SWVAFL #1

NOVEMBER 12

Location: Brookville High School, Lynchburg VA

Schedule:

Judge Burden:

Speech entries & Congress: schools must provide (1) judge for every (5) entries
Debate entries: schools must provide (1) judge for every (2) entries
Schools that do not cover their entries will select entries to drop until the judge burden is covered

Important Details:

Legislation Submission: https://forms.gle/1NiKSB8AZEMv2Kre8
Legislation is due by: November 4, 2026 at 5:00 pm
For this tournament, Speech competitors speakers should be "off book." Students may still compete "on book," but they will automatically rank last in the room. This applies to the use of manuscripts for Original Oratory. The use of two index cards is not considered "on book" for Original Oratory and is allowed in competition.

Extemp Topics:

Congress Topics:

D- Department of Homeland Security

I- NATO

E- The Federal Reserve

V- Transportation & Traffic

Lincoln-Douglas

NSDA November-December Resolution [Resolved: De-extinction is unethical.]

Public Forum

NSDA November-December Resolution [Resolved: European members of NATO should ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.]

Policy

NSDA 2026-27 Policy Topic [Resolved: The United States federal government should establish national health insurance in the United States.]

Parking

Please have students dropped off at the main entrance. Buses, personal vehicles, and school vans may park in the adjacent lot. Drivers are welcome to relax in the hospitality lounge.

Dinner

Dinner will be provided for judges, coaches, and drivers in the judge hospitality lounge.
Students and guests may purchase a dinner ticket upon arrival for $5 (cash only). Your dinner includes two slices of pizza, chips, and a bottle of water. Other refreshments may be available for purchase (cash only).

What to Wear & Bring

Coaches and judges may dress casually.
While individual teams may have their own dress code for competition, SWVAFL does not have a formal dress code ("They're more like guidelines than actual rules."). Student competitors should "dress as though this is important." That can mean different things to different people. Some students may wear a jacket and tie. Others may wear a polo shirt or blouse and slacks. The goal is simply to look professional and neat.
We recommend that students bring a refillable water bottle and a pen/pencil.
Students purchasing dinner should bring $5 in cash. They may elect to bring additional cash for other refreshments that may be sold individually.
Public speakers and Debaters should bring their computer, charger, as well as hard copies of oratory speeches, extemp files, and debate cases. While Extemp and Debate will be allowed access to their computers in rounds (not the internet, just their computer), things happen. It is better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it.
If you decide to work digitally in rounds, all cases/constructives/files should either be printed or downloaded to your computer hard drive PRIOR to coming to the tournament. Hotspot signals are notoriously unreliable in this building, so waiting to download your files until you arrive is not a good choice.

Where do I go? What do I do?

Each school will receive a registration list with their competitor codes upon arrival. Schools with Speech entries will also receive paper ballots for their speakers.
- Speech competitors should fill out their paper ballots with their code and the title of their piece. PLEASE WRITE LEGIBLY.
The student lounge will be the cafeteria. The judge/coach lounge will be the classroom off of the library.
Round assignments (including room numbers) will be posted on the library windows.
Round 1 will begin at 5:15 (approximately)
Round 2 will begin at 6:30 (approximately)

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