Welcome to the home page for the 2025 DVC Viking Middle School Winterfest tournament hosted by Diablo Valley College on Feb 8, 2025 for Middle School students.
Status: Accepting Entries
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Invitation Version 1.0
Coaches & Competitors,
You are invited to the inaugural DVC Viking Middle School Winterfest. We look forward to welcoming competitors, coaches, and judges in person for years to come! Our goal is to host an event featuring a schedule that we think offers competitive rigor while also prioritizing the wellness of students, coaches, and judges who give their time to this activity that has so much to offer its participants.
In addition to our experience annually hosting our college tournament, DVC served as the hosts for the California Community College State Championship Tournament in 2024, so we are fully prepared to run a quality event. We believe that speech and debate is a vehicle for students to develop their research, communication, and advocacy skills and to be able to identify and engage with the problems facing both the world and their communities. We also believe this does not have to sacrifice the quality of a competitive and, more importantly, fun experience.
The tournament will take place February 8th 2025, at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California.
If you have any suggestions, comments, or recommendations to help us improve the tournament or have questions you would like clarified, please feel free to reach out to us. We look forward to seeing you and your team and wish you the best of luck!
Sincerely,
Tournament Co-Director
Paul Villa
Co-Director of Forensics
Contact: pvilla@dvc.edu
Tournament Co-Director
Robert Hawkins
Co-Director of Forensics
Contact: rhawkins@dvc.edu
Location:
We will be hosting the tournament at Diablo Valley College located at 321 Golf Club Rd, Pleasant Hill, CA 94523.
Events:
Debate
Lincoln Douglas (LD)
Congress (CHSSA)
Sontaneous Arugmentation (SPAR)
Public Forum (PF)
Speech
Declamation (DEC)
Dramatic Interp (DI)
Duo Interp (DUO)
Humorous Interp (HI)
Impromptu (IMP)
Informative (INFO)
Extemp (EXT)
Storytelling (STO)
Original Oratory (OO)
The DVC Viking Invitational is an OPEN MIDDLE SCHOOL competition in all events. Coaches must only enter students who are competing at the middle school level in their events.
Tournament Schedule