Dear Coaches & Competitors,

It is our pleasure to invite you and your team to the 20^th Annual Star Invitational to be held November 8^th and 9^th at the Deerwood Center of Florida State College at Jacksonville!

Whether you have been to one, several, or all of the previous Star Tournaments, we hope you will return and help us celebrate 20 years of “stellar” forensics competition. If you've never been to The Star, we hope you will become part of our galaxy and join us for some great competition. We promise to uphold our philosophy of providing a well-run, enjoyable tournament for all.

Here are some reasons to get pulled into The Star's orbit:

• We include all eleven AFA Individual Events and Readers Theatre

• We give away CASH! This year we will give $100 cash to the top competitor in all of the individual events!
• The Samuel Jackson Pentathlon Award will be awarded to the top Pentathlon competitor. This $200 cash award is just the motivation for your students to get all those new events ready.

• We award the Richard O’Bryant After Dinner Speaking Award to the top ADS competitor at the tournament.
• We award the Norm Will Poetry Interpretation Award to the top Poetry competitor at the tournament.
• Finally, in honor of his years of devotion and service to forensics at our college, we will continue to offer the Charles Smires Quality Award. While this is not a cash award, this team award will go to the team that earns the greatest average number of sweepstakes points per individual events slot.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to seeing you at the Star!

Sincerely,