| Home LIVE! Features Order Calendar Results Your account Manager login |
|
|
|
|
|
Widefield High School Varsity Tournament
General information This is a High School tournament in Colorado. View manager contact information
The Widefiled High School Forensics team would like to invite you and your team to the
Widefield High School Invitational Tournament on Saturday, January 17, 2026. We will be
running a wave style tournament, including powered debates, doubling, and finals in all events
with at least two sections. This tournament will follow modified CHSAA rules for all events.
If you have any questions, please call or text Stephanie Owen (719-352-9733) or email
owens@wsd3.org.
Location:
Widefield High School
615 Widefield Dr.
Colorado Springs, CO 80911
Doubling:
WAVE A Wave B
Drama, Humor, Poetry, PF, Info, Impromptu Duo, USX, FX, OO, LD, POI
NOTE: Extempers who double are not guaranteed prep time.
Schedule:
Rounds will be run as soon as possible. Please watch the postings.
7:00 AM Registration Opens
7:45 AM Judges’ Meeting
8:00 AM Wave A Round 1
9:00 AM Extemp Draw
9:30 AM Wave B Round 1
11:00 AM Wave A Round 2
12:00 PM Extemp Draw
12:30 PM Wave B Round 2
2:00 PM Wave A Round 3
3:00 PM Extemp Draw
3:30 PM Wave B Round 3
4:30 PM Finals (Final rounds will run as soon as possible after round 3)
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.
Debate Topics:
LD (Jan/Feb topic): Resolved: The possession of nuclear weapons is immoral.
PF (Jan topic): Resolved: The People’s Republic of China should substantially reduce
its international extraction of natural resources.
Registration:
Please register your team at www.speechwire.com by no later than Wednesday, January 14,
2026. Early registration is encouraged. We will charge $15.00 per single entry, and $20.00
per team/debate (Duo, PF, and LD) entered in the tournament. Competitors may register for
one event in each wave. Tournament entry fees will be based on your pre-registration
numbers; any drops made after the January 8 th deadline will forfeit the entry fee.
Please make checks payable to Widefield High School Forensics.
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.
Judges:
Please help us out by bringing judges. The more judges you bring, the more smoothly the
tournament will run. Each school must provide judges based on competitors: 1-5 speech
competitors will require one judge; 1-2 debate competitors will require one judge. Any school
not meeting their quota of judges will be fined a $50 fee per judge. This is unpleasant for
everyone, so please spare us all. Please remind your judges that we will be doing electronic
ballots, so please bring a laptop.
All judges will need to check in via our raptor system. They will need to bring a valid
ID.
Judges will be paid $10 per round.
Awards:
Trophies will be awarded to 1st -6th place winners. A sweepstakes trophy will be awarded to the
1st -3rd place teams.
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. We will send out emails
prior to the tournament for teams to place an order for pizza for the entire team.
Debate:
PF debaters will use the January NSDA Topic. LD debaters will use the January-February NSDA
Topic. Debate rounds will be power matched after round 1. As per the NSDA and CHSAA
debate rules, laptops will be allowed for flowing and file retrieval. The use of WiFi will be
available. Cheating will result in disqualification from the tournament, and if the offending team
won the ballot, it will be overturned.
School Rules:
The tournament will be governed under the rules set forth by CHSAA and Widefield School
District 3.
The Widefield School District schools are tobacco-free campuses (and smoking’s bad for you
anyway).
Anyone caught violating school or district rules while at the tournament will be disqualified.
Anyone caught defacing school property will be disqualified.
Please respect the teachers who allow us to use their rooms by leaving the room in the same
condition in which you found it. Please do not rearrange furniture.
Impromptu Rules:
Impromptu is a public speaking event where students have seven minutes TOTAL to select a
topic, brainstorm their ideas, outline and deliver a speech. The speech is given without notes
and uses an introduction, body, and conclusion. The speech can be light-hearted or serious. It
can be based upon prompts that range from nursery rhymes, current events, celebrities,
organizations, and more.
Looking forward to seeing you soon!
Stephanie Owen
Forensics Coach, Widefield High School
Stephanie’s cell: 719-352-9733
owens@wsd3.org
Stephanie Owen Mailing address 615 Widefield Drive SpeechWire Tournament Services - Copyright 2004-2025 Ben Stewart. All Rights Reserved. Terms of use - Privacy and Security Policy
(vr24)
|
