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Fishers Forensic Festival

Fishers High School would like to invite you to our 11th annual Fishers Forensic Festival on January 6th, 2017.

Here are the particulars. The tournament will start with a judges/competitors meeting at 8:00 AM:

• Contestants can double at their own risk in every event except for Discussion, Congress,and WSD. Contestants may triple in IMPROV DUO ONLY.

• There will be no novice competition at this meet.

• In order to give students practice for the major tournaments, we will run three rounds, a semi-final, and a final in all events.

• If competitors are doubled in Impromptu, they should go to Impromptu first and may then leave the room.

• Extemp Draw is @ 8:30 AM. Students will draw again for 3rd round and again for finals.

• We will offer all IHSFA speech events, all IHSFA debate events except policy, and Improv Duo

• Radio format:

o 1 – 5 minute news program (music Lead in/ Lead out/ Commercial on an product to be published later.) NEWSCAST prepared by student

o 2 - 2 minute contestant written editorial on a topic to be published later.

o 3- New Program Repeats

o Semifinal- OTS 2minute prep / 2 minute speak

o Final- News Program Repeats

• Judges _ 1 judge for every 5 contestants. But feel free to commit more. The more judges we have the better off we are.

• Congress Bills _ 1,5,7,12. World Schools topics will be announced closer to the tournament. Other debate events will use NSDA topics.

• Discussion will be using Socratic Seminar with a 10 minute prep period prior to the round. Stimuli will be given the Monday prior to the meet.

• Each school may enter 6 contestants in each speech event, and 3 WSD teams of 5.

• All other IHSFA rules apply

• Finalists and Semifinalists will all receive ribbons, with trophies for the event champions. We will award trophies to the top 10 teams.

• FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED ALL DAY. Please help us off set the cost of hosting by purchasing food and drinks.

• Entries will be due 12/22/17 @ 5pm. That is both speech and Debate. That is a little early, but I want to get all the entries in before people head out of town.