Tournament Schedule and Important Information

Tournament Schedule

7:45 – 8:15                  Registration

8:30-12:25                   Speech Rounds

8:30-9:25                      Round 1 (Interp. Events, Impromptu~& Original Oratory/Expos.)

9:25-10:30                    Round 2 (Interp. Events, Impromptu~& Original Oratory/Expos.)

10:30-11:15                                 Lunch Break

11:15-12:25                                 Finals (Interp. Events, Impromptu~& Original Oratory/Expos.)

12:30-4:00                 Debate Rounds

12:30-2:10                   Student Congress begins

12:30-1:30                    Public Forum Round 1   

1:35-2:35                      Public Forum Round 2

2:40-3:40                      Public Forum Round 3

2:10-2:20                      Student Congress recess

2:20 –4:00                   Student Congress continues       

4:45                                AWARDS! (We try very hard to run on time, but tournaments often run longer)

*Every effort will be made to keep the tournament on schedule and start the awards ceremony on time; however, tournaments often run long due to a variety of factors.

General Information

A teacher or administrator from your school must accompany the students for the entire day. NO Exceptions!

Cost: $10 per student + $10 Team fee

Deadline to enter students: Wednesday, February 23, 2022.

Entries will be completed on-line via Tabroom.  If you have not already set up an account, please do so.

$6.00 for pre-paid lunch option - available for purchase to students and chaperones.  The price of the lunch will include pizza, drink, chips and a treat.

If you are ordering lunches you will be responsible for the number of lunches listed as of Wednesday, February 23, 2022, as I have to order the pizza ahead of time. We may be able to accommodate additional lunches requested after this date, however, they are not guaranteed.

There will be a snack bar serving food items.  It will be open up until the awards presentation. Please ask students to keep food and drink in the cafeteria.

You may pay your entry fees ($10.00 per entry plus $10.00 team fee) and pre-paid lunch option all with one school check made payable to Robison Middle School Speech and Debate. Please use invoice available through Tabroom and bring it with you to the tournament.

If you would like to mail the check ahead of time please send via school/district mail to:

Robison Middle School

Bambi Frailey, Debate Coach

825 Marion Drive

Las Vegas, NV 89110

Event Information

Speech Events

Oral Interpretation Events include – Dramatic Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Prose & Poetry and Duo.

Platform Events include – Original Oratory and Expos.

There is no minimum time for speech events, maximum time is 10 minutes. 7 minutes for PPI.

Debate Events

Public Forum and Congress

Public Forum Topic – Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its protection of water resources in the United States.

 Congress Resolutions – Are attached to this email.

We will have two levels of Congress debate. Congress will be for new/beginning students to debate and Senate will be for students who have previous debate experience or students who are currently in grade 8. Please email in advance with a list of new students for congress debate to frailb@nv.ccsd.net or they will be placed into the senate rounds. We want to encourage students to participate in congress, but sometimes students new to debate become overwhelmed when debating against students with experience.

Each session of Congress will last for 1 hour and 30 minutes.  We will be following regular parliamentary procedure which allows for a 3 minute speech and then questions from the floor.  We will be using motions to begin and suspend debate from the floor, etc.

If a student is registered for Public Forum debate and their partner does not show up they may switch to Student Congress on the day of the event.

IE and Debate events pairings are randomized by the computer tabulation program.