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Oklahoma Interstate Forensics Association (OIFA)
General information This information is from a tournament in a past season! This is a College tournament in Oklahoma. View manager contact information
Forensics Colleagues and Friends,
We would like to invite you to the annual Oklahoma Interstate Forensics Association State Tournament to be held February 22-23rd, 2019 on the campus of Oklahoma City University. The tournament offers a full day of IPDA and Parliamentary debate formats on Friday and a complete IE tournament on Saturday. Parliamentary and IPDA debate will offer five preliminary rounds on Friday with out rounds as needed on Saturday. NPDA and IPDA will include one open division. Students may enter either Parliamentary or IPDA on Friday, but not both. This tournament is open to any college and university.
The tournament director reserves the right to limit the number of entries from a school, and/or balance rounds with students from the same school in order to accommodate judging obligations from schools with large entries.
Please submit entries on Speechwire.com. The entry deadline is 5 PM CST on February 19th. The drop deadline is at 5PM CST on February 20th.
Tournament rules and schedule are on the following pages.
Sincerely,
Niki Alderson, Tulsa Community College Tournament Director, OIFA President
and
Joshua E. Young, PhD, Director of Forensics, OCU OCU Site Coordinator
Tentative Schedule Friday, February 22nd 8:00 a.m. Registration in Walker Center (Parking available North of building). 9:00 a.m. IPDA & NPDA Draw/Round 1 10:30 a.m. IPDA & NPDA Draw/Round 2 12:30 p.m. IPDA & NPDA Draw/Round 3 2:00 p.m. IPDA & NPDA Draw/Round 4 3:30 p.m. IPDA & NPDA Draw/Round 5 5:00 p.m. IPDA & NPDA Quarters and/or Semis 7:00 p.m. IPDA & NPDA Semis and/or Finals
Saturday, February 23rd 7:30 a.m. IE Only Registration 7:45 a.m. Extemp Draw 8:00 a.m. IE Pattern A Round 1 9:15 a.m. IE Pattern B Round 1 10:30 a.m. IE Pattern B Round 2 11:45 a.m. IPDA & NPDA Finals (if needed), Lunch Break 12:30 p.m. Extemp Draw 12:45 p.m. IE Pattern B Round 2 2:00 p.m. Pattern B Finals 3:15 p.m. Extemp Draw 3:30 p.m. Pattern A Finals 5:00 p.m. Awards
Pattern A: Prose, Poetry, Extemporaneous, Persuasive, Communication Analysis Pattern B: After Dinner Speaking, Duo Interpretation, Dramatic Interpretation, Informative, Impromptu, POI
Awards *IPDA and NPDA Speakers (1-3) and Finalists. *Top 6 finalists in each IE event *Pentathlon (Championship Belt) for top student competing in five IE’s *Debate Sweeps *IE Sweeps *Combined Oklahoma Sweeps *Community College Sweeps *Combined IE & Debate Sweeps *State Champions in each event
Rules for all events *No speech or program used by the contestant in competition shall have been used prior to August 1stpreceding the tournament. *Speeches must be the original work of the student. *AFA-NIET rules shall be followed for all individual events. *Debate events shall follow the rules of the appropriate national association. Debaters are expected to be in the competition rooms at the end of prep time, and a late forfeiture rule will be enforced. *The top two Oklahoma students in persuasive speaking will become the Oklahoma National Qualifiers for the Interstate Oratory Association (IOA) National Tournament. Rules for IOA require persuasive speaking manuscripts be submitted to the tournament director prior to competition for review. IOA lists the following rules for competition:
1. The oration must be delivered without the aid of notes or manuscript.
Judging Please make every effort to cover your judging requirements. Please know that OCU and TCC will provide a limited amount of hired judges for the tournament. Many of these judges will have limited forensics experience, but will have undergone a limited training to ensure quality judges.
Sweepstakes and Tabbing *All rules for sweepstakes and tab will follow the Oklahoma Interstate Forensics Association (OIFA) Constitution and By-Laws.
Tournament Recommended Hotels OCU sits in the heart of the OKC Metro Area. There are many affordable hotels in the uptown and downtown area to fit any budget. Other options may be in the surrounding areas of Midwest City or Moore. Please research the best options for your organizations.
Tournament Fees Make all checks payable to OCU Speech & Debate.
IE Entries @$10 (one judge covers 6 slots) Judge/Uncovered IE Entries @$15 IPDA Entries @$30 (one judge covers 4 debaters) NPDA Entries @$50 (one judge covers 2 teams) Judge/Uncovered IPDA Entries @$25 Judge/Uncovered NPDA Entries @$50
Fees will be assessed at 5 PM on Wednesday, February 20th, 2019. The following nuisance fees will be applied to changes after that time. Debate drops $50; IE drops $25; judge drops $100 each.
N. Alderson/J. Young Mailing address 2501 N. Blackwelder SpeechWire Tournament Services - Copyright 2004-2024 Ben Stewart. All Rights Reserved. Terms of use - Privacy and Security Policy
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