Key Locations

• Radio/Extemp Draw: MS 112
• Tab Room: HS Main Office
• Judge Lounge: HS Resource Center

Important Links

• Tournament Schematics - posted 8:30 Saturday morning
• SMCS Maps - High School & Middle School
• WFCA Category Rules

Judging Notes

• Ranks: 1 means FIRST place and 5 means FIFTH place.  If you have more than five students

 in a round, you will rank all students who fall below fifth place with a 5 as well.  

• Concerns: Judge the round and rank the contestant as if your concern is not a rule violation.

After the round, bring your concerns to TAB and the Tournament Practices and Procedures

Committee will determine if there is a rule violation.

• Power Rounds are not pre-assigned and we are tight on judges today so please stick around

after your final round to see if you have the honor of judging a Power round.

Schedule

➔Round 1 - 8:45 ➔Round 2 - 10:00 ➔Round 3 - 11:15 ➔Power - 1:00ish

Category Information

• Impromptu

• Prompts and notecards are present in the rooms

• OIL Order

✚ Rd 1 - Poetry ✚ Rd 2 - Prose ✚ Rd 3 - Poetry ✚ Power - Prose

• Oratory

• We will not enforce the prohibition of notes today but the use of them is subject to

critique

• Special Occasion

• The topics for 2024 are

• Address to a board of education
• Public apology
• A speech delivered to an assembly of current students
• A wedding toast

• Storytelling Order

✚ Rd 1- Mystery ✚ Rd 2 - Money/Greed ✚ Rd 3 - Advocacy/Allyship

✚Power - Storyteller’s Choice