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Snow Canyon Warrior Wipeout Nov 1, 2025:

Snow Canyon High School: St. George, UT

Day of the Dead E D I T I O N

Your road leads into the desert! On November first at Snow Canyon High School in St. George, join us for a one day Day of the Dead holiday tournament.

This year, our theme is Day of the Dead. We’re excited to host your team!

* COSTUMES! *

Anything from Halloween classics and Sugar Skulls are welcome! Please respect school dress codes. Costumes or props suggestive of gun violence are strictly prohibited, as are masks.

Events:

Debate Events: Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, Policy, Congress, and Big Questions.

Speech Events: Character SpAr, Extemp (Combined), Storytelling, Impromptu, Oratory, Informative, Combined Interp, Halloween Poetry

TOPICS AND RULES – NOVEMBER TOPICS

· Extempers will draw 30 minutes prior to round start.

o Topics will be drawn from the NSDA/UDCA October Topics

· Congress OCTOBER NSDA/UDCA dockets

· NSDA NOVEMBER topics and rules will be used for CX, PF, LD, and BQ.

Double Entry:

Double entry is not permitted for debate events.

Double entry is allowed in an IE event.

Those competing in extemp are not allowed to double enter in any event.

DEADLINES

· Student Entries Due: 10/31 @ 7:00 PM

· Judge Entries Due: 11/1 @ 7:30 AM. -

· Drops Due: 11/1 @ 7:30 AM (1 hour before start) PLEASE drop the students/add judges yourself before this deadline. If you have a drop after the tournament starts come find Joey.

JUDGES

Students and judges MUST have an online Tabroom account linked to their profile in order to see ballots and postings. To increase efficiency, we will not be providing paper postings. If needed, the coach should be able to access postings to provide to their students.

There is one main judging category you will register all judges in. To adjust availability (Not judging in the afternoon, for example) click “Round” under Availability after registering and strike any timeslots they will not be available.

Note that the judge burden is based off each individual slot. For instance, if your

judge burden is 3, and one of those 3 judges is not available in timeslot 2, then

you will be “short” one judge until you fill one more slot in timeslot 2.

Judge requirements will be based off debate entries: 1 per 5 in congress and

1 per 2 students all other debate events. Please fill judge requirements; penalty of $15 per judge-forfeiture round.

Judges training will be at 8 AM on Saturday. Food and drinks will be provided for judges. Please ensure judges are registered on Tabroom with accounts prior to the tournament and are on time to judge training. Please reach out to Joey with questions prior to the morning of tournament, so we can focus on training the judges on tournament day.

ETHICS

Students should follow the NSDA Code of Honor and the new UDCA Code of Ethics.

Encourage classiness and cleanliness from your kids and make sure they respect property by keeping areas clean, not touching classroom items, and staying out of rooms with no adults.

Students in classrooms without an adult will forfeit events for the student and sweepstakes for the team.

POLICY INFO/DISCLOSURE

For Policy judging, we focus on having judges that understand Policy. Because this is a limited number, we will prioritize keeping the same judges in Policy even if this means a team has the same judge twice (But not debating the same side).

If there is one event that causes us to stay late on Saturday, it will be Policy. Please tell any Policy students to be prepared to show up to rounds on time and limit any small talk, off time roadmaps, asking for feedback before and after rounds. We will be asking judges to do the same. Judges in all events should not be disclosing.

CONGRESS JUDGING DISCLOSURE

Because Congress is so large and there are three judges, it is almost guaranteed a judge will have to judge someone they know. If there is a major conflict of interest identified, please find Joey.

FEES

There will be a $4 fee per student, per event. There will be a $25 fee per school per day.

CONTACT

Please reach out to Joey with any Tabroom related questions. Reach out to Gina or Penny with any tournament logistics related questions.

Gina Gaskell gina.gaskell@washk12.org

Penny Butterfield: penny.butterfield@washk12.org

Joey Fica: (208) 380-0951 (Text preferred leading up to tournament)

Fica.Joey@gmail.com

SCHEDULE

We will start the rounds early any chance we get, and reserve the right to start rounds sooner than scheduled, so please plan accordingly, and tell debaters to check Tabroom postings frequently.

Judge meeting: 8:00

Extemp draw to start at 8:00

IE Round 1: 8:30

IE Round 2: 9:45

IE Round 3: 11:00

12:15- Lunch

Policy Round 1: 12:30

Policy round 2: 2:15

Policy Round 3: 3:45

Congress Session 1: 1:00 – Soft stop @ 2:30, hard stop @ 2:45

Congress Session 2 3:00 – Soft Stop @ 4:30, Hard stop @ 5:00

LD/PF/BQ Round 1: 1:00

LD/PF/BQ Round 2: 2:15

LD/PF/BQ Round 3: 3:30

Awards Ceremony: 5:30 PM