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2025 Collins Clash

The Fort Collins High School Debate Team invites you to the

FCHS Speech and Debate Tournament

Saturday, December 13, 2025

http://collinsclash.tabroom.com/

This tournament is a live and in-person event.

3400 Lambkin Way

Fort Collins, CO

Tabroom Registration: Due Wednesday, December 10^th

On-Site Registration: 7-7:30 AM (delayed arrivals register at 970-631-2693)

Rounds: 8 AM-6 PM

Awards: 7 PM

Double and triple entry is fine, but debaters and extempers cannot double enter within the same Wave. Please make your policy debaters and extempers aware of the need to move to their next round immediately if they are double entered.

Wave A Events are LD, Humor, Impromptu, Info, National Extemp, Congress, and Poetry.

Wave B Events are Policy Debate, PF, Drama, Duo, International Extemp, Original Oratory, POI, and Congress.

We will use the current NSDA topics for debate.

Events and judging will follow CHSAA rules.

Yes, we have Congress, roughly following NFL rules. Congresspersons entered need to submit one piece of legislation to jclarke@psdschools.org at least one week in advance of the tournament. If you bring additional legislation on the day of the tournament, please bring 30 copies. The judge will EXCLUDE any bills deemed too trivial or offensive. The judge will award points and determine awards.

Entries will be limited. We’ll take unlimited entries in each Congress, but five in each event and each debate category. Waitlist any additional entries and we will accommodate them if possible. Due to the large size of our school, it is very likely that most requests for additional entries can be accommodated, but you must provide judges to cover your entries.

Awards will include a sweepstakes trophy (based on final results in all events weighted equally). We will also award trophies (1^st-3^rd) and ribbons (4^th-6^th) for the top competitors in each event and we will award gavels to the presiding officers of each wave of congress.

Pizza and snacks will be available in our cafeteria and McDonalds and Sonic are close by, though we encourage you to support our concessions with a “stay on campus” rule.

Coaches who are not working in tabroom may be asked to judge two rounds. There is a $20 fee for sending a sponsor who can’t tab or judge. Ballot/tab room will be in the media center and is open to all coaches. Food will be provided for coaches and judges in P100 across the hall from the media center.

Questions? Contact Jason Clarke at jclarke@psdschools.org, or by phone: School Cell/Text 970-631-2693.

Please bring judges and sign them up to be sure we can cover everything, particularly for events like CX and LD where qualified judges are desirable.

Teams arriving after 7:30 who have not phoned in may miss Round I. If you’re running late, please call 970-631-2693 before 7:30. Thanks!

Thank you everyone for supporting the Collins Clash!

Collins Clash Schedule

7:00-7:30 Registration

8:00 – Wave A Round I

(LD, HI, IMP, INF, NX, Congress A, and Poetry)

9:30 – Wave B Round I

(Policy, PF, DI, Duo, IX, OO, POI, and Congress B)

11:00 – Wave A Round II

12:30 – Wave B Round II

2:00 – Wave A Round III

3:30 – Wave B Round III

5:00 – Finals – Wave A Events

6:00 – Finals – Wave B Events

7:00 – Awards