The River Valley Speech and Debate League welcomes you....

This tournament is in Person. (Congress will be offered digitally)

The River Valley Speech and Debate League was created to give more competition and opportunity to schools in the River Valley. This summer ACTAA changed the rules of tournaments that count as state qualifiers to mandate that all tournaments be 'open' to all schools in Arkansas. As such, this tournament is open but we do have very limited space and judge numbers and must vigorously enforced. If you cannot supply the needed judges per entry (one judge per two debate entries) and (one judge per six individual event entries) then your entries will be removed. Your judges must be able to judge, if you have a judge entered into the system who cannot judge any round then they will not count toward your judge quota. In addition, because the tournament is much smaller we have to respect our judges time and rounds will not be held late for any reason unless it is the tournaments fault. (*like a judge didn't show up on time)




Debate EVENTS OFFERED:
-IPDA-Prelims are IN PERSON Thursday afternoon for the Novice Division at Dardanelle High School and Out rounds Dardanelle High School throughout the day on Saturday.

--Prelims of Varsity will be broken on Monday with rounds happening monday, tuesday, wednesday with outrounds happening thursday afternoon.

Individual EVENTS OFFERED: (all IEs are in person at Dardanelle High School 10/30 and 11/1
Informative Speaking, Impromptu Speaking, Original Oratory, Poetry, Declamation, Storytelling, Duet Improv

Impromptu Topics (added 11/19)

IMPROMPTU TOPIC AREAS

1. Christmas & Winter Traditions

2. New Year’s Reflection & Renewal

3. Collaboration, Leadership & Shared Success

4. Growth, Resilience & a Healthy Speech & Debate Community

ACTAA State Qualifying LEVELS:Reminder that Arkansas State Championship Qualifiers are based off of entry numbers. Therefore, we will not know how many qualifications occur for each event until the day of the competition based not only on who enters the event but who shows up to actually compete.

Debate Qualification Levels

1. Level 1 (Top 32 Placement or Top 10 Speakers) 64+ Entries

2. Level 2 (Top 16 or Top 10 Speakers) 40-63 Entries

3. Level 3 (Top 8 or Top 6 Speakers) 20-39 Entries

4. Level 4 (Top 4 or Top 6 Speakers) 10-19 Entries

5. Level 5 (Top 2 or Top 3 Speakers) 5-9 Entries

6. Debate with 4 or less need to be supplemented with host school entries (but needs to be less than majority plus one) or won't be a state qualifier.

IE Qualification Levels

1. Level 1 (Semis and Finals) 32+

2. Level 2 (Finals) 20-31

3. Level 3 (Top 3) 10-19

4. Level 4 (1st Place) 6-9

5. Events 5 or less need to be supplemented with host school entries (but needs to be less than majority plus one) or won't be a state qualifier.