SEMIFINALS, FINALS, and NOVICE BREAKOUTS

https://postings.speechwire.com/r-tournament.php?tournid=11970

Novice Extemp Breakout is not posted on the above page, but finalists are below:

• Haley Vest (Bellevue College)
• Kevin Chase (College of Western Idaho)
• Tyler Tremain (Lower Columbia College)
  Blakely Rudolph (Whitworth University)

Colleagues,

On behalf of Lower Columbia College and District II of the American Forensics Association, you and your forensics program are cordially invited to attend the 49^th Annual Michael Dugaw Smelt Classic. As we continue working through the myriad challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, this tournament will once again be held online. This will be a synchronous, online tournament held on the Yaatly platform from December 4-6, 2021. Note that this is a Saturday-Sunday-Monday schedule, with only IPDA semifinals and finals on Monday morning. The speech portion of the tournament will serve as the AFA-NST District II fall term qualifier.

We will be offering IPDA debate (5 preliminary rounds), all eleven AFA-NST Individual Events, as well as the supplemental event Editorial Commentary (2 preliminary rounds). Novice, Junior, and Open divisions will all be available at the time of registration. In accordance with AFA district qualification requirements, all AFA-NST events will be collapsed into a single open division. In collapsed events, we will celebrate the successes of novice and junior participants by acknowledging top competitors at our awards ceremony.

For many programs, this will likely be the last tournament of the fall academic term. Our goal is to host a tournament that is both a constructive mid-season tournament for those who will continue in the new year, and a meaningful end of season tournament for those who are graduating or moving on for any other reason.

Please let us know if you have any questions or if I can provide any additional information. We look forward to hosting you this December!