2025 Western Slope Rendezvous

Spur Speech & Debate Club (CO) - Jan 30 - Feb 1, 2025 | Status: Closed | 2:13 AM Mountain

Tournament Time
2:13 AM Mountain

As a Stoa endorsed event, the Stoa Student Code of Conduct will be observed during WSR. The code of conduct is outlined here: https://www.stoausa.org/membership

Additional expectations for Western Slope Tournament:

FOR COMPETITORS & NON-COMPETING SIBLINGS (NCS):

No money or goods will be bet or exchanged during recreational games. This prohibition includes not only exchanging money or goods during games, but any kind of payment towards "buying seats" or saving places in particular games or "rental" of devices. Poker games are permissible with poker chips.
The student area will be maintained BY THE STUDENTS: When not being used in a round, keep all debate boxes, notebooks, bags, computers, and personal belongings in the student lounge area and students are expected clean up their area immediately after eating.
Students will honor and abide by directions given to them by ANY staff member. If they receive conflicting directions, they may appeal to their parents who, in turn, can bring it to the attention of tournament authorities.
No running anywhere in the main building.
Library-level voices in the hallways and open spaces of the main building.
The kitchen will be used exclusively by tournament staff. No access to the microwave or other kitchen appliances will be available for competitors or families.
Please obey all posted signs inside and outside the building and stay out of restricted areas.
Students may have ONLY bottled (no open containers) water in the competition rooms and main building. No other food or beverages are permitted.

COMPETITORS:

Competitors may only eat in the student lounge area.
Competitors are permitted to remove ties, dress shoes and/or jackets in the student lounge area (modesty is still expected), but must be in compliance with tournament attire requirements anywhere else on the premises during the tournament.

NON-COMPETING SIBLINGS (NCS):

NCS will be supervised at all times by an adult. This includes when they are in the student lounge area.
NCS who have tournament meals purchased will eat in the student lounge area.
Other food for NCS may be eaten in the following designated areas: student lounge area & judge refreshment/eating area.

The SPUR Speech and Debate Club, which is a part of STOA Christian Homeschool Speech and Debate League will be hosting the The Western Slope Rendezvous Tournament. The dates for the tournament are Thursday, January 30th, Friday, January 31st, and Saturday, February 1st. The tournament will be at Canyon View Vineyard Church. Each day there are different time slots to sign up for to judge. You can judge as little as one round or you can judge multiple rounds. We will have apporixamtely 122 competitors coming from all over the state and need approximately 200 community judges. If you are willing to help judge we would be truly grateful.

The time commitment is approximately 3 hours. This time includes arriving about 45 minutes before the first round that you will judge, going through judge orientation, receiving your ballots, watching the speeches in your assigned room, and then filling out your ballots. There will be plenty of food and beverages to enjoy while you are our judge.

Please consider this opportunity to bless these homeschool speech and debate competitors so that they can get great feedback and grow in their speaking and debate skills. Once you click on the blue "Register Now" button you will be able to see all of the different times slots that are availble. I believe you will be blessed by the speeches you hear and the debates you watch. Please know, you do not have to judge both speech and debate, you may select to only judge speeches or only judge debates, or you may judge both. It's up to you. Just click on the "Register Now" button and sign yourself up.

Here is a short testimonial video from those who have served as Community Judges.

Please click the button to sign up.