2025 Camelback Classic
Mars Hill Speech & Debate (AZ) · Mar 5-8, 2025
Hotels -- Reserve Early
1-Holiday Inn Express
16540 N. Bullard Ave. Surprise, AZ
(1 Room, 2 queens & 1 sofa bed - sleeps up to 6 people) $339.15 a night
(4 people, 2 queens) $314.00 a night
free breakfast & parking
Check in at 3 PM. Check out 11 AM.
2-Garner Hotel
12477 West Bell Rd.
(1 Room, 2 queen size beds - Sleeps 4 people four persons) $261
22 minutes from ACU
free breakfast and parking
Check in at 3 PM. Check out 11 AM.
3-Holiday Express
16771 N. 84th Ave., Peoria, AZ
(1 Room, 2 Queen Size beds - sleeps 4 people) $384.85 a night
13 minutes from ACU
free breakfast and parking
Check in at 3 PM. Check out is at noon.
Reservations can be made through IHG at 1-877-666-3243. A membership is free if you take three or more days to stay in the hotel for these prices listed above. If there isn’t a membership, the reservation desk told me it could be $30-$40 more a night per room. I did tell them that we would need vacancy from March 4 to March 9. These were the three locations that I found that had vacancies she said the rest of their hotels around the surrounding areas do not have vacancy.
Tournament Events
Lincoln Douglas and Team Policy Debate
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Parliamentary Debate
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
Pattern A - Speech
- Apologetics Qual
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Persuasive Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
Pattern B - Speech
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Expository Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
Juniors Speech Events
- Juniors Apologetics Juniors
- Juniors Interp Juniors
- Juniors Platform Juniors
Tournament Timetable
- Community Judge registration will open at 12:00 pm Mon 01/06/2025 (Mountain)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 8:00 am Fri 02/07/2025 (Mountain)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 12:00 am Thu 02/13/2025 (Mountain)
- Meal registration will close at 12:00 pm Thu 02/20/2025 (Mountain)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 12:00 pm Tue 03/04/2025 (Mountain)
- Community Judge registration will close at 12:00 pm Sat 03/08/2025 (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.