<p>Welcome to the home page for the 2017&nbsp;Dale Carnegie Swing Speech &amp; Debate Tournament tournament hosted by The University of Central Missouri &nbsp;on Oct 22, 2017.</p> <p>The coaching staff and competitors of the &quot;Talking Mules&quot; Speech &amp; Debate Team are excited to serve as your host for the 2017&nbsp;Dale Carnegie&nbsp;Swing Speech &amp; Debate Tournament!</p> <p>Our tournament will offer solid competition in all&nbsp;<strong>11 AFA-NIET</strong>&nbsp;recognized events. We will also offer debate competition in<strong>&nbsp;Open</strong>&nbsp;and<strong>Novice</strong>&nbsp;divisions of<strong>&nbsp;NFA-LD.</strong>&nbsp;We were huge last year with some IE&#39;s going to semis and Open LD open going to&nbsp;Octos. If all indications are valid, we should be even bigger this year!</p> <p>As such, please get your entries in early. There are not a wealth of judges for hire and they tend to go quickly. We&#39;d hate to turn away entries due to a lack of qualified judges. Hotel rooms may also be tight this year. Reserve them early. If you need further suggestions, please contact me directly at rogers@ucmo.edu.</p> <p><strong>Please make checks payable to: UCMO Forensics.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our&nbsp;tax ID number is&nbsp;EIN #46-3836498. &nbsp;If you are attending both halves of the swing you may write one check to cover fees for both tournaments.</strong></p> <p>For our tournament, Novice in all divisions of debate is defined as not more than 2 semesters of debate experience in high school or college.</p> <p>We are linked to the Missouri Mule Speech &amp; Debate Swing Tournament&nbsp;&nbsp;which we will host on Friday &amp; Saturday, October 20-21. It offers competiton in all 11 AFA-NIET indivudal events and Open and Novice divisions of NFA-LD, NPDA, and Public Forum. You&nbsp;<strong>MUST</strong>&nbsp;enter both tournaments on this website to compete in both. Fees are collected separately for each individual tournament. A word about fees: the calaculation of fees on this website is a general estimate. Entries are due on Monday, October 16th by 5:00 p.m. CST. Final fee determinations will be assessed on your entry as it stands at 5:00 p.m. CST on Tuesday, October 17th.</p> <p><strong>We will encourage, but not require all LD participants to post their new Affirmative cases to the WikiSpaces run by Shanna Carlson. We will allow WiFi access during extempt prep, but cannot guarantee access to all. It is available on a public WiFi run by the University, but we cannot guarantee it will always work seamlessly or be available consistently.</strong></p> <h2>Tournament Documents</h2>