February 22-23th, 2025 | Online NSDA Campus | Contact: evhs.sd@gmail.com

The Evergreen Valley Speech and Debate Team wholeheartedly welcomes you to the Evergreen Invitational! We’re incredibly excited to host this tournament and strive to create an amazing tournament experience for all events and skill levels.

Evergreen Invitational Invite (Please note that this is a live document and subject to change, so you should check back for updates)

Open and Novice Debate General Information

• In debate, we offer 5 preliminary rounds and will break to double-octofinals in each event, assuming the number of entries warrants this.

• Based on entries, Debate Prelims and Elim 1 will be double-flighted. Elim 2 and beyond will be single-flighted.

• Tie-breakers for debate elimination rounds will be win-loss record, opponent seed, and head-to-head. There will not be speaker points in debate events.

• We will break brackets based on school affiliation.

Novice Speech General Information

• In speech, we offer 3 prelim rounds and will break to semifinals in each event, assuming the number of entries warrants this.

• Speech Prelims and Elimination Rounds will be single flighted

• Cross Entry in Speech Events is permitted in up to TWO EVENT, however, please note that competitors must notify their judges in order to make this possible. This also means that competitors that cross-entry do so at their own risk as speaking order may not always be able to accommodate.

• Double-entry in speech and debate events is not permitted as the schedule does not allow for it.

Novice Eligibility

• In order to compete in the Novice division, competitors must not have competed in the previous academic year, broken to elimination rounds at 3 or more tournaments in Novice, or broken to elimination rounds in open at any tournaments

• Middle-schoolers are welcome if they fit the novice criteria for debate

• All Middle-schoolers are welcome for novice speech