Dear Forensics Coach,

 

 

The Sun Prairie High School in partnership with Waunakee Community High School invite you to a tournament on Saturday, March 10th, 2018. 

 

The tournament will be held at Cardinal Heights Upper Middle School, 220 Kroncke Dr., Sun Prairie, WI.

 

 

Rules      

 

WFCA rules will be used for all events (For a list of rules see www.wfcaforensics.org) with the following modifications:

 

-Allowance of one 4x6 notecard in Oratory.

 

-Solo Actors will be allowed to use a chair.

 

-Judges will be asked to accomodate four minute and six minutes speeches in Informative.

 

 

 

Schedule                       

 

7:30-8:15 Registration

 

8:30        Radio/Extemp Draw Begins in the LMC

 

8:30        Student Meeting in the Commons and Judges Meeting in the Auditorium

 

9:00        Round I

 

10:15       Round II

 

11:30       Round III

 

1:30        Power Rounds Begin

 

2:45        Awards in the Auditorium

 

 

 

Entries

 

Students are allowed to triple enter. Students cannot enter in BOTH extemp and radio. Total number of entries for the tournament is capped at 400.

 

 

 

Judges    

 

Each school must provide one judge for every five entries or portion of five entries. Each duo, group interp or play acting is considered one entry. Please try to bring your own quality judges. Your judge commitment will be based on your entry as of Thursday, March 8th. We will have hired judges available for you at a cost of $15 per uncovered entry. Teams with over 60 entries/10 judges are required to hire judges from the tournament.

 

 

 

Awards

 

Trophies will be presented to the top three competitors and medals to the remaining finalists. Team trophies will be awarded to schools in three divisions. Your top 25 competitors with a maximum of four in any one category will count for team awards. Divisions will be determined based on actual entries competing. A minimum of five entries will be needed to compete for team awards.

 

 

 

Deadlines

 

-Please register via SpeechWire by Friday, March 2nd by 5:00 pm.

 

-Teams can and should manage their own drops on Speechwire.com until 4:00pm, Friday, March 9th.

 

-Entries dropped after that time will still be charged and you will be responsible for the judges listed.

 

-Day of tournament drops are strongly discouraged. Please text last minute drops as soon as possible on tournament day to Elliott Fischer at 608-609-0290 or Walter Stenz at 608-556-5211 Make sure you have an updated cell phone number in Speechwire, so tournament personnel can contact you in case a member of your team fails to check-in by 8:15am.

 

 

 

Fees

 

A fee of $9.00 for each individual entry and $12 for group entries (Duo, Group Interp, Play Acting). Entry fees are per entry, not per student. Fees will be based on your confirmed entry.

 

 

 

Food

 

The SPHS Forensics Boosters will have breakfast and lunch for sale.

 

 

 

SpeechWire     

 

If you encounter any problems with the online registration, don't hesitate to email fischere@uwosh.edu, jcpesch@sunprairieschools.org, or wstenz@waunakee.k12.wi.us

 

 

 

We are looking forward to hosting you on March 10th! If you have any questions, feel free to contact us!

(vr)