2024 Big Muddy Bash
ARCH South County (MO) · Oct 10-12, 2024
Dress Code
Tournament Dress Code
It is the desire of Stoa and ARCH Speech and Debate Club, hosts of this Tournament, to promote professionalism and modesty in behavior and dress for our tournaments.
Some of the specifics of Stoa's and ARCH's Big Muddy Bash Tournament Dress Code are also below:
For the duration of the tournament students must dress and remain dressed modestly, neatly, and cleanly in their tournament attire.
Competition: During competition, students must dress in professional business attire.
Gentlemen: Suits; slacks and a sports coat, with a shirt and tie, and dress shoes.
Ladies: Skirt or pant suits; slacks, skirts or dresses with jackets, and professional dress shoes. Hemlines are to be at least to the knee. Nylons are not required.
Awards Ceremony: Students must attend the awards ceremony in full competition attire.
Violations: If the competitor’s attire at any time during the tournament is deemed a violation of the dress code, the competitor will be asked to come into compliance with the dress code.
A student will not be allowed to participate in competition or awards without compliance.
Picture of Junior Dress Code Requirements
--No jacket required for Junior Boys, although they are free to wear on if they want.
--A nice dress will suffice for Junior Girls.
Tournament Events
Speech
- Apologetics Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
TP/LD
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Parli
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
Junior Debate
- Junior Debate Juniors
Junior Limited Prep Speech
- Junior Apol Juniors
- Junior Bible Story Impromptu Juniors
- Junior Impromptu Juniors
- Junior Story Reading Juniors
Tournament Timetable
- Community Judge registration will open at 12:00 pm Sun 08/18/2024 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 9:00 am Thu 09/12/2024 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 11:00 pm Thu 09/19/2024 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 12:00 pm Sat 09/21/2024 (Central)
- Meal registration will close at 11:00 pm Fri 10/04/2024 (Central)
- Community Judge registration will close at 12:00 pm Sat 10/12/2024 (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.