2025 Cactus Clash
Mars Hill Speech & Debate (AZ) · Oct 23-25, 2025
Speech and Debate Tournament
October 23-25, 2025
Location: Cornerstone Family Church
10215 N. Saguaro Blvd., Fountain Hills, AZ 85268
Thank you for your interest in judging at our tournament. We appreciate your support!
Judges Training
To help assist you in providing constructive feedback and providing you with a picture on how the tournament will run. We will provide online judges training for the speech and debate events. We will be sending out an email with detailed information on how that will work.
Please Note: The times listed are the actual time of the events. Please plan to arrive 30 minutes before the time listed, this will give you time to obtain your ballot and grab some food. Please plan to stay 30 minutes after the round for filling out your feedback to the students on the ballots.
Thank you, we appreciate you investing your time in our children.
Please click the button below to sign up.
NOTE:
This tournament is not currently accepting community/alumni judge registration.Please contact the tournament director for more information.
Tournament Events
Lincoln Douglas and Team Policy
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Parliamentary Debate
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
Speech Events
- Apologetics Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
Juniors Speech Tournament
- Juniors Apologetics Juniors
- Juniors Impromptu Juniors
- Juniors Story Telling Juniors
Novice Apologetics
- Novice Apologetics Speech Non-qual
Tournament Timetable
- Community Judge registration will open at 8:00 am Tue 09/02/2025 (Mountain)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 8:00 am Fri 09/19/2025 (Mountain)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 11:59 pm Wed 09/24/2025 (Mountain)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 12:00 pm Tue 09/30/2025 (Mountain)
- Meal registration will close at 11:59 pm Fri 10/17/2025 (Mountain)
- Community Judge registration will close at 12:00 pm Sat 10/25/2025 (Mountain)
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.