Dear Colleagues

    On behalf of the Texas Intercollegiate Forensics Association and Central Texas College, it is my pleasure to invite you to the TIFA State Championship Tournament to be held in person on the Central Texas College Campus November 6-8, 2026. TIFA will host an open invitational offering competition in all AFA-NST individual events, as well as NPDA, IPDA and NFA-LD styles of debate. Tournament staff will use SpeechWire for registration, tournament tabulation, event postings, ballot distribution, and information sharing.

    On Sunday, November 8, our friends at Central Texas College will host the second half of the swing offering another opportunity for your students to compete in all AFA-NST individual events. Please find additional information at their tournament page on SpeechWire.

We hope that you will join us for what is sure to be a weekend of fun and quality forensics competition.

Tournament Headquarters

Tournament headquarters will be in the Frank & Sue Mayborn Science Theater (Building 267) Room #127.  The Judge’s Lounge will be the adjoining room, #124.

Lodging

Hampton Inn- Harker Heights, Texas                                                                                                 

126 E. Central Texas Expy.                                                                                                                              

Harker Heights, Texas 76548                                                                                                             

254-833-5523

Contact: Cheryl    

Group Rate           $119.00 plus taxes and fees, includes breakfast. (Call for scheduling)                   

Courtyard by Marriort- Killeen, Texas                                                                                              

1721 E. Central Texas Expressway                                                                                                             

Killeen, Texas 76541                                                                                                                                       

254-616-2000 x 1003

Contract: Shayna Kamai

Group Rate-          $109.00 plus taxes and fees. (Call for scheduling)

Driving Directions and Parking

The best parking lot will be next to the Science Theater (Building 267) on Bell Tower Drive.  It’s north of the building, before reaching the intersection with Success Drive.    

The primary competition building will be the Science Theater, but on Saturday we’ll need to expand into the Science Center (Building 257) and a third building, currently planned to be the second floor of Eagle Hall (Building 262).