Ridge Rally

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General information

This is a High School tournament in Colorado.

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Fossil Ridge Novice Tournament 

Coaches and Students,

You are cordially invited to participate in the 2025 Fossil Ridge HS Ridge Rally Varsity Tournament on November 1st, 2025. The tournament will be held in person. 

• Registration via Speechwire.com

• Pre-registration of live entries is due Tuesday, October 28th by 5pm MST

• Judges can be updated by Thursday, October 30th 7:00 pm MST 

• Initial entry limit of 4 students per event. All events will start with a waitlist to manage the size of the tournament. 

• A coach is responsible for being on site at all times; failure to adhere will result in auto DQ for school entries and a call to the school’s district superintendent.  

• Congress legislation will be accepted up until 1 week prior to the tournament. Legislation will be posted 1 week out.

• Debates will be using November/December topics 

• Entry fees are $12 per single entry, partnered events $24: live & asynchronous

PF: 

LD: 

CX: 

Judging:  We are hoping to provide a diverse judging pool of former competitors, community members, and parents. Our goal is to increase the community involvement with the activity, so we appreciate you acknowledging that lay judges may be used for debate to help train new judges to become familiar with the activity. Teams should cover 4 rounds per 4 debate entries, 5 rounds per 10 IE entries (basically 1 full-time judge for 4 debate/10 IE entries).  As we recruit more judges, we will lower the requirements and release judges from the tournament. 

We are happy to announce this year we will be paying college students $11 per round! If you have formers that you are using to cover a judging obligation, we will pay them! We hope to expand this to all judges in the future, but to see how it impacts finances, this year we will limit it to students in college. 

Schedule: 

Wave A: LD, Congress, USX, Info, Drama, Duo, Creative Storytelling, Poetry 

Wave B: PF, CX, Congress House, IX, Humor, Oratory, Impromptu, POI 

Entries:  Each school may enter a maximum of 4 entries in each event. You may add additional entries to the waitlist and if room permits, I will add entries as possible. Entries will be handled on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration will occur online via speechwire.com     

Manager contact information

Meredith McGowan
Email address: mmcgowan@psdschools.org
Phone number: 605-381-9287

Mailing address

5400 Zielger Road
Fort Collins, CO 80528