All times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)

Topics for limited preparation events will be released at 12:00pm PST the Saturday prior to the tournament registration deadline on the ForensicsTournament.net home page. All times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)

• Monday 8:00 PM PST - Registration Closes; No new schools may enter the tournament.

• Tuesday - Coaches will be notified of collapsed events and missing competitor videos, and can edit entries (add, drop, change video link).

• Wednesday 9:00 AM PST - Deadline for coaches to add/drop competitors and enter missing video links. All competitors without posted video links will be subject to being dropped from the tournament at this point in time.

• Wednesday 12:00 PM PST - Preliminary ballots will be sent to judges as soon as possible following final add/drops. 

• Friday 12:00 PM PST - Preliminary ballot rankings and preliminary feedback due back to the Tournament Director. Ballots unreturned at this time will be subject to penalty, and resent to available judges. 

• Friday 8:00 PM PST - Final rounds paired, breaks posted, final ballots sent to judges as soon as possible following preliminary ballot review. Additional preliminary ballot feedback requests sent to judges.

• Sunday 8:00 PM PST - Final ballot ranks and feedback due back to the Tournament Director.

• Monday 6:00 PM PST - Deadline for additional ballot feedback; Award ceremony video posted once all ranks are finalized.

Elementary School Events

• Speech Events: Informative, Persuasive, Assigned Platform, Declamation, Prose, Poetry, Duo, Storytelling, Impromptu

• Debate Events: Async Debate, Async Congress

Middle School Events

• Speech Events: Informative, Persuasive, STE, Declamation, Poetry, Prose, POI, Duo, DI, HI, Extemp, Impromptu, Assigned Platform, Storytelling

• Debate Events: Async Debate, Async Congress, NOF Mock Trial

High School Events

• Speech Events: Informative, Persuasive, STE, Assigned Platform, Declamation, Original Interpretation, Poetry, Prose, POI, Storytelling,  Duo, Drama, HI, Extemp, Impromptu

• Debate Events: Async Debate, Async Congress, NOF Mock Trial

College Events

• Speech Events: Informative, Persuasive, STE, CA, Assigned Platform, Drama, Poetry, Prose, POI, Duo, Extemp, Impromptu

• Debate Events: Async Debate, Async Congress, NOF Mock Trial

• Competitors may triple-enter in IE and Congress events, with the exception of Extemp (double-entry only for Extemp)

• Competitors may only single-enter in Debate events.

• In the event of small entry sizes, we may need to collapse events within their event category (e.g. Storytelling and Poetry events collapse to an “interp” event).