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2nd Annual Northwest Holiday Classic
General information This is a High School tournament in Ohio. View manager contact information WELCOME TO THE NORTHWEST HOLIDAY CLASSIC!
The coaching staff, boosters and students of the Northwest High School Speech and Debate Team cordially invite you to the 2nd Annual Northwest Holiday Classic Tournament. This year’s tournament will be held Friday, December 20nd, 2024. Because this tournament falls at the start of the Holiday Break, we will have a quick 3 round tournament on Friday. All events will be offered in-person.
ARRIVAL The school will be open at 3:30PM. When you arrive, students can gather in the commons. Judges should gather in the Main Gym. Head Coaches should report to TAB (Room 214) for registration. Parent and student guides will be on site to assist with navigation of the buildings.
You may drop students off at each respective building, or at the High School. We will be providing shuttles between buildings, but all venues are walkable. Buses can park at the rear of the High School and at Stinson Elementary School (to the right of the High School).
REGISTRATION FOR ALL BUILDINGS WILL BE IN THE HIGH SCHOOL TAB ROOM (Room 214). TAB is located on the 2nd floor in the far corner of the building.
LOCATIONS We will be utilizing three buildings for competition. Northwest Local Schools sits on one campus with the High School nearest the road and the Middle School on top of the hill just past the High School on the left. The Middle School and Stinson both share driveways with the High School and the distance between them is easily walkable. Northwest will be providing shuttles between buildings for this tournament. Stinson Elementary is at the top of the hill to the right of the High School, and the Middle School is at the top of the hill to the left of the High School.
Speech events will be split between the Middle School and the High School. Northwest High School: 8580 Erie Ave NW, Canal Fulton, Ohio 44614 (DI, DUO, HI, IX, POI, USX)
STUDENT LOUNGE HS: High School Commons JUDGES’ LOUNGE HS: High School Fieldhouse (Main Gym) TAB ROOM HS: Room 214 EXTEMP PREP HS: Media Center
Northwest Middle School: 8614 Erie Ave. NW, Canal Fulton, OH 44614 (CD, DEC, INF, OO)
STUDENT LOUNGE MS:Middle School Cafeteria JUDGES’ LOUNGE MS: Middle School Media Center TAB ROOM MS: Media Center Lab
CONGRESS WILL BE AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL All other Debate events will be located at Stinson Elementary School. Stinson Elementary School: 8545 Erie Ave. NW, Canal Fulton, OH 44614 (LD, PF)
STUDENT LOUNGE: Cafeteria JUDGES’ LOUNGE: Gym TAB ROOM: Media Center
WIFI All schools will have access to NORTHWEST PUBLIC network. No password necessary.
FOOD Dinner for coaches and judges will be provided at all buildings. Dinner and snacks for students will be available for purchase at all buildings. Please no outside food, Grubhub, Ubereats, etc… unless there are specific dietary needs.
EVENTS We will be hosting the OSDA/NSDA events: Public Forum, Lincoln Douglas, Congressional Debate, Dramatic Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Humorous Interpretation, Declamation, Original Oratory, Informative Speaking, Program Oral Interpretation, and International and United States Extemporaneous Speaking.
We will not offer Policy Debate or Middle School Events this year.
Our tournament this year will offer three rounds of competition for individual events. Four rounds for LD and PF. We will host two rounds of student congress.
DEBATE TOPICS:
Congressional Debate will be using the OSDA December 20, 2024 docket. CURRENT OSDA CONGRESS LEGISLATION
Lincoln Douglas, Public Forum, and 2 Person Policy will be using the NSDA November/December 2024 topics.
REGISTRATION We encourage you to register as many competitors as you wish in each Individual event category; however, based on space limitations we might need to limit some events to a cap of four (4) in each event. Additions past this point may be waitlisted.
Double-entry will be permitted if space allows. No double-entry in debate. A single competitor may not be entered in both IX and USX.
Judges: One for every 5 in IE, one for every 2 or fraction thereof in debate, 1 for every 4 in Congress.
We will NOT provide judges for hire. Please do your best to fill your entire judging obligation. If you are unable to provide your full obligation, we may be forced to drop students from competition to ensure a smooth-running tournament.
We will accept registration through WEDNESDAY, December 18th, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.
FEES: $6.00 per competitor per entry BASE: $5.00 per team
AWARDS Full awards will be held at the high school following competition. We will award the top six teams in both “big school” and “small school” sweepstakes and top six competitors in individual events and debate. Novice buttons will go to the top 3 Novice competitors in each category.
EQUITY AND INCLUSION Please click on this link to view the OSDA’s equity and inclusion statement. Should you have any concerns regarding an equity or inclusion matter during the tournament, please report to the tab room and ask to speak to the Equity Officer or scan the document posted in the hallway and linked below:
JUDGING:
NORTHWEST COACHES If you need to contact us the day of the event, please use the cell phone numbers provided below. We look forward to seeing each of you this year at Northwest High School!
Additional information will be posted when available in “Files For Download” on SpeechWire.
Mr. Rick Woods Head Coach Northwest High School Cell Phone: 330-933-4077
Mr. Steve Imler Assistant Coach/Debate Northwest High/Middle School Cell Phone: 330-328-9398 Important tournament rooms DEBATE JUDGES' LOUNGE - 171 MS Rick Woods Mailing address 8580 Erie Ave NW SpeechWire Tournament Services - Copyright 2004-2025 Ben Stewart. All Rights Reserved. Terms of use - Privacy and Security Policy
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