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Starting Your Team
Tournaments - Registration
Introduction
Registration for tournaments is done through Speechwire. For each tournament, debaters and judges can be added through a school account maintained by the head coach. On the day of the tournament, Speechwire will be used to release pairings for each round, which will be available at live.speechwire.com.
Speechwire AccountS
A school account is required to register for tournaments. The first step is to check if an account already exists for your school and create one if it does not.
Go to speechwire.com/login.
Click on “Create account” and select your school’s state, then click on “Next step”.
On the next page, there will be a dropdown menu with all schools with pre-existing Speechwire accounts
If an account exists for your school but you are unable to change the account information for some reason, click “Cancel” and email account@speechwire.com to let them know what the correct current head coach information (name, email, school/team name) should be.
If an account does NOT exist for your school, fill in the school name, account type (likely school), and account level (middle or high school), then click on “Next step”
The next page will ask for your name and email and require the completion of a Captcha test. Once you have finished these, click “Create account” and the password will be sent to the provided email.
Students will also need Speechwire accounts before the day of the tournament. To create student accounts:
Log in to the school Speechwire account at speechwire.com/login.
Click on “Team roster” under “Head coach tools”.
Provide the student’s name, name pronunciation (optional), and an email address, then click “Add member”.
An account activation link will be sent to the provided email; make sure students know to activate their accounts!
Tournament Registration
To register students:
Log in to the school Speechwire account at speechwire.com/login.
Click on “Tournament registration” under “Head coach tools”.
Find the AUDL tournament (it will be named and have its date provided) and click “Register”.
If you do not already see the AUDL tournament listed under “My Tournaments”, click on “View open tournaments” and find it in the given list.
Click on “Will you attend?” and confirm, then click on “Submit your entries now”.
Click on the “Add entry” button next to the event (policy or public forum).
For a two-person team, provide the names of each debater and their division.
Repeat until you have entries for each team that will be competing in the tournament.
Click “Update entries” and then “Return to tournament home page” after adding entries for all competing students.
To register judges:
Click on “Update your judges” under “Tournament registration”.
Enter the number of judges to register for your school and click “Add judges”.
Enter information about the judges your school will provide and then click “Save changes”.
To register a judge, you MUST enter an email. It is essential for judges to be connected to the correct account both for check-in at the tournament and to submit ballots!