Sand Creek Scorpion Showdown

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General information

This is a High School tournament in Colorado.

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Sand Creek High School

Scorpion Showdown

Speech and Debate Invitational

The Sand Creek High School team would like to invite you and your team to the Scorpion Showdown on Saturday, January 10, 2026. We will be running a wave-style tournament, including powered debates, doubling and finals in most events. This tournament will follow CHSAA rules for all events.

If you have any questions, please call or text Jordan Martin (402-394-1561) or email jordan.martin@d49.org.

Location and Payment Address:

Sand Creek High School

7005 Carefree Circle N

Colorado Springs, CO 80922

Registration:

Please register your team at www.speechwire.com by Tuesday, NJanuary 6.  Early registration is encouraged.  We will charge $10.00 per single entry of Drama, Humor, Poetry, POI, Extemp (NX & IX), Info, and Oratory and $20.00 for all Debate and Duo entered in the tournament.

You may have up to 5 entries per competition event. Additional entries may be waitlisted. Tournament entry fees will be based on your pre-registration numbers; any drops made after January 6 will forfeit the entry fee.  

Please make checks payable to Sand Creek High School Speech and Debate, noting which school has made the payment. Please wait to pay until after the tournament when invoices will have been adjusted to reflect any incurred judge fees.

Doubling:

Cardinal Wave: USX, IX, OO, Drama, Humor, LD

Navy Wave: Duo, POI, Poetry, INFO, PF

Students may enter in one Cardinal Wave and one Navy Wave event (But they cannot double in two debate events).

NOTE: Extempers who double are not guaranteed prep time.

Extemp Draw:

Draw will take place in the library 30 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the round. 

Schedule:

Rounds will be run as soon as possible.  Please watch the postings.

 7:00 AM Registration Opens  

 7:20 AM Registration Closes  Updates Needed

 7:45 AM Judges Meeting 

 7:50 AM Extemp Draw Begins 

 8:00 AM Maroon Wave Round 1 (Extemp will start at 8:20) 

 9:30 AM White Wave Round 1 

11:00 AM Maroon Wave Round 2 

12:30 PM White Wave Round 2 

 2:00 PM Maroon Wave Round 3 

 3:30 PM White Wave Round 3 

 4:30 PM Finals will begin (All Finals will start as soon as possible) 

 6:30 PM Awards  

Competitors more than 10 minutes late to a round forfeit that round. Competitors will speak in the order they were assigned.  Please remind students not to enter a room until the judge is present.

If you are running late the morning of the tournament, please call or text my cell phone (below) to let me know when you will be arriving.  Arrivals after 7:30 may be dropped from the first round.

Debate Topics:

LD (Jan/Feb topic): Resolved: ???????

PF (Jan/Feb topic): Resolved: ??????

Debate:

PF debaters will use the January-February NSDA Topic. LD debaters will use the January-February NSDA Topic.  Debate rounds will be power matched after round 1. Cell phones may be used as timers, provided they are in airplane mode. 

We will use CHSAA rules for internet usage. Students will have access to the internet. 

Warning: it is filtered.

Judges:

Each school must provide judges based on competitors: 1-5 Speech/Interp entries will require one judge, 6-10 will require 2 judges, etc.; 1-2 Debate entries will require one judge, 3-4 will require 2 judges, etc. Congress judges will be categorized under the Speech requirement. Judges must be available for the three preliminary rounds and the final round–if you are dividing a judging requirement across multiple judges, please ensure there is judge coverage for the whole duration of the tournament. Judges should be entered by Tuesday, January 6, as well. An uncovered judge requirement on Saturday may incur a fee of $50.

We will be using eballots, so be sure that your judges have Speechwire accounts and that they bring their laptops. Here is a video to help judges understand eballots on Speechwire: Judging Speech and Debate on Speechwire

Awards:

Medals will be awarded to 1st -6th place winners, and there will be prizes for next-in finals winners.  Plaques will be awarded for Sweepstakes.

Food:

Breakfast, lunch and snacks will be provided for judges and coaches. Competitors will need to bring their own food or purchase food available at our concessions stand. 

School Rules:

• The tournament will be governed under the rules set forth by CHSAA and Falcon District 49.

• The Falcon District 49 and Sand Creek HS are tobacco-free campuses. 

• Please respect the teachers who allow us to use their rooms by leaving the room in the same condition in which you found it.  

• A responsible coach must be available ON SITE and via cell phone at all times during the tournament.

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Jordan Martin and Ariana Garcia

SCHS Speech and Debate Coaches

Manager contact information

Jordan Martin
Email address: jordan.martin@d49.org
Phone number: 4023941561

Mailing address

7005 Carefree Circle N
Colorado Springs, CO 80922