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This tournament is available to anyone regardless of age and location. It is specifically geared towards those competing at the Tournament of Champions to practice their Morning Hour Speeches.

This scrimmage occurs at no cost; all of our resources/tournaments/scrimmages are free!

To register, either email us atvsahas11@gmail.com & provide the email associated with your tabroom account & link to your speech; or register on tabroom.

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Competitors should submit one video when registering to the scrimmage. They will receive feedback from nationally qualified competitors with experience at TOC. This scrimmage is asynchronous.

Examples of Morning Hour speeches can be found here: https://youtu.be/ErYsabqtHi0?si=cTW6Rjtvqcm2trU0

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Contestants must prepare one “Morning Hour” speech. The “Morning Hour” is inspired by time in the U.S. House of Representatives, and our contestants will give one compelling speech discussing issues pertinent to their state/region, ideology, etc.

Considerations for judging:

The speech is a soapbox and may indicate the imperative need to solve a problem, may or may not indicate a solution, may attempt to change attitudes on an issue, or may simply raise awareness.

Legislators may acknowledge correlative points made by peers, but the focal point for the speech is not necessarily direct clash/debate with other speakers.

Students may employ more rhetorical strategies, stylistic devices, or even creative risks in these speeches that may slightly deviate, surpass, and vary from the traditional decorum/style of congressional debate speeches.

This should not simply be a “recycled” speech on past debate on legislation. Be innovative!

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There is no judge requirement when signing up, we offer judges who have lots of experience at the national level.

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Equality in Forensics is funded entirely by the generosity of our donors. We do not charge for any of our services. In pursuit of our mission, all of our tournaments, resources, and programs are provided entirely free of charge.

Donations can go here:

https://www.equalityinforensics.org/support-us

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The objective of Equality in Forensics is to provide free, online debate opportunities to make speech and debate more accessible to high school students across America. Read more about our mission here.

We will follow the National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA) standard procedure and rules. Rounds will asynchronously.

You can contact Equality in Forensics through our email equalityinforensics@gmail.com

Additionally, you can join our community and contact us directly on ourDiscord server.

Since our founding, we have created free resources valued at up to $580,000 and a community with upwards of 3,600 members across the nation. We've created 17,000 hours of free coaching with national champions and have impacted 19,000 people with our free resources and offerings.

Some of our resources are on the right side of this webpage.

We are excited to host this scrimmage to demonstrate the impact of online speech & debate, exercise our values of accessibility and equality, and display the power of student initiative. See you there!

- Equality in Forensics Board of Directors

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