2025 LANGHAM CREEK LOBO INVITATIONAL – NIETOC – TFA IQT

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February 8th, 2025

Langham Creek High School- 17610 FM 529, Houston, TX 77095

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UPDATE (1/28/25) - Due to our numbers this year, we are moving to a ONE DAY tournament schedule. The Lobo will now be hosted ONLY ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8th, 2025! Please check out the updated schedule and join us for a fun one day tournament!

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Colleagues,

It is with great pleasure that we here at Langham Creek HS extend an invitation to you and your team to attend the 2025 Langham Creek Lobo Invitational, hosted IN PERSON on February 8th, 2025. We will be a TFA qualifying tournament for all TFA events, and a NIETOC qualifier! Please register EARLY! This is a great opportunity to get those last-minute state points and TOC Bids! Langham Creek Speech & Debate students may enter, compete and advance at this tournament.

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Double Entry Info: Competitors in CX, LD, PF or WSD CANNOT cross enter with SPEECH or INTERP events. Competitors may cross enter between Section A & B Events.

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Please Review Your JUDGING OBLIGATION!

ENTRY RESTRICTIONS: The only schools that may enter this tournament are accredited high school or middle/junior high schools. No enrichment schools or programs have standing to enter our tournament. You must be attending a high school or junior high school and entering as a representative of that school with an official school sponsor present to compete at this tournament.

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A Junior Varsity Competitor for our tournament is defined as a competitor in their first year of competition in either speech or debate.

In DEBATE Divisions, we will offer THREE (3) Preliminary Rounds in Varsity CX, LD, PF & World Schools Debate. We will NOT break brackets in debate. LD & PF will NOT be flighted.

In SPEECH Divisions we will offer Two (2) Preliminary Rounds in ALL Divisions

Congress Legislation: TBA. A complete docket will be made available on the “Debate Topics” page in January.

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The Original Spoken Word Poetry division will follow NSDA guidelines found by clicking here.

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Please nominate a deserving coach for the 2025 Cecil Trent Excellence in Coaching Award! Details can be found on the right-hand navigation panel under “Cecil Trent Coaching Award”.

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If you have any questions for us, we are here to help! We hope to see you soon.