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Shamrock Showdown

The Westfield and Fishers Forensics Programs would like to invite you to the first ever Shamrock Showdown, held at Westfield High School, .18250 N Union St, Westfield, IN 46074. Here are the particulars:

• The tournament will start with a judges/competitors meeting at 7:30 AM.

• We are attempting to maximize the number of competitors at a tournament with limited rooms, so anticipate some unusual fighting--- we will stagger the start of different events so, for example, some events will be running their second round while other events run their first. I sat with Ben Stewart for 30 minutes at clinic working on this and it all makes sense, I promise.

• Contestants can double at their own risk in every event except for Discussion, Congress,and WSD.

• There will be separate Novice and Varsity competition. Novice is for first year competitors or competitors who have never competed in WSD.

• If competitors are doubled in Impromptu, they should go to Impromptu first and may then leave the room.

• Extemp Draw is @ 8:00 AM. Students will draw again for 3rd round.

• We will be offering all IHSFA speech events, congress, and World Schools Debate. We intitally were offering PF and LD, but need to CANCEL those because of room constraints.

• Radio rounds will be following new format.

o 1 – 5 minute news program (music Lead in/ Lead out/ Commercial on an airline NEWSCAST prepared by student

o 2 . 2 minute contestant written editorial on the EPA.

o 3- OTS 2minute prep / 2 minute speak

o 4 - Same as round 1

• Judges _ 1 judge for every 5 contestants. But feel free to commit more. The more judges we have the better off we are.

• Congress Bills _ 3,4,5, and 6.

• Discussion will be using Socratic Seminar with a 10 minute prep period prior to the round. Stimuli will be given the Monday prior to the meet.

• Each school may enter 6 contestants in each speech event and 4 in each debate event, with an overall entry cap (for speech and debate combined) of 60. Congress may have 6, and 3 WSD teams of 5. Because of room constraints we are capping the overall number of entries at the tournament at 500.

• All other IHSFA rules apply

• We will offer 4 straight rounds of competition. Top ten in each event will be awarded and top 5 schools will receive awards

• FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED ALL DAY. Please help us off set the cost of hosting by purchasing food and drinks.

• Entries will be due 12/4/17 at 3 PM. That is both speech and Debate.