Madison Central Speech and Debate

Twelfth Annual Tournament, the

Madison Central Mid-State Invitational

Dear Speech and Debate Friends and Colleagues:

Please join us for Madison Central's twelfth annual tournament, the Madison Central Mid-State Invitational Tournament, on October 4-5, 2024. We are proud to be a bid tournament for the National Individual Events Tournament of Champions.

Events Offered

In Debate, we offer Novice Public Forum, Varsity Public Forum, Novice Lincoln-Douglas, Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, Policy Debate, Big Questions, World Schools Debate, and Congressional Debate.

Flight A Individual Events are Novice and Varsity Prose, Impromptu, Dramatic Interpretation, Duet Acting, Informative Speaking, and Program Oral Interpretation. We also offer the supplemental event of Expository Speaking for students in tenth grade and lower.

Flight B Individual Events are Novice and Varsity Extemporaneous Speaking, Humorous Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, Novice and Varsity Poetry Interpretation, Declamation and Original Oratory. We also offer the supplemental event of Storytelling for students in tenth grade and lower.

The Mid-State Invitational is proud to offer middle school events for the second time. Middle schoolers may enter any events they choose; however, we will offer middle school-only divisions for Impromptu (Flight A), Dramatic Performance (DI/HI in Flight B), and Public Forum Debate (Friday night/Saturday morning). Middle school events will run concurrent with high school events but will not count for sweepstakes points. Middle school speech events will have two rounds and a final. Middle school public forum will be held on Friday for three rounds, with a final on Saturday morning. Each school may enter up to 10 middle school speech entries and six middle school debate entries.

Tournament Structure

Per the standard for Mississippi tournaments, debate prelims will be held on Friday evening, and all individual events will be held on Saturday. In Debate events (except Congressional Debate and World Schools Debate), quarterfinals, semifinals, and finals will be held on Saturday morning. Congressional Debate Session One and Two will be held on Friday Evening, Finals will be held Saturday morning. World Schools will have four rounds on Friday evening, with the fifth round on Saturday morning and then a break to finals. The MHSAA Fall Bill Book will be used for MC's tournament legislation, with any out-of-state schools sending supplemental legislation to rclapper@madison-schools.com by September 30th. All speech events (except for middle school) will have two preliminary sessions and then break into either semis or finals, depending on entry numbers.

Sweepstakes

Sweepstakes trophies will be awarded to the top school in debate and individual events and the top three schools overall. We will also award a "Top Individual Performer" award to the top Performer at the tournament. All students are only permitted to enter four events TOTAL, either choosing two Flight A’s and two Flight B’s or one debate, one Flight A,and Two Flight B’s.

Registration

Registration for the tournament closes Monday, September 30th at 11:00 p.m. Judge Registration ends Tuesday, October 1st at 11:00 p.m. Judge obligations and entry fees are on the following page.

Topic Areas

Topic areas for events will be posted on Wednesday, September 4th at 9:00 a.m.

Tournament Staff-

Rachel Clapper-Davis: Director of Madison Central Speech & Debate

Sara Sinha: MCHS Speech and Debate President and Student Tournament Director

Alex McDougal: MCHS Speech and Debate Vice-President and Assistant Student Tournament Director

Raine Moncrief: MCHS Speech and Debate Team Manager and Assistant Student Tournament Director