2025 Big Muddy Bash

The Big Muddy Bash 2025 - October 23-25, 2025

A Full Debate & Limited Prep Speech Tournament

Plus Junior Debate & Junior Limited Prep Speech Tournament on Saturday

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

The City of St. Louis was founded at the spot where the Missouri River, a.k.a. "Big Muddy" flows into the Mississippi River. St. Louis is famous for this location just like it is for the St. Louis ARCH, and thus we have named our fall St. Louis tournament the "Big Muddy" Bash (BMB).

Tournament Starts:  Thursday afternoon, October 23rd at 12:30 PM. (CST)

Tournament Ends:  Saturday, October 25th, hopefully by 6:00 PM. (CST)

Registration Opens: Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM (CST)

Registration Closes: Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM (CST) 

A completed registration, with payment, is due by Registration Closes date.

What does registration entail?

1. Register for Speech & Debate Events

2. Register for our Juniors Tournament Events 

3. Sign up for our Tournament Meals

Every student MUST HAVE their parent present as chaperone. 

PLEASE NOTE: We are only including the 4 Limited Prep Speeches, so there is only one speech pattern at this tournament.

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
Limited Prep Speech Events

Please contact Suzy Olejniczak at suzyole@gmail.com with any questions.