Dear Colleagues,
The Durham Academy Speech & Debate team cordially invites you to attend the 8th Annual Cavalier Invitational on January 14th through 16th of 2022.
We will try to offer you and your students not only an outstanding academic competition, but also a pleasant tournament experience. Rest assured the 8th edition of the Cavalier Invitational will be the best installment yet.
Please note the tournament schedule:
- The 8th Annual Cavalier Invitational will be a virtual tournament.
- For this year, the tournament runs Friday through Sunday to allow for a relaxed schedule preventing Zoom fatigue.
- The tournament offers six preliminary rounds in all debate events and four preliminary rounds in all speech events. In debate, we will strive to break all winning records. In speech, we will advance the greatest number of students reasonable.
- Continuation of Junior Varsity & Novice divisions in Lincoln-Douglas Debate & Public Forum Debate.
- Continuation of Policy Debate.
- Designated as a University of Kentucky Tournament of Champions qualifying tournaments at the following levels:
o Public Forum Debate – Quarterfinals
o Lincoln Douglas Debate – Semifinals
o Congressional Debate – All Students in Finals
o Speech Events – varies based on the number of entries; in 2020 we were a qualifier for the students in Finals of HI, DI, DUO, INFO, OI, OO, POI and EXT.
Please read the invitation carefully in that it contains new and important information that will affect all of those attending the tournament.
A common theme of this invitation, based on the language and implicit assumptions therein, is that you are a guest of Durham Academy and its coaching staff and, by attending the tournament, you are agreeing to adhere to our guidelines as a condition of participation in the Cavalier Invitational.
We look forward to welcoming you to our virtual campus!
Thanks,
Crawford Leavoy
Director of Speech & Debate
MacKenna Morris
Student Tournament Director