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Last Chance at Illinois State University
General information
This information is from a tournament in a past season! This is a College tournament in Illinois. View manager contact information
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The coaches and students at Illinois State University are pleased to invite you to attend the Last Chance AFA / NFA qualifier hosted asynchronously the week of March 2-10 . The site is now open on Speechwire and accepting entries. We are so glad that despite calendar restrictions, we can still offer this one last opportunity to earn qualifications for Nationals - good luck to all of our unqualified entries! <3
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 Thursday @ 4pm CST. Videos will be due by Monday night @ 8PM CST. You can find the tournament and invite on Speechwire!
Sincerely,
Megan Koch (She/Her)
Director of Forensics
mkoch@ilstu.edu
Nick Steinmetz (He/They)
Forensics Graduate Assistant
nsteinm@ilstu.edu
School of Communication
Illinois State University
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 8:00pm, Monday, March 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. School judges who no-show an assigned ballot will be charged a $15 nuisance fee to hire a replacement judge. ALL fees are assessed as of 5pm Tuesday March 8th.
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 Thursday March 2 4pm
Entries and video links due Monday March 6 8pm
Preliminary round ballots released Monday March 6 9pm
Preliminary round ballots due Wednesday March 8 8pm
Final round ballots released Wednesday March 8 9pm (or asap)
Final round ballots due Friday March 10 5pm
Results posted to Speechwire ASAP
Manager contact information Megan Koch
Email address: mkoch@ilstu.edu
Phone number: 309-287-0652 Mailing address Campus Box 4480
Normal, IL 61790
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