The Montville Township High School Forensics Team would like to invite you to our annual Invitational Tournament on Saturday, February 21st, 2026!

 

The Live doc can be found here: LIVE DOC

 

Check-in time for all teams will be from 7:45 AM - 8:30 AM. There will be a mandatory judge meeting at 8:30 AM. Round 1 is scheduled to start at 9:00 AM, and we are planning to hold awards at 5:30 PM.

 

We will be offering competition in 16 different events, (including Big Questions on Tabroom):

Original Oratory (V)

Declamation (V 9th and 10th grade ONLY)

Dramatic Interpretation (V)

Humorous Interpretation (V)

Oral Interpretation (V)

Program Oral Interpretation (V)

Impromptu Speaking (V)

Improvisational Acting (V)

Informative Speaking (V)

Duo Interpretation (V)

Extemporaneous Speaking (V)

Congress (V)

Public Forum Debate (N, JV, V)

Lincoln-Douglas Debate (N, JV, V)

Parliamentary Debate (N, JV, V)

Big Questions

 

Registration is now open! You can register a maximum of six entries per school per category. Additional entries will be placed on a waitlist until February 19th, 2026, when we can review additional entries based on tournament size.

 

DEADLINES

Registration Opens: Saturday, January 17, at 4:30 PM.

Entries Due: Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 at 5 PM.

Waitlist Clears: Thursday, February 19th, 2026 at 7 PM.

Add/Drop Fees Begin After: Thursday, February 19th, 2026 at 5 PM.

 

FEES

Checks should be made payable to Montville Township Student Activity Account (with Forensics 1949 in notes) and should be mailed to:

c/o Janice Nasisi

Montville Township High School

100 Horseneck Road

Montville, NJ 07045.

 

School Registration: $30

Individual Speech Event: $15

Duo Entries: $25

Parli/PF Debate: $25

LD Debate: $20

Late Add Fee: $20

Drop Fee: $10

Judge Drop Fee: $50

Missing Judge Fee: $150 (LD/PF); $100 (Speech/Cong)

 

Payment after the tournament is acceptable.

 

JUDGES

Speech: One judge is required per 5 speech/congress competitors, or fraction thereof.  No student judges are allowed in speech.

 

Debate: One judge is required per 2 LD debaters, or fraction thereof.  One judge is required per 2 PF/Parli teams, or fraction thereof. Student debaters with at least 2 full years of experience may judge Novice LD, Novice PF, and/or Novice Parli only; however, these judges need to be marked as a "student judge" in their judge notes. Student judges cannot be used to fulfill obligations for varsity entries. Please let your judges know that they are obligated for the entire tournament, including potential final rounds. If you have judges who are able to judge without conflict, please mark them as "clean' in the drop-down menu.  Finally, in order to ensure a smooth experience, please train your judges in the category they are registered in prior to the tournament.

 

EVENTS

PF, LD, Parli, and BQ will have four preliminary rounds, with a possibility of finals if time permits. All speech events will have three preliminary rounds and then a final round.

 

CONGRESS:

NOTE: THERE IS NO DISTRICT CONGRESS AT MONTVILLE THIS YEAR! We will have normal Congress.

 

Congress Bills: Please have your teams/students submit congress bills to jamesnidagrey@gmail.com by 6:00pm on Sunday, February 8th, 2026. We will have legislation posted by the end of day on Tuesday, February 10th.

 

BIG QUESTIONS:

BQ is on tabroom! Every other event is on Speechwire!

 

Looking forward to hosting you all!

 

James Grey, Head Coach

Michael Miller, Assistant Head Coach

Ilia Pizarro, Assistant Head Coach

Montville Township High School

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