Greetings!

Abilene High's Eagle Debate program is excited to welcome you this year for our very first Key City Classic! We look forward to hosting you and your team at our tournament and are eager to provide a positive and exciting competition to kick off the year.

We will be hosting at Abilene High School, located at 2800 N 6th St, Abilene, TX 79603. Note that you and your team will enter and exit our campus through the gate on the WEST SIDE of campus (Mockingbird Street). There you will find parking for school SUVs and smaller buses. Larger vehicles should park in the lot across from campus on Mockingbird Street. If you're parking a bus, please use the yellow-shaded area for drop off and then park in the green lot across from campus on North Mockingbird. Smaller school vehicles are welcome to park in the yellow-shaded area as well. You will enter and exit campus through the gate marked with a red X. See the sidebar for parking information and a campus map.

Events:

We will be offering the following IE events: Poetry, Prose, HI, DI, POI, OO, INFO, FX, DX, Impromptu, DUO, and DUET.

We will also be offering the following DEBATE events: LD, PF, and CX. Please see the sidebar for resolutions.

Finally, we will be offering CONGRESS, utilizing the TFA docket. Please see the sidebar for specific docket information.

Event Entries & Cross Entries:

All events are auto-waitlisted and soft-capped. I'll be removing students from the waitlist on a first-come, first-served basis and prioritizing schools that can provide judges.

Each Student can enter in 3 events per Pattern. There is NO CROSS ENTERING between LD/PF/CX/Cong and IEs. A Student can only enter one type of Extemp.

Pattern A - HI, DX, FX, Poetry, Duet, Impromptu

Pattern B - OO, INFO, DI, POI, Prose, Duo

Fees:

Entry fees are $15.00 for IEs, Duo, Duet, and Congress and $20.00 for LD, PF, and CX.

Entries are due by September 24th at 6:00 pm. Drops must be registered before September 25th at 6:00 pm.

We will be charging judge fees, but we would much rather have your volunteers/coaches/parents judge!

Schedule:(subject to change)

8:00 AM Debate Rd. 1
8:30 AM Pattern A Rd. 1
9:00 AM Congress Prelims
10:15 AM Pattern B Rd. 1 / Debate Rd. 2
12:00 PM Pattern A Rd. 2
12:45 PM Debate Rd. 3
1:15 PM Congress Finals Cong 2
2:00 PM Pattern B Rd. 2
3:00 PM LD/PF Quarters/Semis / CX Semis CX 4
4:00 PM Pattern A Finals
4:15 PM LD/PF Semis/Finals
5:00 PM CX Finals
5:15 PM Pattern B Finals
5:30 PM LD/PF Finals

Sweepstakes:

The top three schools will be honored for overall sweepstakes. The following is the sweepstakes formula:

IE, DUO, DUET, Congress:

1st - 12 points

2nd - 10 points

3rd - 8 points

4th - 6 points

5th-8th - 4 points

Debate:

12 -1st place

10 - 2nd place

8 - Semis

Please note that our school intends to participate in the TFA initiative that allows students from the host school to compete.

B. Scott Stephens

Abilene High Speech and Debate

benjamin.stephens@abileneisd.org