2025 Kickoff Challenge

Safety

Parents or supervising adults, please plan to remain on campus while your student is present throughout the tournament. Your student's safety and positive experience is of utmost importance. This is a college campus, so it will not be a closed environment like many of the churches where we compete. We will have volunteers posted at each of the campus buildings that we are using to assist with questions and any issues that arrise.

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 registered. You also need to check in with Ballot Admin at the beginning of each round in case there are any unexpected judging needs.  Many parents have found that the more rounds they judge, the better equipped they are to help their students succeed.

Visitors

To keep everyone safe, all adults at the tournament need to check in and wear a name badge. If you don't receive a name badge at student & parent check-in, please stop by the Judge Greeter desk to get one.

Photos and Video

The Stoa Marketing Committee would like to feature our tournament on social media in a short video reel. We also will be putting together a slide show for our tournament. We will have a photographer onsite taking photos and videos throughout the weekend. This will be a fun way to remember Kickoff Challenge and to attract new families to Stoa. If you would like to opt out of the photos and videos, please email the tournament director to make your wishes known. We have included the standart Stoa Photo/Video release information in another tab on the tournament home page.