2025 All-American Classic
Carolina Speech and Debate (NC) · Feb 13-15, 2025
Welcome to the 2025 All-American Classic!
**We have added TP & LD quarters to the schedule. The tournament start and end dates are the same.**
Thursday, Friday, & Saturday, February 13-15, 2025
Location:
Southview Baptist Church
4089 Elk Road
Hope Mills, NC 28348
Registration opens: Friday, January 10 at 8:00 am EST.
Registration closes: Friday, January 24 at 11:59 pm EST.
Events offered:
Team Policy Debate
Parliamentary Debate
Lincoln Douglas Debate
Public Forum
All STOA Speech events
Junior/JV Speech events
Tournament Fees:
$40 - 1st debate event per competitor (Team Policy, Lincoln Douglas, Parliamentary, Public Forum)
$30 - 2nd debate event per competitor (use coupon code "debate10" ONLY if your debater is in Parli AND another form of debate)
$15 - 1st Varsity speech event and $10 for each additional (limit of 6 events)
$5 - Junior speech event
$15 - JV speech: flat fee for up to 3 events
Family cap of $200, not including meals or merch. If your student registration total equals more than $200, send a message through StoaHub and we will send you a coupon for the difference. (The coupon must be applied before payment is submitted.)
Events will fill up during registration. Don't worry...go ahead and register for them! We will be monitoring registrations and moving people off the waitlist as soon as we can.
Refund Policy
Before registration closes, adds and drops will not incur any extra fees, and all drops will be refunded (minus processing fees).
After registration closes, no refunds will be made and drops will incur a fee of $10.00 per event. All add, drop, and refund requests must be submitted by e-mail to our Tournament Director at carolinadebatenc@gmail.com
Stoa Membership
Your family must be a member of STOA in order to compete. Please follow this link Stoa Membership to register.
This tournament meets the minimum tournament standards of STOA for speech and debate.
Tournament Director: Kelly Parsons - carolinadebatenc@gmail.com
Tournament Events
Speech A
- Apologetics Qual
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
- Persuasive Qual
Speech B
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Expository Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
Parli Debate
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
TP/LD/PF
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Public Forum Non-qual
- Team Policy Qual
Junior Speech
- Junior Interp Juniors
JV Speech
- JV Apologetics Non-qual
- JV Bible Story Non-qual
- JV Biographical Informative Non-qual
- JV Duo Non-qual
- JV Great Speeches Non-qual
- JV Persuasive Non-qual
Tournament Timetable
- Community Judge registration will open at 8:00 am Sat 12/14/2024 (Eastern)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 8:00 am Fri 01/10/2025 (Eastern)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 11:59 pm Fri 01/24/2025 (Eastern)
- Meal registration will close at 11:59 pm Fri 01/31/2025 (Eastern)
- Community Judge registration will close at 11:59 pm Sat 02/15/2025 (Eastern)
What the statuses mean
- Setup
- The tournament is still being set up.
- Open
- Registration is open — families can register for the tournament.
- Drops Only
- No new entries are allowed, but families can drop existing ones.
- Closed
- Registration is closed — no adds or drops. Contact the tournament director with questions.
- Completed
- The tournament is finished.