2025 First Coast Florida Classic
First Coast (FL) · Mar 6-8, 2025
THANK YOU for your interest in judging at our Speech and Debate Tournament!!! We rely on community support to help our tournament run smoothly!!!
This page will walk you through the registration process and will allow you to pick the time that works best for you to judge.
When choosing a time to serve as judge, please consider we ask you arrive to Judge Check-In one hour prior to your selected speech or debate round in order to receive an orientation. Even if you have served as a judge in the past, we kindly ask all judges receive orientation training every year.
During Judge Orientation, you will be given a good overview of the events and the judging process at the tournament.
Also if you arrive early, stop by Judge Hospitality where you will find a variety of good things to eat and drink. These goodies will also be available while you are completing your ballot.
You will receive an e-mail giving details about check-in, judge orientation, etc. approximately a week prior to the tournament.
If you would like to learn more about judging and the debate events prior to the tournament, some resources are included below.
DEBATE TRAINING SLIDES
Click on the link below to view the training slides that we will use for our Speech and Debate events. Please feel free to read them and become familiar with them.
Team Policy Debate Orientation Slides
Lincoln Douglas Debate Orientation Slides
Speech Orientation Training Slides
TOURNAMENT LOCATION
Thank you for your interest in judging at our tournament. We appreciate your support! Please click the button below to sign up.
NOTE:
This tournament is not currently accepting community/alumni judge registration.Please contact the tournament director for more information.
Tournament Events
Speech A
- Apologetics Qual
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
Speech B
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Persuasive Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
TP/LD
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Parli
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
Junior Speech
- JR Interp DUO Juniors
- JV Interp DUO Juniors
- JV Interp Open Juniors
- JV LP Apologetics Juniors
- JV LP Bible Story Impromtpu Juniors
- JV OO Persuasive/Informative Juniors
- Jr Interp Open Juniors
- Jr LP Bible Story Impromptu Juniors
- Jr OO Persuasive/Informative Juniors
F
Tournament Timetable
- Community Judge registration will open at 12:00 pm Wed 01/01/2025 (Eastern)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 8:00 am Thu 02/06/2025 (Eastern)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 12:00 pm Thu 02/20/2025 (Eastern)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 12:00 pm Thu 02/20/2025 (Eastern)
- Late fee will be applied at 2:00 pm Thu 02/20/2025 (Eastern)
- Community Judge registration will close at 12:00 pm Sun 03/09/2025 (Eastern)
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.