The Rock Springs High School Speech and Debate Team is excited to host an in-person, novice/varsity tournament November 4th-5that 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.

Novices are not required to be memorized.

Please See Debate Topics Page on this invite for more information on Debate

Please See Congress Page on this invite for more information on Congress

Schedule

All debate rounds will be single-flighted

Ds = Policy Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, Drama, Duo, Program Oral Interpretation

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

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 (ALL Congress competitors compete in Varsity Division) - Novice Ds

7pm Round 2 Varsity Ds - Novice HOPE

8:30pm Round 2 Varsity HOPE - Novice Ds

Saturday, November 5th

8am-9:30am Round 3 Varsity Ds - Novice HOPE

9:30am-11am Round 3 Varsity HOPE - Novice Ds

11am- 12:30pm Round 4 Varsity Debates - Novice HOPE semifinals

12:30pm-2pm Varsity HOPE Semifinals, Congress Supers 1, Novice Debates Round 4

2pm-3:30pm Varsity Ds Semifinals, Novice HOPE Finals

3:30-5pm Varsity HOPE Finals, Congress Supers 2, Novice Ds Semifinals

5pm-6:30pm 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 hold a fourth round for events with fewer than 10 competitors, then break to finals for events with less than 18.

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