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Welcome to the 2025 Canyon County Classic at Caldwell HS

Friday and Saturday, November 7 and 8

We are a NIETOC (National Individual Events Tournament of Champions) Designated Tournament

EVENTS

Speech - All 14 IHSAA events in a single division on Friday. We will recognize top novices.

Debate - Congressional Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, and Public Forum Debate will be offered in both Varsity/Open and Novice divisions. Worlds School Debate will be a Varsity/Open division only. There are 4 rounds of all traditional debate formats and 3 sessions of Congress. Awards will be presented based on the prelim records.

TOPICS

Speech - In Extemporaneous, students can pick from either the US or International areas. In Panel Discussion we will post the topics for discussion at least 3 weeks in advance of the tournament. In Impromptu, we will have one round with abstract words, one round with current events, and one round with fortune cookies (in place of quotations).

Panel Topics - the 3 Panel Topics are:

What can American youth do to address the current political divisiveness in the United States?

Has AI made Truth irrelevant?

Are we too reliant on technology?

Debate - In Lincoln Douglas Debate and Public Forum Debate, we will use the November/December NFHS topics. For Worlds School Debate, all rounds will be prepared topics and we will publish the topics at least 3 weeks in advance of the tournament. In Congressional Debate, we will utilize the District 3 Fall Legislation Packet. Those schools outside of District 3 may submit one piece of legislation for the packet and those are due to Lance Morris at lamorris@caldwellschools.org by end of day on October 18.

World Schools Topics (all prepared, but not necessarily in this order):

This House prefers a direct democracy to a representative democracy.

This House would eliminate standardized testing in schools.

This House would impose restrictions on the opening of stores operated by large retail chains in order to protect local businesses.

SCHEDULE

Friday

3:30 pm - Registration

4:00 pm - Round 1

5:20 PM - Round 2

6:40 pm - Round 3

Saturday

8:00 am - Round 1 PF, LD, WSD

8:30 am - Session 1, Congress (ends at 11:45 am)

10:15 am - Round 2 PF, LD, WSD

12:30 pm - Session 2, Congress (ends at 2:30 pm)

1:15 pm - Round 3 PF, LD, WSD

3:30 pm - Session 3, Congress (ends at 5:45 pm)

3:30 pm - Round 4 PF, LD, WSD

6:00 pm/ASAP - Awards

JUDGE REQUIREMENTS

Speech - one judge will cover 5 speech entries.

Debate - one judge will cover 4 debate entries (LD, PF, and WSD) and 6 Congressional Debate entries.

If judges do not show, the school will be fined or forced to drop entries to get to a covered status. The drop judge option will be $100 per missing judge.

ENTRY FEES

Speech - Entry fees are $8 per slot, except Duo Interpretation which will be $12 per slot.

Debate - Entry fees are $8 per slot for the individual events (Congressional Debate and Lincoln Douglas Debate), $12 per slot for Public Forum and $15 for Worlds School Debate.

NO SHOW OR LATE ENTRY FEES! If you have students that drop after the deadline or are added after the deadline, there is a $25 per entry nuisance fee that will be charged.

PARKING

Friday and Saturday - Information to come

CONCESSIONS/FOOD

There are NO food options near our school so we suggest you make the necessary arrangements to bring your own snacks and beverages as well as food, or take advantage of our concessions.

We will feed judges and coaches dinner on Friday, a light breakfast as well as lunch on Saturday. There will a Judges Lounge with snacks and beverages throughout both days for our judges and coaches!

We hope you will join us for two days of competition and camaraderie!

Lance Morris, Coach/Director