Hebron HS and The Colony HS are happy to invite you to register for our TFA and NIETOC swing tournament on Jan. 24-25.

All events will be in-person at The Colony HS.

Make Payments to: Hawk Debate Booster Club. W9 PDF on side links.

We prefer judges over you having to pay judge fees; please provide as many judges as possible.
Those interested in being hired to judge, contact Jeremy Fee (FEEJ@LISD.net).

Tentative schedule PDF is in side links. For cross-entries, students do so at their own risk; if they are late to rounds, and do not check in with the judge, they will lose/be ranked last and drop fees may apply.

Wifi login and password will be sent out before the tournament and posted in the library.

TFA events will follow the TFA rules, available at: https://texasforensicassociation.com/

Prose and Poetry will follow UIL rules for time (7 minutes) and substance, but the categories are student-choice each round. UIL interp info is available at:https://www.uiltexas.org/speech/oral-interp

Debate events will use the current NSDA varsity topics for January 2025, found at: https://www.speechanddebate.org/topics/

We will not be hosting novice events or World Schools Debate.

For Congress the Docket will be from the TFA Spring Docket, Items:
Round 1: 1, 2, 3, 4
Round 2: 5, 6, 7, 8
Round 3 (if needed): 9, 10, 11, 12
The docket is available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1euHD60lCkQ5UfW3fFIvHsLk2T3DDDd09/view

We will only panel semi-finals if we have enough judges. We will panel finals.

As per TFA rules, we will allow students from Hebron and The Colony to compete in the tournament and in elimination rounds.

We are not planning to have an awards assembly. We will allow coaches to sign for trophies and pick them up once results are available.

Questions or concerns? Don't be shy. Contact us anytime.

Sincerely,

Jeremy Fee from Hebron HS
and Wendy Curran-Meyer from The Colony HS