Competition Day

2026 Competition Dates: TBD (usually we look at the first week of April)

Facility: TBD, but last year we had it at:

 McCutchanville Elementary School

10701 Petersburg Rd, Evansville, IN 47725

Specific Details for the day will be updated for 2026 closer to the competition date. However this is what we've done in the past:

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Arrive & check-in each day 3:45-4:00pm. End time will be 7:30pm each day.

Wednesday, April 9th

Battles 4:30-7:30 with a scheduled break to eat

Thursday, April 10th

Battles ~4:30-5:30, then a break to eat 5:30-6, & 6-6:10pm line up & prepare for celebration

Readers' Celebration 6:00-7:30pm (Families/friends welcome for this portion!!!)

Teams will report 3:45-4:00 and will be directed to where their first battle will begin. A video will be shared afterwards so that family & friends can see the excitement of our Parade of Readers, celebrating all participants. 

Readers' Celebration Details

Parade of Readers at the beginning- teams & coaches parade into gym with any team spirit signs they have.

  T-Shirt Design Contest Judge will present our design winner with an award (pictured below is Kristi Valiant, illustrator from a past competition):

Announce top teams & top 2 teams come to front for awards. Then, they compete in a Readers' Celebration battle on stage.

Our overall message: we hope everyone had fun reading the books and congratulate all of our readers for reading high-quality books and taking time to prepare for the competition!