Welcome to the home page for the 2026 Hub City Swing tournament hosted by University of Southern Mississippi on Oct 2-4, 2026

Status: Tournament Completed
College In Person

EXTEMP AND RADIO DRAW: LAB 101

Revised Saturday Schedule

7:15 IPDA Elim 2

8:30 IPDA Elim 3

9:45 Extemp draw (round 1)

10:00 IE Flight A R1

11:00 IPDA Elim 4

11:30-12 Lunch

11:45 Radio draw (round 1)

12:00 IE Flight B R1

12:00 TIPDA R1

1:30 Extemp draw (round 2)

1:45 IE Flight A R2

1:45 TIPDA R2

3:15 Radio draw (round 2)

3:30 IE Flight B R2

3:30 TIPDA R3

5:00 Extemp Draw (final)

5:15 Finals Flight A + Impromptu Semi-finals

6:00 TIPDA R4

6:45 Radio Draw (final)

7:00 Finals Flight B

ASAP -- Awards

 

TIPDA Prep Spaces

LAB 108 & OMH 105 (Draw will be in OMH 105).

 

Update 9/29: 

Adds, Drops, Changes: As per the invite, schools may make changes (adds, drops, etc.) with no nuissance fee until 10 am (Central Time) on Thursday. As we prepare for large comprehensive tournament, we kindly ask that you EMAIL any entry or judge changes directly to BOTH Paul and myself. You can find our emails below. Of course, you will not be charged nuissance fees if you email us both any changes directly before 10am CST on Thursday. Each change made after 10 am Thursday will incur a charge of 15 dollars per change and each change at registration can incur a charge of 30 dollars per change. So, PLEASE email us changes as soon as you are aware of them. :) 

Judges: If you are a coach or have any TIPDA judge that is not currently entered in the IE pool (or in the judging pool at all), would be able to take an IE ballot or two, and are eligible to judge iE's, please contact us ASAP.  The same goes for programs that have IE judges that would be willing to go into the TIPDA/IPDA out round pool if we cannot use you much for IE's. I always like to ask for volunteers ahead of time so that I can give folks a heads up about upcoming rounds. I am so happy to see healthy entries across IE's and debate for all three days and would be even happier if we could help eachother out :) 

Again, thank you all and I look forward to seeing you this weekend! You can find the email addresses for both Paul & me below 

Abbey 

Abbey Barnes, Tab Director: abarne82@utk.edu
Paul Strait, Tournament Host: l.strait@usm.edu  

Top Novice Awards: 

For IE entries, please use the entry notes feature to note "Novice" for any competitors in their first year of intercollegiate forensics competition.