Highland Community College & College of Lake County jointly invite you to join us for the 2025 Wenzel-Soller Tournament on Friday and Saturday, November 14th and 15th

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Dear Forensics Colleagues, 

The Highland Community College and College of Lake County speech and debate teams are excited to invite you to the Wenzel-Soller Tournament in-person on the Highland Community College campus on Friday and Saturday, November 14th and 15th. This tournament will be a combined debate and individual events tournament, with the debate portion also co-hosted by our friends at the Lincoln Parliamentary Debate League (LPDL).

This tournament is named after three important figures in our respective program histories: Alan Wenzel (of Highland) and Rick Soller and Nedra Adams-Soller (of CLC). We can think of no better way to honor their legacies than by celebrating student voices. We are thrilled to welcome returning students back and to cheer new students along as they begin their forensics experiences this season. 

This is a community college tournament with the caveat that the debate portion is OPEN. This means that, for the IE portion, only  community college students or  four-year university students in their first four semesters of competition are eligible to compete. For the debate portion, any student with college competition eligibility may compete. There will be combined (speech and debate) sweeps (both individual and team) awards given at the IE award ceremony, but only to community college students or any four-year university student in their first four semesters of competition. All debate-only awards will be handed out at a separate awards ceremony on Friday.

Entries are due on forensicstournament.net no later than Tuesday, November 11th at 7:00 PM CST. Information on rules, fees, registration, schedule, etc. can be found below. We look forward to hosting you and your team in November! Please do not hesitate to contact Carolyn (HCC) or Harry (CLC) with questions!