Welcome to the Franklin & Coronado Westside Swing

The tournament will be in person at Franklin High School on January 17 and 18, 2025. We will be offering the complete set of events in IE’s and LD, PF, and Congressional debate. If any events fail to meet qualifying numbers, then the event will be dropped.

CX Debate will be held on Friday during Congress. This will allow practice time and judging to prepare for UIL CX State.

All schools are limited to 6 entries in Congress and 4 in all other events for each day of the swing. There will be a waitlist to put additional entries above the initial 4 and we will clear the waitlist if we need entries to make numbers (we absolutely want every event to have enough entries to get points for state!) or if we can do so without drastically increasing our judge numbers, so please put any additional entries who would like to compete in an event on the waitlist!

Please refer to the schedule for event times and cross-entry rules. All cross-entries are at the student’s own risk. If a student does not make their round on-time they may be dropped, regardless of the reason. Out-rounds will be paneled only if we have enough judges available. We will break brackets in debate out-rounds.

Please remember that all coaches are required to judge as much as possible, and any adult who is on campus with your team (including parents who are there to observe) will be expected to judge.

Franklin and Coronado students will be participating in events at this tournament.

We will do our best to accelerate the schedule if/when possible, so please pay close attention to the postings and updates.

For those of you that register, stay tuned for updates on parking and security identification procedures.

We look forward to seeing you!

Out rounds will be paneled only if we have judges available.

Brackets will be broken in debate.

LD and PF will be using the January/February resolutions.

Friday

8:30-4: Congress (Items 12, 14, 19, 10, 18 for prelims in that order, 11, 13, 16, 17, 7 for finals - the students may set the order in the chamber for finals)

CX Debate

8:30 A.M. Rd 1

10:00 A.M. Rd 2

12:30 P.M. Rd 3

2:00 P.M. Semis

3:30 P.M. Finals

(PF/LD): Students can enter one debate and nothing else

4:30: Rd 1

5:30: Rd 2

6:30: Rd 3

7:30: Semis

8:30: Finals

IE's: Three IE's max per student, 4 entries per event per school

4:30: Prelims all IEs

6:30: Semis all IEs

8:00: Finals all IE's (possibly 8:30 for extemp)

Saturday: Students are limited to two IE's per pattern, or one debate plus two IE's in opposite pattern. Each school is capped at four entries per event.

Pattern A Prelims 8:30 - OO, POI, USX (draw at 8:00), Duo, LD

Pattern B Prelims 10:00 - INFO, Duet, HI, DI, FX (draw at 9:30), PF

Pattern A Semis: 11:30

Pattern B Semis: 1:00

Pattern A Finals: 2:30

Pattern B Finals: 4:00

Debate prelims: LD Pattern A, PF Pattern B

Debate out-rounds start at 4:30