SpeechWire Tournament Services - Forensics Tournament Software

November 19, 2020

MUNSTER HIGH SCHOOL

SPEECH & DEBATE

8808 Columbia Ave

Munster, IN 46321

Dear Speech Coach:

The Munster High Speech Meet will be held on Saturday, December 5. The tournament only offers a varsity division. The Munster Speech Meet is a T.O.C. meet, and students will earn bids to the T.O.C. hosted by the University of Kentucky. As we get closer to the meet, I will communicate additional info regarding bid information. Registration and videos -due by Tuesday, December 1. You may bring up to 4 entries per event and a total of 40 entries on the sweeps team. If you would like a non-sweeps team, please let me know. You may bring as many entries as preferred as long as you have the judges to support the entry.

JUDGES - Judges must be available to judge prelims between December 1 and December 4. Judge ballots will be released on Wednesday, December 2nd morning and must be submitted by Friday, December 4 at 7:00 PM Central. Additionally, judges must remain available to judge live finals on December 5. If judges have unique time constraints, please make a note of that. You may block out unavailable time.

POSTINGS:

We will post breaks by Saturday at 8:00 PM Central. All finalists will be asked to compete live on Saturday, December 5. I am finalizing the Final Round time slot.

Double Entering: Contestants may double. If you are a Discussion contestant, you will not be eligible to double enter. Both duo partners (OP Duos included) may double. If you are doubling in two partner events, you must double only with the same partner for both events.

RADIO

Prelims : Pre-written 5-minute newscast including, commercial, music lead-in & lead-out of the contestant's choice.

Final Round: Newcast performance (No Prep).

Discussion - prompts/questions to be posted by Monday, November 30.

Please bring one qualified judge, willing to write informative critiques, for every five entries or fraction thereof.

Extemp: Extemp topics will be taken from current events. Extemp Draw before Round 1 . Students will present their Round 1 Speech for the tournament. There are two prelims and a final for Extemp. One prelim is double judged.

Awards

We will recognize the top 8 finishers and top 5 teams. No ribbons/trophies due to current situation (pandemic=no fundraiser).

Sincerely,

Munster High School Speech and Debate