Welcome to the 33rd Annual Griffin Invitational!

  Please check here for all updates and updated documents.

Check below for Prep Rooms for NPDA & IPDA when we have them.

Food:  We will be selling pizza's, snacks, water and soda's throughout the tournament.  Coaches, you can order pizza's for your team. Please order pizza's for your students by Thursday, Nov. 13th.  Contact Michael McHan with your order:  michael.mchan@gcccd.edu.

Judges Room:   we will have an assortment of food, coffee, soda's and lunches in Griffin Gate both days.  Please come by and relax in our judges room during your off rounds.

Impromptu Judges:  Remember to come to Griffin Gate to get the topics.

Extemp Prep:  31-112

IPDA Strikes:  100-120A

Parking:  There are no parking fees on weekends.  Use Lot 7 or the Parking Struture #56.  Please do not park in any staff parking space.

Grossmont Map:  https://www.grossmont.edu/visit-grossmont/grossmont-maps-and-directions.phpe ann

Impromptu Style:  3 Quotations for rounds 1 and 2, Fortune Cookies for Final Rounds.

NPDA (Parli)

Competitors, Coaches and Judges please read and share in rounds for clarification:

Change from the original invitation:  NPDA will have a mass topic announce in the Student Center, not in individual rooms.

We are following PSCFA (Pacific Southwest Collegiate Forensics Association) rules that were recently established ( 9/7/2025)  These rules will be followed at Fall Champs, so this is a good place to start practicing them.

1. NPDA NO coaching allowed.

2. NPDA no "flex time".  Utilize "points of information" during constructive speeches.  First minute and last are protected.  POI's not allowed during rebuttals, only points of order.

      Times are:   PM 7 minutes, LO 8 minutes, MG 8 minutes, MO 8 minutes,

                           LOR:  4 minutes, PMR: 5 minutes.

3. Rate of Speech in Debate:  Rate of speech in debate rounds should not have a deleterious impact on other students ability to engage in the activity.  Violations of this principle may result in the loss of the round in which the violation occurs.

IPDA Guideline reminders:

1. Coaching is allowed

2. You are not allowed to use cell phones for timing or any other purpose when in the round.

IPDA Prep Rooms 

100 106 Concordia Irvine

100 110 El Camino

100 114  Maricopa

100 115 Palomar

100 116 Pt. Loma

100 117 Rio Hondo

100 123A Saddleback

100 123B SDSU

100 125 UC Santa Barbara

100 126 Grand Canyon

100 127 Northern Arizona

100 128 Chaffey College

24 263 Grossmont 

100 130 UC San Diego

16 100 Mt. San Antonio College

ounced in the Student Center for each round.