2025 Continental Divide Challenge (CDC)
WD40 (CO) · Mar 18-21, 2025
Parent Judging Requirements
Parent judges are needed in every round of the tournament to maintain its integrity and ensure the tournament runs on schedule. The judging requirement is based on the student's number of speech and debate events. If the judging requirement cannot be met by a competitor's parent(s), the competitor can arrange for a substitute judge(s) to fulfill the requirement. Students attending with a chaperone must still meet the parent judging requirment by having the chaperone register to judge or another substitute judge.
All speech competitors are required to provide a judge for a minimum of two rounds for every speech event they are registered for. For example, if you register for three speech events, then you are required to provide judges for a minimum of six rounds.
All Debate competitors are required to judge two rounds for every debate event for which they are registered.
Clubs are encouraged to work together to fulfill the judging requirements for their members.
Tournament Events
Pattern A
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
- Persuasive Qual
Pattern B
- Apologetics Qual
- Duo Impromptu Non-qual
- Expository Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
Parli
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
TP/LD
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Extemporaneous
- Extemporaneous Qual
Juniors
- Jr Duo Impromptu Juniors
- Jr Duo Interpretation Juniors
- Jr Impromptu Juniors
- Jr Interp Juniors
- Jr Platform Juniors
- Jr Sales Pitch Impromptu Juniors
Tournament Timetable
- Community Judge registration will open at 8:00 am Tue 01/28/2025 (Mountain)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 8:00 am Wed 02/19/2025 (Mountain)
- Late fee will be applied at 11:59 pm Tue 02/25/2025 (Mountain)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 2:03 pm Thu 02/27/2025 (Mountain)
- Meal registration will close at 12:00 pm Wed 03/12/2025 (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.