FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL

FREEHOLD REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT

281 ELTON-ADELPHIA ROAD

FREEHOLD, NEW JERSEY 07728-8021

732-431-8460

Alicia Scelso, Ed.D., Principal

 

Dear Coach,

 

Your team is invited to attend the 30th Annual Freehold Township High School Forensics Tournament on Saturday, January 11, 2020. Check in for all teams will take place from 8:15 AM to 8:45 AM. There will be a mandatory judge meeting at 8:45 AM. We plan on beginning round 1 promptly at 9:00 AM and have awards tentatively scheduled to being at 5:30 PM. 

 

REGISTRATION: All registration may be completed via https://www.speechwire.com/. If you have never used this site before or would like assistance in the registration process, please contact me. You can print a copy of the registration and invoice directly from http://www.speechwire.com

 

Deadlines:

Registration Opens: 17 November 2019 at 4:00 PM

New Entries Due: 9 January 2020 at 12:00 PM

Congress Legislation Due: 6 January 2020 at 12:00 PM 

Fees & Obligations Frozen: 10 January 2020 at 12:00 PM

Judge Information Due: 10 January 2020 at 11:59 PM

Online Drop & Name Change: 10 January 2020 at 12:00pm

Nuisance Fine Apply After: 10 January 2020 at 12:00pm

 

FEES: You must present payment in the form of cash, check, or purchase order. Make checks payable to the FTHS Forensics.

 

School Registration Fee: $20.00 per school

Individual Event: $10.00 per slot

DUO Interpretation: $15.00 per slot

Public Forum Debate:  $15.00 per slot

Lincoln- Douglas Debate:  $15.00 per slot

Congressional Debaters: $10.00 per slot

Hired Judges: $90.00 per judge

Late Add/Drop Fee: $15.00 per change

No-show judge fine: $25.00 per round

Dropped Judge: $25.00 per judge 

 

E-BALLOTS

We will be using e-ballots with Speechwire for both speech and debate.  We need you to ensure clear communication to your judges about this.  Please ask your judges to ensure that they bring a device on which they can complete their ballots, as well as any necessary equipment (i.e. chargers) and provide judges’ emails at registration.  We will also have paper ballots as backups if any judge needs one. 

 

THE EVENTS

All debate events will have four rounds with a possibility of a final if time permits. All speech events will have three rounds and a final except in events that exceed 40 students, in which there will also be a semi-final round. Congress will have an AM and a PM session. Top non-advancing novice awards will be given out in all speech events (except Declamation) and Congress. Awards will be given to the top six students/team in each event. Sweepstakes awards will be given out to the top three schools overall. Each school may enter up to six contestants per category. Double enters are allowed to participate except in debate events and congress.

 

Original Oratory

Novice Declamation

Dramatic Interpretation

Humorous Interpretation

Oral Interpretation

Program Oral Interpretation

Impromptu Speaking

Improvisational Acting

Informative

Duo Interpretation

Extemporaneous Speaking

Public Forum Debate (Novice, JV and Varsity)

Lincoln-Douglas Debate (Novice, JV and Varsity)

Congress 

 

JUDGES

One judge per five speech contestants or fraction thereof is required

One judge per three Lincoln-Douglas debaters or fraction thereof is required

One judge per three Public Forum teams or fraction thereof is required

 

Questions

Caryn Burstein

Cell: (732) 429-9309

Email: cburstein@frhsd.com

 

Additional Information:

The cafeteria will be open for the purchase of food from local businesses, home cooked food, and other goods.

Judges & Head Coaches will receive free breakfast and lunch. Judges must sign-in to receive their ticket for free lunch. 

 

The tournament is being held at Freehold Township High School NOT Freehold High School. Note the address above. 

 

Novices are 9th or 10th grade students who are in their first year of forensics (regardless of event). 

Debate divisions will follow the NSDA guidelines.