Dear Forensics Community:

 

The forensics teams of TCU and UTD invite you to the DFW Swing, to be hosted on the beautiful sunny campus of The University of Texas at Dallas, October 4-6, 2024.

 

We invite you to join us for a weekend of competition featuring two complete individual

event tournaments with the eleven AFA events, and an IPDA debate tournament. Each individual event tournament (UTD Invitational on Saturday and TCU Invitational on Sunday) will include two preliminary rounds and a final (semi-finals if necessary). IPDA will have five preliminary rounds over Friday afternoon and Saturday, and out-rounds as needed on Saturday. IPDA will include novice, JV, and varsity divisions if warranted by entry sizes of each event. Divisions may be collapsed if small entry sizes warrant. 

 

Students may enter three individual events per pattern, or one IE per pattern plus IPDA on Friday and Saturday, and up to three individual events per pattern on Sunday.  Two duos counts as two events.  

 

Further details about the DFW Swing follow on the next few pages. We look forward to receiving your entry by the deadline: Tuesday, Oct. 1 at 5:00 p.m. through Speechwire.  Please visit their website to enter.

 

Payment may be made through either check (paid to UTD - information will be sent to schools who register), or card. Cash will not be accepted. 

 

We are asking teams to please cover their judging entries, particularly in IPDA. We will have a limited number of hired judges, but request school coverage of all entries. We will use electronic balloting for IE, so IE judges should bring laptops or other internet connected devices.

 

We can’t wait to welcome you to Dallas in October!

 

 

John Gooch, Ph.D.

Associate Professor/Coach of Comet Speech

University of Texas at Dallas

john.gooch@utdallas.edu

 

Amorette Hinderaker, Ph.D.

Associate Professor/Convener of Debates

Texas Christian University

a.hinderaker@tcu.edu

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