Iowa Forensic League State Tournament
2018 — Iowa City, IA/US
Events and Info
Speech Events
Dramatic Interpretation
Humorous Interpretation
Duo Interpretation
Prose
Poetry
Program of Oral Interpretation
Informative Speaking
Original Oratory
United States Extemporaneous Speaking
International Extemporaneous Speaking
Spontaneous Speaking
NSDA rules and time limits will apply for all speech events that are NSDA events and can be found here:
Prose and Poetry have a FIVE minute time limit (30 second grace period).
The rules for Spontaneous Speaking are as follows:
- Spontaneous is an IN-ROOM draw event.
- Topics will cover contemporary issues.
- A student will draw three topics 3 minutes prior to their speaking, chose one and return the other 2. They will then have 3-minutes of prep. They will then have 5 minutes to speak on the topic.
- No research materials may be used in preparation.
All speech events will have three preliminary rounds and will break to semifinals (though we reserve the right to break to finals in events with a smaller number of entries).
Each school can enter up to 6 contestants in each speech event.
Debate
Congress/Legislative Debate
Public Forum
Lincoln Douglas
Policy
PF, LD and Policy will have five preliminary rounds breaking all winning records to an appropriate elimination round. Congress will have 2 preliminary sessions breaking the top competitors to a supersession on Saturday afternoon.
LD and Policy will use strike sheets if the judging pool is large enough to do so.
Each school can enter up to 6 contestants in any event with the exception of Congress -- there the entry limit is 10.
Middle schools and junior high schools can enter the tournament. However, they must be registered as separate schools in Joy of Tournaments.
Debate Topics
LD will use the January/February topic.
PF will use the March topic.
Policy will use the 2016-2017 Education topic.
Congress - email bills to Joe Rankin at Impulse411@hotmail.com.