Scarlet Invitational

2026 — Des Moines, IA/US

Main

Everyone is welcome to compete at the Scarlet Invitational! We are starting a little later this year to accommodate teams that have larger travel times We will be using the January topic for debate events. If you are worried about being able to attend for financial reasons please reach out to me personally at samuel.juhl@dmschools.org and we can talk about how to support your team in attending,

Tentative Schedule

Friday

Speech

Extemp Draw 4:30

Round 1 5:00-6:00

Round 2 6:30-7:30

Round 3 7:45-8:45

Saturday

Public Forum/LD

Round 1 9:00-10:00

Round 2 10:15-11:15

Round 3 11:30-12:30

Round 4 1:30-2:30

Round 5 2:45-3:45

Quarterfinals 4:00-5:00

Semifinals 5:15-6:15

Finals 6:30-7:30

Policy

Round 1 8:00-9:45

Round 2 10:00-11:45

Round 3 12:00-1:45

Round 4 2:15-4:00

Finals 5:00-6:45

Student Congress

Session one 9:30-12:30

Session two 1:00-3:30

Finals 4:00-6:30