2024 Pumpkin Spice Parli & Prep
Arete-Zeteo (AL) · Oct 18-19, 2024
Welcome to Pumpkin Spice Parli!
Our annual Montgomery, Alabama Speech and Debate Tournament! This tournament is designed for novice teams to grow and experienced teams to dust off their skills. With a fantastic church sponsor and an incredibly friendly atmosphere, we also ensure there's just the right amount of a competitive edge to keep things exciting and challenging for all participants.
Our club verse is Zephaiah 3:17, "The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love, he will no longer rebuke you but will rejoice over you with singing." We strive to view each competitor as an image-bearer created in God's likeness. The Lord is within each and every one of you. We are praying over all of you, by name, even before you come to compete, while the Lord is singing over you!
Update: Meal Sign Ups have been extended until Friday, October 11th at 6 pm.
We ask that everyone adhere to the Nitoc dress code set forward by Stoa:
https://www.stoausa.org/about-nitoc
Thank you all, and we can't wait to see you in October!
Tournament Events
Speech
- Apologetics Qual
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
LD/TP
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Parli
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
Junior Speech
- Cold Reading Juniors
- Junior Apologetics Juniors
- Junior Impromptu Juniors
- Salesmanship Juniors
- Story Book Reading Juniors
Tournament Timetable
- Community Judge registration will open at 8:00 am Sat 08/31/2024 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 9:25 pm Thu 10/10/2024 (Central)
- Meal registration will close at 6:00 pm Fri 10/11/2024 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 8:00 pm Fri 10/11/2024 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 9:00 am Fri 10/18/2024 (Central)
- Community Judge registration will close at 10:57 am Mon 10/21/2024 (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.