Where: Glades Middle School 16700 SW 48th Court, Miramar, FL 33027

 

Registration: Registration and lunch is $15 per student. 

 

Events: We will be offering: 3 rounds of Congress and Policy Debate. All other Debate and Speech Categories (PF, LD, EXT, OO, POEM, PROSE, INFO, DEC, DUO, DI, HI, IMP) will have 4 rounds.

 

Event-Sign Up: 5 per speech and debate events and 10 for Congress. We will have a waitlist.

 

Topics: We will use March topics in all Debate events. All topics can be found at speechanddebate.org

 

Congress Legislation: We will use the March legislation.

 

Impromptu Topics: Luck, Spring, Vacation, Inspiring Women

 

Extemp Topics: TBA

 

Deadlines: Registration for new entries will close on Monday, March 7th at 5:00pm. If you need to make drops or name changes you will have until noon on Friday, March 11th.

 

Judges: Each school is required to provide 1 judge for every 5 students entered in a speech or congress event and 1 judge for every 2 students in a debate event. Please make sure you have the judges required to help make this event run smoothly.

 

Food: Students will be offered 3 choices from Subway for lunch: Turkey, Veggie, or Ham. Lunch will include chips and a cookie. Each meal is $8. You can choose your meal option on SpeechWire when you register. We will have concessions for sale all day as well. Please do not forget to order lunch for your judges and yourself!  We will have snacks and drinks for the judges in the judge’s lounge.

 

Awards: We will do awards for 1^st - 5^th place

 

Tentative Time Schedule:

 

Team Arrivals: 7:45 am - West entrance bus loop

Team and Judge Registration: 7:45 - 8 am - Cafeteria

Judges Meeting: 8 am - Media Center.

Lunch: 11:30 am - Cafeteria

Awards Ceremony: 2:30 pm - Cafeteria

 

Miscellaneous Info:

 

Please have all judges, parents, coaches, etc. park in the west parking lot (bus loop)

 

Judges should report to the media center when they arrive.