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Hello!

We are excited to welcome you to the inaugural 2026 Caddo Mills Fall Invitational, which will be held on Saturday, November 14th. This will be a full UIL tournament, offering all academic events as well as speech and debate.

To ensure a positive experience for all participants, we have set initial entry limits based on our available space. If your program has additional entries beyond the posted limits, please feel free to add those students to the waitlist. We will make every effort to clear waitlists so that all interested students have the opportunity to compete.

Academics

• All academic events will use Third Party Materials.

• Sponsors are expected to be present for testing and grading.

Speech & Debate

• All judges will be hired by CMISD and will have an active Tabroom account, which will be used to distribute ballots throughout the tournament.

• All schools will be required to pay judge fees.
• CX Debate will use the 2026-2027 UIL policy debate topic: Resolved: The United States federal government should establish national health insurance in the United States.
• LD Debate will be using the 2026 UIL fall topic: Resolved: The use of nuclear energy is compatible with environmental stewardship.
• Ryan Stokes will be tabbing the Speech & Debate side of things.

Fees

• School Hospitality & Concessions Fee: $15.00 per school

• CX Debate: $30.00 per entry

• LD Debate: $15.00 per entry

• Individual Events: $15.00 per entry

• Academic Events: $10.00 per entry

• Journalism Events: $15.00 per entry

• LD Judge Fee: $150.00 per judge (for every 4 entries or part thereof)

• CX Judge Fee: $150.00 per judge (for every 2 teams or part thereof)
• Speech Judge Fee: $150.00 per judge (for every 6 entries or part thereof)

• Missing High-Needs Academic Grader: $75.00 per grader

• Incomplete payment on day of tournament: $100 per school

Grader Requirements

• High-Needs Academic Events: 1 grader per 3 entries (or portion thereof)

High-needs academic events include: Computer Science Programming, Ready Writing, and Journalism. While we ask that schools provide judges for all academic events in which they have entries, we especially appreciate support in these high-needs areas to help ensure the tournament runs smoothly and on time.

We are thrilled to host you and your students and look forward to a great day of competition. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. You can reach out to Ms. Hodnett or Mr. Stokes and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Please make your check payable to

Payable to: CADDO MILLS ISD
To the memo/Attn: CMHS Academic UIL - Fall Invitational
Address: 100 Fox Ln, Caddo Mills, TX 75135

Hannah Hodnett - UIL Coordinator

hhodnett@caddomillsisd.org

Ryan Stokes - Speech & Debate Coach

rstokes@caddomillsisd.org