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2026 Washington Warrior Invite -TOC Qualifier
501 N. Sycamore Ave. Sioux Falls, SD 57110

You are cordially invited to the 2026 Washington Warrior Invite! Our team is very excited to host this speech, interp, and debate tournament. This is an in-person only tournament. We are pleased to announce that we’ll have TOC bids in interp, speech, and LD & PF debate.
The tournament will be held Friday, November 13th - Saturday, Nov 14th. We are offering novice and varsity in all speech,interp, and debate events, unless numbers or rooms require us to collapse a division. We are also excited to offer a combined Unified speech category.

Interp & Speech Events:
Dramatic Interp, Duo Interp, Humorous Interp, Informative, Oratorical Interpretation (Non-Original Oratory), Poetry, Reader's Theater, Storytelling, POI, Unified, Domestic Extemp, International Extemp, Original Oratory & Friday Congress.

Debate Events:
Public Forum (Finals Bid), Policy, Lincoln-Douglas (Finals Bid)

Because our tournament offers TOC bids in speech & debate, we will have a tight schedule for Friday and Saturday.

Friday, November 13th - Speech
2:15 PM - Registration
2:45 PM - General Meeting
3:00 PM - Extemp Draw
3:30 PM - Round 1 all IEs / Extemp Speak
4:15 PM - Round 2 Extemp Draw
4:45 PM - Round 2 all IEs / Extemp Speak
5:30 PM - Round 3 Extemp Draw
6:00 PM - Round 3 all IEs / Extemp Speak
7:30 PM - Final Extemp Draw
8:00 PM - Finals all IEs / Extemp Speak
9:15 PM - Speech Awards

Saturday, November 14th - PF and LD Debate
8:30 R1
9:30 R2
11:00 R3
Lunch
12:30 R4
1:45 R5
3:00 Octos
4:15 Quarters
5:30 Awards
6:15 Semis
7:30 Finals

Policy Debate Schedule
Friday
7:15 PM - Round 1
Saturday
8:30 AM - Round 2
10:45 AM - Round 3
1:15 PM - Round 4
3:15 - Final Round

If you have any questions, please reach out with questions.

Heather Edmunds Reed
Head Speech and Debate Coach
Heather.EdmundsReed@k12.sd.us