War Eagle Classic
Rogers Heritage High School
1114 South 5th Street
Rogers, AR 72756
Office: 479-631-3579
Mobile: 501-765-3317
eyates@rps.k12.ar.us
The Heritage Debate & Forensics Team is honored and privileged to invite you to the War Eagle Classic
and the War Eagle Classic Jr High Invitational on Friday, November 13th and Saturday, November 14th.
Please register using Joyoftournaments.com. Registration will open on October 23rd and will close
November 6th at 6:00 PM. Sweeps will be calculated using squad efficiency method, and you must
provide one qualified judge for every ten individual event entries and one qualified judge for every
two debate teams. A $10 judging fee will be assessed for uncovered entries, and extra judges are
always welcome! Shortage of judges is always a problem and uncovered entries may be limited.
Students may enter multiple events in a given round, but double-entered policies must be followed, and
rounds will not be extended beyond the scheduled time to accommodate students with multiple
entries. Please encourage your students to be diligent in arriving to their events on time. Refunds will
not be granted if students miss rounds due to multiple entries. There will also be no refunds for
individual events dropped after registration closes. Awards will be given to all finalists in Individual
Events and Debate events, and to the top three entries in group events.
We will provide concessions for students and hospitality for all coaches, judges, and bus drivers. We ask
that you please help support our program by eating from the concessions we provide rather than
bringing outside food. Please inform your students and parents of this request. Also, please inform
your team that food and drinks are not allowed in classrooms or in the auditorium. Please do not arrive
on our campus before 4pm on Friday! Traffic is always an issue in NW Arkansas, especially on a Friday,
so please allow enough time to arrive on our campus for registration so we can do our best to stay on
schedule.
Please review the rule changes and new ACTAA events for 2015-2016 at www.actaa.net. The attached
schedule is tentative with times and IE patterns potentially changing after all entries are received. We
can’t wait to see you all in November!
Thank You,
Eric Yates
Debate & Forensics Coach
Rogers Heritage High School
eyates@rps.k12.ar.us
501-765-3317
War Eagle Tournament Schedule
Friday, November 13, 2014
4:00 PM Registration
4:30
Debate Round One and Pattern A Prelim Round 1 (HI, DI, OO, DUO)
6:00
Debate Round Two
7:00
Pattern A Prelim Round 2
8:00
Debate Round 3
Saturday, November 14, 2014
7:00 AM Registration
7:30
Improv and Extemp Draw
8:00
Pattern B Prelims (Prose, Storytelling, Improv, Extemp, Poetry)
8:00
Jr High IE Prelims (Prose, Poetry, HI, DI, Storytelling, Improv)
10:00
Debate Quarters and Draw for Improv and Extemp Semi finals
10:30
IE Semifinals
12:00 PM Debate Semifinals and Draw for Improv and Extemp Finals
12:30
IE Finals
2:30
Reader’s Theater
3:30
Words and Music
4:30
Awards Ceremony
THIS SCHEDULE IS TENTATIVE, PLEASE WATCH THE POSTERS
Tournament Events
Debate: Senior high debate events include Policy, IPDA, and Public Forum
Junior high debate events include IPDA
Senior high IPDA pool will be limited to the first 40 entries and six entries per school*
Junior high IPDA pool will be limited to the first 60 entries and eight entries per school*
Individual Events: Pattern A Senior high events will have two prelim rounds and include: HI, DI,
DUO and Oratory
Pattern B Senior high events will have one prelim round and include: Extemp (IX and
USX), Improv, Prose, Poetry, and Storytelling
Jr High IEs will all compete in pattern B with a single prelim round and include: Prose,
Poetry, Improv, Storytelling, HI and DI.
Double-Entry Limitations: Students may only enter one draw event (Improv or Extemp).
Students may enter debate and Pattern B events, but they cannot advance in both. In
the event a student advances in debate and are entered in Pattern B prelims, their
coach must inform Tab Room on Saturday morning in which event the student would
prefer to advance.
Group Events: Words and Music and Reader’s Theater will be offered in both Jr and Sr High
categories, and will not conflict with IE or Debate events.
Semifinals and Finals: Postings will be made first in the cafeteria and will have the start time
(not less than 10 minutes after posting) written on the posting. The rounds will last 90
minutes and judges will not wait beyond the round time for double-entered students.
Please plan a way to inform students who might be competing in an out-round in one
event about advancement in another.
*Additional entries may be emailed to eyates@rps.k12.ar.us, and will be entered into the pool
based on judge coverage