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56th Annual Denfeld Rotary Speech Tournament

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This information is from a tournament in a past season!

This is a High School tournament in Minnesota.

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Welcome to the 56th Annual Denfeld High School Rotary Tournament!  We are glad you are coming to Duluth! We offer a unique blend of AA schoola and A schools. New programs, buidling programs and high achieving programs. Your students will find a competitive quality with a friendly atmosphere. Come and join us this season.  For many of you this may be your 35th appearance at Denfeld and others this may be your first venture at heading up North!

 

Categories: We will be offering all 13 MSHSL categories. We will also offer the NSDA category Program Oral Interp (POI)

Registration Deadline: Monday, January 30th 2017 (Initial Team Entry Deadline). Wednesday, Feb. 2nd, 2017 at 5:00pm (drops and adds – all drops after this point will not result in a change of statement) Judges at this date should also not be dropped due to any drop in team.

Entry Limits: There are no team or category entry limits. In smaller events members of your team might speak with other teammates.

Entry Fees: $7 per entry. Checks payable to Duluth Speech

Entry Changes: Entry changes (drops or adds) can be made on the speechwire.com tournament site up until the end of registration. We can also accommodate drops and adds at the registration table the morning of the tournament. We will be site scheduling all rounds of competition in order to make sure rounds are equal and fair. For this reason, registration must be completed promptly by 8:00 AM or a phone call to 218-391-4696 must be made to report your team drops.

Double Entering/Triple:  Double entering is allowed in ALL categories, including discussion. Discussion will start 15 minutes later to accommodate those double entries (discussants should speak first and then report to the draw room). Draw category double entries are allowed, but students should not double enter in 2 draw. Triple entries are also allowed but speakers must not manipulate their round and must make it work as it shows on the schedule as much as possible.

Judging Requirements: Teams need to bring 1 judge for every 6 entries or fraction thereof. A small number of judges will be available for hire at $75 for the day. Please email Jill Lofald if you need to hire a judge by Monday, January, 30th.

Judging Finals:  We ask that ALL judges be available to judge final 

Tournament Format: Varsity: Three preliminary rounds and a final (1-7) and honors finals (8-14)

Minnesota State High School League Event Info:

Extemp. Reading Prose: Stories 1-12

Extemp. Reading Poems: 1-20 (students cannot repeat a cutting from their preliminary rounds in finals) 

Storytelling:  Stories - 1-10  Will draw for Final Round.  You cannot repeat a story used in any rounds.

Discussion:  Topic 1

Team Sweepstakes: Team trophies will be available for the top 5 teams. We will also have a team SMALL SCHOOL championship trophy available for teams with UNDER 20 entries! 

Concession Stand Options:  We will host a Concession Stand throughout the day.  Students will find; pizza, mac & Cheese, soda, water, candy and an assortment of other options! This is a major fundraiser for the team so encourage them to bring money and support our program.

NIETOC Bid Tournament: The Denfeld Rotary Invitational is officially a bid tournament site for the National Individual Event Tournament of Champions. Students competing in Drama, Duo, Humorous, or Original Oratory have the ability to earn a bid that will get them one step closer to competing at the NIETOC Tournament in Kansas City, Missouri from May 12-14, 2017. For more information visit their official website.

Manager Contact: Jill Lofald - jill.lofald@isd709.org       Cell # 218-391-4696

 

 

Manager contact information

Jill Lofald
Email address: jill.lofald@isd709.org
Phone number: 218-391-4696

Mailing address

401 N. 44th Ave. W.
Duluth, MN 55807

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