2025 The Desert Gem
Set Apart (CA) · Jan 15-18, 2025
Parent Judging Responsibility
***PARENT JUDGING RESPONSIBILITY***
Parent Participation: Debate Only
By registering your child for the tournament you are agreeing to not only remain on campus with your student, but also be available to judge. Parents, please plan on judging three rounds. You will need to alternate judging rounds, so plan on judging either rounds 1, 3, and 5 or rounds 2, 4, and 6. There will be no community judges, but if you have alumni hanging around the house, bring them along!
Thank you as always for your gracious and significant participation!
*We will provide one training session during the first round.*
*Experienced parent judges* will be needed for the first round. In order to keep the tournament running on time, we are requesting that ballots be turned in no more than 20 minutes after the end of each round.
Parent Participation: Speech Events Only
We will have Community Judges this year.
EACH registered family needs to have a parent judging for them every day of the tournament. Students will need to have their judge physically with them for the entire tournament.
Thank you for your assistance to keep our tournament running on time. Please plan on judging every other round, and check with the ballot push table 30-45 minutes before each round to see what the judging needs are for the upcoming round. The Ballot Push Team will be happy to see you!
Tournament Events
Speech A
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
Speech B
- Apologetics Qual
- Expository Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Persuasive Qual
Speech C
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
LD/TP
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Parli
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
Juniors
- Juniors Apologetics Juniors
- Juniors Impromptu Juniors
Judge
Tournament Timetable
- Community Judge registration will open at 12:00 am Sun 12/01/2024 (Pacific)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 8:00 am Wed 12/04/2024 (Pacific)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 9:00 am Wed 01/08/2025 (Pacific)
- Community Judge registration will close at 12:00 pm Sun 01/19/2025 (Pacific)
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.