2026 ARCH Madness
ARCH St. Charles (MO) · Feb 5-7, 2026
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.
Early Script Submission Deadline: Thursday, January 15th at 11:59 PM
Script Submission Close: Wednesday, January 28th at 5:00 PM (No late submissions will be accepted)
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)
Please contact Suzy Olejniczak suzyole@gmail.com with any questions.
Tournament Events
Speech Pattern A
- Apologetics Qual
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
Speech Pattern B
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Expository Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Persuasive Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
TP/LD
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Parli
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
Junior Speech
- Junior Apologetics Juniors
- Junior Bible Story Impromptu Juniors
- Junior Duo Interpretation Juniors
- Junior Expository Juniors
- Junior Impromptu Juniors
- Junior Individual Interpretation Juniors
- Junior Story Reading Juniors
- Juniors Platform (OO and Persuasive) Juniors
Junior Debate
Tournament Timetable
- Community Judge registration will open at 12:00 pm Fri 12/19/2025 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 9:36 pm Fri 01/16/2026 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 9:05 am Mon 01/19/2026 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 12:00 pm Tue 01/27/2026 (Central)
- Script submission will open at 5:21 pm Wed 01/28/2026 (Central)
- Script submission will close at 5:22 pm Wed 01/28/2026 (Central)
- Meal registration will close at 12:00 pm Thu 01/29/2026 (Central)
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.