Rules

OSAA BASICS FOR ENTRIES

6.6. Number of Individual Event Entries at District Tournaments. Each school may have a maximum of 29 entries at the District Tournament. A maximum of three entries may be placed in any one event. Each Duo Interpretation entry counts as a single individual events entry. 

6.10. Number of events per student. Any student may enter a maximum of two Individual Events and one Debate event at the District or Speech State Championships. No student may participate in more than two Individual Events or more than one Debate event. Lincoln-Douglas Debate is considered a debate event for the purpose of student entry limitations; a student entered in LD may not enter another debate event.

No contestant can appear at the State Tournament without competing first at the district tournament, unless the contestant is a substitute speaker in CX Debate, Public Forum Debate, Public Debate or Dual Interpretation.

Numbers to State:

In IEs:

2-11 speakers = 2 to State.  

12- 17 = 3 to State. 

**To send 3 in an event, each team must have 3 students. This has worked out in the past for Radio and Prose.

In Debate:

Cross-Examination Debate

1-2 teams=1 to State

        3-4 teams=2 to State

       5-6 teams=3 to State

        7-8 teams=4 to State

Parli Debate and Public Forum Debate (MARCH Topic)

1 team=1 to State

2-8 teams=2 to State

9-16 teams=3 to State

Lincoln-Douglas Debate  (March-April Topic)

1-5 teams=1 to State

6-10 teams=2 to State

11-15 teams=3 to State

Alternatives may go to State if the Coach calls to tell me a student cannot go and then we can substitute the alternate.  (It is important as soon as you know this is the case, to call me so we can get in contact with the alternate’s coach and let them know.)

Proven Excellence Alternative State Qualifiers

6.13.1. Rationale: In addition to District Winners, a limited number of students may be eligible to participate at the Speech State Championships each year under the “Proven Excellence Alternative Qualifying System.” The system was developed to guarantee participation at the Speech State Championships by the state’s very best speakers while maintaining a limit on the number of State participants.

(a) Should a student who has satisfied the proven excellence criteria for an event or events fail to qualify for State at the district speech tournament in that event or events, the district director shall add that entry as a proven excellence alternative qualifier to the district’s results form submitted to the OSAA following the district tournament up to a maximum of two entries per school. The addition of a proven excellence qualifier or qualifiers shall have no effect on the quantity of district winner State qualifiers allocated to the district.

(b) An entry for a school in a team event shall count as one entry for the purpose of applying the two entry per school limitation. (c) Should a school have more than two proven excellence qualifiers for the Speech State Championships in a given year, the coach of the students shall inform the district director which of the students shall be designated as the two qualifiers for the school. At the discretion of the coach, it is possible that both proven excellence qualifier positions for a school could be designated to the same student. (d) Should a student who has satisfied the proven excellence criteria for an event or events also qualify in that event or events at the district speech tournament, they may yield their district qualifying spot to the district alternate and still compete at the Speech State Championships by accessing their proven excellence alternative qualification (should their coach designate that student as one of the two proven excellence qualifiers for that school as outlined in provision (c)).