Whirlwind Speech Invite

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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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Dear Speech Coach(es),

It is our pleasure to invite you to the 5th Annual Whirlwind Speech Invite hosted at Orchard that will be held on January 25, 2014.  We hope to provide you and your students a day of quality competition, learning, & FUN!

The competition will include divisions for both Novice and Varsity speakers in all NSAA sanctioned events.  The novice tournament format will be two preliminary rounds with no finals while the varsity tournament format will be two preliminary and a final’s round with events of ten or more entries.  The top four novice speakers in each event will receive medals.  The top six varsity entries in each event will receive medals.  A sweepstakes award will be presented to the top novice and varsity teams.

The fee for each entry is $7.00.  For every six entries, you must provide one judge to cover them.  For each uncovered slot, a fee of $15.00 will be charged to overall entry.  Please make an attempt to bring judges with you as our judging pool of experienced judges is limited.

We are limiting the number of teams to 10.   Please reserve your team’s place in our tournament ASAP by emailing Kortney at ksayers@esu8.org.  Registration will take place using the online program, Speech Wire.  A code and additional information will follow this invitation soon.  Since we plan to utilize this online service, entries don’t need to be entered until January 21, 2014 @ 4:00 p.m.  Entry fees are frozen at this time. 

A tentative schedule is:

7:007:45 Registration in Student Lounge

8:00 Round 1A (Duet, Humorous, Informative, & Entertainment)

8:30 Extemp Draw – Round 1

9:15 Round 1B (OID, Serious, Persuasive, Extemp, & Poetry)

10:30  Round 2A (Duet, Humorous, Informative, Entertainment)

11:00 Extemp Draw-Round 2

11:45 Round 2B (OID, Serioud, Persuasive, Extemp, & Poetry)

1:00 Finals Varsity Flight A (Duet, Humorous, Informative, & Entertainment)

1:30 Extemp Draw Finals (if needed)

2:15 Finals Varsity Flight B (OID, Serious, Persuasive, Extemp, & Poetry)

4:00 or ASAP Awards in Gymnasium

We are currently making arrangements for a concession stand.  Coaches and judges will be provided a coupon for their lunch. 

As the speech season will be just in its beginning stages, we ask that competitors consider this meet a learning opportunity.  It is then requested by the speech directors of this meet that as a common courtesy that unless a competitor is double entered or has to draw for extemp, all speakers in a round stay and watch the entire round as considerate audience members.  Socializing and music should be kept to a minimum and monitored by speech coaches in the commons area which is the gymnasium. 

Kortney Sayers, speech meet director                                      Sonia Rittscher, speech meet director

Clearwater Orchard                                                                  Clearwater Orchard

ksayers@esu8.org                                                                    srittsch@esu8.org

Manager contact information

Kortney Sayers
Email address: kortneysayers@neunified1.org
Phone number: (402)485-2505

Mailing address

4th & Rusk
PO Box 269
Orchard, NE 68764