2025 Winter Warm-Up
Parrhesia (WA) · Jan 3-4, 2025
Completed
8:23 PM Pacific
Juniors
The Junior Tournament - Rules, Details, and Topics
Cost is $15 for 2 events, a maximum of 2 events.
- Apologetics & Impromptu will be 3 min prep and 4 min speech time
- Apol may choose their topic from the Stoa list and prepare a speech.
- Juniors may use note cards
- Platform or Interp will be a 5-minute speech. No minimum time.
- Relaxed dress code, no jacket required.
- Students 12 years and older may judge these events
- No script submission.
- Junior-only parents are required to judge at least 2 rounds of regular competition.
Tournament Events
Speech Pattern A
- Apologetics Qual
- Dramatic Interpretation Qual
- Duo Interpretation Qual
- Humorous Interpretation Qual
- Mars Hill Qual
- Original Oratory Qual
- Persuasive Qual
Speech Pattern B
- Expository Qual
- Extemporaneous Qual
- Impromptu Qual
- Open Interpretation Qual
- Slam Poetry Qual
Lincoln-Douglas Debate
- Lincoln Douglas Qual
Juniors
- Junior Apologetics Juniors
- Junior Duo Interp Juniors
- Junior Impromptu Juniors
- Junior Interp (HI, DI, OI) Juniors
- Juniors Platform (Expos, OO, Pers, Slam) Juniors
Tournament Timetable
- Community Judge registration will open at 12:00 am Sat 11/30/2024 (Pacific)
- Tournament Status will update to Open at 8:00 am Mon 12/16/2024 (Pacific)
- Tournament Status will update to Drops only at 12:00 pm Mon 12/23/2024 (Pacific)
- Tournament Status will update to Closed at 12:00 pm Mon 12/23/2024 (Pacific)
- Meal registration will close at 12:00 pm Fri 12/27/2024 (Pacific)
- Community Judge registration will close at 12:00 pm Thu 01/02/2025 (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.