Dear Colleagues,

Welcome the 4th and final offering of the 2024 Georgia Speech Series. The Georgia Speech Series exists to grow speech events in Georgia and provide accessible well-run competitions for the rest of the country. The competition is subsidized in part by proceeds from the Ivy Street Invitational.

FEES

The Georgia Speech Series is designed to offer FREE opportunities for individual events in Georgia in an effort to grow these events. Out of state schools are welcome to participate but will be charged a fee of $5 per entry that must be paid prior to competing in the tournament.

EVENT RULES

We will default to GFCA rules for all events unless specified on the event page.

JUDGING OBLIGATIONS

Regardless of geography, all schools will be asked to enter judges to cover entries – you will owe 1 round of judging for every 1 entry. This is your preliminary round commitment and does not include a final round placement. It is important to understand that each round of judging will require about one hour fifteen minutes of watching students and providing feedback. We recommend that each judge fulfill 2 or 3 rounds, but do not want to limit it in case you have folks who can judge more.

In an effort to produce high quality feedback, judges will have 48+ hours to adjudicate rounds from students. We ask that schools enter head coaches and qualified judges (or alumni) to help judge rounds.

If you would like to hire judging, you can hire for $20/round.

DEADLINES/SCHEDULE

Wednesday, 12/4 at 8:00am EST– Limited Prep Topics will be posted
Wednesday, 12/18 at 5:00pm EST – Entries and Judges Names are due and fees are frozen. Recordings will be due via Tabroom. Any entry without a recording will be dropped at this time but still charged towards the schools entry fees.
Wednesday, 12/18 at 8:00pm EST– Preliminary rounds will be released
Friday, 12/20 at 7:00pm EST– Preliminary rounds are due
Friday, 12/20 at 9:00pm EST– If necessary, Elimination Rounds are posted
Sunday, 12/22 at 11:00am EST– Elimination Rounds are due
Sunday, 12/22 by 2:00pm EST– Results will be released

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask or email us.

Jeffrey Miller & Abby Schirmer
Marist School