2025 The Lone Star
Ascend Texas Speech and Debate (TX) · Mar 27-29, 2025
March 27-29 2025
The Lone Star will be held in New Braunfels, Texas and will offer all Stoa Debate events (TP / LD / Parli) and Stoa Speech Events, as well as Juniors Events. Speech and debate event offerings may be subject to change.
Location
1st Protestant Church
172 W Coll Street
New Braunfels, TX 78130
You are invited to join us as a Community Judge!
Please click here for more information on judging.
Please click here to sign up / register!
Student Registration Dates
Registration & Meals: Open 2/21 @ 12noon - Closes (Drops Only) 3/17 @ 11:55pm
Community Judge Registration: Currently Open - Closes 3/26 @ 6pm
No Refunds after registration closes.
All fees must be paid in full on time, or competitors may be dropped from events.
If we have a waitlist in some events, please be patient. Students will be moved from the waitlist as space becomes available, in the order they registered.
This is a Stoa qualifying tournament, and membership in Stoa is required to participate.
Tournament Fees
$25 1st Speech Event, $15 all additional
$30 1st Debate Event, $25 all additional
$15 per Juniors Event
Got questions or need to reach out to the Tournament Directors? Email us.
Tournament Events
Speech A
- Apologetics Qual
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
Speech B
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Expository Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Persuasive Qual
TP / LD
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
- Team Policy Qual
Parli
- Parliamentary Debate Qual
Juniors
- Juniors Apologetics Juniors
- Juniors Impromptu Juniors
- Juniors Open Interpretation Juniors
- Juniors Platform Juniors
Tournament Timetable
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 12:00 pm Fri 02/21/2025 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 11:55 pm Mon 03/17/2025 (Central)
- Meal registration will close at 11:55 pm Mon 03/17/2025 (Central)
- Community Judge registration will close at 11:55 pm Wed 03/26/2025 (Central)
- Community Judge registration will open at 9:00 am Thu 03/27/2025 (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.