In order to sign up you will need a Tabroom.com account that includes your phone number, should the District Tournament Staff need to contact you regarding a ballot or round during the Tournament.

All Judges are expected to complete some training. Each one is about 15 minutes long, once the training is complete it will show in Tabroom.com

• Judge Sign up

• NSDA Accreditation Training Modules Link

  • Judges are asked to complete two/three NSDA judge accreditation modules (When creating an account at speechanddebate.org, please use the same email address as your tabroom account. This will automatically upload your judge accreditation modules as viewable on tabroom.com) 

    • • Introduction to Impartial Judging (~15 minutes), 

      • Level 1 module of whichever types of events they will be judging, if you have completed these in the past you do not need to repeat them again:

        • • Introduction to Judging Speech

          • Introduction to Judging Debate

          • Introduction to Judging Congress

• Districts Information Page 

The NMSDA District National Qualifier Tournament ("District" or "Nat Quals") is held to determine who will compete at the NSDA National Tournament. The top 2 competitors in each event in Speech and Debate will qualify to attend the National Competition held in June. 

1. In order to compete, students must be in High School (REQUIRED TO COMPETE)

2. Have a minimum of 25 NSDA merit points, at least 10 of which must be from competition. (REQUIRED TO COMPETE)

3. Must have paid the $200 team dues to the boosters!!

4. Turned in your Tournament APS Permission Packet or you will not be able to compete/attend.

5. Student and, at least, 1 parent must attend the LCHS District National Qualifier Tournament Interest Meeting on March 4 @ 7:00pm in the Library. This includes any qualifiers from the District Congress Tournament and those who desire to be considered alternates for Congress. Exceptions must be approved by the Head Coach prior to the meeting.

6. While students may compete at multiple events at the Qualifier Tournament, No student may qualify for the National Tournament in more than one event.

7. Fill out and submit a Single Entry Letter of Intent indicating, should they qualify in more than one event, the order of preference for which event they would like to compete at Nationals.

8. All students who enter the National Qualifier Tournament MUST plan to attend Nationals. An approximately 1-week grace period following Nat Quals will be given to confirm the entry. 

9. All students who enter BQ, due to the heavy judge burden, must also plan to provide a judge for Nationals. 

10. All qualifying students from La Cueva High School will prepare the event they qualified in AND a supplemental event to be entered if they do not break into elimination rounds. Please refer to our Supplementals Page for more information regarding events available.

11. All qualifying students from La Cueva High School will need to assist with finding judges to cover our qualifying judge burden within that week time period. If we cannot cover the judge burden, some entries will have to be dropped.

12. All qualifying students must have required fees paid prior to the tournament. Any adaptation requests to the payment schedule must go through the Boosters.

13. Any competitor who withdraws after committing to attend Nationals will forfeit entry in the following year's National Qualifier and potentially any further entry during their HS career, per the LCHS coaches' rules.

FEES - Due 

$10/Student/Entry

Payment Instructions

Fees are non-refundable after-