2024 David Helton Fall Forensics Forum
Ambassadors for Christ (TN) · Nov 14-16, 2024
Parent Information
Safety
Parents or supervising adults, please plan to remain on site while your student is present throughout the tournament. Your student's safety and positive experience is of utmost importance.
Importance of Parent Judges
Thank you for understanding that a sizable pool of parent judges is critical for providing a quality tournament for all competitors. With that in mind, your minimum requirement is to judge the rounds for which you signed up. You also need to check in with Ballot Push at the beginning of each round in case there are some unexpected judging needs.
Check-in
All Parents/Judges will check in just inside the far left rear church entry underportico where you will also receive your name badges.
Visitors
To keep everyone safe, all adults at the tournament need to check in and wear a name badge. Please stop by the Judge Greeter to get one.
Tournament Events
Debate
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Speech Pattern A
- Apologetics Qual
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Expository Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
Speech Pattern B
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Persuasive Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
JV Speech Tournament
- Bible Story Impromptu Juniors
- JR/JV Duo Interp Juniors
- JR/JV Expository Juniors
- JR/JV Original Oratory Juniors
- JV/JR Impromptu Juniors
- JV/JR Open Interp (includes Dramatic & Humorous) Juniors
- Platform Apologetics Juniors
- Poetry Interp Juniors
- Salesmanship Juniors
- Story Reading Juniors
JV Student Congress
- JR/JV Student Congress Juniors
Tournament Timetable
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 9:00 am Sat 10/05/2024 (Central)
- Community Judge registration will open at 9:00 am Sat 10/05/2024 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 11:55 pm Sat 10/19/2024 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 5:00 am Fri 11/01/2024 (Central)
- Meal registration will close at 12:00 pm Wed 11/06/2024 (Central)
- Community Judge registration will close at 12:00 pm Sat 11/16/2024 (Central)
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.