Pre-Tournament Setup
- Choose the events that occur at your tournament, determine deadlines, and create the invitation. Most of the invitation is automatically generated based on your choices for events, deadlines, etc. This includes instructions for schools to register online.
Registration
- Tournament attendees are responsible for submitting their online registration form. This includes the number of entries in each event, how many judges they are bringing, and the fees they owe.
- Once a team has registered, they can submit adds and drops via the online registration tool. This eliminates any miscommunications, and automates the add/drop process!
Scheduling
- Schedule your tournament with our "Fair-Play" algorithm, ensuring contestants are on a level playing field with no favorites! Unless impossible, contestants from the same school will not be scheduled in the same round, and contestants will see different competition throughout the day.
- Scheduling can automatically assign rooms for each section, or you can choose to manually assign rooms through our easy-to-use room scheduler.
- Notifies you if your event should be "flighted" (when there isn't enough room in your facility to run every section concurrently.
- Judges are automatically assigned to sections, with the software ensuring that judges are not judging one school more than others.
Tabulation
- Tab room coaches are responsible for entering scores via a secure website - and all scores are logged and can be traced back to tab room personnel to ensure accountability.
- Semi-finals/finals are automatically generated and order drawn, with judges assigned either automatically or manually.
- Novice/varsity finals support.
- "Best Novice" support.
- All scores are secure and stored on our web servers with a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
Printing
SpeechEase automatically generates the tedious paperwork to save you, on average, 15 hours
for mid-size tournaments! Print-outs include:
- Schematics for contestants
- Schematics for check-in table
- Room signs (events occurring in that room at each time.)
- Contestant code sheets
- Judge assignment sheets
- Judges' ballots! (listing room number, time, and contestants!)
- Tab sheets
- Awards assembly script
- Master room assignment list
- Master judge assignment list
Step-by-Step Instructions
- Never get lost or confused when you're managing your tournament - easy checklists and step-by-step instructions are on EVERY page - ensuring that your tournament runs smoothly and on-time!
Continual Development
- See an improvement that we could make, or a report that you need? We'll write custom improvements just for your tournament if time and resources permit! Also, there's NO software to install -- SpeechEase is completely web-based -- so your tournament can be managed from any web-enabled computer!
Ordering
- Continue to our ordering page to obtain instructions on how to unlock tournament creation.
- If you have any questions, please use the ordering form's comments field. Make sure to provide a valid email address for our reply! We will get back to you ASAP.