2026 ARCH Madness

ARCH Madness 2026 - February 5-7, 2026

A Full Debate & Full Speech Tournament

• Plus Junior Debate & Junior Speech Tournament on Saturday

Hosted by - ARCH St. Louis & ARCH St. Charles 

Tournament Starts:  Thursday, February 5th, at 7:00 AM.

Tournament Ends:  Saturday, February 7th, at 9:30 PM.

Registration Opens: Thursday, January, 8th 2026 at 9:00 AM (CST)

Registration Closes: Thursday, January, 15th 2026 at 11:00 PM

• A completed registration, with payment, is due by this date.

What does registration entail?

• Register for Speech & Debate Events
• Register for our Juniors Tournament Events 
• Sign up for our Tournament Meals

Because of judging shortages...

Every student MUST HAVE their parent present as chaperone, unless you have tournament director approval. 

Wait List: If events fill up during registration. Do not worry. Go ahead and finish your registration. We leave some open rooms to make sure we allocate students to the right categories based on our final registration. This is not a guarantee that you will be removed from the wait list, but know that starting on the wait list is not necessarily an indicator that you won't get your event. However, those who have a completed registration will be given priority for all available event slots as they open up.

Events

Parliamentary Debate
Team Policy Debate
Lincoln Douglas Debate
All Speech Events

Junior Debate (Saturday)
Junior Speech Events (Saturday):

• Junior Apol
• Junior Impromptu
• Junior Story Reading
• Junior Bible Story Impromptu
• Junior Platform
• Junior Expository
• Junior Interp
• Junior Interp Duo

PLEASE NOTE: Speech Patterns may change up until registration begins.

For Speech And Debate Event information visit (http://www.stoausa.org/speech-events)
For Debate Event information visit (http://www.stoausa.org/debate-events)

There are more details coming...
Please contact Suzy Olejniczak suzyole@gmail.com with any questions.