Hoover Ria Shah Tournament

2025 — Hoover, AL/US

Tournament Schedule

The Hoover High School Speech and Debate Team proudly invites you to its Annual Ria Shah Memorial Tournament on Oct. 17-18. This year we will be offering a two-day tournament with a full menu of events including CONGRESS on Friday morning at Hoover Hall, on the Hoover campus, but not at the main building. We will also be offering World Schools ----if enough schools sign up for this event.

Here is the line up of events:

Congress in Friday morning starting at 9:00 AM - 2:45 PM

9:00 am - 11:30 am Session 1

1:00 pm - 3:30 pm Session 2

*In Congress, we will have 2 preliminary chambers. We will break competitors from each chamber into a Super chamber. We will provide another chamber for those that do not break to the Super for those students to get more experience.*

Friday Evening

4:30 pm - Round 1 - PF, LD, BQ

5:45 pm - Round 2 - PF, LD, BQ

6:45 pm - Dinner Break

7:15 pm - Round 3 - PF, LD, BQ

8:30 pm - Round 4 - PF, LD, BQ

Saturday

8:00 am - Round 5 - PF, LD, BQ

9:00 am - Extemp Draw

9:30 am - Round 1 - All Speech Events

10:30 am - Semis - Debate

11:30 am - Extemp Draw

12:00 pm - Round 2 - All Speech Events

1:00 pm - Extemp Draw

1:30 pm - Round 3 - All Speech Events

2:30 pm - Finals Debate

2:30 pm - Finals - IMP, OO, INF

Awards