Dear Coach,

 You and your students are cordially invited to the annual Wichita East High School Invitational Forensics Tournament.  We are pleased to announce that this year’s tournament will again be a NIETOC Qualifying tournament for many events (more info inside), and we will continue to offer both Championship and Novice divisions of competition.  PLEASE NOTE CHANGES FOR THIS YEAR:

The Congressional Debate, Public Forum Debate, and Lincoln-Douglas Debate preliminary rounds of competition will be held SYNCHRONOUSLY on Friday, February 5th; with elimination rounds Saturday afternoon

Limited prep events will be held SYNCHRONOUSLY on Saturday, February 6^th

Preliminary rounds of Speech/Theatre events will be held ASYNCHRONOUSLY between February 2^nd and 5^th.

Elimination round of Speech/Theatre events will be held SYNCHRONOUSLY on Saturday, February 6^th.  

Each school may be represented by unlimited number of total entries, with student specific limits listed in the invite below.  All judging requirements must be met to guarantee your entries.  Please have your Congress legislation submitted by January 22^nd, and final entries including video submissions to me by Monday, February 1^st at 5:00 pm.  Judges are due on Monday the 1^st to accommodate asynchronous preliminary rounds.  If you have anyone who would like to judge you can also enter their information on your Tabroom registration, and they will be added to the pool.  On the next pages you will find our tournament regulations and general information.

We sincerely hope that your school will be represented at our tournament.

Sincerely,

Mike Harris

Wichita East