LO traveled down to Eugene for the U of O’s annual debate tournament. Although the sweepstakes calculation methods (for overall awards) did not include debate teams in finals, LOHS took 5th overall in debate and 4th overall in the tournament. This was thanks to:

Debate
Second Varsity Parliamentary – Ammas Tanveer and Max Groznik (1st seed)
Semifinalists Varsity Policy – Daniel Hong and Andrew Samuelson (2nd seed)
Semifinalists Varsity Parliamentary – Robert Xu and Chris Beltrone (2nd seed)
Quarterfinalists Varsity Parliamentary – Shannon Fender and Joel Kwartler (4th seed)
Semifinalists Junior Public Forum – Marcus Avery and Sarah Kwartler (7th seed)

Individual Events
First Varsity After Dinner Speaking – Joel Kwartler
First Varsity Dual Interpretation – Joel Kwartler and Hannah Lewman
Third Varsity Extemporaneous – Max Groznik
Third Varsity Impromptu – Sarah Kwartler
Fourth Varsity Humorous Interpretation – Joel Kwartler
Seventh Varsity Humorous Interpretation – Sarah Kwartler

Speaking Awards
First Varsity Parliamentary – Ammas Tanveer
Second Varsity Parliamentary – Max Groznik
Third Varsity Parliamentary – Shannon Fender
Third Varsity Policy – Andrew Samuelson
Eighth Varsity Policy – Daniel Hong
Tenth Varsity Policy – Sanders Li
Fourth Junior Public Forum – Sarah Kwartler

Of particular note, LO had 3 of the top 8 parli teams and the top 3 parli speakers.

LOHS took 11 people down to Stanford for their annual tournament.

Out of 180 parliamentary debate teams competing, LOHS’ Robert Xu and Chris Beltrone finished as Octafinalists, while Shannon Fender and Joel Kwartler finished as Double-Octafinalists.

LO took 1st overall in sweepstakes at the tournament, with around 23% of all debate sweepstakes points. We took 1st overall in debate sweepstakes and 3rd overall in IE sweepstakes. This was thanks to:

Debate
First Varsity Policy – Andrew Samuelson and Daniel Hong (3rd Seed)
First Varsity Parliamentary – Robert Xu and Chris Beltrone (2nd Seed)
Second Varsity Lincoln-Douglas – Min Park (2nd Seed)
Semifinalist (3rd-4th) Varsity Parliamentary – Shannon Fender and Joel Kwartler (1st Seed)
Quarterfinalist (5th-8th) Varsity Parliamentary – Austin Weng and Zohar Hoter (5th Seed)
Quarterfinalist (5th-8th) Varsity Lincoln-Douglas – Dan Tudorica (6th Seed)

Individual Events
First Varsity After Dinner Speaking – Joel Kwartler
Second Place Varsity Poetry – Meghana Mysore
Third Varsity Extemporaneous – Ammas Tanveer
Third Varsity Humorous Interpretation* – Sarah Kwartler
Third Varsity Impromptu – Ammas Tanveer
Third Place Varsity Prose – Hannah Lewman
Fourth Varsity Humorous Interpretation* – Joel Kwartler
Fifth Place Varsity Radio – Rishi Subrahmanyan
Sixth Place Varsity Radio – Bill Feng
Seventh Varsity Expository – SaraJane Griffiths
Semifinalist (9th) Varsity Impromptu – Joel Kwartler
Semifinalist (9th) Varsity Radio – Melissa Liu
Semifinalist (11th) Varsity Impromptu – Chris Beltrone

Congress
Second – Hannah Lewman
Third – Jonathan Griffiths
Fifth – Melissa Liu

Speaking Awards
First Novice Public Forum – Sarah Kwartler
Third Novice Public Forum – Jackson Dyal
Third Varsity Parliamentary* – Chris Beltrone
Fourth Varsity Parliamentary* – Robert Xu
Fourth Varsity LD – Min Park

*These ties for third place broken on either judges’ preference or most fitting method.