Welcome to the home page for the 2020 Derryberry Season Opener tournament hosted by Southwest Baptist University on Oct 2-3, 2020 for College students.
Status: Tournament Completed
Dear Forensics Colleagues,
The
Southwest Baptist University forensics program and the Heartland Sigma chapter
of Pi Kappa Delta want to invite you to the Bob R. Derryberry Memorial Season
Opener to be held virtually October 2-3, 2020. The tournament is designed to be
a synchronous online forensics experience using the 8x8 videoconferencing
platform. Pages 3-5 of the invitation have extensive information about using
this platform through the forensicstournament.net website.
Our
tournament offers four preliminary rounds and three elimination rounds of both College
Public Forum and 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 their
resumes to the tournament director via email no later than September 30th
at 5:00p.m. (Central). Those who do not will be ineligible for the final round
(which will be the resume round). Judges and competitors must be entered on the
tournament website no later than 7:00p.m.(Central) on Monday, September 28,
2020.
The
2020 Derryberry offers several nice amenities including…
- A humane competition schedule on both
Friday (debate only) and Saturday (IEs only).
- No participation fees this year and we
lowered some of our base fees. (This is a hard time for the community and
we want to ease everyone’s burden as much as possible.)
- Paper awards for most, but trophies for
quadrathon, debate speaker awards, Bright Young Scholar, and sweepstakes
awards.
- A chance to start the season with the
warm camaraderie fostered by the activity we love!
- New speaker awards in both PF and LD.
- A JV division in LD for the first time.
We
hope that you will join us online in October! Please contact us with any
questions you may have.
Dr. David Bailey Mr. Jordan Compton
Director of Forensics Assistant Director of Forensics
Southwest
Baptist University
Timetable
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Mon 09/28/20 7:00 pm Central
Limit adds, changes, drops to existing schools only (no new schools can register)
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Tue 09/29/20 5:00 pm Central
Drops only (no new entries or changes allowed)
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Wed 09/30/20 5:00 pm Central
Close registration (schools can not edit their registration)