Winter Blast Asynch

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General information

This is a College tournament in New York.

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Winter Blast Asych Tournament

The Hofstra University Forensics Team invites you to our midseason asynchronous tournament on January 12 - 15, 2026. We will offer all NFA speech events with novice divisions (if entries warrant). For definitional purposes, a novice is a student in their first year of intercollegiate competition. The tournament will be hosted via Speechwire using the following schedule:

Friday, January 9

LP Prompt Release @ 12PM

Monday, January 12

Entries and videos due to Speechwire by 9PM EST

Wednesday, January 14

Prelim ballots due by 9PM EST

Thursday, January 15

Finals ballots due by 9PM EST

Results posted on Speechwire ASAP!

Fees:

$10 per slot

$20 per uncovered slot (1 judge cover 6 slots*)

*EACH SCHOOL MUST PROVIDE AT LEAST ONE JUDGE

Fee Payment Options:

1) Use the Credit Card form under "Files for Download" and email it to me: Trent.Webb@hofstra.edu (Please inform your financial institution of a pending charge from Hofstra University)

2) Mail a check to: Trent Webb, 121 Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549 (Make checks payable to: Hofstra University, Attn: Forensics Team -23100)

Entry Rules:

GENERAL:   All programs and speeches must not have been used by a student in any competition (high school or college) prior to September 1, 2024.  Competitors must be undergraduates working on their first degree.  We will be following the rules and ethical standards of the AFA-NST.

ENTRIES:  Each student may enter as many events as they want.  Events that have 7 or fewer entries will be judged "head-to-head" by three judges.  Events with 8 or more entries will be judged by two judges in "preliminary" rounds and then broken to a "head-to-head" final with at least one judge (3 if the pool allows).  From prelims into the final, ties will be broken by speaker points.  In "head-to-head" rounds, ties will be broken by speaker points and then by judges' preference.

NOVICE: We will follow NFA rules regarding the definition of novices. Students need to be in the first year of forensics competition, including high school, to be considered a novice. We will hold a novice division in all events if entries warrant. We reserve the right to collapse divisions based on entry numbers.

LP Events only need to provide one video for all rounds. Impromptu videos should include prep time (and may include 10 seconds of reading time).  Extemp should NOT include prep time.

MODALITY:  This is an asynchronous tournament.  Please make sure your videos are set to be "unlisted" so they can be accessed by our judges.

Trent Webb, Director of Forensics

Alisa Osborne, Graduate Assistant

Akyra McDougal, Graduate Assistant

Manager contact information

Trent Webb
Email address: trent.webb@hofstra.edu
Phone number: 5164635253

Mailing address

121 Hofstra University
Dept. of Writing Studies and Rhetoric
Hempstead, NY 11549