In order to compete at this tournament:

• You must have paid the $200 team dues to the boosters

• Be sure you have turned in your Tournament APS Permission Packet or you will not be able to compete/attend. 

LIVE Speech & LIVE Debate

You may only single entry

Students who enter Springboards MUST provide a judge to participate.

Students must have paid team dues and turned in the APS Permission packet to participate.

Links

Student Sign Up - DUE: Mar 6

Judge Sign Up - NOTE: All judges must complete the Intro to Impartial Judging Course.

Tabroom Link

Details

Debate:

• All debate will be held live on NSDA Campus - accessed through Tabroom.

• Congress, Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, Public Forum, Big Questions, and World Schools will be offered. No double entry is permitted. 

• Each debate event will have two divisions: an open division that anyone can enter, and a rising stars division that is limited to any middle school competitor and any high school competitor in their first year of speech and debate competition.

• Congress will do one two-hour session, and all other events will do one preset preliminary round.

Speech:

• Speech events will have two divisions: an open division that anyone can enter, and a rising stars division that is limited to any middle school competitor and any high school competitor in their first year of speech and debate competition.

• Live speech scrimmages will offer Dramatic Interp, Humorous Interp, Program Oral Interp, Original Oratory, Informative Speaking, Prose, Poetry, Mixed Extemp, and Live Duo (competitors must perform in the same physical room).

• Prose and Poetry will use a 7 minute time limit with a 30 second grace period.

• No double entry is permitted in live speech events.

Schedule

• LIVE Speech & Debate is Online and Live at begins @ 5:00 pm. It will be accessed through Tabroom.

• LIVE Congressional Debate is Online and Live and runs 5:00-7:00pm. It will be accessed through Tabroom.

Topics

• World Schools: TBD - Check the Springboard 18 topics page of Tabroom

• Congressional Debate: Congress legislation will be on the Tabroom page two weeks before the Tournament

• Public Forum: PF will use the March NSDA topic.

• Lincoln-Douglas: LD (both divisions) will use the March/April NSDA topic. This scrimmage will not use the novice LD topic.

• Policy: Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly strengthen its protection of domestic intellectual property rights in copyrights, patents, and/or trademarks.

• Big Questions: BQ will use the Revised 2025-26 NSDA topic.

• Extemp: Competitors will receive three questions that are a mix of international and domestic topics.

For more information, please visit the NSDA Current Topics webpage.