Invite

The Jackson Hole High School Speech & Debate Team invites you to our annual two day in-person Speech Tournament to be held on Friday February 7 and Saturday February 8, 2025. Schools wishing to attend our meet will be entered on a first come, first serve basis. There will be an initial registration limit of 4 entries per event. We will let in as many waitlisted entries as we can.

EVERYONE; Please notify us of any drops ASAP so we can allow additional waitlisted competitors if applicable.

We will be using “Tabroom” to register and tab the tournament. Please follow this link for registration.

Initial entries are due Jan 20, 2025 Additional entries must be added by Friday January 31, 2025. Drops will be accepted without penalty until 11:00 am on Friday February 7, 2025 Entry fees are $12 for single events, $18 for team events.

We will offer all Wyoming State events plus Original Spoken Word Poetry and Extemp Debate

D Pattern: Drama, Duet, POI, Original Spoken Word Poetry, CX Debate, LD Debate, PF Debate (PF & LD will have four preliminary rounds, while everything else in the D Pattern will have three preliminary rounds. See schedule for details)

H Pattern: Humor, Oratory, Poetry, Informative, Extemp, Extemp Debate

Doubling in pattern will be permitted with the following limitations:

CX competitors will not have time to double within pattern.

Extempers cannot double within pattern with Extemp Debate; there simply is not enough time to complete both preps for those events.

Doubling is always undertaken at the competitor’s own risk.

Extemp Debate- register for this event as individuals. Learn about Extemp Debate Here.

Learn about Original Spoken Word Poetry Here

State rules will be applicable unless otherwise stated in this invite.

We will use NSDA Debate topics

LD topic = Jan/Feb and PF topic = Feb.

Impromptu Topic Categories:

ROUND ONE: Items/character related to Candyland Theme

ROUND TWO: Single Words - theme related

ROUND THREE: Questions related to “playing”

SEMIS ROUND: Famous Speech “Alumni”

FINALS ROUND: Quotations related to play / candy

Congress legislation will be selected from the Wyoming database and will be released on Jan 27, 2025

Please ensure your congress competitors are registered by that date and that their legislation is loaded into the Wyoming database by then as well.

Supers legislation will be taken from NSDA and released on Jan. 31.

Please register your accompanying judges and coaches as judges on tabroom.

Awards:

We will award medals for 1st through 6th place in IE Events, Congress, and Duet.

We will award medals for 1st through 3rd place in debate events.

We will award sweepstakes trophies based on the mix of school entries at the tournament.

All events will count toward sweepstakes.

We will have an Equity Office available at our tournament.

Please contact us if you have any questions:

Londe Gagnon- tournament director - lgagnon@tcsd.org

Peggy Gagnon- tournament director - 52mgagnon@gmail.com

Tournament Schedule