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January, 2010 Dear Forensic Coach: The Washburn Rural Forensics Squad invites you and your students to the annual WRHS Invitational Forensics Tournament to be held on Friday, February 12th and Saturday, February 13th, 2010. On Friday February 12, we will be offering four rounds of Lincoln Douglas Debate and Public Forum Debate. We will also hold two sessions of Student Congress. We will attempt to generate enough numbers to hold a Senate Chamber. However, if we don’t get a minimum of 16 entered in Senate we will collapse it into the remaining houses. I would like to have at least three house chambers with “C” house being for your novices. Please keep this in mind when you are signing up. On Saturday, February 13th, the tournament will consist of three preliminary rounds of competition followed by a final round to determine placing and State Championship Qualifiers. The events for competition will be: Original Oration, Informative Speaking, Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking, International Extemporaneous Speaking, Impromptu Speaking, Humorous Interpretation, Dramatic Interpretation, Duo Interpretation, and Oral Interpretation. This year we will offer a Junior Varsity division for the events of Extemp, Oration, Informative, Dramatic Interp, and Humorous Interp. Competitors in the Junior Varsity division will be eligible to qualify for State Championship. Please make note that NFL rules will apply to OO, DX, IX, HI, and DI. KSHSAA rules will apply to Oral Interpretation, IMP, and INF. Oral Interpretation will follow an arrangement of Prose 1st round, Poetry 2nd round, and Prose 3rd round. Finals will be Poetry. Any contestant not following that pattern will be disqualified. A concession stand will be offered this year. We will have lunch through the concession stand. There will be a pre-order form in your packet on Saturday morning detailing the menu, or you may choose to travel the mere three miles north on Wanamaker to the vast array of eateries available. For more information about the tournament, please refer to the General Information tab at the top of this page, or contact me via email at owensrob@usd437.net. These are the best options, but if you need a human voice, you may call me at (785) 339-4158. The tournament will be scheduled on February 12th so please make your changes before this date. There will be no refunds after February 11th. Thank you for your time and efforts and we look forward to seeing you in February. Sincerely,
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