Invitation

he 2026 RMSST Cider and Spice Speech Invitational is a fully asynchronous virtual event. Participants will pre-record and upload their speeches/performances by Tuesday, November 3. Awards will be announced on Sunday, November 8.

The RMHCC will not accept independent entries. A school coach/teacher must enter students into the tournament, and a school-authorized adult must be available (virtually) at all times during the tournament.

All entrants should follow the GFCA guidelines for their designated events. All recordings should have a stable and stationary camera (no panning, no zooming, no moving), and competitors must remain on screen at all times. Performances and speeches must be unedited, but competitors may trim the beginning and end of videos to cut themselves setting up, starting, and/or stopping the camera.

We will default to GFCA rules for all events unless specified on the event page.

SCHEDULE

Tuesday, October 22 at 10:00am EST– Limited Prep Topics will be posted.
Tuesday, 11/03 at 5:00pm EST– Entries and Judges’ Names are due, and fees are frozen. Recordings will be due via Tabroom. Any entry without a recording will be dropped at this time but still charged towards the schools entry fees.
Wednesday, 11/03 at 8:00pm EST– Preliminary rounds will be released.
Friday, 11/06 at 7:00pm EST– Preliminary rounds are due.
Friday, 11/06 at 9:00pm EST– If necessary, Elimination Rounds are posted.
Sunday, 11/08 at 11:00am EST– Elimination Rounds are due.
Sunday, 11/08 by 4:00pm EST– Results will be released.

JUDGING OBLIGATIONS

All schools are required to enter judges to cover entries – you will owe 1 round of judging for every 1 entry. This is your preliminary round commitment and does not include a final round placement. It is important to understand that each round of judging will require about one hour fifteen minutes of watching students and providing feedback. We recommend that each judge fulfill 2 or 3 rounds, but do not want to limit it in case you have folks who can judge more.

In an effort to produce high quality feedback, judges will have 48+ hours to adjudicate rounds from students. We ask that schools enter head coaches and qualified judges (or alumni) to help judge rounds.

Middle school judges may be experienced high school speech/debate students.

If you would like to hire judging, you can hire for $25/round.

Entry fees are $7 per entry for individual events. There is no school entry fee, as we are trying to keep fees low to accommodate as many participants as possible.

Please mail payment to:

Cherie Ullo
Rockdale Magnet School
930 Rowland Rd.
Conyers, GA 30012

Please make checks payable to ROCKDALE MAGNET FUND.

On checks, please indicate that this is for the RMSST Cider and Spice Speech Invitational (may abbreviate as CSSI) and include your school's name.

Please mail a printed invoice with your check.

Please contact me if you have any questions. The Rockdale Magnet Speech and Debate Team looks forward to hosting you at our tournament!

Thank you,

Cherie Ullo

cullo@rockdale.k12.ga.us