Jerry Hudson Invitational (Willamette University) 2013 Results

Hannah Lewman taking 1st Place in Poetry

Hannah Lewman taking 1st Place in Poetry

As a team, LOHS took 5th place overall. That was thanks to:

  • 1st Varsity Poetry – Hannah Lewman
  • 2nd Varsity After Dinner Speaking – Joel Kwartler
  • 2nd Varsity Extemporaneous – Ammas Tanveer
  • Semifinalist Varsity Parliamentary – Andrew Samuelson and Robert Xu
  • Semifinalist Junior Public Forum – Jeanie You and Sanders Li
  • Semifinalist Novice Public Forum – Jackson Dyal and Colin Mitchell
  • Quarter Finalist Varsity Parliamentary – Austin Weng and Zohar Hoter
  • Quarter Finalist Varsity Parliamentary – Max Groznik and Ammas Tanveer
  • Quarter Finalist Varsity Parliamentary – Joel Kwartler and Chris Beltrone*
  • Finalist Varsity Impromptu – Dan Tudorica
  • Finalist Junior Impromptu – Jackson Dyal

Speaker Awards:

  • 4th Varsity Public Forum – Shannon Fender
  • 4th Varsity Parliamentary – Chris Beltrone
  • 5th Varsity Parliamentary – Joel Kwartler

*Unfortunately, the tournament tabulation desk misrecorded a second-round win as a second-round loss, causing Joel and Chris to not break. The tournament director has apologized, and is mailing an award, but nothing can be done in terms of placement. It is impossible to determine if they could have placed higher than quarterfinalist.

Of particular note was the fact that LOHS broke 3 out of 4 of its competing Varsity Parliamentary debate teams (and, if you read the asterisk above, it should have broken them all), with the one team that didn’t break being the one including both of the parli debaters that won speaking awards. The combined record of the parli squad for this tournament was 17-3 in prelims.