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You are invited to the WSFA Opening Rounds on-line tournament for novices on Saturday, November 1, 2025!

This will be an easy three rounds of speech and debate for novice competitors… and open members are encouraged to be the judges for this tournament! Open members remember how scary the opening rounds can be– their unique mentorship this early in the season can help younger students find the courage to keep competing in our activity.

The following events will be offered (but, if we have too few entries we may do some creative collapsing of events):

Congressional Debate… please check back soon for docket.

World School Debate… both sides on the prepared motion “This House would lower the voting age in the United States to 16 years of age.” plus one impromptu round.

Lincoln Douglas Debate… the NSDA Nov/Dec topic.

Public Forum Debate…. the NSDA Nov/Dec topic.

Policy Debate…using the NDCA novice policy packet!

Dramatic Interpretation

Humorous Interpretaiton

Program of Oral Interpretation

Duo Interpretation (must be together to compete in this event.)

Oratory

Informative

Extemp

Impromptu

Spoken Word Poetry

All events will follow the rules found in the WSFA’S Bound for State, followed by NSDA rules.

REGISTRATION INFORMATION & TOURNAMENT ENTRY FEES

The school fee is $10 and each entry is $5. Please send payment to:

(please come back soon for this information!)

After tournament costs, the remaining funds will be used for a WSFA project.

All registration can be done here: OPENING ROUNDS

Please register all entries and judges by Wednesday, 10/29 at 3pm.

JUDGING:

Open members are encouraged to judge but should have at least one full season of experience. This is also a great opportunity for parent judges to learn how to use NSDA Campus!

For Policy and WSD, 1 judge for every two entries.

For LD and PF, 1 judge for every three entries.

For speech events, 1 judge for every 6 entries.

For congress, 1 judge for every 5 entries.

AWARDS: A certificate will be delivered to all those who place in the their events!

SCHEDULE

8- 10am…. Debate Round 1, Congress Session 1

10-11:30am… Speech Round 1

11:30-1:30pm… Debate Round 2, Congress Session 2

1:30- 3pm… Speech Round 2

3-5pm… Debate Round 3, Congress Session 3

5-6:30pm… Speech Round 3

Debate Finals and Speech Finals, if needed, will begin as soon as possible after these rounds!