Hoover Ria Shah Tournament
2025 — Hoover, AL/US
Tournament Schedule
The Hoover High School Speech and Debate Team proudly invites you to its Annual Ria Shah Memorial Tournament on Oct. 17-18. This year we will be offering a two-day tournament with a full menu of events including CONGRESS on Friday morning at Hoover Hall, on the Hoover campus, but not at the main building. We will also be offering World Schools ----if enough schools sign up for this event.
Here is the line up of events:
Congress in Friday morning starting at 9:00 AM - 2:45 PM
9:00 am - 11:30 am Session 1
1:00 pm - 3:30 pm Session 2
*In Congress, we will have 2 preliminary chambers. We will break competitors from each chamber into a Super chamber. We will provide another chamber for those that do not break to the Super for those students to get more experience.*
Friday Evening
4:30 pm - Round 1 - PF, LD, BQ
5:45 pm - Round 2 - PF, LD, BQ
6:45 pm - Dinner Break
7:15 pm - Round 3 - PF, LD, BQ
8:30 pm - Round 4 - PF, LD, BQ
Saturday
8:00 am - Round 5 - PF, LD, BQ
9:00 am - Extemp Draw
9:30 am - Round 1 - All Speech Events
10:30 am - Semis - Debate
11:30 am - Extemp Draw
12:00 pm - Round 2 - All Speech Events
1:00 pm - Extemp Draw
1:30 pm - Round 3 - All Speech Events
2:30 pm - Finals Debate
2:30 pm - Finals - IMP, OO, INF
Awards