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Pacific Meets the Delta Swing Invitational Forensics Tournament October 31-November 2, 2025

Mustang Invitational Tournament November 1, 2025 Hosted on San Joaquin Delta College campus
Pat Kennedy & Paul Winters Invitational LD/NPDA/IE Tournament October 31-Nov. 2, 2025 Hosted on University of the Pacific campus

Dear Colleagues,

The Speech and Debate teams of the University of the Pacific and San Joaquin Delta College are pleased to invite you and your forensics squad to attend the Pacific Meets the Delta invitational speech & debate tournaments.The Mustang Invitational will be held IN-PERSON (Nov. 1, 2025) while the Paul Winters & Pat Kennedy Invitational will be hosted IN-PERSON (Oct. 31-Nov. 2) on University of the Pacific’s campus.

San Joaquin Delta College’s Mustang Invitational will feature two preliminary rounds of competition in Novice and Open divisions of all eleven AFA/Phi Rho Pi individual events. Events with seven or more competitors will advance to a final round. All entries are due no later than Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 by 11:00 PM PST.

The University of the Pacific’s Pat Kennedy & Paul Winters Invitational is a full-service tournament featuring NPDA Debate, NFA LD Debate, IPDA Debate, and Individual events. NFA LD Debate runs on Friday evening through Saturday. NPDA Debate runs Saturday and Sunday and conflicts with IEs which will run concurrently with debate rounds on Sunday. Two preliminary rounds of competition in Novice and Open divisions of all eleven AFA/Phi Rho Pi individual events will be offered, advancing to semifinals (as appropriate) or finals in each event. IPDA will run concurrently with IE rounds on Sunday and will advance to a festival style elimination round. Five preliminary rounds of Novice and Open divisions of NPDA Parliamentary and NFA LD debate will advance to appropriate elimination rounds.

All entries for the Pat Kennedy & Paul Winters are due Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 by 11:00 PM PST. Entries will be taken electronically at speechwire.com. Changes and drops can be made but additions and/or replacements must occur on a case-by-case basis. If you have never used this method for submitting tournament entries, please email either myself (sfarias@pacific.edu) or Ben Stewart (support@speechwire.com). The forensics teams from the University of the Pacific and San Joaquin Delta College Colleges look forward to hosting you and your students October 31-November 2, 2025. We will be creating separate tournament documents on google that will contain information, FAQ, best practices documents, etc. If there is anything we can do, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Dr. Steve Kalani Farias

Tournament Director and Dir. of Forensics University of the Pacific

(209) 946-3050 or (209) 471-6470 (cell)

sfarias@pacific.edu

Professor Joey Barrows

Tournament Director and Dir. of Forensics San Joaquin Delta College

(209) 629-0304 (cell)

j.barrows2011@gmail.com

Pat Kennedy & Paul Winters Invitational Schedule

2025 Schedule of Events (all times PST)

NFA LD Debate FRIDAY, Oct. 31, ‘25

9:00-10:00 AM Registration

10:00-11:00 AM LD Round 1A

11:00-12:00 PM LD Round 1B

12:00-1:00 PM LUNCH

1:15-2:15 PM LD Round 2

2:30-3:30 PM LD Round 3

3:45-4:45 PM LD Round 4

5:00-6:00 PM LD Round 5

SATURDAY, Nov. 1, 25

12:15 PM LD ELIM 1

3:00 PM LD ELIM 2

6:00 PM LD ELIM 3

7:15 PM LD ELIM 4

(ELIMINATION ROUNDS WILL HAPPEN AS NECESSARY AND CONCURRENTLY WITH NPDA ROUNDS WHEN POSSIBLE)

NPDA Debate SATURDAY, Nov. 1, ‘25

7:15-8:00 Registration

8:00 AM Topic for Rounds 1 & 2 (both rounds will use the same topic)

8:40 AM NPDA Round 1

9:40 AM NPDA Round 2

10:45 Topic Round 3

11:10 AM NPDA Round 3

12:15-1:15 PM LUNCH
1:30 PM Topic Round 4

1:55 PM NPDA Round 4

4:15 PM Topic Round 5

4:40 PM NPDA Round 5

SUNDAY, Nov. 2, ‘25

8:30 AM Topic Announce 8:55 AM NPDA ELIM 1

10:15 AM Topic Announce 10:40 AM NPDA ELIM 2

1:00 PM Topic Announce 1:25 PM NPDA ELIM 3

2:45 PM Topic Announce 3:10 PM NPDA ELIM 4

4:30 PM Topic Announce 4:55 PM NPDA ELIM 5

(ELIMINATIONA ROUNDS WILL HAPPEN AS NECESSARY AND CONCURRENTLY WITH LD ELIMS WHEN POSSIBLE)

IE SCHEDULE

SUNDAY, Nov. 2, ‘25

7:15-8:00 Registration

8:00 AM Extemp Prep

8:30 AM Pattern A1

9:45 AM Pattern B1

11:00 AM Extemp Prep

11:30 AM Pattern A2

12:30-1:30- Lunch

1:30 PM Pattern B2

2:30 PM Extemp Prep

3:00 PM Finals Pattern A & All Semifinals

4:15 PM Finals Pattern B

IPDA SCHEDULE

SUNDAY, Nov. 2, ‘25

8:00 AM IPDA Prep

8:30 AM IPDA R1

9:15 AM IPDA Prep

9:45 AM IPDA R2

10:30 AM IPDA Prep

11:00 AM IPDA R3

11:45-12:45 PM LUNCH

1:00 PM IPDA Prep

1:30 PM IPDA R4

2:15 PM IPDA Prep Bronze

2:45 PM IPDA Bronze

3:45 PM IPDA Prep Gold/Silver

4:15 PM IPDA Gold/Silver

Mustang Invitational Schedule

Saturday Nov. 1, 2025

(Times subject to change)

7:00-8:00 AM Registration (Locke Lounge)

8:00 AM Extemp Prep Start

8:30 AM Pattern A Round 1

9:45 AM Pattern B Round 1

10:45 AM Extemp Prep Start

11:15 AM Pattern A Round 2

12:15-1:15 PM LUNCH

1:15 PM Pattern B Round 2 2:15 PM Extemp Prep

2:30 PM Pattern A Finals/Semis as Necessary

3:45 PM Pattern B Finals

Awards ASAP

Pattern A – Extemporaneous Speaking, Informative Speaking, After Dinner Speaking, Prose Interpretation and Poetry Interpretation.

Pattern B – Impromptu Speaking, Persuasive Speaking, Communication Analysis, Duo Interpretation, Dramatic Interpretation, and Programmed Oral Interpretation.

FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ENTRY FEES

You must have TWO checks (or online payments)—one payment for the Mustang Invitational made out to San Joaquin Delta College and one payment for the Paul Winters & Pat Kennedy Inivational made out to Pacific Forensics. Fees will be assessed at noon on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. Because we need to finalize our trophy order, we cannot accommodate last minute reductions in fees. The following fees will be assessed:

Mustang Invitational

$50 per institution (for administrative costs)
$15.00/Individual Events slot

Pat Kennedy Paul Winters Invitational- IMPORTANT: Due to irregular coverage categories at the tournament, we will calculate final fees Thursday and send updated fees for teams Thursday evening

$50 per institution (for administrative costs)
$15.00/Individual Events slot
$30.00/NFA LD & IPDA Debate slot.
$75.00/ NPDA debate team

Uncovered judge fees will be assessed on the following basis (on top of standard fees):

$20.00 per I.E. slot.
$75 per IPDA Slot or NFA LD slot.
$150.00 per Debate team

HARDSHIP CONSIDERATION

Teams expecting that fees may result in a financial hardship to their team should email tournament directors to discuss fee waivers. Waivers between 50-100% will be made available where possible and necessary to ensure equitable access.

PAYMENT

Payment should be completed no later than the end of competition on the first day of YOUR involvement in the tournament (e.g., if your school is competing in LD or at the Mustang Invitational, payment is due no later than the end of Friday. If you are competing in NPDA, then your payment is due no later than the end of Saturday. If only in IEs on Sunday, then by end of Sunday). We will accept payment all the way until Sunday and past the tournament with advanced notice.

Unfortunately, we cannot bill you. Purchase orders are NOT acceptable. WE CAN accept payment via credit card and before the tournament via a stable link that will be posted on Speechwire.com

JUDGING COMMITMENT– One judge will cover up to: 2 NFA LD slots on Friday/Saturday, 2 NPDA slots on Saturday/Sunday, and 7 IE slots PER PATTERN OR 2 IPDA slots. Judges may not be entered to judge both speech and IPDA on Sunday for coverage and judges may not judge at both the Mustang and Pacific on Saturday. FURTHERMORE, if a judge is covering both NPDA & IPDA, you may be unable to prep your students for one or both events on Sunday.

To make the tournament work as efficiently as possible, we may ask that an IPDA judge also judge IEs and vice versa, depending on the diversity of the events but we will also but we also want to make sure that we are not double-booking judges and that we hire the correct amount of judges to cover our needs. Also, because of the nature of a tournament, we will attempt to honor half- commitments, but cannot guarantee it; especially when schools bring novice/junior only judges.

Debate judges are needed through the first TWO elimination rounds and one round beyond their team’s/debater’s elimination. An I.E. judge is committed through finals. Meeting this commitment is essential for this tournament.

Available Judges – We will be working with StandBy and can work to charge your school for full time judges for the days we will need judges. We will pay $125 per day to hired judges and no more than $425 for the entire weekend (meaning your judge is available to judge IEs on Friday, LD Debate, NPDA Debates, and IE/IPDA events). WE ALSO WOULD LOVE TO HIRE JUDGES so if you know anyone interested in assisting and being paid please have them reach out!

Steven Kalani Farias, PhD
Email address: sfarias@pacific.edu
Phone number: 2094716470