The Mile High Tournament

November 14 & 15, 2025

 

Friday, November 14th 

VARSITY Congress, NOVICE Congress 

Plus 3 prelims of NOVICE competition for all events (HI, DI, Duo, POE, POI, OO, INF, USX, IX, PF, LD, CX) 

 

Saturday, November 15th 

3 rounds and finals for all events, Open Division

HI, DI, DUO, POE, POI, OO, INF, USX, IX, PF, LD, CX

 

AI Policy at the Mile High 

At the Mile High, use of AI Generative Models and Large Language Models is both discouraged and prohibited. Students who navigate to these websites during the tournament will face consequences up to and including disqualification. For example, debaters should not navigate to these websites during a debate, and Extempers should not navigate to these websites during prep time. Presenting AI work as your own is viewed as plagiarism. 

 

Our expectation is that students have not used these websites in the creation process of their speech or performance. Navigating to AI websites during competition, even to retrieve previously searched information, is against this policy. Ultimately, this policy seeks to preserve and prioritize student critical thinking and reading comprehension in their performance.

 

Deadlines:

We'd encourage you to have your initial registration in by Monday, 11/3 so we can best plan to accomodate as many entries as possible. We will freeze entry fees the Friday before (11/7). Please drop any blank entries by then so we can continue to pull in entries on the waitlist.

 

Judges: 

Please add varsity students to judge novice events on Friday.

1 judge for every 2 debate entries, 1 for every 6 speech entries 

 

Doubling: 

Students in debate events cannot do a second event that day. They can do debate one day and speech the other. 

Congress students should not try to double enter on Friday 

Speech students can double enter. 

Novices can enter in novice rounds on Friday AND the open division on Saturday. 

 

Address: 

Hosted at Denver East High School. 1600 City Park Esplanade, Denver, CO 80206 

 

Tab Room Access: 

Curious coaches are welcome to join us in the Tab Room! We'd love to teach even more coaches how to run tab on Speechwire!

 

Ballot Access: 

Ballots will automatically post to coach accounts as judges submit them. Please do not share results with students until after the conclusion of awards. We will post ballots to student accounts after awards have completed. 

 

Equity Commitment: 

We are committed to extending the joy of speech and debate to all students and programs, regardless of circumstances. If elements of our invitation pose a barrier to your participation please send us an email so we can help resolve the issue. We all get better when we all compete together.

 

Topics & Topic Areas:

For both PF and LD, we will use the November/December topic on Friday and Saturday

 

IX -

 

 

USX -

 

 

 

 

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