Hello all,

We are excited to host the 3rd Falcon Classic this year in our *NEW* high school! We graciously welcome each and every one of you to attend our tournament. We hope to provide a positive and exciting competition experience.

Note that our NEW high school address is 18701 Jim Line Road, Amarillo, Texas 79124. If you put “Bushland High School” into your maps app, it will take you to our old building! Drive past our old high school (now the current junior high) and turn right after the football stadium onto Jim Line Road. There you will see our new building.

We will be offering the following IE events:

Poetry & Prose (Reader’s choice), HI, DI, POI, OO, INFO, FX, DX, Impromptu, DUO, and DUET

We will also be offering the following debate events:

Lincoln Douglas: TBD: Current NSDA Topic

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

Congress will utilize the TFA docket:

Prelims: 21-25

Finals: 26-30

Entries are due by November 5th at 5:00 pm. Drops must be registered before November 6th at 5:00 pm. Entry fees are $15.00 for IEs, Duo, Duet, and Congress and $20.00 for LD and CX.

The top three schools will be honored for overall sweepstakes. The following is the sweepstakes formula:

IE, DUO, DUET, Congress:

1st - 12 points

2nd - 10 points

3rd - 8 points

4th - 6 points

5th-8th - 4 points

Debate:

12 -1st place

10 - 2nd place

8 - Semis

The Schedule will be as follows:

7:30-8:00 Registration

8:00 am - Rd 1 Pattern A, Rd 1 LD, CX, Congress Prelims

9:45 am - Rd 1 Pattern B

10:00 am - Rd 2 LD, CX

11:30 am - Rd 2 Pattern A

12:00 pm - Rd 3 LD, CX

1:15 pm - Rd 2 Pattern B, Congress Finals

2:30 pm - Semis LD, CX

3:00 pm - Finals Pattern A

4:00 pm - Finals LD

4:30 pm - Finals Pattern B, Finals CX

Pattern A - HI, DX, FX, Poetry, Duet, Impromptu

Pattern B - OO, INFO, DI, POI, Prose, Duo

Please note that our school intends to participate in the TFA initiative that allows students from the host school to compete.

Kelsey Vincent

Bushland Speech and Debate

kelsey.vincent@bushlandisd.net