The Eastlake HS Falcon Speech and Debate program would like to welcome you to the 2025
SPOOKTACULAR Tournament. The tournament will be IN-PERSON at Eastlake High
School on October 24 and 25, 2025. We will be offering the complete
set of events in IE’s and LD, PF,CX, and Congressional Debate.

This tournament hopes to have a huge sign up of schools and individuals to offer as many qualifying events and points possible. If any events fail to meetqualifying numbers, then the event will be dropped.

LD Topic: Resolved: In the United States criminal justice system, plea bargaining is just.

PF Resolved: The United Kingdom should rejoin the European Union.

CX: Arctic - The United States federal government should significantly increase its exploration and/or development of the Arctic.

Congressional Debate will be debating the following pieces of legislation from the TFA Fall 2025 Docket. There will be 4 chambers available, so that we can boost the number of participants.

Prelims: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (in that order)

Semis:1, 2, 3 ,4, 5, (in that order unless the chamber chooses to rearrange it using proper procedure)

Finals: 18, 17, 16, 15, 14 (in that order)

Please refer to the schedule for event times and cross entry rules.

All cross-entries are at the student’s own risk.

If a student does not make their round on-time they may be dropped, regardless of the reason.

Students may be marked as a no-show if they have not shown up to a round within 60 minutes of the start time, and students who sign into their rounds must perform within 90 minutes of the rounds start time. In debates, students may be marked as a no-show after 15 minutes.

Out-rounds will be paneled only if we have enough judges available.

We will break brackets in debate out-rounds.

We will do our best to accelerate the schedule if/when possible, so please pay close attention to the postings and updates.

Eastlake students will be competing at their own tournament, including in elimination rounds.

Student Congress will take place in the Eastlake Library.

All coaches and students need to bring their school id, and will receive a badge that will be worn during the entire tournament. A parking pass will be provided to coaches, judges, and students who drove themselves to avoid being booted.

Friday, Oct. 24th (Congress schedule may change slightly based on entry numbers, please be at Eastlake by 8am)
_______ 8:15-10:45: Prelims - Student Congress
_______ 11:15-1:15 - Student Congress Semis

________1:45-4:15 - Student Congress Finals
_______ 4:30 LD/PF/CX Debate Rd 1
_______5:30 LD/PF/ _________ 6:10 CX Debate Rd 2
_______6:30 LD/PF/_________7:50 CX Debate Rd 3

All debate out-rounds will be on Saturday.

Sat., Oct. 25th
Extemp draw will begin at 8:00 am in the Eastlake Library.
_______8:00 Debate (Quarters)
_______8:30 Prelims Individual Events A (DX, DI, OO, Duet)
_______10:00 Prelims Individual Events B (FX, HI, Inf, Duo, POI)
_______11:00 Debate (Semis)
_______11:30 Semis Individual Events A
_______1:00 Semis Individual Events B

_______2:00 Finals Debate
_______2:30 Finals Individual Events A
_______4:00 Finals Individual Events B