Norfolk Panther Classic

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General information

This information is from a tournament in a past season!

This is a High School tournament in Nebraska.

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Inaugural Norfolk Panther Speech Classic

Saturday, March 2^nd at Norfolk Senior High School

801 Riverside, Norfolk, NE 68701

Dear Speech Coach:

We are excited to bring a second speech tournament back to Norfolk and would love to have you join us for the Panther Speech Classic! This tournament will give your team another great opportunity to compete prior to district and state competitions. Your entry, however, is not limited to only your district team entries.  This way, some of your top kids who didn’t quite make the cut for your district team, can still enjoy another chance to compete.  Students may also triple-enter; just not in the same flight.

 Registration deadline is Tuesday, February 26^th at 5:00 P.M.

We request that all coaches list themselves as an available judge in addition to any hired judges. Each school is to provide one judge for every five entries. Any uncovered entries will cost $15.00 per uncovered slot. Please ensure that your judges are either NSAA qualified or well versed and experienced with regards to the rules and expectations of speech competition. All judges are to provide their own stopwatches and must sign their ballots. All judges and coaches are expected to be available for finals.  If for some reason one of your judges is unable to judge finals, please include a $25 penalty fee.

All nine NSAA events will be offered, as well as Impromptu Speaking. We will have additional information regarding that experimental event on our tournament website.  We will allow electronic files for extemp prep. Because this is a multi-class tournament, we will use the standard one-hour prep time.  Most of our team will be at a district NFL debate tournament but we will have some Norfolk Senior High students competing as well, and since this is also their last regular season tournament, we have decided to allow them to be eligible for awards too.

Entry fees are $8.00 for all events, with the exception of OID which will be $10 to help offset the increased cost of multiple awards.  Because we anticipate this being a large event, we plan to host both “Champs” and “Honors” finals. In addition, we also plan to feature an individual sweepstakes award for the top six individual performers. We will recognize the top three squads for final team sweepstakes. The award ceremony will be in the Johnny Carson Theatre.

Feel free to come in and look over ballots at any time during the tournament—even during finals. Viewing ballots before the awards ceremony also helps us minimize errors. A wide array of concession food and drink will also be provided in the lobby near the gymnasium. All food and drink must remain in the commons area.

7:00 A.M.  Registration begins

7:45 A.M.  Check-in extemp files in the cafeteria.
7:55 A.M.  Last minute announcements – all drops and adds will be posted later
 

8:05 A.M.  Round One—Flight A—OID, Serious Prose, Humorous Prose, Persuasive, and Impromptu Speaking

8:30 A.M.  Extemp prep in the cafeteria for round one
9:30 A.M.  Round One—Flight B—Duet, Poetry, Entertainment, Informative, and Extemporaneous
 

10:45 A.M. Round Two—Flight A

11:15 A.M. Extemp prep for round two
12:15 P.M. Round Two—Flight B
 

1:30 P.M.  Finals—Flight A and extemp prep for finals
2:30 P.M.  Finals—Flight B
4:30ish      Awards (as soon as humanly and technologically possible!)

We look forward to a competitive but fun-filled tournament featuring some of the best talent in the state!

Forensically Yours,

Peggy Belt, Chris Begeman, Amber Doughty,

Alyssa Hayse, Deb Brunswick

Manager contact information

Peggy Belt
Email address: peggybelt@npsne.org
Phone number: (cell) 402-649-7594

Mailing address

801 Riverside Blvd
Norfolk, NE 68701