The Farmington High School Debate Team is excited to host the 2025 Flight of the Phoenix Novice Tournament on October 11th, 2025.

Events Being Offered

Students are encouraged to double enter in 1 speech and 1 debate event.

Debate

Public Forum

Lincoln Douglas

Big Question

Policy*

Congress*

Speech

Oratory

Informative

Mixed Extemporaneous Speaking (U.S. and International)

Programmed Oral Interpretation

Combined Interpretation (HI, DI, Duo)

Impromptu

*Students competing in Policy or Congress may NOT double enter in any other event due to them running through both debate and speech rounds.

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Schedule-

Full Schedule: https://www.fhsdebate.com/competitions/flight-of-the-phoenix-tournament

9:00 AM Debate Round 1
9:00 AM Policy Round 1
9:00 AM Congress Round 1
10:00 AM Speech Round 1
11:00 AM Debate Round
11:00 AM Policy Round 2
12:00 PM Congress Round 2
12:30 PM Speech Round 2
1:30 PM Policy Round 3
1:30 PM Debate Round 3
2:30 PM Speech Round 3
3:00 PM Congress Round 3
3:30 PM Policy Round 4
3:30 PM Debate Round 4
4:30 PM Speech Round 4

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Judges

A judge is required for every 2 debate entries and every 6 speech entries.

Reminder, Varsity students can judge novice students! To lower the judge burden of the schools, please feel free to use your varsity students and double enter judges in both the Debate and Speech categories.

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Awards

Awards will be given to:

• Top 3 competitors in each event
• Sweepstakes winner between each classification of schools (6A, 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A)

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