2025 Texas Escalade
Invictus Fides (TX) · Mar 12-15, 2025
Junior Debate Information
Junior Debate
Age Requirement
Junior Debate competitors should be ages 9-12. 12 year-olds must have turned 12 after October 1, 2024. Please contact the tournament for exceptions.
Event Fee
Junior Debate — $20
Junior Resolution — Resolved: In US history, Benjamin Franklin was more important than Thomas Jefferson.
Junior Debate is all about having fun and building debate skills!
Here are the basics to get you started:
• The Junior Debate Tournament will have two rounds, giving each team the chance to compete on the affirmative and negative sides of the resolution. Rounds will take place during Parliamentary Debate, but exact round times are TBD.
• Junior Debate is a partnered event, and your student will sign up to debate both rounds with the same partner as a team.
• Your student will work with their partner to research, gather evidence, and write an affirmative case supporting the resolution.
• Each Junior Debate team will also research for their negative round, compiling evidence and arguments for their negative round.
• Each team may have a mentor, a senior competitor willing to work with them before and during the rounds to guide and give moral support.
Junior Debate Guidelines
Junior Debate Ballot
If you have questions regarding the Junior Tournament or need help finding a mentor for your team, please do not hesitate to reach out to the tournament via StoaHub.
Thank you!
Gabriell Church
Junior Tournament Director
Tournament Events
Speech Pattern A
- Apologetics Qual
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Persuasive Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
Speech Pattern B
- Expository Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
TP/LD Debate
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Parliamentary Debate
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
Juniors
- Junior Debate Juniors
Tournament Timetable
- Community Judge registration will open at 10:34 am Wed 01/08/2025 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 12:00 pm Fri 01/31/2025 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 11:59 pm Fri 02/07/2025 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 11:59 pm Fri 02/28/2025 (Central)
- Meal registration will close at 11:59 pm Fri 03/07/2025 (Central)
- Community Judge registration will close at 12:00 pm Sat 03/15/2025 (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.