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The 2025 Harrisburg Roaratorium
Harrisburg High School
Friday, November 21, 2025

The Harrisburg High School Chapter of the National Speech & Debate Association would like to invite you to the Roaratorium Oral Interp and IE Tournament at Harrisburg High School on Friday, November 21, 2025.

The following information on events, divisions, fees, judges, schedules, and awards is probably not complete – please ask if you have questions and I will clarify!


Interp and IE Events on Friday, February 9

· Congressional Debate, Humorous, Duo, and Dramatic Interpretation, Reader's Theater, Poetry, Non-O, Storytelling, POI, Unified Speech, Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking, Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking, Original Oratory, POI, and Informative Speaking

· Please provide one judge for every 5 entries or fraction thereof in all speech categories.

· There will be three rounds of speech events with finals.

We will offer Novice categories for: Humorous, Duo, and Dramatic Interpretation, Poetry, Non-O, Storytelling, Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking, Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking, Original Oratory, and Informative Speaking .

· D. Ex and F. Ex. Seven minutes maximum speech time; 30 minutes prep time.

· Interp, Info and Oratory have a 10-minute time limit. Storytelling will have a 5-minute time limit. 30-second grace will be honored.

· A guest Wi-fi Internet connection will be available.

· No Entry limits. You must bring judges to cover your obligations.

REGISTRATION
We will be using the tabroom.com website for registration this year. If you have questions, please contact me via email: nolan.ortbahn@k12.sd.us. I can also be reached on my cell phone (605) 222-1520. ENTRIES ARE DUE Wednesday, November 19th, at 10:00 pm.

FEES
· Entry fees are $10 for Speech and OI events.
· Missing judge fees are $150 Speech per day.
· Make checks to:
Harrisburg High School Speech and Debate.
C/O Speech and Debate Team

JUDGES
We have very few judges to hire at this point. Please cover your slots and let us know if you have any extra judges for any division that another school may hire.

We will be using online balloting for all rounds. Please have your judges register for a tabroom account for notifications and ballots. Paper ballots will be available as well.

SCHEDULE

Roaratorium 2025 Schedule

Friday
2:00 - 3:00 Schools arrive PAC Doors (Not the main doors, map here)
2:00 Registration opens
3:15 General Meeting
3:30 Extempers escorted to draw
3:45 Extemp draw and RT Round 1
4:15 IE Round 1
5:15 Extemp Draw and RT Round 2
5:45 IE Round 2
6:30 Extemp Draw and RT Round 3
7:00 IE Round 3
8:00 Extemp Draw for finals and RT Finals
8:30 IE Finals
ASAP Awards

The list of Extemp Questions will be released on Thursday, November 20th. If you wish to submit a question to be considered it must be submitted by Monday, November 17th .

Concessions

They will be available at HHS. You can purchase concessions with credit cards or with cash. Either works at HHS! There is an ATM located on campus, in the main commons.

AWARDS
Speech: The top six finishers in speech events and congress will receive an award
Sweepstakes:The top three Class AA and top two Class A schools will receive a sweepstakes trophy.

DIRECTIONS – the official HHS address….
Harrisburg HS
1300 W Willow St
Harrisburg, SD 57032

Arrival and Parking
School will still be in session as you are arriving, so please follow these guidelines for parking and entering the building:
· The parking map is here.
· We have a new bus drop-off and parking lot behind the school. Please drop off students at the entrances behind the Performing arts center (marked in Yellow). Buses and cars should park in this lot, as well.
· There are bus parking spots as marked on the map.
· Please DO NOT use the main entrance to the school.
· Please plan to arrive After 2:00 before 2:40. Even if you think you won't interfere with our buses, traffic is a serious issue. If you have not arrived by 2:45, it is unlikely that you will get inside before 3:15.

· Metro students: You MAY NOT enter the building without a coach. We are hoping to have teams walk in together as to avoid having unsupervised students in the building for long periods of time.

School is dismissed at 2:58. All students need to stay in the PAC until after General Meeting.

Please contact us if you have any questions or concerns. We look forward to seeing each of you in November at Harrisburg!


The Harrisburg Speech & Debate Coaching Staff