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For the FIRST TIME Ever,
The OCC Speech & Debate Society Proudly Presents:

The OCC Owl Annual: A Themed Tournament!
(IE, PARLI, IPDA & Worlds Debate)
Oakton Community College – Illinois

Forensic Friends,

Oakton Community College cordially invites you to attend our FIRST annual “OCC Owl Annual” Speech and Debate Tournament on Saturday, February 1st, 2019. THIS IS A THEMED TOURNAMENT with the theme this year being MEMES AND VINES! Come dressed as your favorite meme or vine! We offer open and novice (when warranted) competition in all NFA/AFA events, and BP Debate as our only debate form offering because… let’s try something new! PLUS there will be an experimental/wildcard category of SLAM POETRY. We MAY be swinging with our friends at CLC too but that’s TBD. Meanwhile, we look forward to seeing all of you there!

Tournament Features
Two preliminary rounds and finals of competition in All 11 NFA/AFA-NIET events.
BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY Debate in open and novice divisions as warranted by entry.
SLAM POETRY (SP) as our wildcard event.
Team Sweepstakes awards for the top three teams per division plus debate Team Sweeps.
Quadrathon competition for individual sweepstakes.
Awards for the top six finalists, top novice per event (except novice sections) and top four in Quadrathon.
Unlimited team entry per event & students may triple enter per flight!
Top two Collegiate Slam Poetry Winners will perform alongside select Louder Than a Bomb Young Chicago Authors High School Slam Poets with a DJ during tabulation.

We reserve the right to organize sections to make use of all judges; debate judges for all formats will be combined into one pool. Registration begins at 7:00 am. on Saturday on the DES PLAINES Campus. World’s Debate round I topic announcement begins at 7:40 am., Extemp. draw at 9:00 am. and IE Rounds at 9:30 am. Entries are accepted through SPEECHWIRE by Tuesday, January 28th before 5:00 pm. Please join us as we host our first ever competition in Forensics & Debate. We look forward to seeing you soon!