You and your squad are cordially invited to attend the 2025 College of DuPage Frank-ly Paine-ful Speaking Tournament, named in honor of former Directors of Forensics – Frank Tourangeau (College of DuPage) and Richard Paine (North Central College). This year’s tournament will be held IN PERSON January 17th and 18th, 2025 and we’re back to swinging with North Central College who will be hosting on their campus an IE only tournament, Sunday January 19th, 2025.

We will offer IPDA Debate and 11 individual events following Phi Rho Pi guidelines for both halves of the Individual Events swing. You can register for the tournament on Forensicstournament.net.

Please pay special attention to the Phi Rho Pi event descriptions.

College of DuPage will be hosting its IPDA debate tournament on (IN PERSON) Friday with the IE portion on Saturday.  If entries allow, we are dedicated to holding community college division finals in addition to the open finals. 

Awesomely, we are back to co-hosting with North Central College, but unlike previous years we will be hosting the Sunday Portion on NCC’s campus in neighboring Naperville, IL.

Sincerely,

Kacy Abeln, Director of Forensics, College of DuPage

Brandon Wood, Director of Individual Events/Tournament Director, College of DuPage

John Stanley, Director of Forensics, North Central College