Bushland High School Falcon Classic
2024 — Bushland, TX/US
Hello all,
We are excited to host the 3rd Falcon Classic this year in our *NEW* high school! We graciously welcome each and every one of you to attend our tournament. We hope to provide a positive and exciting competition experience.
Note that our NEW high school address is 18701 Jim Line Road, Amarillo, Texas 79124. If you put “Bushland High School” into your maps app, it will take you to our old building! Drive past our old high school (now the current junior high) and turn right after the football stadium onto Jim Line Road. There you will see our new building.
We will be offering the following IE events:
Poetry & Prose (Reader’s choice), HI, DI, POI, OO, INFO, FX, DX, Impromptu, DUO, and DUET
We will also be offering the following debate events:
Lincoln Douglas: Resolved: The United Statesought to adopt a wealth tax.
Cross-examination: Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly strengthen its protection of domestic intellectual property rights in copyrights, patents, and/or trademarks.
Congress will utilize the TFA docket:
Prelims: 21-25; Order will be 24, 21, 23, 25, 22
Finals: 26-30
Entries are due by November 5th at 5:00 pm. Drops must be registered before November 6th at 5:00 pm. Entry fees are $15.00 for IEs, Duo, Duet, and Congress and $20.00 for LD and CX.
The top three schools will be honored for overall sweepstakes. The following is the sweepstakes formula:
IE, DUO, DUET, Congress:
1st - 12 points
2nd - 10 points
3rd - 8 points
4th - 6 points
5th-8th - 4 points
Debate:
12 -1st place
10 - 2nd place
8 - Semis
The Schedule will be as follows:
7:30-8:00 Registration
8:00 am - Rd 1 Pattern A, Rd 1 LD, CX, Congress Prelims
9:45 am - Rd 1 Pattern B
10:00 am - Rd 2 LD, CX
11:30 am - Rd 2 Pattern A
12:00 pm - Rd 3 LD, CX
1:15 pm - Rd 2 Pattern B, Congress Finals
2:30 pm - Semis LD, CX
3:00 pm - Finals Pattern A
4:00 pm - Finals LD
4:30 pm - Finals Pattern B, Finals CX
Pattern A - HI, DX, FX, Poetry, Duet, Impromptu
Pattern B - OO, INFO, DI, POI, Prose, Duo
Please note that our school intends to participate in the TFA initiative that allows students from the host school to compete.
Kelsey Vincent
Bushland Speech and Debate
kelsey.vincent@bushlandisd.net