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Welcome to the Madison Meltdown 2026!

Novice Divisions of Debate will be restricted to competitors in their first year of competition, even if they have never competed in that particular event before.

Debate Events: Congress and Novice/Varsity divisions of PF, LD, and WSD

Speech Events: All IHSAA speech events except Panel PLUS- Original Spoken Word Poetry and Spartner.

This year, we will also host "SPARtner Debate" again on Friday (individual competitors will be paired in round--just one more amusing way to promote interaction between schools)

Mandatory Prep: 90 seconds
Affirmative Constructive: 2 minutes
Negative Constructive: 2 minutes
Crossfire: 1 minute
Mandatory Prep: 1 minute
Affirmative Rebuttal: 2 minute
Negative Rebuttal: 2 minute
Crossfire: 1 minute
Aff Summary: 1 minute
Neg Summary: 1 minute
Aff Summary: 1 minute
Neg Summary: 1 minute

PLUS: Original Spoken Word Poetry

For resources on how to prepare and perform OSP: https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Competition-Events_Getting-Started-with-Original-Spoken-Word-Poetry_2021-05-06.pdf

Exception: Judges will be instructed that Scripts are permitted, though not required. Competitors should not be penalized based solely on their use of a script when the use of the script did not reduce the effectiveness of their piece.

World Schools Debate topics:

• This House, as the Federal Trade Commission, would ban online sports betting.
• This House supports investment in space colonization.

*Please note that, as the host school, I reserve the right to combine or drop events if there is a low number of entries. Schools will be notified a week prior to the tournament of any drops or event changes.

Congress Legislation

You will find the congress legislation to the right. Coming soon. Student legislation can be submitted to Cynthia Browneller

Schedule Subject to Change...but we're optimistic!

Friday (Speech Events)

1:15-2:15 Registration

2:15-2:45 Judge/Competitor Meetings

2:45-4:15 Speech Round 1

4:15-5:45 Speech Round 2

5:45-7:15 Speech Round 3

7:30-9:00 Speech Finals

Saturday (Debate Events)

LD/PF Schedule

8:30-10:30 Debate Round 1

10:30-12:30 Debate Round 2

12:30-2:30 Debate Round 3

2:30-4:30 Debate Round 4

4:50-6:00 Semi-Finals

6:10-7:20 Finals

World Schools Schedule

8:30-9:45 Round 1 Prepared

9:45-11 Round 2 Prepared

11-1:15 Round 3 Impromptu

1:15-3:30 Round 4 Impromptu

3:45-6 Round Impromptu Semis

6:10-7:20 Finals Prepared

or

3:30-4:45 Round 5 Prepared

5-7:15 Finals Impromptu

Congress Schedule

8:.30-Noon Session 1

12:30-3:30 Session 2

4:00-7:30 Super Congress

7:45 Awards