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NOTE:   Registration for this tournament is open ONLY to head coaches of record at the TFL member school.  Your registration request must be approved by the tournament director.  Students or parents may not register teams.
Please make sure that the faculty coach of record for your school is registering for this tournament.  It will be checked against TFL records before you are allowed to complete the registration process.

Dear Colleagues,

The Tarheel Forensic League would like to invite all member schools to the 2021 TFL State Championship to be held virtually on Saturday and Sunday, March 20-21.

Events at this year’s tournament will be:  Policy Debate, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, Congressional Debate, Original Oratory, Extemporaneous Speaking, Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Duo-Interpretation, Program Oral Interpretation, Impromptu Speaking, Informative Speaking, and Declamation (9th and 10th grades only).  This year students may triple enter between speech events. We will not be able to allow double or triple entry between debate events and speech events.

Students will need to qualify for this tournament through a regular season bid process.  Learn more about that at this link.  Instructions on how to enter your qualification bids on Tabroom are available at this link.   A JV division will be offered in LD, PF and Congress.  The JV division of these events is open to any student in their first two years of competition with no bid qualification required.  There is also no qualification needed for Declamation, which is limited to 9th and 10th graders.

Please note that we will be using the MARCH/APRIL Lincoln-Douglas topic and the MARCH Public Forum topic.

Please be sure to review all pages in the right hand column on our registration website.  Most of the information you need can be found in the TFL Tournament Manual (which will be posted by March 5).  We will post announcements and updates on this website, so be sure to check back regularly.   

PLEASE NOTE OUR IMPORTANT SUPERVISION RULE: At minimum, a school approved adult authorized to make decisions on behalf of the team must be available for the entire duration of the tournament. If anyone other than the official head coach will be supervising the team, the school must present the TFL Executive Committee a letter to that effect signed by both the head coach and school principal. If the school approved coach or chaperone in charge is not available when needed, the entire school will be disqualified from the tournament and a letter will be written to the school principal.

If at any time you have questions regarding this tournament or if there is anything we can help you with, please do not hesitate to contact TFL Chair Keith Pittman (keith.pittman@asheville.k12.nc.us) at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely, 

Keith Pittman (Asheville/SILSA), Tarheel Forensic League Chair

Crawford Leavoy (Durham Academy), TFL Vice Chair

Chris Harrow (Ardrey Kell), TFL Secretary

Mike Bischoff (North Mecklenburg), TFL Committee Member

Michelle Boswell (Cumberland Polytechnic), TFL Committee Member

Bilal Butt (Charlotte Latin), TFL Committee Member

Ben Denton (Pinecrest), TFL Committee Member

Shannon Jarman (Cumberland International), TFL Committee Member

RJ Pellicciotta (Cary Academy), TFL Committee Member