2026 The Texas Escalade
Invictus Fides (TX) · Mar 11-14, 2026
Safety & Security
The Texas Escalade Statement
The top priority for the Texas Escalade Leadership is the safety and welfare of our students and families.
Campus Identification
For security, all parents, judges, and competitors are required to wear a tournament name tag at all times.
Parent Responsibility For Safety
You as the parent are the primary supervisor for your child at The Texas Escalade. This is not a drop-off event and we require that parents attend and stay engaged with their children.
Campus Security Checks
The DBU Security teams and the Texas Escalade Facility and Security teams will be checking all tournament and non-tournament locations regularly.
Stay in Approved Spaces
We have not been granted use of the entire DBU campus. We have an Escalade map which outlines the spaces we have been provided for tournament use. Students and parents must stay in the designated tournament areas. Students and parents must leave competition rooms when they are not in use, returning to the parent/student room areas.
Students who are found in unapproved spaces at DBU may be dropped from competition at the discretion of the Tournament Leadership and Security Team.
DBU Security and Police Presence
The DBU campus is monitored by both DBU Security teams and the Dallas Police Department. Any behavior concerns during the tournament will be reported to the Tournament Director, but may also be escalated to these campus authorities.
Please check this page again before the tournament for Safety and Security updates.
Updated 3/6/2026
Tournament Events
Speech Pattern A
- Apologetics Qual
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Expository Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
Speech Pattern B
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
- Persuasive 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 12:00 pm Wed 01/14/2026 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 12:07 pm Mon 02/02/2026 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 11:59 pm Tue 02/10/2026 (Central)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 11:59 pm Mon 02/23/2026 (Central)
- Script submission will close at 11:59 pm Fri 02/27/2026 (Central)
- Script submission will open at 8:00 pm Sun 03/01/2026 (Central)
- Community Judge registration will close at 8:00 pm Sat 03/14/2026 (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.