Madison Central Speech and Debate's

Thirteenth Annual Tournament, the

Madison Central Mid-State Invitational

Dear Speech and Debate Friends and Colleagues:

Please join us for Madison Central's twelfth annual tournament, the Madison Central Mid-State Invitational Tournament, on September 12-13, 2025. We are proud to be a bid tournament for the National Individual Events Tournament of Champions.

Events Offered

In Debate, we offer Novice Public Forum, Varsity Public Forum, Novice Lincoln-Douglas, Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, Policy Debate, Big Questions, and Congressional Debate.

Flight A Individual Events are Novice and Varsity Prose, Impromptu, Dramatic Interpretation, Duet Acting, Informative Speaking, and Program Oral Interpretation. We also offer the supplemental event of Expository Speaking for students in tenth grade and lower.

Flight B Individual Events are Novice and Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking, Humorous Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Novice and Varsity Poetry Interpretation, Declamation, and Original Oratory. We also offer the supplemental event of Storytelling for students in tenth grade and lower.

The Mid-State Invitational is proud to offer middle school events. Middle schoolers may enter any events they choose, but we will offer middle school-only divisions for Impromptu (Flight A), Dramatic Performance (DI/HI in Flight B), and Public Forum Debate (Friday night/Saturday morning). Middle school events will run concurrently with high school events but will not count for sweepstakes points. Middle school speech events will have two rounds and a final. The middle school public forum will be held on Friday for three rounds, with a final on Saturday morning. Each school may enter up to 10 middle school speech entries and six middle school debate entries.

Tournament Structure

Per the standard for Mississippi tournaments, debate prelims will be held on Friday evening, and all individual events will be held on Saturday. In Debate events (except Congressional Debate), quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals will be held on Saturday morning. Congressional Debate Sessions One and Two will be held on Friday Evening; Finals will be held on Saturday morning. The MHSAA Fall Bill Book will be used for MC's tournament legislation, with any out-of-state schools sending supplemental legislation to rclapper@madison-schools.com by September 3^rd. All speech events (except for middle school) will have two preliminary sessions and break into either semis or finals, depending on entry numbers.

Sweepstakes

Sweepstakes trophies will be awarded to the top school in debate and individual events, as well as the top three schools overall. We will also award a "Top Individual Performer" award to the top Performer at the tournament. All students are only permitted to enter four events TOTAL, either choosing two Flight A’s and two Flight B’s or one debate, one Flight A, and two Flight Bs.

Registration

Registration for the tournament closes Monday, September 8^th, at 11:00 p.m. Judge Registration ends Tuesday, September 9^th, at 11:00 p.m. Judge obligations and entry fees are on the following page.

Topic Areas

Topic Areas-

Varsity Extemp: R1- International, R2- Domestic, SF- International, Finals- International and Domestic

Novice Extemp: R1- U.S. Election, R2. U.S. Social Issues, SF- U.S. Economy. R4- International Politics

High School Storytelling- TBA on August 18

Middle School Storytelling- TBA on August 18

Tournament Staff-

Rachel Clapper-Davis: Director of Madison Central Speech & Debate

Noah Clapper: MCHS Speech and Debate President and Student Tournament Director

Joseph Belser: MCHS Speech and Debate Vice-President and Assistant Student Tournament Director

Raine Moncrief: MCHS Speech and Debate Team Manager and Assistant Student Tournament Director