What is Novice Nationals?

Novice Nationals is designed to be a low-key, educational, yet competitive atmosphere. Students who have competed at Novice Nationals have done very well at the national level, placing in elimination rounds at NFA, AFA, and NPDA.

Novice Nationals is open to students in their first year of intercollegiate forensics competition. We use the AFA guidelines for individual events (3 tournaments = 1 semester of eligibility). If you have any questions about eligibility, please contact Dr. Michael Dreher, the tournament director.

2008 Novice Nationals winners

Congratulations to the 2008 national champions from the 26th Novice Nationals:

• Ohio University, sweepstakes champions
• Jill Flauto, Ohio University, pentathalon champion
• Quincy Stott & Emily Wagner from Brigham Young University-Idaho, parliamentary debate champions
• Carson-Newman College, RT champion
• The whole results can be found on the 2008 results page.

Upcoming Novice Nationals

We hope you'll join us for the upcoming tournaments:

• 2009: March 7-9 (date TBA), University of Houston (Dr. Mike Fain, host)
• 2010: Date TBA, Hutchinson Community College (Prof. Andy Kemp, host)
• 2011: Date TBA, Utah Valley State College (Prof. Jason Zeller, host)
• 2012-2013 - University of Indianapolis and Lafayette College (tentative hosts)

Novice Nationals is now in its 27th year. Originally, it was an IE tournament; we've now expanded to include parliamentary debate, NFA Lincoln-Douglas debate and Readers' Theater.