Welcome to the home page for the 2019 Derryberry Season Opener tournament hosted by Southwest Baptist University on Oct 4-5, 2019 for College students.
Status: Tournament Completed
Dear Forensics Colleagues,
The
Southwest Baptist University forensics program, the Heartland Sigma chapter of
Pi Kappa Delta, and the Bob R. Derryberry School of Communication Arts want to
invite you to the Bob R. Derryberry Memorial Season Opener to be held on the
campus of SBU October 4th and 5th. We invite you to come
to lovely Bolivar, MO for two days of strong early season competition.
Our
tournament offers four preliminary rounds of College Public Forum and four
rounds of Lincoln Douglas debate on Friday; and all 11 standard AFA individual
events (plus interviewing) on Saturday.
One special note about interviewing.
All competitors in that event will be expected to submit a hard copy of their
resume at registration. Those who do not will be ineligible for the final round
(which will be the resume round).
Our
tournament offers several nice amenities including…
- A humane competition schedule on both Friday and
Saturday.
- A relatively compact campus—no competition
building is more than a brisk five-minute walk from our tournament hub in
the Jester Learning and Performance Center.
- Many hotel accommodations in the
Bolivar/Springfield area.
- A nice selection of local eateries! (For a small
town in Missouri anyway!)
- Lunch provided by the SBU Forensics Program on
Saturday!
- A wide array of individual and sweepstakes
awards!
- Nice trophies!
- A chance to start the season with the warm
camaraderie fostered by the activity we love!
We hope
that you will come and join us in October! Please contact us with any questions
you may have.
Sincerely,
Dr. David Bailey Mr. Jordan Compton
Director of Forensics Assistant Director of Forensics
Southwest
Baptist University