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You and your team are invited to the M&M Lake Erie Invitational Tournament on the campus of Penn-State Behrend on Saturday, November 8, 2025

The tournament will offer 4 pre-paired rounds in all events except CX (3 rounds):

Dramatic Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Extemporaneous Speaking, Impromptu Speaking, Original Oratory, Program Oral Interpretation, Interpretation of Prose, Interpretation of Poetry, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, Parliamentary Debate, and Policy (CX) Debate, and Student Congress

Double entry is permitted in DI, DUO, IMP, OO, PRO, and POE. NSDA Rules for all events except Prose and Poetry where PHSSL rules will guide. November debate resolutions.

Registration opens at 7:45 AM and closes at 8:30 AM. Awards ceremony will be at 4 PM. We will present awards earlier if all goes well.

Judge quotas are proportional to the way judges are consumed (literally!). Please provide 1 judge for each 5 (or fraction thereof) IE/Congress entries, 1 judge for every 2 LD, 2 PF, 2 Parli, and 2 CX entries (or fraction thereof). Consistent with the spirit of the PF event, we may use Speech judges in some PF rounds and vice versa. Unfortunately we have neither hired nor extra judges available. Please do not bring entrants for whom you are unable to provide judges.

We are unable to accept entries after registration deadline Friday, November 7 at noon. While drops are uncontrollable, they will certainly confound the pairings and hopefully will not happen.

The entry fee is $10 per student entry and includes lunch. Please make checks payable toMcDowell Speech and Debate. Double entered competitors are considered 2 entries.

Congress bills will come from the Pittsburgh District's congress bank and will be posted online when they are available.

Please register on-line at Tabroom.com

Registration and initial meeting will be in the Burke Building.

Parking for cars is in the ramp adjacent to Burke (commuter ramp entrance!); buses will be directed to parking. Please note that theparking permit that you need to park on the PSU Behrend Campus is included on this website! Please check the uploaded files to the right of this page, Directions and campus maps are included in this document as well.

Contact:

Will Caugherty, McDowell:Caugherty@mtsd.org814.449.3361

1. GPS Directions to campus: 5101 Jordan Road, Erie PA

Traveling by van or car: Turn West to enter campus from Route 430 on to Jordan Road. At the “fork,” stay left to continue straight up Jordan Road. You will pass the Burke Center building on your left. Take thenext leftonto Technology Drive (just past the Burke Center building). Continue on Technology Drive and take thethird leftinto thestudent entranceof the Parking Deck. Please park in the parking garage. Note: The faculty entrance to the parking garage will be CLOSED. The faculty entrance is the second left on Technology Drive; you must take the student entrance into the parking garage. You can probably also park in the Lot in from of the AMIC Building.

*Signage will be in place on campus for both parking and Burke building

*Opening ceremonies will be in the Burke center, Room 180

Schedule for the Day:
We have rounds throughout the morning and the afternoon.
Each event will end up being on a slightly different schedules.
Expect to compete until about 3:30pm, with the Awards Ceremony happening as soon as possible.

Please remember that lunch for all judges, contestants, and observers isincluded in the registration fee.