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3rd Pop Up Asynchronous Tournament

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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 3rd Pop-Up Asynchronous Tournament hosted the week of September 11-15th! 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 Thursday @ noon CST. Videos will be due by Monday night @ 8PM CST.

 

 

Sincerely,

Nick Steinmetz (He/They)

Assistant Forensics Coach

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, 2023.  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, September 11th.  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 Thursday September 7th.  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 12th 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                Thursday September 7th Noon 

Entries and video links due        Monday September 11th 8pm

Preliminary round ballots released    Monday September 11th 9pm

Preliminary round ballots due        Wednesday September 13th 8pm

Final round ballots released        Wednesday September 13th 9pm (or asap)

Final round ballots due                Friday September 15th 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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