Dear Director of Forensics:

The University of Texas speech & debate programs invite you and your students to attend the 17th Annual Longhorn Classic Tournament to be held on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin on December 4 & 5, 2015.

We are delighted to be using www.joyoftournaments.com as our registration mechanism again this year. Please submit your entries directly through that website. 

In keeping with our commitment to a well-rounded forensics education, we will offer students the opportunity to compete in a variety of events, including both Championship and Novice Cross-Examination Debate, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, Duo Interpretation, and all TFA individual events, plus NSDA experimental events POI and Informative, as well as the Longhorn Student Congress and Oral Interpretation. The Longhorn Classic is a TOC qualifier in Extemporaneous Speaking, a qualifier for the IE TOC in all relevant categories, as well as a Kentucky TOC qualifier in all relevant debate and individual event categories. 

There will be six preliminary rounds in CCX, five in CLD and Public Forum, and four in NCX. Individual events will feature four flighted patterns each with two preliminary rounds, followed by extendedsemi-finals (top 24-32 students advancing depending on rank cutoffs, maximum of 50% in events under 48) and finals. Due to logistical constraints and the massive size of the Longhorn Classic, we can not allow cross-over between individual events and the various debate categories.

We look forward to having everyone here in Austin once again for one of the largest and most competitive tournaments in the country.

Dr. Joel Rollins

Director of Debate

Martin "Randy" Cox

Director of Individual Events