2025 Cactus Clash
Mars Hill Speech & Debate (AZ) · Oct 23-25, 2025
Extemporaneous
Extemp Prep Room: A104
Extemp has priority! If you are in other speech events, be sure you schedule your time so you do not miss your draw time. The times are fixed and if you are late to the prep room, your prep time is shortened. Speaker positions cannot be switched or changed.
Note: Speaker 1 prep time will begin at the start of the Speech Round. Check the Speaker order before the round begins.
Liability:
1. Students must accept full responsibility for the safety and security of their electronic devices for the duration of the tournament.
2. Tournament staff are not responsible for the devices at any time.
3. All electronic devices should be clearly labeled with the participant’s name and contact information.
Please Read:
Extemporaneous Rules
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.