Welcome to the Viking Raider Extravaganza

We cordially invite you to the Viking Raider Extravaganza high school speech and debate tournament (Puyallup/Thomas Jefferson Invitational high school speech and debate tournament) held online at NSDA’s Campus. We are ready to provide a quality tournament for you and your students. We will do our best to make sure that the tournament runs smoothly, professionally, and on time. We want an educational tournament. The philosophical goals of our tournament are: Inclusivity, Scholarship, and Balancing the spirit of competition with the educational goals of forensics.

We are so proud to be a tournament of excellence and to reward students attaining the highest level of competition with University of Kentucky - TOC Speech bids

This year, we offer these events and ALL EVENTS ARE LIVE, SYNCHRONOUS, ONLINE: --Lincoln-Douglas and Public Forum are offered in Open and Junior Division plus Congressional Debate and World Schools Debate in Open division. NOTE: PF will use the JANUARY PF TOPIC, LD will use the January/February topic, WSD will use prepared and impromptu motions (based on the Spring WSD prepared motions for Wa State), and Congress will use the WSFA Congressional packet of legislation (a copy to be posted on the VRE tabroom site shortly after 12/15/26).

--All eight of the Washington State Individual Events, plus SPAR, Spoken Word, and EdComm, in Open division --YOU MAY DOUBLE ENTER IN INDIVIDUAL EVENTS.

Please be aware -

1. Tournament payment is through Thomas Jefferson High School, please direct payment questions to Andrew Buchan.

2. Public Forum debate will be running the January Topic; LD debate will use the Jan-Feb Topic; Congressional Debate will be using the Washington State Forensics Association's Spring packet (To be posted here in December); WSD will be using a combination of prepared and impromptu motions (to be posted in December).

3. Pretty please make sure that all judges have their own Tabroom account, a device to access it throughout the tournament, are prepared to post all ballots through Tabroom during the tournament, are aware of event rules, have received some training about being a solid judge, and know that they are obligated TWO ROUNDS BEYOND THE FINAL ROUND YOUR TEAM COMPETES IN!!!!

Finally - In accordance with the WIAA, all schools must attest that they are competing as an officially sanctioned school team. This tournament (and all other Washington State tournaments) require coaches to certify that all members of your team who are competing at the tournament are currently enrolled students at your school. Every team entering in the tournament must attest to the following...

"By completing this entry, I certify that all competitors registered under this school are officially recognized, currently enrolled students attending this school, and are competing with official school approval. Independent entries, club-only squads, and multi-school composite teams are strictly prohibited."