2025 Kickoff Challenge
SOAR (AR) · Oct 9-11, 2025
Completed
3:19 PM Central
Speech Categories
Because our tournament is so early in the season, we will be sharing our categories with you to aid in your preparation.
Apologetics
Categories 1, 3, 5, and 4
Mars Hill
Current Film & TV, Current Music, Classic Media, and Cultural Voices
Tournament Events
Speech
- Apologetics Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
TP/LD
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Parli
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
Tournament Timetable
- Community Judge registration will open at 12:00 am Sun 08/24/2025 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 8:00 am Fri 08/29/2025 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 11:59 pm Fri 09/19/2025 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 11:59 pm Sun 09/28/2025 (Central)
- Meal registration will close at 12:01 am Mon 09/29/2025 (Central)
- Community Judge registration will close at 12:00 am Fri 10/10/2025 (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.