Greetings Speech and Debate coaches, Judges and Participants!
It is my utmost pleasure, on behalf of the International Bilingual School at Tainan Science Park (IBST), to invite you to 2025 Nanke Invitational Forensics Tournament (NIFTy).
We here at IBST are excited to make this year’s NIFTy tournament bigger and better than
ever! As always, that starts and ends with the commitment and participation from all of you! It is because of all of your hard work and dedication that NIFTy continues to be one of the premier speeches and debate tournaments on the island.
We hope you will join us on Saturday March 22nd and Sunday March 23rd for a
weekend of great debate, speech, food, and fun!
This year’s tournament will include multiple individual and partner speech events, as well as Modified World School Parliamentary Debate. Schools may submit teams of students
competing from middle school and above.
Speech participants must pay a tournament fee of $800 NT while Debate participants must
pay a tournament fee of $1000 NT which will cover the cost of Lunch on both Saturday and Sunday, as well as all trophies, medals, and judges’ appreciation. While teams can be submitted through online application form as soon as possible, fee payment can be made in cash after arriving at IBST on Saturday, March 22nd.
In addition, schools must provide one judge for two debate teams or one judge for every team of 5 speech competitors (See Section C for Judge requirements). Otherwise, schools must provide an additional fee of 1000NT per missing judge.
Speech competitors will NOT be able to compete in Debate due to schedule conflicts. ALL
SPEECHES AND PERFORMANCES MUST BE ORIGINAL WORKS. Speech events include Duo Interpretation, Impromptu Speaking, and Editorial Commentary. Grade 7-9 will be considered as Junior Varsity (JV) and Grade 10-12 will be considered as Varsity. (see Attachment 1)
Debate: If the participant is competing in Debate, then the participant can NOT compete in
speech events due to schedule conflicts. Debate will be divided into Novice and Open debaters.
(see Attachment 2)
More information can be found at ibst_nifty at instagram