Texas Forensic Association
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The Texas Forensic Association (TFA) is an organization to provide competition in speech, debate, and drama for qualified high school Texas students.
The association provides forensics competitions nearly every weekend in Texas for the duration of the forensics season, which lasts from the beginning of the school year (early August) until the end of February. The season culminates to the TFA State Tournament in early March, which takes place at a different Texas high school each year and lasts approximately three days.
The association is among the largest state speech and debate tournaments in the United States. Each year TFA has well over 1,000 qualifications.
The association offers the following events for qualification to the State Tournament: Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking (FX), Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking (DX), Original Oratory (OO), Humorous Interpretation (HI), Dramatic Interpretation (DI), Duet Acting (DA), Duo Interpretation (DUO), Lincoln-Douglas Debate (LD), Policy Debate {Cross Examination: CX}, Student Congress (Stu-Co), and Public Forum Debate ("PFD"). TFA tournaments use the same resolutions as the National Forensic League (NFL) for Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, and C-X (Policy) Debate.
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- TFA held its 2008 State Tournament on March 6th, 7th, and 8th at Coppell High School, Dallas, Texas.
- The 2009 TFA State Tournament was held March 5-7 at Cypress Ranch High School, in Houston, Texas.
- The 2010 TFA State Tournament was held March 10-13, 2010 at Hanks High School in El Paso, Texas.
- The 2011 TFA State Tournament was held March 10-12, 2011 at Flower Mound High School in Flower Mound, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.
- The 2012 TFA State Tournament will be held on March 1-3, 2012 at Amarillo High School in Amarillo, Texas.
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