2025 Next Gen KC Cardinal Clash

Next Gen (MO) - Mar 20-22, 2025 | Status: Open | 3:10 PM Central

Tournament Time
3:10 PM Central

JUNIORS EVENTS AND GUIDELINES

Juniors events are only for students who are 5-11 years old on Oct 1, 2024. Junior debate is for students ages 9-11.
Junior speech registration fee is $10 for the first event, $7 for each additional event. Junior debate event is $10 per student.
Juniors can register using the Student Registration tab at the top of this webpage, just like Seniors.
Juniors may register for a maximum of three speech events plus debate.
There is no script submission for Juniors.
There will not be any finals for Juniors.
Juniors can check-in at the same time as the Seniors

There will be two rounds for the Juniors in the following Speech categories

(Click on each event for the corresponding guidelines.)

Juniors Apologetics Questions

1. Who is Jesus?

2. How does the Holy Spirit help us?

3. How do we see God in creation?

4. What is the fall?

5. Why did Jesus have to die?

6. Can a person do enough good things to get into heaven?

7. What is grace?

8. What is repentance?

9. What is sin?

10. What is the Bible?

11. Why must Jesus be truly human and truly God?

12. How many persons are there in God?

Bible Story Impromptu Topics

1. Healing of Naaman

2. Jonah

3. Noah's Ark

4. Christ is Born

5. Jesus Turns Water Into Wine

6. Jesus Calms the Storm

7. The Burning Bush

8. The Tomb is Empty

9. Jesus Walks on Water

10. Prodigal Son

11. Daniel in the Lion’s Den

12. Saul Becomes Paul

We will offer two rounds of debate for Juniors.

Resolved: In US history, Benjamin Franklin was more important than Thomas Jefferson.

One mentor is allowed per team. Prior to the tournament, each team should pick a mentor or contact the Junior Tournament director for help in finding one.
Junior Debate Guidelines and Helpful Hints: Junior Debate 2024-2025

Juniors Judges

Senior students who would like to judge Juniors speech events must have competed in at least one NITOC-modeled tournament as a Senior prior to the Diamond.

Senior students who would like to judge Juniors debate must be at least a second-year debater.

Sign-up sheets will be available throughout the tournament.

Juniors Judges need to arrive 10 minutes before each Juniors round in order to judge. At that time, they'll go through a short judges' orientation to prepare them.

Tournament Schedule

Thursday, March 20

Starts	Ends	Name
7:30 am	8:00 am	Judges' & Students' Orientations
7:45 am	9:00 am	Parliamentary Round 1
8:45 am	10:00 am	Parliamentary Round 2
10:00 am	11:15 am	Parliamentary Round 3
11:00 am	11:30 am	Lunch and Speech Check-In
11:30 am	11:45 am	Announcements and Opening Prayer
11:45 am	1:45 pm	TP Round 1, LD Rounds 1 and 2
1:00 pm	3:00 pm	Speech Pattern A Pattern A Round 1
3:45 pm	5:45 pm	TP Round 2, LD Round 3 and 4
5:00 pm	5:30 pm	Dinner
6:15 pm	8:15 pm	Speech Pattern B Pattern B Round 1
8:15 pm	9:15 pm	Parliamentary Round 4

Friday, March 21

Starts	Ends	Name
7:30 am	7:45 am	Judges' & Students' Orientations
7:45 am	9:45 am	TP Round 3, LD Round 5
9:15 am	11:15 am	Speech Pattern A Pattern A Round 2
11:15 pm	11:45 pm	Lunch
11:45 am	1:45 pm	Speech Pattern B Pattern B Round 2
1:45 pm	2:45 pm	Parliamentary Round 5
2:45 pm	4:15 pm	TP Round 4, LD Round 6
4:15 pm	5:15 pm	Parliamentary Round 6
5:15 pm	5:45 pm	Dinner
5:45 pm	7:45 pm	Speech Pattern A Pattern A Round 3
7:45 pm	8:45 pm	Parliamentary Semi-Finals
1:45 pm	2:45 pm	Junior Debate Jr. Debate Round 1
4:15 pm	5:15 pm	Junior Debate Jr. Debate Round 2
7:45 pm	8:45 pm	Junior Debate Junior Debate Round 3

Saturday, March 22

Starts	Ends	Name
7:30 am	8:00 am	Judges' Orientations, Opening Prayer, Announce LD & Parli Breaks
7:30 am	9:00 am	LD/TP TP Round 5, LD Quarterfinals
9:15 am	11:15 am	Speech Pattern B Pattern B Round 3
11:15 am	11:45 am	Lunch
11:45 am	1:15 pm	TP Round 6, LD Semifinals
1:15 pm	1:20 pm	Announcement of Speech Breaks
1:20 pm	3:15 pm	All Speech Finals ALL Speech Finals
3:15 pm	4:15 pm	Parliamentary Finals
4:15 pm	4:20 pm	Announce TP/LD Debate Finalists
4:20 pm	5:50 pm	LD/TP Debate Finals
5:20 pm	5:50 pm	Dinner
12:00 pm	12:15 pm	Clean-Up Everything to your car.
6:45 pm	7:45 pm	Awards
1:45 pm	3:45 pm	Junior Speech Jr. Speech Round 1
4:15 pm	6:15 pm	Junior Speech Junior Speech Round 2
4:20 pm	6:20 pm	Junior Speech Junior Speech Round 3

Patterns

Speech Pattern A

Original Oratory
Slam Poetry
Dramatic Interpretation
Extemporaneous
Impromptu
Mars Hill

Speech Pattern B

Apologetics
Duo Interpretation
Expository
Humorous Interpretation
Open Interpretation
Persuasive

LD/TP

Lincoln Douglas
Team Policy

Parliamentary

Parliamentary Debate

Junior Speech

Junior Duo Interp Juniors
Junior Expository Juniors
Junior Impromptu Juniors
Junior Platform Juniors
Bible Story Juniors
Interpretation Juniors
Junior Apologetics Juniors

Junior Debate

Junior Debate Juniors