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Your team is cordially invited to the 2025 Lowell Sharp Invitational (Hosted by Jeffco) to be held on February 1, 2025 at Arvada West High School. We hope you will join us for a great day of speech and debate competition.

Events: Varsity CX Debate (current NSDA topic), JV CX Debate (current NSDA topic), LD Debate (Jan/Feb NSDA topic), PF Debate (Jan topic), US Extemp, International Extemp, Student Congress, Original Oratory,  Drama, Humor, Poetry, Duo, PoI, and Informative,

In the spirit of supporting our colleagues and their concerns, we are offering JV CX Debate. This division is designed for first year competitors in CX Debate.  JV CX debate is limited to freshman and sophomore CX debaters or students in their first year of competition. 

In JVCX, we will employ the NFHS Novice case limits, meaning that all teams should limit themselves to the following four case areas. 

We will offer these two divisions if there are at least 6 teams registered in each division; otherwise we will collapse the divisions into a single event.  

Pre-Registration and Registration: Pre-registration will be through speechwire.com.  Register soon and update often as necessary because this tournament usually closes. We will accept registrations until we reach our capacity and/or at 4:00pm on January 29, 2025. You will be automatically e-mailed through tabroom.com when you register or make changes.

Computers: Students will be allowed to use laptop computers in rounds as per the rules created by NSDA for District Tournaments. If you are not familiar with these rules, consult the NSDA District Tournament Manual or see the additional page on speechmeets.com.

Schedule: Registration is 8:00am—8:30am. Your team must be registered by 8:30am to be eligible for the first round. Rounds will be scheduled to efficiently utilize available judges and rooms. We will schedule rounds as quickly as possible. It is, therefore, not a good idea to leave the tournament sites for more than a few minutes. Competitors who miss a round will be dropped from the tournament.

Fees: Fees are $10.00 per competitor–and $18.00 per CX team or PF team and Duo team–and $6.00 per competitor in Student Congress. Fees are charged on pre-registration numbers as of 4:00pm on January 29, 2025.

Chatfield S. H., Attn: Kevin Brich, 7227 South Simms, Littleton, CO 80127. Please make sure check notes: Jeffco Invite/your school name.  For Jeffco Schools:  Transfer payment to Chatfield Forensics Acct #SR030-451000-73200-1622

Awards: Something will be awarded for first, second and third places in each speech event, debate awards for first and second places. Something else will be awarded for Finalists and undefeated debaters not advancing to finals; additionally, Superior and Excellent ribbons will be awarded to students doing well but not advancing to finals. The usual Congress awards will be presented.  We will also be presenting a special coach’s award.

Congress Legislation and Rules: All bills and resolutions will be taken from the NSDA website.The dockets will be available to all schools by Friday, January 24, 2025. The entire day will be considered a single session in Congress. New judges will be assigned in each round.  The  presiding officer will be elected to serve for all rounds. Precedence carries over from round to round and one set of speaker awards per house will be presented.  We will use the NSDA rules: every speaker gets up to 3 minutes to speak and up to 1 minute of questions. Please refer to the NSDA manual for clarification.

Judging: Since judging is critical to a successful tournament, all schools are required to provide judges based on entry numbers. Coaches or a designated judge may cover these rounds. Please be sure to enter your judges on Speechwire to cover this obligation. Coaches unavailable for a scheduled judging round at any time they are assigned may forfeit their students’ advancement to finals. Therefore, it would be advisable for any coach who has to leave to check out at the judges’ table. Remember, a coach who is responsible for your team must be available at all times. Any school with competitors in debate events should bring one qualified debate judge for every two debate entries. Teams with speech entries will need one judge for every six entries.  Any school that does not cover their entries may forfeit entries.

Also, judges are crucial for tournaments: please invite all experienced judges you know to attend this tournament.  It’s always nice to have more judges than we need.

Chatfield S. H., Attn. Kevin Brich, 7227 South Simms, Littleton, CO 80127. Please make sure check notes: Jeffco Invite/your school name. 

Jeffco Schools, please remit payment to SR030-451000-73200-1623 at Chatfield S. H.

Varsity CX Teams (each team counts as 2 entries)         _______x $20 =

Novice CX Teams (each team counts as 1 entry)            _______x $20 =

PF Teams (each team counts as 1 entry)           _______x $20 =

Duo Teams (each team counts as 1 entry)          _______x $10 =

Original Oratory                                                 _______x $10 =

National Extemp                                          _______x $10 =

International Extemp                                     _______x $10 =

Humorous Interp                                          _______x $10 =

Dramatic Interp                                          _______x $10 =

Poetry Interp                                            _______x $10 =

Congress                                                         _______x $ 8 =

Chatfield S. H., Attn. Kevin Brich, 7227 South Simms, Littleton, CO 80127. Please make sure check notes: Jeffco Invite/your school name.

Emily Orr
Email address: Emily.orr@jeffco.k12.co.us
Phone number: 3032575629

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