The Jackson Hole High School Speech & Debate Team invites you to our inaugural one day in-person Speech Tournament to be held on Saturday Jan 8, 2022. Schools wishing to attend our meet will be entered on a first come, first serve basis. There will be an initial registration limit of 4 entries per event. We will let in as many waitlisted entries as we can. 

We will be using “Tabroom” to register and tab the tournament.

Initial entries are due December 21, 2021. Additional entries must be added by Tuesday Jan 4, 2022. Drops will be accepted without penalty until 7:30 am on Saturday Jan 8, 2022.  Entry fees are $9 for single events, $16 for team events. 

We will offer all Wyoming State events. All events will happen within the same pattern.  Doubling and tripling will be permitted with the following limitations: CX competitors may double but will not have time to triple. CX competitors cannot double in Congress or Extemp as they will not have enough time to complete everything within the time frame of the round. Quadrupling is not recommended.

Masks are required for all competitors while inside the JHHS building. Masks may be removed whilst the student is actively participating in their event (when they are performing their piece or while they are giving their debate speech). Social distancing is requested whenever possible. State rules will be applicable unless otherwise stated in this invite. 

We will use NSDA Debate topics

The January/February LD Topic: released Dec. 1, 2021

The January NSDA PF Topic: released Dec. 1, 2021

The 2021-2022 NSDA CX Topic: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its protection of water resources in the United States

Congress legislation will be selected from the Wyoming database and will be released on Dec 29, 2021. Please ensure your congress competitors are registered by that date and that their legislation is loaded into the Wyoming database by then as well. 

Please register your accompanying judges and coaches as judges. 

We will award medals for 1st through 6th place in IE Events, Congress, and Duet. We will award medals for 1st through 3rd place in debate events We will award sweepstakes trophies based on the mix of school entries at the tournament. 

We will have an Equity Office available at our tournament. 

Please contact us with questions: 

Londe Gagnon- tournament director - lgagnon@tcsd.org

Peggy Gagnon- tournament director - 52mgagnon@gmail.com