Events Offered

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Individual Events:

We will offer a total of three (3) preliminary rounds of competition plus one (1) final round (break rounds are tentative, dependent upon number of entries). The top six (6) competitors in each event will advance to finals. There will be unlimited entries per category. MS events will NOT have a power round after prelims.

High School Individual Events Offered:

-Declamation

-Drama

-Duo

-Humor

-Informative

-International Extemp

-Original Oratory

-Program Oral Interpretation

-United States Extemp

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Middle School Events:

-MS Declamation

-MS Extemp

-MS Interp

-MS Oratory

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TOC Bids will be offered in all High School Individual events!

NIETOC Bids will be offered in all High School Individual events!

The number of bids are determined by the number of entries.

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Public Forum Debate:

We will offer four (4) preliminary rounds of competition plus one (1) elimination round (Tentative, dependent upon number of entries). The top six (6) teams will advance. The competition system will be 1 vs 2, 3 vs 4, 5 vs 6. Please follow the November/December NSDA topic. There will be unlimited entries. MS PF will use the Middle School November/December Topic and will NOT have an elimination round.

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Lincoln-Douglas Debate:

We will offer four (4) preliminary rounds of competition plus one (1) elimination round (Tentative, dependent upon number of entries). The top six (6) debaters will advance. The competition system will be 1 vs 2, 3 vs 4, 5 vs 6. Please follow the November/December NSDA topic. There will be unlimited entries.

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Extemp:

The prep room will be in the High School Gymnasium. Topics will be from the past 90 days of the standard news magazines used. If you have any suggestions for topics, send them to me by November 30th. Please note for usage of laptops that there is minimal power outlets available in the gymnasium. The final round of both IX and USX WILL include CX.

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Student Congress:

We WILL be hosting student congress at the tournament and registration for this event is unlimited. There will be two (2) prelim sessions and one (1) final. We will be utilizing the DECEMBER docket assigned for December 20th from the OSDA for prelim legislation. The docket for the final round will be available through SpeechWire and communicated with coaches no later than December 7th (It will also be available to all the schools on Speechwire. Legislation will not be accepted the day of the tournament.) MS Congress will follow the EVEN NUMBER legislation in the Middle School docket for December.

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We will NOT offer BQD or Policy Debate.

Double entries WILL be permitted in all PREPARED speech events!