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CHSAA 5A State Tournament
General information
This is a High School tournament in Colorado. View manager contact information
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Hello Colorado 5A Coaches,
We are excited to invite you and your team to the 2025 CHSAA 5A State Championship Speech and Debate Tournament on February 28th and March 1st at Overland High School!
Registration is now open on Speechwire.
The deadline for completing your registration is Thursday, February 20, 2025.
Please read the tournament information carefully. Information about CHSAA rules and the State Tournament can be found on the CHSAA website at https://chsaanow.com/sports/2021/7/23/speech-and-debate-information.aspx
Be sure to read the information about the State Tournament found on pages 23-27 of the CHSAA Speech & Debate Tournament Handbook.
For your convenience, here are some reminders and details.
Location and Arrival:
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Overland High School is located at 12400 E. Jewell Ave, Aurora, CO 80012.
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Please plan on arriving at Overland High School at 4:00pm on Friday. Please do not arrive before 4:00pm as Overland will be ending their school day and clearing their building. DO NOT enter the building before 4:00pm.
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On Saturday, rounds will begin at 8:00am.
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The tentative schedule is posted on speechwire. A finalized schedule will be sent to coaches in advance of the tournament.
Deadlines:
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The deadline for submitting Congressional Debate legislation is Sunday, February 9, 2025. Legislation is submitted via the online google form. https://forms.gle/zMs6ThMGUwRkUw7cA
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The deadline for all registration materials to be submitted is Thursday, February 20, 2025
Fees and Payment:
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ALL payments are due by March 14, 2025, two weeks after the tournament to CHSAA.
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All late payments will be billed a $25.00 late fee.
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Each individual entry is a $20 entry fee, and each team entry is a $40 entry fee.
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Your payment, including any late fees, judge fees, and/or drop fees, MUST be paid promptly to CHSAA.
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CHSAA can accept credit card payments--contact Marisa Tenorio at CHSAA to pay by credit card.
Registration:
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Tournament registration will take place at www.speechwire.com.
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Register early to avoid problems and to avoid being assessed late fees.
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Each school may enter a maximum of four entries per event.
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No double entry is allowed.
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For Original Oratory and Informative Speaking, Titles and scripts must be uploaded.
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For Interpretation of Literature events, titles(s) and author information must be entered.
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Be sure to select "YES" in the itty-bitty drop down at the very bottom under the bolded CONFIRMATION section and then click "Submit Information."
Coaching Responsibilities:
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Each school must have its own coach who will be available throughout the meet. If the coach is not the CHSAA registered coach, the on-site coach must have the signature of the principal authorizing their official capacity as the coach. The coach must check in at the registration desk on both days of the tournament. At that time, registrations will be re-checked and the presence of all qualified participants will be verified.
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Each school is required to provide at least one coach to assist in the operation of the tournament (tab worker, judge, extemp prep, etc.). Additional coaches who serve as judges can choose to receive pay for rounds judged. Coaches who sign up to fulfill their school’s judge requirements must be available to judge and must check in at Judges’ Table both days. Coaches must attend the mandatory coaches meeting that will be held before the opening round of competition at the State Tournament. Coaches must be available to judge/work as long as their students are still in competition.
Judge Requirements:
Schools are responsible for providing 1 certified judge for every 5 event and/or Congressional Debate entries (or portion thereof) and 1 certified judge for every 2 debate entries (or portion thereof) for the CHSAA State 5A Tournament. Judges must be entered no later than the registration deadline.
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Judges must be available from the beginning of the tournament until one round beyond the last round in which competitors from their school compete
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If necessary, a judging commitment may be shared by one or more people; however, this will only count as one judge toward the number of judges required. Example: A speech judge is required to be available for Friday and Saturday rounds. Person A is only available for Friday rounds. Person B is available to judge Saturday rounds. Person A/B counts as one judge toward the judging requirement.
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Exception: For a multi-day tournament, judges for any school whose competitors are eliminated following the first day of competition or who does not have competitors entered for the second day of competition will not be expected to return for the second day. If this changes the judge availability marked during registration, the judge must communicate with the change in availability with the judges’ table. Failure to update judge availability may result in missed ballot fees.
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Each school must have judges to cover at least 75% of its judging requirement.
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Uncovered judge slots may be bought out for $50 each.
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For schools traveling more than 60 miles or more to the State Tournament, a tournament worker will cover ONE judge slot.
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Once the registration deadline has passed, the tournament director (or their designee) shall determine how many uncovered judge slots are available and an all call will go out to coaches to seek additional judges to fill the uncovered slots.
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Each additional judge allows the school to subtract $25 from their tournament entry fee.
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A school can use additional judges to bring their payment to $0; however, additional judges beyond this will not earn a credit (i.e. no money shall be paid to schools for providing additional judges)
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Judges will be paid by CHSAA at the current rate of judge pay ($15/round, $40 bonus for judging 3+ CX and/or waved debate rounds). Scorers and Parliamentarians will be paid for three rounds judging for each session of Congressional Debate that they judge. In addition, the CHSAA structure for reimbursing for mileage and hotels shall be utilized.
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Judges may not decline an assigned ballot for an event that they are registered to judge.
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Schools will be charged a missed ballot fee of $50 per ballot for ballots missed by judges from their school.
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At the conclusion of the tournament, coaches will be informed of missed ballot fees that will be assessed. Coaches will have 3 days to dispute fees via a Google Form. Disputed fees will be reviewed by a committee made up of the tournament director(s), judges’ table chair, Speech Activities Committee Chair and the CHSAA Associate Commissioner who oversees speech and debate.
Judge Certification Process:
Anyone interested in judging at any State Tournament must judge at one or more invitational meets during this school year and complete the annual certification test with the following exceptions:
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Coaches/Assistant Coaches: The judge certification test is encouraged but not required for coaches and assistant coaches; however, all coaches and assistant coaches must complete the CHSAA Coach Certification Process.
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Former competitors/Experienced judges: The requirement to judge at one or more invitational meets during the school year can be waived for experienced judges and former competitors; however, the judge certification test must be completed. Please reach out to Marisa Tenorio (mtenorio@chsaa.org) to request a waiver.
Click here to access the Judge Certification Test.
Congressional Debate:
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You may enter a maximum of four entries in Congressional Debate.
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Students interested in serving as the Presiding Officer must indicate this at the time of registration. Students may indicate interest in serving as presiding officers for preliminary sessions only or for preliminary sessions and advancement rounds. Students must run for presiding officer during preliminary sessions in order to be eligible to serve as presiding officer in advancement rounds.
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Legislation must be properly formatted. Submit legislation by Friday, February 9, using this Google form: https://forms.gle/zMs6ThMGUwRkUw7cA
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The docket will be found under "Files to download" on SpeechWire once it has been set from the submitted legislation.
Extemp Topic Areas:
The order of topic areas will be drawn and posted prior to round 1 on Friday, February 28, 2025.
International Extemp
US Extemp
Extemp Questions:
As was piloted last year, we request that all coaches submit one question per topic area using the online submission form. Guidelines and tips for writing questions are included on the form. The form will be accessible until February 19, with questions reviewed on February 20 in preparation for the tournament the following week.
Here is the link for the google form
OO/INFO Manuscripts:
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Orations/speeches are limited to no more than 150 quoted words. All quotes must be underlined and the number of quoted words indicated at the bottom of each page. the total number of quoted words must be indicated on the cover sheet. Extensive paraphrasing of another source is prohibited.
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No student may enter the State tournament with an oration and/or informative speech used in a prior state regional qualifying or state tournament.
General Reminders for Interp, Info, and OO
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Double-check that you've completed the required information under the "Piece Registration" title! Enter the titles and authors for all interp events.
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For POI and Poetry, please provide a clear topic for the program and include titles and authors for the selections used--this helps us more clearly understand pieces to prevent duplicate or extremely similar pieces from being scheduled together in rounds.
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Do not put titles in quotation marks--SpeechWire doesn't like them and will not save the information.
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Have the original source material on-site at the State Tournament. Remember that competitors are required to ensure that the original source can be produced/ accessed for Drama, Humor, Poetry, Program Oral Interp and Duo.
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Upload manuscripts with cover pages for OO and/or Info entries.
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Please provide a clear topic if the title of the speech does not clearly address the topic--this helps us more clearly understand pieces to prevent duplicate or extremely similar pieces from being scheduled together in rounds.
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Example: Two Roads (topic: climate change)
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If cutting titles are not submitted online (including author and title) by the deadline a $25.00 late fee will be assessed.
Debate Resolutions:
Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly strengthen its protection of domestic intellectual property rights in copyrights, patents, and/or trademarks.
Resolved: The development of Artificial General Intelligence is immoral.
Resolved: In the United States, the benefits of the use of generative artificial intelligence in education outweigh the harms.
Rules and Information:
Please be sure to review the rules and information on the following links.
CHSAA Speech & Debate Info page
https://chsaanow.com/sports/2021/7/23/speech-and-debate-information.aspx
CHSAA Speech and Debate Handbook
https://chsaanow.com/documents/2023/12/11//2023_24_Speech_Debate_Tournament_Handbook_N5_.pdf?id=2056
As always, please do not hesitate to reach out with any questions or concerns! We’re looking forward to seeing you at the 2025 CHSAA State Speech & Debate Tournament!
Maryrose Kohan, Director | maryrose_kohan@dpsk12.net
Mike Bausch, Co-Director | mbausch@kentdenver.org
Rashaan Davis, CHSAA Assistant Commissioner | rdavis@chsaa.org
Marisa Tenorio, Coordinator of Activities, Assistant to Rashaan Davis | mtenorio@chsaa.org
Manager contact information Maryrose Kohan
Email address: Maryrose_kohan@dpsk12.net
Phone number: 720-891-2818 Mailing address Colorado High School Activities Association
14855 E. 2nd Avenue
Aurora , CO 80011
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