2024 David Helton Fall Forensics Forum
Ambassadors for Christ (TN) · Nov 14-16, 2024
Dress Code for SV & JR/JV Students
It is the goal and desire of both Stoa, and the Ambassadors for Christ Speech and Debate Club to promote professionalism and modesty in the behavior and dress for aour our student competitors, SV & JR/JV, and even for parents, and tournament staff at our tournaments.
The David Helton Fall Forensics Forum Tournament will follow the Stoa Dress Code. The specifics of Stoa's and our Ambassadors DHFFF Tournament's Dress Code are also listed below.
For the duration of the tournament students must dress and remain dressed modestly, neatly, and cleanly in their tournament attire.
Competition: During competition, students must dress in professional business attire.
Gentlemen: Suits; slacks and a sports coat, with a shirt and tie, and dress shoes.
Ladies: Skirt or pant suits; slacks, skirts or dresses with jackets, and professional dress shoes. Hemlines are to be at least to the knee.
Awards Ceremony: Students must attend the awards ceremony in full competition attire.
Violations: If the competitor’s attire at any time during the tournament is deemed a violation of the dress code, the competitor will be asked to come into compliance with the dress code.
A student will not be allowed to participate in competition or awards without compliance.
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.