Limited prep events require that students prepare their response to a question or prompt distributed at the tournament for each round. The draw time is when students select their topic

Hand signals showing how much time a competitor has left to speak in a limited preparation or debate event

Just prior to the introduction, a brief selection from the piece, which grabs the audience’s attention

When a individual performer suddenly changes characters when performing an Interp event

Entered in more than one event in a pattern

To take only selected sections from a literary piece, to cut to meet time limits or to cut inappropriate material

Another word for “event,” referring to a specific contest

The order contestants are listed on the schematic for each round is the order in which those students should present

Literary selection (title and author) performed in interpretation events. It’s good practice that students find quality works of literature from printed, published materials that are credible and insightful

Different groups of events

Form where judges write specific, constructive comments