LHSSL State Tournament of Champions
2025 — Lafayette, LA/US
Judge Obligations
Baseline Judge Ratios:
1 judge per every two debate entries
1 judge per every five speech entries (each Duo team counts as 1 entry)
[Supplemental Events and Congressional Debate do not count towards judge obligation]
Schools may not HIRE out any portion of their obligation. Any judges that the tournament hires/recruits will be over and above what schools provide.
The # of judges owed is PER ROUND. Thus, if you owe 3 speech judges, you owe them EVERY ROUND of the tournament. For example, if a judge is only available on Thursday, you must find a different judge to fill the void on Friday and Saturday.
Important Note for Speech Judges: our plan is to hold Duo rounds during the Debate time slots. This allows speech students to still enter up to two individual events in addition to Duo. However, it means that some SPEECH judges will be judging Duo during the Debate/Duo time slot. We will do our best to avoid having judges assigned to BOTH a Duo round and a Individual Event round in consecutive time slots, but we hope that we will have enough speech judges who will take a Duo ballot in the opposite pattern.
Penalty for Missed Rounds:
$30 for a prelim round
$60 for an elim round