Eau Claire Memorial Tournament 2023

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General information

This information is from a tournament in a past season!

This is a High School tournament in Wisconsin.

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Eau Claire Memorial Forensics Tournament

Hosted by Eau Claire Memorial High School

2220 Fairfax St, Eau Claire, WI 54701

Dear Forensics Coach / Advisor, 

We are excited to invite you and your students to participate in the Eau Claire Memorial Forensics Tournament hosted by Eau Claire Memorial High School on Saturday, March 4th, 2023. This tournament is both WFCA and WHSFA friendly, and students may double or triple enter. 

Fees

Fees are $9 for individual entries and $12 for group entries. Each school must bring 1 judge for every 5 entries. If you must hire a judge from us the cost is $110.  

Judging

Please use SpeechWire’s tools to designate which of your judges are clean (have no school or team affiliation other than you hiring them to judge) versus dirty (coaches or others close to your team). Each school may bring a MAXIMUM of 5 dirty judges; schools with more than 25 entries will be required to fulfill their judging quota by bringing clean judges or hiring clean judges from us. Head coaches must make sure that all judges are briefed in rules and judging etiquette. 

All judges will be required to bring a Wi-Fi enabled portable device for receiving the judging schedule, writing critiques, and submitting ranks. We will not have additional devices to offer.

Awards

We will have awards for all finalists in each category. Overall team awards will be offered for both large team and small team divisions.

Food

Concessions will be available for purchase during the lunch break between the 3rd preliminary round and the power round. Additional food will be available for judges/coaches in the judges lounge.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
 

The deadline for registration will be Sunday, February 26th, at Noon (confirm whether your school is attending).  The deadline for entries (adds/drops) will be on Thursday March 2nd at 3pm. Drops after this time will not reduce your fees nor reduce your judging requirements.
 

Tournament day drops MUST be called in on Saturday morning before your team departs for Memorial. If you have valuable information about which students are missing that morning, we need to know prior to your arrival so that the schedules can be adjusted to balance round sizes and make the tournament run smoothly. Schools whose students are not transported as a team are exempt from this request. (i.e. nearby schools like EC Memorial, Regis, etc.)  Report any known changes to 952-303-9686.

Buses/Parking

Our primary parking lot can be accessed via Fairfax St. and is the recommended location for bus parking. Individual drivers may park under the eagle, entering a secondary parking lot from Keith St.

CATEGORY GUIDELINES

We welcome WFCA and WHSFA schools, and to facilitate the slight differences in rules we have a basic overall philosophy: rules from either organization will be honored. If an element of a performance is allowed in either WFCA or WHSFA, it will be allowed at this tournament. Some examples of blending the rules include:

1. Group Interpretive Reading and Play Acting will have 12 minute time limits.

2. One 4x6 note card will be permitted in Oratory. For other categories that allow notes, they will have no specific limits, formats, or dimensions.

3. There will be no separate Public Address event, but students in Public Address can be entered in Oratory, and the judges will be alerted to this.

4. Chairs, etc. MAY be used in Solo and Group Interp. Optional speaker’s / reader’s stand may be used in the categories involving scripts or notes.

5. Storytelling: the order of the stories will be set by random draw the morning of the tournament at the opening meeting. For each round, everyone will be presenting the same story category.

*For the WFCA rules, go to https://wfcaforensics.org/

*For the WHSFA rules, go to http://whsfa.org

Demonstration Speaking / Expository Speaking / Informative Speaking

The WFCA made these changes this year:

• Demonstration Speaking is no longer a category, but speeches of that style may be performed in the revised Informative Speaking.

• Expository Speaking has been added as a category, with a 5 minute time limit and no visual aids permitted. Notes are permitted and unrestricted.

• Informative Speaking has been changed from 6 minutes to 10 minutes, visual aids may be worn, and the Criteria for Evaluation subpoints were rewritten. Notes are permitted and unrestricted.

How to register students in these categories at the Eau Claire Memorial Forensics Tournament:

• For students who have prepared for the WISDAA category of Demonstration Speaking (10 minutes with visual aids, one notecard optional), they should be entered in Informative Speaking, and 2-person entries are allowed and will count as a single entry (not a group category) for registration fees.

• For students who have prepared for the WISDAA category of Informative Speaking (6 minutes, visual aids optional, one notecard optional), they may be entered in either:

  • Expository Speaking for which we will have a time limit of 6 minutes, visual aids allowed, and notes permitted

OR

• Informative Speaking which will follow WFCA rules with a 10 minute time limit, visual aids allowed, and notes permitted

Extemp and Radio Internet use: Competitors in Extemporaneous Speaking and Radio Announcing may utilize the internet during their preparation for research but not for communicating with people or accessing pre-written speeches or outlines. Competitors will be required to provide their own devices.

Please feel free to contact us if you have questions.

Sincerely,

Megan Jahnke-Peterson Johannah Erffmeyer Mielle Rundall

Head Coach Assistant Coach Assistant Coach

952-303-9686

Mpeterson1@ecasd.us

Manager contact information

Johannah Erffmeyer
Email address: erffmeyerj@gmail.com
Phone number: 7158526778

Mailing address

2220 Fairfax St
Eau Claire, WI 54701