2025 Arkansas Diamond

SOAR (AR) - Jan 23-25, 2025 | Status: Completed | 4:35 AM Central

Tournament Time
4:35 AM Central

JUNIORS EVENTS AND GUIDELINES

Juniors events are only for students who are 5-11 years old on Oct 1, 2024. Junior debate is for students ages 9-11.
Junior speech registration fee is $10 for the first event, $7 for each additional event. Junior debate event is $10 per student.
Juniors can register using the Student Registration tab at the top of this webpage, just like Seniors.
Juniors may register for a maximum of three speech events plus debate.
There is no script submission for Juniors.
There will not be any finals for Juniors.
Juniors can check-in at the same time as the Seniors.

There will be two rounds for the Juniors in the following Speech categories

(Click on each event for the corresponding guidelines.)

Juniors Apologetics Questions

1. Who is Jesus?

2. How does the Holy Spirit help us?

3. How do we see God in creation?

4. What is the fall?

5. Why did Jesus have to die?

6. Can a person do enough good things to get into heaven?

7. What is grace?

8. What is repentance?

9. What is sin?

10. What is the Bible?

11. Why must Jesus be truly human and truly God?

12. How many persons are there in God?

Bible Story Impromptu Topics

1. Healing of Naaman

2. Jonah

3. Noah's Ark

4. Christ is Born

5. Jesus Turns Water Into Wine

6. Jesus Calms the Storm

7. The Burning Bush

8. The Tomb is Empty

9. Jesus Walks on Water

10. Prodigal Son

11. Daniel in the Lion’s Den

12. Saul Becomes Paul

We will offer two rounds of debate for Juniors.

Resolved: In US history, Benjamin Franklin was more important than Thomas Jefferson.

One mentor is allowed per team. Prior to the tournament, each team should pick a mentor or contact the Junior Tournament director for help in finding one.
Junior Debate Guidelines and Helpful Hints: Junior Debate 2024-2025

Juniors Judges

Senior students who would like to judge Juniors speech events must have competed in at least one NITOC-modeled tournament as a Senior prior to the Diamond.

Senior students who would like to judge Juniors debate must be at least a second-year debater.

Sign-up sheets will be available throughout the tournament.

Juniors Judges need to arrive 10 minutes before each Juniors round in order to judge. At that time, they'll go through a short judges' orientation to prepare them.

QUESTIONS? Contact the Juniors Tournament Director, Martina Schaaf, at (501-703-3317).

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Lincoln Douglas Thu 1/23 2:15-4:00 pm Round 2 Flight A
Flight	Affirmative		Negative		Room
A	SURG	Cade Kirkman	SOAR	Brynlee Patterson	New Life B209
A	STLS	Roman Gaugh	LCH	Lily Stubbs	New Life B211
A	SOL	Seth Shearman	PRUD	Grace Link	New Life C120
A	GRSP	Michaela Baker	PRUD	Pete Silverthorne	New Life C122
A	ARCH	Anneliese Gobble	LCH	Amity Grover	New Life C124
A	RISI	Charles Raith	INVF	Shepard Souders	New Life C126
A	FTFY	Jillian Heise	LCH	Seth Putman	New Life C128
A	PRUD	Cooper Shaw	LGOK	Alison Earnest	New Life C129
A	SURG	Joseph Thenhaus	PRUD	Anna Gray	New Life C130
A	SOAR	Reese Hinton	SOL	Luke Shearman	New Life C131
A	PRUD	Luke Willingham	SOAR	Abigail Durand	New Life D221
A	RISI	Reagan Payne	INVF	Millie Friederichsen	New Life D225
A	AMBA	Trey Cullum	LCH	Caleb Keel	New Life D226
A		bye	PRF	Garrett Chrystie	n/a

Lincoln Douglas Thu 1/23 2:15-4:00 pm Flight B
Flight	Affirmative		Negative		Room
B	INVF	Benjamin Caudal	LCH	Taryn Putman	New Life B209
B	SOAR	Joshua Durand	PRUD	Wesley Alberts	New Life B211
B	LCH	Vivien Grover	FTFY	Preston Sloan	New Life C120
B	ARCH	Loralee Gobble	PRF	Daniel Hawkinson	New Life C122
B	IGNI	Samuel Russell	INVF	Gabriel Linn	New Life C124
B	LGOK	Ezra Speed	SURG	Sam Mauldin	New Life C126
B	LCH	Micah Magness	D315	Josiah Estrada	New Life C128
B	LCH	Andrew Putman	INVF	Garrison Dixon	New Life C129
B	PRUD	Matthew Gray	SURG	Grayson Wurpts	New Life C130
B	SOAR	Hope Hinton	ASTX	Gus Richardson	New Life C131
B	PRUD	Lila Willingham	LCH	Selah Lee	New Life D221
B	STLS	Naomi Bulus	LCH	John Highfill	New Life D225
B	FTFY	Samuel Maganda	LCH	William Highfill	New Life D226

2025 Arkansas Diamond

Lincoln Douglas

Thu 1/23 2:15-4:00 pm Round 2

Flight A

Lincoln Douglas

Thu 1/23 2:15-4:00 pm

Flight B