NFA and IOA 2025
This year, the National Forensics Association Annual tournament was held in Detroit, Michigan at Wayne State University. This was our most successful NFA yet – the team placed 13th in the open division and 4th place in the Division 2 sweepstakes. We had a great time in Detroit (and had some Detroit style pizza of course). Results from NFA are below:
Octofinalists
Extemp, Ben, Tyler
ADS, Camsey
Impromptu, Will and Nat
Info, Ben
Poetry, Alex
Crit, Nat
Quarterfinalists (top 24 in the country)
DI, Nat
Pers, Ben
Info, Camsey
Semifinalists (top 12 in the country)
Ext, Will
Team Sweepstakes
4th in Presidents 2 Division!
13th in the Nation!! (open division)
The weekend after the team got back from NFA, Ben hopped on a plane to Nashville for the Interstate Oratory Contest. This special tournament is a persuasion-only tournament and awards the top 2 persuasive speakers in each state the opportunity to represent their state nationally. Since Ben was 2nd in Pennsylvania at the State tournament earlier this season, he qualified to represent the commonwealth.
Ben was a national finalist at IOA and was 3rd in the nation! His speech, titled ‘Chasing Dollars, Not Justice: The Case Against Bounty Hunting‘ will also be published!
~Fun fact: IOA is the oldest forensics tournament in the country!~
What a great end to a very successful semester and season of forensics! We started the season off at the Hell Froze Over Tournament, which despite being as crazy as it sounds, was successful, with the team having multiple semifinalists and finalists over the course of the weekend. The Ohio University Tournament saw the team take 4th place overall and win individual sweepstakes! The Virginia is for Lovers Tournament saw the team take 3rd in sweepstakes and 3rd in IE sweepstakes! The Pennsylvania state tournament was successful as usual; the team was 1st place for the 7th year in a row! We also won 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 6th place in Individual sweepstakes! The novice national tournament saw a number of our first year competitors become national semifinalists, finalists and champions! We had novice national champions in DI, Poetry and Prose! We had a national top IPDA speaker and a 4th place speaker, as well as an IPDA national runner up. Overall, the Novice team was 2nd in the country! Our returning competitors went to NSC, the National Speech Competition, another national tournament, and were wildly successful there as well! We had numerous national quarterfinalists and semifinalists, as well as a few finalists! Overall, the team won 6th place, higher than last year!
Stay tuned for next season! Go Pards!
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