Dear Coaches and Competitors,

The Newcastle High School Forensics Team hopes that you are enjoying the Speech and Debate Season. It is getting close to that time of year again, time for the annual Newcastle Dogie Apocolypse, and we would like to cordially invite you. This year we will be holding our tournament on the13t^h and 14^th of Janurary. Registration is at the Joy of Tournaments web site (www.joyoftournaments.com) There is additional tournament information at the  website as well.

There is no school that day so registration will be from 11:00 am - 11:30 am. The tournament will begin at noon.

The tournament will consist of four rounds of the HOPE pattern, four rounds of the D pattern, a semi’s and a finals round. If needed there will be quater finals for debate. The HOPE pattern will consist of Humor, Poetry, Oratory, Extemp, and Congress. The D pattern will consist of LD, Varsity CX, Congress, Duet, Drama and Public Forum debate. All events are considered Varsity. We will award trophies for the top three places in each event, certificates for the next three places.

Student Congress Note: Please submitt student congress legislation to Coach Andi Peterson through email address  starpitt@yahoo.com no latter than Janurary 9^th so that legislation can be posted for all teams. Extremely late legislation or unduly frivolous legislate may not be allowed at our tournament.

It will be a great help if preliminary entries could be entered by Janurary 6^th. The website registration will close Friday, Janurary 13th. Only drops will be allowed after that time and must be done with Coach Andi by phone 307-949-0073.
Please take note that some of our judges may be lay judges. We appreciate the fact that our judges take time out of their schedules to volunteer and do our team a favor every year. We hope that you will keep this in mind and remember that without them our meet would not be possible. We would also like you to keep in mind that we sometimes have a shortage in judges, so any extra help in the judging area is welcome.

Entries this year will be done online at the Joy of Tournaments web site (www.joyoftournaments.com)

We have been doing lots of planning and come up with some unique ideas for our tournament. We hope to see everyone there and wish all competitors the best of luck.

Contact Info                                                                                                                

Andi Peterson                                      

Newcastle High School                    

116 Casper Ave.                             

email starpitt@yahoo.com Phone (307) 949-0073