2025 Silver State Showdown

Welcome to the Silver State Showdown.

Saturday, November 22, 2025
Select speech events
Hosted by Silver Eagles Speech Club

 
Pincrest Academy Horizon
1360 S. Boulder Hwy. 
Henderson, NV 89015

Speech Fee:  $15/per event

Juniors Fee: $10/per event

Registration will open at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, October 27, and will close on Friday, October 31, at 11:55 p.m. for this NITOC qualifying tournament.

 
Stoa Membership

You need to be a Stoa member to register for this tournament. 

 
Judging Requirements

We are actively recruiting community judges. We require all students to come with a parent or community judge. Orientations will be held at 9:00 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.

Each competitor is required to provide a parent or community judge for the tournament.

In order to keep us on schedule, we are asking judges to return their ballots no more than 15 minutes after the end of each round.

 
Food

We will offer a box lunch for purchase.  We have an hour for lunch. Families are welcome to bring their own food or go out for lunch. 
 
Judges will receive light snacks and refreshments. Judges need to provide their own lunch or purchase one.
 
Dress Code

Jackets are required for STOA students, but not Junior students.

Apologetics

All Apologetics prompts will come from Category 3.

Waitlists

Once we are full, we will have a waitlist. 

Questions?

Please email Victor, victor.joecks@gmail.com