Robert D. Clark Invitational (University of Oregon) 2014 Results

At the awards ceremony

At the awards ceremony

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.