Please join us for our annual UIL Invitation A tournament on January 16-17, 2026 at Pine Tree High School in Longview, Texas. We have hosted Invitation A for a number of years. We offer all UIL events as well as NSDA speech and debate events with no entry caps on objective tests. We are worth the drive.

• We take pride in taking care of our guests and making sure our tournament runs well and follows UIL rules and guidelines.
• Please look at our schedule. Debate and Public Forum will run Friday night. All academic events including Computer Science Hands-on will run on Saturday.
• We offer a wealth of medals and plaques including 1st and 2nd place team medals, 1st-6th place grade-level medals for all TMSCA events in addition to overall medals for those events, 1st place team plaques, Top Speaker awards, and 1st-3rd place plaques for Sweepstakes schools in both 1A-4A and 5A-6A categories.

Please reach out to us if you have any questions.

More information can be found on our website including a W-9 and printable invitation:Pine Tree Jar of Dirt UIL Invitation A Jan 16 - 17 2026

Sincerely,

Lee Branson

UIL and Fine Arts Director

Email:lbranson@ptisd.org