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This information is from a tournament in a past season!

This is a College tournament in Illinois.

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,


The coaches and students at Illinois State University are pleased to invite you to attend the Pop-Up Tournament hosted asynchronously the week of February 6-10. The site is now open on Speechwire and accepting entries.

We are excited to be offering all 11 AFA events. Rounds will be asynchronous (please make sure your videos are set to "unlisted"). LP prompts will be released on Friday @ noon CST. Videos will be due by Monday night @ 8PM CST. You can find the tournament and invite at (insert speechwire link here)!


Sincerely,
Nick Steinmetz (He/They)
Forensics Graduate Assistant
School of Communication
Illinois State University
Nsteinm@ilstu.edu


RULES OF EVENTS

GENERAL:   All programs and speeches must not have been used by a student in any competition (high school or college) prior to September 1, 2022.  Competitors must be undergraduates working on their first degree.  We will be following the rules and ethical standards of the AFA-NST.

ENTRIES:  Each student may enter as many events as they want.  Events that have 7 or fewer entries will be judged "head-to-head" by three judges.  Events with 8 or more entries will be judged by two judges in "preliminary" rounds and then broken to a "head-to-head" final with at least one judge (3 if the pool allows).  From prelims into the final, ties will be broken by speaker points.  In "head-to-head" rounds, ties will be broken by speaker points and then by judges' preference.

Events Offered    
Extemporaneous Speaking       Informative Speaking
Persuasive Speaking           Impromptu Speaking
Duo Interpretation            Dramatic Interpretation
Prose Interpretation          Communication Analysis
After Dinner Speaking         Poetry Interpretation
Program Oral Interpretation    
 
The deadline for receiving entries and videos is 8:00, Monday, February 6th.  Entries and video links must be posted to Speechwire.

LP Events only need to provide one video for all rounds.  Prompts will be posted to Speechwire by Friday February 3rd.  Impromptu videos should include prep time.  Extemp should NOT include prep time.

JUDGES & FEES:  Entry fees are $5 per slot.

Each school should furnish one judge for every six slots.  Hired judges are available at $12.00 per uncovered slot (hired judges will be paid $12.00 per round).  We will gladly pay any clean judges a school can provide beyond their obligation to ensure better ballots for your students.  Judges dropped after noon on Tuesday the 7th will incur a $25 drop fee, name changes are free and encouraged!

Checks should be made payable to ISU Forensics and mailed to us at Campus Box 4480 Normal IL 61790.  If you prefer to pay online with a credit card you may do so here: https://secure.touchnet.com/C20868_ustores/web/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=1650&SINGLESTORE=true

AWARDS:  To keep costs down, we will not be giving out trophies for finalists.  Your qualification will be your award!  

MODALITY:  This is an asynchronous tournament.  Please make sure your videos are set to be "unlisted" so they can be accessed by our judges.

SCHEDULE:  All times listed are CENTRAL
LP prompts released                    Friday February 3 1pm
Entries and video links due            Monday February 8 8pm
Preliminary round ballots released    Monday February 8 9pm
Preliminary round ballots due            Wednesday February 8 8pm
Final round ballots released            Wednesday February 8 9pm (or asap)
Final round ballots due                    Friday February 10 11am
Results posted to Speechwire            ASAP

 

Manager contact information

Nick Steinmetz
Email address: nsteinm@ilstu.edu
Phone number: 954-261-6532

Mailing address

Campus Box 4480
Normal, IL 61790

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