The Eaton and Palisades fires have left many student communities in Los Angeles County facing significant challenges. In response, California's student speech and debate community is hosting this tournament to raise funds and awareness. Our goal is to support these communities as they rebuild and recover with the help of nationally-ranked judges, student tab staff, and student competitors like YOU!

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This tournament is available to anyone regardless of age and location who wishes to compete in Congress, Extemp, and Impromptu.

To register, fill out THIS FORM: https://forms.gle/tk6zGKBdVT2U1qjZ9 & provide the email associated with your Tabroom account & desired event. If you would like to drop an entry, please emailsshriya215@gmail.com

The schedules of the scrimmage (more details on the right hand side of this page):

•CONGRESS: Please join the provided Zoom link at 8:00 AM PST, round will start at 8:30 AM PST.

•EXTEMP: A 30-minute preparation period shall be at 8:00 AM PST, first speaker draw time will be at 8:30 AM PST.

• IMPROMPTU: Please join the provided Zoom link at 8:45 AM PST, first speaker draw time will be at 9:00 AM PST.

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Congress will have three to four pieces of legislation that will be available on the right-hand side of this tournament by April 5th.

Elimination-round legislation will be directly related to the California wildfires. Preliminary legislation will be bills from TOC 2025.

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No judge requirement when signing up, we offer judges who have lots of experience at the national level.

Zoom links will come out 60 minutes before the round in your email.

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Donations are encouraged and optional.

Donations can go on the same registration Google Form (you may fill it out multiple times - don't sweat it!)

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The objective of Equality in Forensics is to provide free, online debate opportunities to make speech and debate more accessible to high school students across America.Read more about our mission here.

We will follow the National Speech & Debate Association (NSDA) standard procedure and rules. Rounds will be held in Zoom rooms.

For tournament inquiries, please email sshriya215@gmail.com

For organizational inquiries, you can contact Equality in Forensics through our email equalityinforensics@gmail.com

Additionally, you can join our community and contact us directly on ourDiscord server. (JOIN OUR CHAPTER IF YOU'RE IN CALIFORNIA!!)

Since our founding, we have created free resources valued at up to $311,000 and have an awesome community of 2000+ individuals.

Some of our resources are on the right side of this webpage.

We are excited to host this tournament to demonstrate the impact of online speech & debate, exercise our values of accessibility and equality, and display the power of student initiative. See you there!

- the Students of California Equality in Forensics

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Useful links:

https://www.equalityinforensics.org/

Instagram: @equalityinforensics

Facebook: @equalityinforensics

TikTok: @equalityinforensics

YouTube: @equalityinforensics