December 2016

Dear Coach,

It is a great pleasure to invite you to the Rocket Invitational Speech Tournament.  We are located in Louisville, KY on Bardstown Road right off the Watterson Expressway; and our tournament is scheduled for Saturday, January 21, 2017.  We are certainly looking forward to seeing many of you at our tournament, and we will give our best effort to make the day run smoothly for you.

We will be offering all of the KHSSL senior events and Congress.    We are allowing seven entries per event and students may double in any events.  

Change for this year:  Quad entries will be allowed, but only two events in each flight.  Please do not enter students in more than 2 events in a flight.

Entry fees are $6.00 per entry; duo teams will be counted as two entries for fees ($12) but not for judges.  Each team will need to supply one judge for every six entries or fractions thereof.  No tournament ever has as many judges as the director would like, so please try to help us out with this and bring enough judges for your entries.  For every judge needed, but not supplied, we will assess a $35.00 fee.  Teams may only purchase a maximum of 2 judges. This very important!  Please respect this requirement and do your best to bring qualified judges.  Please submit your entries by 11:30 PM on Monday, January 16th.  We are a small school, so when we reach the limit that our space allows, we will reserve the right to not accept later entries.  This means that if we reach capacity before the scheduled deadline for entries we WILL CLOSE REGISTRATION. I do not anticipate this being necessary, but I wanted to make you aware of the possibility.  Also, it is my intention at this point to flight the tournament to accommodate as many schools as wish to enter.

Registration will be via Tabroom.com.  Please create a log-in for your team if necessary and select the Rocket Invitational for registration.  If you have questions or need to contact me directly, please email me at this address: danielhammahs@hotmail.com.   I will send you a confirmation email as soon as I receive your entries, but you should see your school listed as registered on Tabroom.  Since we are using online registration the drop/add date is the registration deadline.  Changes made after this time will be assessed a $5 drop/change fee (name substitutions should be done the day of the tournament and do not incur any charge).  The phone number, if you need to call me, is 502-458-9551.

Food and Awards:  There are a few fast food restaurants within a short drive of the school; however, getting up and down Bardstown Road can be a challenge, even on weekends.  Because of this, we are going to be selling pizza and sub sandwich box lunches to any interested teams.  In order to avoid over-ordering, we will be selling tickets the day of the tournament that will serve as vouchers for the food at lunch time.  On the matter of awards, we will be giving awards to the top three teams in sweepstakes and to the top six competitors in the individual events. 

The schedule for the day is as follows (unless it is unnecessary to flight the tournament):

     7:00 - 8:30 AM                         - Registration

               8:00 AM                           - Extemp draw in the library

    8:30 -9:45 AM                            - Round 1, Flight A

    9:45 -11:00 AM                         - Round 1, Flight B

   11:00 - 12:15 PM       - Round 2, Flight A

    12:15 - 1:30 PM                        - Round 2, Flight B

                 1:30 -  2:00 PM           Lunch    - Finals Posted

     2:30 PM                      - Finals

     4:30 - 5:00 PM                          - Awards in the Theater