2025 Inland Club Challenge

Inland Club Challenge

Immanuel Baptist Church

28355 Base Line Street, Highland, CA 92346

April 2-5, 2025

Registration Opens: Monday, February 17th at 10:00 a.m.

Registration Closes: Monday, March 3rd at 8:00 p.m.

Praise be to God for his abundant blessings.  We are thankful for the blessings from God of raising sons and daughters and the privilege of doing so with like-minded Stoa families.  May the Lord bless all of our efforts to disciple and mentor Godly sons and daughters who will serve Him for eternity. 

We pray that the Lord will use the Inland Club Challenge for the continued sanctification of all our hearts (both parents and students) as we work together to provide an opportunity for winsome, gracious, wise and Christ-like speaking and debating.  The families of the host club for ICC (EPIC2) pray that ICC will encourage and bless the Stoa community.  We pray that you will come with anticipation and leave inspired.

We remain continually thankful for Immanuel Baptist Church, our generous and gracious host for ICC since 2010.  God, in his abundant providence and omniscience, knew from the beginning of time that the church would host ICC and long ago He designed the facility for (among other things) hosting a Stoa tournament.  We remain truly grateful.

As in prior years, the events at the tournament include all NITOC speech categories as well as Lincoln-Douglas, team policy and parliamentary debate.

We will also hold a juniors tournament with apologetics, impromptu, cold reading and platform.

As we develop the tournament website, the tabs along the left side will contain much information.  Please take some time to review them.  If you find that you still have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at EPIC2Tournaments@gmail.com with any questions or suggestions for the tournament.  Please do not contact the church regarding anything related to the tournament.  All inquiries of any kind should be sent to the tournament leadership at EPIC2Tournaments@gmail.com.

To God Be The Glory!

Location:

Wednesday, April 2nd (The four preliminary rounds of parli)

LifeSpring Assembly of God Church

1224 Main Street, Riverside, CA 92501

Thursday, April 3rd, Friday, April 4th and Saturday, April 5th

Immanual Baptist Church

28355 Baseline St, Highland, CA 92346

Tournament Fees:

$40 for each debate event

$25 for each speech event.

$15 for each junior speech event.

Parent Judging Responsibility:

As always, we seek to run a tournament that runs on time and produces sound results.  In order to have at least three judges in all speech rounds and enough debate judges, every student must attend the tournament with a parent who will judge every other round (i.e. three rounds a day).

• Each competitor must have a PARENT present at the tournament who judges every other round (i.e. at least three rounds a day).  

• Students will need to have their PARENT physically with them at check in and the parent must remain at the tournament to judge every other round.