Cache Classic
2025 — Smithfield, UT/US
Sky View High School is excited to welcome you to our school in beautiful Cache Valley!
Our tournament will be three lovely rounds on Friday, January 24. Join us!!!
Schedule:
Judges' Meeting: 3:00 PM
Round 1 Speech & Debate: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Round 2 Speech & Debate: 5:30 PM-7:30 PM
Round 3 Speech & Debate: 7:30 PM-9:30 PM
Congress Session 1: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Congress Session 2: 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Extemp prep planned to start at the same time as each round (3:30 for Round 1, etc)
Award Planned for 9:45 PM
Fees:
We want to encourage more people to join us up north! In an effort to make that more realistic, we’ve cut our costs. Each event that is individual can be entered at the low price of $3.00. Each partnership will be only $6.00.
Events:
CX, PF, LD, Congress, OO, IMP, INF, NX, FX, Interps (HI, DI, POI, DUO) (in preparation for Speech National Qualifiers, we'll hope to run each interp as a separate event and will combine as necessary – if we have at least 5 entries in one type of interp, we'll run it as its own event)
Students can double-enter into two different speech events. No double-entry allowed if even one of the events is a debate.
Topics:
Congress docket will be uploaded by January 10.
CX will use the 2024-2025 Topic: Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly strengthen its protection of domestic intellectual property rights in copyrights, patents, and/or trademarks.
PF will use the January Topic: Resolved: The African Union should grant diplomatic recognition to the Republic of Somaliland as an independent state.
LD will use the January/February Topic: Resolved: The United States ought to become party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and/or the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
Address:
Sky View High School
520 S 250 E
Smithfield, UT 84335
Students will be able to hang out in the Commons Area. Judges' room will be the library (judges' dinner will be provided there). Tab Room will be in the Career Center Lab, attached to the library. All of these locations are easily accessible through the main doors, located via the circle drive on the west side of the school.
There will be no concessions offered for students at this tournament. Please plan accordingly. A few eateries are a five- to ten-minute walk away (Wendy's, Subway, Domino's, grocery store Lee's).