2025 Cactus Clash
Mars Hill Speech & Debate (AZ) · Oct 23-25, 2025
Completed
3:58 AM Mountain
Lincoln Douglas Value Debate
Lincoln Douglas (LD) Value Debate
We will have 6 prelim rounds, semi-finals with a final round. We will have power matching starting round 2. All prelim rounds will be decision in room, semi-finals and finals will not have decision in room.
Resolved: In foreign policy, diplomacy is more effective than military intervention
Statement of Purpose: The purpose of Lincoln Douglas Value Debate is to train Christian home school students in the skills of presentation, critical thinking, research, and analysis of basic values in an environment of honorable competition, to cultivate maturity, wisdom, grace, and poise, bringing glory to Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Competitors List will be provided
Please Review:
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.