<p>The forensics teams of Marshall University and the University of Kentucky, the West Virginia Beta Chapter and the Kentucky Nu Chapter of Pi Kappa Delta cordially invite you to attend the Hatfield and McCoy Comprehensive Invitational Swing Tournament to be held on the campus of Marshall University in Huntington, WV, on February 9-11, 2018.</p> <p>The tournament will feature all ten NFA individual events, AFA program oral interpretation, broadcasting, improv duo, NPDA parliamentary debate, and IPDA public debate. We will offer 2 preliminary rounds of competition in all individual events. All debate events will offer four rounds of competition with the appropriate number of elimination rounds. Novice divisions and semifinal rounds will be offered if warranted by the number of entries in each event. In events where no novice round is warranted the top novice will be recognized.</p> <p>Students will be allowed to cross enter between debate and IE with some limitations.&nbsp;</p> <p>Awards will be presented to all elimination round participants as well as the top speakers in debate and the top competitors entered in quadrathlon. Sweepstakes will be awarded to the top five teams in individual events, debate, and combined. The top Pi Kappa Delta Chapter and top Sweepstakes will be recognized for the top teams at both halves of the Swing. We will also offer the same hospitality you&rsquo;ve come to expect at a tournament hosted by both schools at a nominal fee.</p> <p>The deadline will be 5:00 pm, Tuesday, February 6, 2018. The complete invitation is included below.&nbsp;Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have.<br /> <br /> Tournament Director - Timothy Bill, Director of Forensics @ the University of Kentucky [timothy.bill@uky.edu]<br /> Local Host - Clara Adkins, Director of Forensics @ Marshall University [adkins442@marshall.edu]</p>