<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 2015 Missouri Mule Speech &amp; Debate Tournament!</p> <p>Our tournament will offer solid competition in all <strong>11 AFA-NIET</strong> recognized events. We will also offer debate competition in<strong> Open</strong> and<strong> Novice</strong> divisions of <strong>NPDA, NFA-LD</strong> and new this year -<strong> Public Forum!</strong> We were huge last year with some IE&#39;s going to semis and LD open going to partial double 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;</strong>&nbsp;Our&nbsp;tax ID number is&nbsp;EIN #46-3836498.&nbsp;</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 Dale Carnegie Swing which we will host on Sunday. It offers competiton in all 11 AFA-NIET indivudal events and Open and Novice divisions of NFA-LD. You <strong>MUST</strong> 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. Final fee determinations will be sent out after add/drop on Wednesday night, the 14th of October.</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>