Information

NOTE: A coach or authorized adult needs to be available to students from your school for the entirety of the tournament (for as long as students are participating). Students/unauthorized parents cannot be the primary contact with tournament officials.

If this is your first tournament of the year and you have not yet submitted your 2022-23 Membership Application, please be sure to have it completed and bring it with you to the tournament. It can be found here.

Please stay up to date on emails and messages. It is coaches' responsibility to pass along necessary material to their students and judges.

Entry Limitations: 

This tournament is open only to schools in the San Diego Imperial Valley Speech League. This tournament will offer a Varsity division and a Novice division in all events.

Each competitor may enter up to four events, with a maximum of two in any pattern (those entering either Extemp may not enter another Pattern B event).  

The Novice division is limited to students who have not competed in a high school speech or debate tournament in a previous school year.

Judges: 

Each school is required to provide 1 judge per 5 entries, based on the pattern in which they have the larger number of entries. Schools not meeting their judging commitment will be required to drop entries to match their available judges.

USE THIS GUIDE TO ENTER YOUR JUDGES. Even if you believe you know how to enter judges, please review the guide linked in the right side column of this site, and make sure to follow the instructions to help make the tournament run more smoothly.

When you enter your judges, you are able to mark shifts that your judges are not available. Be sure that you let your judges know that they need to check in to the judges' room at least 30 minutes prior to the start of the round. Also, let them know that time blocks are estimates and actual end times will be determined by the progression of the tournament.

Do not wait until the last minute to confirm your judges. It is time consuming for tournament officials to have to manually add your judges during the tournament if you didn't straighten it all out in advance.

Entry Deadline: 

Entries must be posted on tabroom.com by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, Sept 26 . No new teams or students may add after the entry deadline. The only changes allowed after the entry deadline is dropping entries (see below).

Drops: 

Dropped entries will be accepted without charge until Wednesday, Sept 28 at 5:00 p.m. After that time, the website will be closed and entry fees will be final. Please email (sepley@francisparker.org) your drops after the drop deadline, even as late as on your way to the tournament, to obviate excessive changes at the beginning of the tournament. When emailing drops, be sure to give the speaker’s name, event, and your school clearly.

Rounds: 

Three preliminary rounds will be held in each event. The top seven speakers in each event, in each division, will break to a final round. 

Extemp internet access and cell phone policy:

Awards: 

Suitable recognition will be given to all finalists. There will be no sweepstakes awards for League #1A-C.