Jordan Invitational

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General information

This is a High School tournament in Minnesota.

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JHS Invitational 2025:

Saturday February 8th, 2025​

Registration and Fees

• The cost is $7 per entry.

• No more than 10 entries allowed per event per school.

​Registration Deadline

• Please have initial registration entered in Speechwire by Friday, Jan 31. This allows us to make any last minute room assignments so we keep rooms close to each other in each category.

• The final day to make registration changes without penalty is Feb 5 at midnight. Adds may still be done after this point, but drops after this point will not result in a change of statement.

• Entry changes (drops or adds) can be made on the speechwire.com tournament site up until the end of registration.

• 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 952-393-8989 must be made to report your team drops.

• Please make checks payable to Jordan High School Speech Team. Please plan to bring your check with you or mail it within ONE WEEK of the meet.

​Team Sweepstakes:

• Team trophies will be available for the top 2 schools in both LARGE and SMALL sizes.

Schedule 

• Registration ends at 8:00 AM.

• Draws start at 8:30 a.m.

• Round I will begin at 9:00 a.m, Round II at 10:30, and Round III at 12:00. 

• There will be three rounds with no finals.  

• We estimate that awards will begin at 1:30 p.m.

Judges

• Each team is required to bring 1 judge for each 6 entries (including double entries).

• For each uncovered entry, the team will be assessed a $100 fee. 

E-Balllots

• This is an e-ballot tournament! When registering your judges, please provide their email addresses.

• Let your judges know before the tournament they should expect an email inviting them to activate their account on live.speechwire.com.

• Judges should make sure they have tested logging in once before the tournament to verify their account works.

• Judges will need to bring a wi-fi enabled device to the tournament to record ranks and critiques.

• We recommend a device with a keyboard (laptop, chromebook, tablets with keyboard).

• We recommend not using a smartphone for writing critiques online.

• Judges who prefer not to write critiques electronically, may pick up paper critiques from the tab room, but should still plan to submit ranks through the e-ballots site throughout the day.

Double/Triple Entering

• Double entering is permissible for all categories except discussion. Triple entry is not allowed.

• Draw categories may double enter in any other category.

Locations and Logistics

• Please drop your team off at the Jordan High School's front entrance.

Jordan High School

600 Sunset Drive

Jordan, MN 55352

Minnesota State High School League Event Info:

• Extemp. Reading Prose: Stories 1-10 

• Extemp. Reading Poems: Poems 1-20 **Please email me if you have a poet this year.

• Storytelling Stories: Stories 1-10 

• Discussion will have tasks from Areas I and II

Manager contact information

Amy Peters
Email address: ampeters@isd717.org
Phone number: 952-393-8989

Mailing address

Jordan High School
600 Sunset Drive
Jordan, MN 55352