Bon Homme Oral Interp team is excited to host our first competition! Our invitational will be held on Friday, October 25^th. The focus is to allow students to get some rounds in with quality feedback at an inexpensive cost to schools.

The schedule for the tournament will be as follows:

8:15am Schools may begin check-in

8:40am General Meeting(students); dismiss students to find rooms

8:45am General Meeting (coaches and judges)

9:00am Round 1 of all other events

10:00am Round 2 of all other events

11:00am Round 3 of all other events

12:15ish Awards

Students may enter two events—we cannot accommodate triple entries. If a student is entered in RT and another event, it will be very important that they follow the rules when they should perform the RT and the other event.

I will be using Tabroom to schedule and run the tournament. This is also where you will submit your entry. You can go tohttp://bonhommeinterp.tabroom.com/to set up an account and register. You can also have students link to the accounts. We will be blasting out the schedule and it will give you a more in depth look at results after the tournament. Registrations are due by October 23.Fees will be set on October 23 at 4:00 PM. No additions after that and you must pay for all drops after that date. Please make sure you double check your entries. NO STUDENTS WILL BE ADDED AT TOURNAMENT TIME!

If you do not want to register online, you can also e-mail the registration to me at Amy.Humpal@k12.sd.us. Please send those registrations by October 22^nd to allow time to input them. We will be printing out the results as well as having them available online.

The cost for the tournament is $4 for individual entries, $6 for duo, and $15 for Reader’s Theater. You are required to cover 1 judge for every 5 entries.(Please note, each RT or Duo counts as one entry. It is not based on the number of students entered.)This means if you have 2 Duos, 1 RT, 2 HI, and 2 Storytelling (7 total entries), you will need to bring 2 judges. Schools will need to supply their own judges .I can supply a few hired judges at a rate of $80 per judge. Please let me know if you need help with this. If you are bringing an inexperienced judge to fill your roster, please do two things: First, encourage them to watch the NFHS video that the SDHSAA sends out for judges doing the state events. Second, please tell me in the comments for the judge’s preferences. I will try to keep them in the events that are discussed in the video. If you have extra judges, please let me know and I will contact schools in need. If this is an issue, please contact me ahead of time so that we can work something out.

Looking forward to a great Interp season!

-Amy Humpal