Dear UIL Coordinator/Sponsor:

Ore City High School invites you to our Spring Extravaganza speech and debate tournament. This UIL speech and debate tournament will be held Friday, February 3rd, & Saturday, February 4^th, 2023. Debate events prelim rounds will start Friday after school, and Elim rounds will carry over to Saturday to decide a tournament champion in the debate events.

EVENTS: All UIL Speech and Debate plus TFA/NSDA speaking events.

REGISTRATION: Please register at www.tabroom.com for speech and debate events.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with Kenneth Adcock at adcockk@ocisd.net 903-968-3300 (school) /817-240-7930 (cell)

DEADLINES: All entries are due online by Wednesday, February 1st, 2023, at 4:00 PM. You may change names after this date, BUT drops made after Thursday, February 2nd, 2023, at 4:00 PM will result in the loss of your entry fee.

JUDGING: You must supply a judge/grader for every event in which your school is entered. If you do not provide a grader/judge, your students will not be graded.

For debate,

1 judge for every 4 LD contestants

1 judge for every two CX teams or part thereof

1 judge for every 6 Prose/Poetry/Extemp/Congress Contestants

Judging fees are $150/judge for debate and speaking events if you do not provide a judge; however, we prefer judges over fees.

AT MINIMUM, speech/debate team coaches MUST serve as judges

ENTRY FEES:

CX Entries: $30.00/team

LD Entries: $15.00

Congress Entries: $15.00

Speech Events: $10

AWARDS: Medals will be awarded to the top 6 places in each event.

OTHER INFORMATION:

EXTEMP: All current UIL rules related to disabling Wi-Fi or other internet access must be followed.

UIL CX: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its security cooperation with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in one or more of the following areas: artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybersecurity.

UIL LD: Resolved: Term limits for members of the United States Congress are justified.

Congress:

PRELIM Round, we will be using TFA SPRING 2023 Items 1-10

FINALS round, we will utilize TFA SPRING 2023 items 11-20.

Poetry & Prose: Selections will be the reader's choice.

NSDA/TFA INTERP EVENTS: We will use the TFA/NSDA rules to adjudicate these events.

SCHEDULE:

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD, 2023

3:45 PM Registration

4:00 PM Debate RD 1 UCX RD 1, ULD RD 1

5:45 PM Debate RD 2 UCX RD 2, ULD RD 2

7:15 PM Debate RD 3 UCX RD 3, ULD RD 3

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH, 2023

7:00 AM Registration

8:30 AM Congress RD 1 CONG 1

8:30 AM Interp RD 1 DI 1, DUO 1, HI 1, INFO 1, OO 1, POI 1, UPOE 1, UPRO 1

8:30 AM Extemp RD 1 UIX 1, UPX 1

10:30 AM Debate: Quarter-Final UCX QUARTERS, ULD QUARTERS

12:00 PM LUNCH

12:30 PM Interp RD 2 DI 2, DUO 2, HI 2, INFO 2, OO 2, POI 2, UPOE 2, UPRO 2

12:30 PM Extemp RD 2 UIX 2, UPX 2

1:00 PM Congress Finals CONG FINALS

2:00 PM Interp Finals DI FINALS, DUO FINALS, HI FINALS, INFO FINALS, OO FINALS, POI FINALS, UPOE FINALS, UPRO FINALS

2:00 PM Extemp Finals UIX FINALS, UPX FINALS

3:30 PM Debate: Semi-Final UCX SEMI, ULD SEMI

5:15 PM Debate: FINAL UCX FINALS, ULD FINALS