The Jackson Hole High School Speech & Debate Team invites you to our annual two day in-person Speech Tournament to be held on Friday February 4 and Saturday February 5 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. Please follow this link for registration.

Initial entries are due Jan 15, 2022. Additional entries must be added by Friday Jan 28, 2022. Drops will be accepted without penalty until 11am on Friday Feb 4, 2022.  Entry fees are $10 for single events, $15 for team events. 

We will offer all Wyoming State events plus several supplemental events. Some events will be asynchronous. We will have 4 patterns: 

LP Pattern : LD Debate & PF Debate

D Pattern: Drama, Duet, POI, CX Debate, World Schools Debate, Big Questions Debate

H Pattern: Humor, Oratory, Poetry, Informative, Extemp, Extemp Debate 

Async Pattern: Prose, Commentary, Original Spoken Word Poetry, Storytelling

Doubling in pattern will be permitted with the following limitations: 

CX competitors will not have time to double within pattern. 

Extempers cannot double within pattern with Extemp Debate; there simply is not enough time to complete both preps for those events. 

Big Questions debaters cannot double in pattern with World Schools Debate. 

Theoretically, a student could potentially do LD Debate or PF Debate and Big Questions but please alert tab if you have a student interested in this so they can be put into opposite flights of debate. (also please alert your students they will likely be a few minutes late for their next pattern as well if they wish to do this). 

World Schools Debate competitors can theoretically double in pattern with an interp event but they would be cutting it close in a 90 min time frame.

Doubling is always undertaken at the competitor’s own risk. 

There is no doubling limitation for any async event- one student may enter all four if they wish. 

Async entries (recordings) are due Thursday Feb 3 by 4pm. The judging for those will begin Thursday night. 

World Schools Debate - register for this event in teams of three. Teams may be made up of students from different schools. Learn about World Schools Debate Here and Here

Big Questions Debate- register for this event as individuals. Learn about Big Questions Debate Here. 

Extemp Debate- register for this event as individuals. Learn about Extemp Debate Here. 

Learn about Prose, Storytelling,  Original Spoken Word Poetry, & Commentary  Here

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: Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust

The February NSDA PF Topic: On balance, Turkey’s membership is beneficial to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

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

The 2021-2022 NSDA Big Questions Topic: Resolved: On balance, societies benefit from religious belief and practice.

The World Schools Topics: 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UlLwE63XF5YHXRhwbEtFXjHQirjU5VBiPWxAAyM-w6M/edit#slide=id.gf95bb37e11_0_2

Congress legislation will be selected from the Wyoming database and will be released on Jan 24, 2022. 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. 

All events will count toward sweepstakes. In the case that we have entries in World Schools Debate from multiple schools, we will split the sweepstakes points between the teams. 

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