2025 Speak for Liberty

• Setup:

  This status is used while the tournament is still being setup.

• Open:

  This status means tournament registration is open. Families can register for the tournament.

• Drops Only:

  This status means only registration drops are allowed. There are no new entries allowed but families can drop entries.

• Closed:

  This status means registration is currently closed for the tournament. There are no adds or drops allowed. Please contact the tournament director with any questions.

• Completed:

  This status means the tournament is completed.

Debate Fee:  $45 per debater

Speech Fee:  $35 for the first speech entry and $25 for each additional event

Registration is not complete until your fees have been paid.  For Team Policy, both debaters must be registered and all fees paid by February 9.

Payment may be completed at the end of the registration process. Just click the "Pay" button and follow the prompts to use Stripe to pay your fees. 

Refunds

No refunds will be given for drops after Sunday, February 9th at 11:55 PM.

Drop Fees

In order to be eligible to compete in your other events, drop fees must be paid prior to the tournament. There will be a $35 fee for ANY event that is dropped at on-site student check-in. In order to be eligible to compete in your other events, this fee must be paid in cash at student check-in before the tournament begins.

Late Fees

Registrations not paid by close of registration on February 9th will be assessed a $25 late fee. If space is available, late registrations may be accepted with a $25 per competitor late registration fee.

Registrations unpaid after February 9th may be dropped in order to accommodate the waitlist.

We are NOT requiring script submissions for Speak for Liberty.

We can hear your sigh of relief.

We know that the script submission process can be an arduous procedure for speakers. That said, we appreciate the purpose for script submissions, which is to create a credible and ethical script for fair competition. For a one day - three round - speech tournament, for those on the receiving end of electronic script submissions, the process to confirm that all submissions follow our Stoa guidelines is even more painstaking because of the number of scripts that are gathered.

So we're giving you a little liberty on the process.

And while script submission isn't a requirement for Speak for Liberty, we absolutely expect all speeches to abide by the Stoa criteria for each event.

Even though we aren't requiring a formal script submission, please have and bring hard copies of your script submission for each speech you are giving.  The reason we ask this is if there is a question about the eligibility of a speech, there will be a clear way to determine a decision.

*FOR COMPETITORS AT NITOC OR TOURNAMENTS REQUIRING E-SCRIPT SUBMISSION*

Here's the link to a short Stoa tutorial to Script Submission

All the electronic script submission forms can be found at Stoa's Script Submission Forms section for Stoa members.

Liberty Baptist Church
1000 Bison Avenue
Newport Beach, CA 92660

If you have any questions regarding the facility, please contact Tournament Staff at VeritasTournamets@gmail.com.  Please don't contact Liberty Baptist Church with questions.  Thank you!

From points north

Drive down 405 South and CA-73 to MacArthur Blvd in Newport Beach.
Take exit 14A from CA-73 South
Turn right onto Bison Avenue
Turn right onto Celtis Place (The street sign on the signal says, "Liberty Baptist")
Turn left into Liberty Baptist Church parking lot

From CA-55 south

Drive down CA-55 south
Take CA-73 south
Take exit 14A (MacArthur Blvd)
Continue on MacArthur Blvd
Turn right onto Bison Avenue
Turn right onto Celtis Place (The street sign on the signal says, "Liberty Baptist")
Turn left into Liberty Baptist Church parking lot

From points south

Drive north on I-5 to Irvine
Take exit 7 (Jamboree Road) from I-405 north
Continue on Jamboree Road 
Turn left onto MacArthur Blvd.
Turn right onto Bison Avenue
Turn right onto Celtis Place (The street sign on the signal says, "Liberty Baptist")
Turn left into Liberty Baptist Church parking lot