2nd Annual Norfolk Panther Speech Classic

Saturday, March 8th at Norfolk Senior High School

801 Riverside, Norfolk, NE 68701

 

Dear Speech Coach:

 

We are excited to once again host the Panther Classic 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, March 4th 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 district NFL debate 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.  Because we anticipate this being a large event, we plan to host both “Champs” and “Honors” finals. In addition, we plan to offer an individual sweepstakes award to the top six individual performers. We plan to recognize the top three squads for final team sweepstakes. The award ceremony will be in the Johnny Carson Theatre.

 

If you have any questions, please email me at peggybelt@npsne.org.

 

Forensically yours,

 

Peggy Belt

(vr)