green River, WY/US

The Green River High School Speech & Debate Team would like to invite you to its annual Green River Speech Tournament to be held on Friday and Saturday, December 3-4, 2021. This will be a novice/varsity tournament.

 

  • The events will be held at Green River High School in Green River, Wyoming

  • Registration will take place via tabroom.com

  • Entry fees will be $12 for individual events and $20 for team events.

  • We will have initial entry deadlines of 4 per event but please waitlist students and we will try to take them!

  • Doubling within pattern is allowed excluding CX Debate

  • Please register your varsity students as judges for novice events!

  • Please bring as many accompanying judges as you can. 

  • The Congress Legislation will be released on November 22. Please make sure your registered Congress students have legislation loaded into the Wyoming Legislation database on that date.

  • Email your legislation to wyominglegislation@gmail.com at least 72 hours prior to November 22

  • We will be using the NSDA November/ December debate topics:

 

 LD: Resolved: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike.

PF: Resolved: Increased United States federal regulation of cryptocurrency transactions and/or assets will produce more benefits than harms.

 

CX: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its protection of water resources in the United States.

  • We ask competitors to follow the internet usage rules as defined by NSDA.

  • Competitors in Poetry and POI must use manuscripts and they may be used as a prop. Novices may use manuscripts in all events. 

  • Competitors in informative may use visual aids in accordance with NSDA rules.

 

  • In Extemp, questions may be taken from NFHS & NSDA. Extemp Draw is embedded in the round. 

  • Initial Registration numbers are requested to be entered by Nov 21. Adds will not be permitted after 5pm on Dec 1. Please drop entries no later than 12pm on Dec 3. 

  • We will operate an Equity Office at this tournament

  • Registration will close about 30 minutes prior to the start of the tournament-please make changes on Tabroom or notify a tournament director of the changes before that time

  • We will accept wait-lists and slots will be filled based on availability

  • First round of competition will begin at 3:30 pm.

Per district policy, masks will be encouraged but not enforced. We are excited to see everyone in person! 

Please email with questions: 

Dan Parson & RaNae Johnson. Tournament Czars : daniel.parson@swcd2.org

Londe Gagnon, Tab Officer : lgagnon@tcsd.org

Nick Hoskins, Equity Officer: nickolas.hoskins@swcd2.org

Peggy Gagnon, Equity Officer: 52mgagnon@gmail.com