Welcome to the 2025 Wild Westlake Chap Classic!

You are cordially invited to attend the 2025 Wild Westlake Chap Classic. We are excited to welcome you and your team to our tournament! We are a TFA qualifier tournament online on Friday, February 7th and in-person on Saturday, February 8th.

If you are interested in a judging contract please complete theWHS Judging Contract Request Form.

Key Info:

-All TFA qualifying events will be offered. All TFA rules will be followed and enforced across events. We will also be offering several non-qualifying divisions, including novice debate events and prose & poetry.

-An adult or chaperone must be present from each school at all times

-We will not be accepting independent entries.

-To encourage participation in World Schools, we are offering 1 free entry per school in that event(until we have 9 entries in the event). This includes a waiving of the WSD judge obligation. Fees will be manually adjusted to reflect this free entry as we get closer to the date of the tournament. This is a great opportunity to get some kids state points for the first time!

-Westlake Entries Per the new TFA rule, a limited number of Westlake High School students will be competing for IQT Points. Should a conflict of interest arise with any WHS, we will defer to Davy Holmes to resolve the conflict.

Scheduling:

- The tournament will run on Friday, February 7th (online) and Saturday February 8th (in-person) for VCX, VLD, and VPF, and run in-person on Saturday, February 8th for all other events and divisions. To clarify, the first two rounds of VCX, VLD, and VPF will occur Friday online via NSDA campus. All rounds will occur in-person on Saturday at Westlake High School.

- Due to rooming and time constraints, students entering any Debate event may NOT enter any other event in the tournament.

- Students may enter 2 individual events in each section, but only one Extemp event.

- The full, tentative schedule may be found on the right panel.

Parking:

- Parking Lot ? - School Address: 4100 Westbank Dr, Austin, TX 78746

- Maps and more info on parking and entering may be found on the right panel.

Accessibility:

The Westlake team strives to make our tournament as accessible a place and environment as possible for all competitors. If you are in need of additional accommodations to make competing at Westlake possible, do not hesitate to email Barb Ixba at Bixba@eanesisd.net.

Statement on Disclosure Norms:

- Under the new TFA rules adopted at the 2023 TSCA/TFA convention, judges in debate events will be instructed at this tournament to not decide rounds on the basis of whether or not pre-round disclosure took place. Disclosure of cases, while heavily encouraged, is at the discretion of individual competitors and coaches.

We look forward to hosting you in February!!