2024 Gobbler Fest
Apex Speech and Debate Club (VA) · Nov 7-9, 2024
Completed
5:09 AM Eastern
Judge Orientation
Judge Orientation
All judges must receive judge training for the 2024-25 competition year.
You may receive training in one of two ways:
- watch our training videos or
- arrive at the tournament for in-person training at least 40 minutes before your round begins.
Training Judge training will be offered 40 minutes before each round begins.
Judge Orientation Videos
(click links below)
Speech Judge Orientation
Team Policy (TP) / Lincoln-Douglas (LD) Judge Orientation
Parli Judge Orientation
Tournament Events
Speech Pattern A
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Expository Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
Speech Pattern B
- Apologetics Qual
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Persuasive Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
TP/LD
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Parli
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
Tournament Timetable
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 10:00 am Mon 09/30/2024 (Eastern)
- Community Judge registration will open at 12:00 pm Mon 09/30/2024 (Eastern)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 12:00 am Thu 10/10/2024 (Eastern)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 12:00 am Wed 10/23/2024 (Eastern)
- Meal registration will close at 10:00 am Fri 11/01/2024 (Eastern)
- Community Judge registration will close at 5:00 pm Sat 11/09/2024 (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.