Running an Asynchronous (Recorded) Events

If you are considering holding speech events asynchronously at your tournament, consider whether Tabroom.com’s asynchronous features can help automate the judging process! Tabroom.com can support events where students have submitted links to a recording of their performance and judges have a period of time to watch and judge those recordings. If you set up your events this way, a judge can log in to Tabroom.com, see their assignments, and click video icons next to each student’s code to watch their videos in order and complete their ballots. This process was used for the online 2020 Middle School Speech Challenge and preliminary rounds of the 2020 National Tournament supplemental speech events.

Asynchronous speech rounds using one recording for the duration of the tournament is a FREE feature offered through Tabroom.com. Tournament directors do not need to purchase NSDA Campus rooms, as Campus is only for live competition.

Tabroom.com’s free asynchronous features do NOT support live viewing of recorded rounds with all round participants, nor does it support multiple recordings for one entry being used throughout the course of a tournament. Both of these things could be accomplished with more manual work on part of the tournament director, but as far as automated features go, Tabroom.com is only set up to allow judges to view static videos for each entry on their own time within a set period.