Tournaments cannot happen without parents! Thank you for your commitment! We are grateful for you! Outlined here are the expectatations for parents regarding their children & judging.
Regarding CHILDREN:
- Read the Conduct Expectations link yourself and make sure your children have read and understand the expectations.
- Competitors must have an assigned chaperone. If said chaperone is not a parent, PRIOR WRITTEN APPROVAL from the Tournament Director is required for your competitor to attend WSR. Students without a parent-chaperone or appropriate approval may not be allowed to compete.
- Competitors with approval to compete with a non-parent chaperone must complete a Medical Release Waiver found at this link: https://waiver.smartwaiver.com/v/wsr2025/ The non-parent chapereone needs to have access to this document either digitally or physically for the entirety of the tournament. You will receive a link to download the waiver after it has been filled out. We suggest you download the document and email it to your chaperone.
Regarding JUDGING:
- Every student must have a participating parent/adult judge present at the tournament. You must either be present with your student at WSR, or you must have another adult who can feasibly fulfill all of your judging responsibilities. (See above note on non-parent chaperones.)
- Judging parents are expected to show up at ballot distribution 30 minutes prior TO EVERY ROUND to determine if they are needed in order to get the requisite number of judges per room.
- If a parent judge has a desire to judge a particular round, please be sure to sign up online for that round. Balloting preference WILL BE GIVEN to those judges who sign up prior to the event as opposed to walk-in parent judges.
- Parents are expected to show up to judge the rounds fo which they sign up to judge! Those sign up numbers are used to help us determine when & where we need more community judges. If you are signed up to judge, WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU.
- Parents will be REQUIRED to participate in a check-in process that will be simultaneous to the student check-in. We will be depending on you to come to Ballot Distribution at least 30 minutes before each and every round to check and see if we need you to judge.
*To determine the total number of rounds required for a student or family, all the speech and debate judge requirements are added together. However, we will observe the following caps on judging slots per family: For 1-2 students competing in a family the maximum judge slots will be 15 and for 3 or more students competing in a family the maximum judge slots will be 20.*