Qualifying Tournaments
- Competitors may participate in a maximum of five speech events.
- Competitors may only register once per event in each tournament.
- Competitors may not enter the same speech in more than one event for the same tournament; however, the speech may be entered in a different category for a different tournament during the same season.
- Duo Interpretation competitors may not change partners during a tournament but may change partners between tournaments.
Championship TournamentsÂ
- In a Regional Championship, competitors may compete in any event for which they have qualified.
- At the National Championship, competitors who qualify in more than five events may choose up to five events in which they will compete.
- If a speech qualifies to the Regional Championship or the National Championship in more than one event, the competitor must choose only one event in which the piece will be performed at the championship tournament.
- Competitors must perform the same piece that they performed when they earned the invitation to compete at the championship tournament.
- Platform speeches: Minor revisions, such as changing examples, stories, or analytical rhetoric are allowed. The competitor may not go so far as to change the main points of a speech.
- Interpretation Speeches: Minor revisions, such as revising a cutting, are allowed. The competitor may not change the main theme of a speech or take a cut from a different section of a literary selection.
- If a Duo competitor qualifies for championship competition with different partners during the competitive season the competitor may only compete with one of them at the championship tournament.
