Hunter Haunting Sat. Oct. 25^th

Hunter High School

4200 south 5600 West, West Valley, Utah 84120

Dear Coaches:

Please join us for Hunter Haunting this year to be held in person with select events available online asynchronously. Pertinent details are listed below, but please feel free to contact me for any additional information. We hope to see you on Saturday October 25^th!

Costumes are encouraged and may be worn if they in no way contribute to or are utilized to enhance an interpretive event. We will also have a costume contest (enter as an individual or a group) with the winners being recognized during the awards ceremony. The tournament will be done by 5:00 (fingers crossed) so attending the tournament will not impact any Halloween or other evening events for students.      

In addition to our in-person events, Informative, Oratory, Combined Interp, Newscaster, and Declamation will be available as asynchronous events. Additionally, we’ll have three special Halloween themed asynchronous events, Spinetingling Storytelling, Petrifying Poetry, and Lethal Lip Synch. All Spar and Impromptu topics will also be Halloween themed! The deadline for asynchronous event submissions is Thursday Oct. 23^rd by 9:00 PM. Please double, triple, quadruple or even quintuple enter! Students may enter multiple events both online and in person and, in fact, are encouraged to do so! Earn those points! However, only one of those events can be a debate. Also, students cannot double enter in Policy Debate and Extemp or Congress and Extemp. (any other non-debate event is fine) As always, students enter multiple events at their own risk. Events will be collapsed as needed based on the number of entries.

Concessions will be available, and we encourage you to take advantage of it! This year, for the first time, we’ll be featuring dirty sodas and an iced coffee bar! We’ll have grab and go options for breakfast (pastries, granola bars, etc.) For lunch we will have pizza. Snacks, candy, drinks, and such will be available for purchase throughout the day. Returning this year will be debate themed buttons for sale. We can accept cash or card, touch pay, apple pay, google pay, etc. Food and drinks will be provided for judges and coaches in the library.

Checks should be made out to Hunter High School Debate and mailed to:

HUNTER HIGH SCHOOL

ATTENTION:KHRISTIAN OWENS

4200 South 5600 West

West Valley, Utah 84120

Deadlines

The deadline to enter is Wednesday Oct. 22^nd by 5:00 PM. Nuisance fines start Thursday Oct. 23^rd at 5:00 PM. You can drop entries online until Friday Oct. 24^rd by 5:00 PM. Judges due by Thursday Oct. 23^rd by 5:00 PM. The deadline for asynchronous event submissions is Thursday Oct. 23^rd by 9:00 PM.

Judges

Please have your judges create a Tabroom account and link them to your team. Make sure they are familiar with how to use Tabroom and judge their event category - please reference the UDCA Event Rubrics available on the UDCA webpage. Also, consider encouraging your judges to take the judging courses now available on the NSDA website https://www.speechanddebate.org/learn/judge-accreditation/ to ensure they are well prepared and have a positive judging experience.

TOPICS AND LEGISLATION:

All Spar and Impromptu Topics will be Halloween themed!

Novice LD will be using the Sept./Oct. Varsity topic – Resolved: In the United States criminal justice system, plea bargaining is just.

Varsity LD will also be using the Sept./Oct. topic – Resolved: In the United States criminal justice system, plea bargaining is just.

PF will be using the Sept./Oct. topic - Resolved: The United Kingdom should rejoin the European Union.

Policy will be using this year’s topic - Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly increase its exploration and/or development of the Arctic. Novice Policy will be expected to keep to the Novice Packet case and evidence limits.

Extemp topics: The topics used for this tournament will be based on September/October NFHS and NSDA questions.

Congress legislation: A list of congress legislation by session will be posted on Tabroom by Oct 1^stalong with the UDCA Orders of the Day. Legislation can be found on the UDCA website, NSDA September Legislation, and NSDA October Legislation.

DEBATE EVENTS OFFERED:

Novice & Varsity Lincoln Douglas

Novice & Varsity Public Forum

Novice & Varsity Congress

Novice & Varsity Policy

Open Big Question

SPEECH/INTERP EVENTS OFFERED:

Novice & Varsity Impromptu

Novice & Varsity Extemp (Combined National & Foreign)

Novice & Varsity Oratory

Novice & Varsity Informative

Novice & Varsity Duo

Novice & Varsity HI

Novice & Varsity DI

Novice & Varsity P.O.I.

Open SPAR

EVENTS ASYNCHRONOUSLY ONLINE:

Open Informative

Open Oratory

Open Combined Interp (HI/DI/POI/DUO)

Open Newscaster

Open Declamation

Open Spinetingling Storytelling

Open Petrifying Poetry

Open Lethal Lip Synch

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25TH

7:15 Judges Meeting/training in Library
8-10 Debate/Congress/BQ
9:30 Extemp Draw in Cafeteria
10-11 Speech
11-1 Debate/Congress/BQ
12:30 Extemp Draw in Cafeteria
1-2 Speech
2-4 Debate/Congress/BQ
3:30 Extemp Draw in Cafeteria
4-5 Speech
5:30 awards/ Costume Contest

Happy Haunting!

Khristian Owens & Elliot Hurd

knowens@graniteschools.org

Hunter High Speech & Debate