Fort Benton High School is pleased and excited to invite you to the FBHS speech, drama, and debate
meet on Saturday, January 18, 2025.

Registration can be done on Tabroom.com at http://fortbenton.tabroom.com Preliminary registration will be
open on November 16th. Due to space and time constraints, no double entry is allowed and you can register
up to three students in each event. I will be limiting this tournament to primarily Northern B/C schools
with a few exceptions. If you are interested in attending our meet and are not in the Northern B/C, please
reach out to me to see if we have room for you – I will do my best to work your team in! Most events will
be limited to one section of 8 entries due to room availability, but I will consider opening a second section
of some events if the need arises. Some events with low numbers will be combined.

No new schools will be allowed after Wednesday, January 8th. Please complete all drops and adds by noon

on Wednesday, January 15th. Please call/text (406) 621-0428 after Wednesday. Check-In will be at Fort
Benton High School main office from 7:30-8:30.

Fees: Entry fees will be $5.00 per slot filled (i.e.a policy debate team will be $10). A list of all entries
and charges will be emailed out by Thursday, January 16th at 6:00 and are also available on the Tabroom
“fees” page. There will be a school (team) fee of $5.00.

All MHSA b/c rules apply. All MHSA b/c events will be offered.

All events will be held at Fort Benton High School. Concessions will be available at the High School
from 11:30 until 2:00 with payments due at the time of purchase. Please note that no tabs will be
allowed.

A full hospitality room will be available to coaches, judges, and drivers in the High School FACS room.

Student commons will be in the lower bleachers of the gym at the high school. Students must wait until
judges are present to enter competition rooms. Finals will have 3 judges and students must wait until all 3
are present to enter the room.

Preliminary rounds are planned for 9:00, 10:30, and noon, with finals at 2 p.m. Extemp draw will begin a
half-hour before the round. Finals will be held for all speech and drama events with awards
(optimistically) at 4:00 in the high school gym. If there are 3 or fewer competitors in any given speech or
drama event, we will hold finals as long as we have judges available. Any debate events with 3 or fewer
entries will be a round robin competition, with no finals. .

We will be tabbing on computers in the high school library using the infamous "Sheets of the North". Sweeps will be split into three; Speech,
Drama, and Debate

PLEASE NOTE: The Lincoln/Douglas Debate and Public Forum Debate will use the
January/February topic.

Any questions or concerns please contact Coach Amy Hanson. We look forward to seeing you and your team!

Coach Amy Hanson
Fort Benton High School
Speech & Drama Head Coach, MS/HS Secretary
(C) 621-0428 (W) 406-622-2200 email: ahanson@fortbenton.k12.mt.us