This past weekend, we went to Seton Hall University for our first swing tournament of the semester! Since it was a swing, it was a long weekend with the students competing in two different tournaments over the course of the weekend! Both tournaments were held at Seton Hall in Newark, not too far from Lafayette’s campus. We also had 2 alumni join us and judge! Jordan & Yazdan were with us this weekend.

The Saturday tournament was called the Ed Leonard, named after a Seton Hall competitor. Results for the Ed Leonard portion are below:

ADS – Penelope, 1st place champion!
ADS- Holly, 3rd
Rhetorical Criticism – Natalia, 2nd
Impromptu Sales – Brynne, 6th
Impromptu – Will, 1st place champion!
Persuasion- Nat, 2nd
Poetry – Alex, 1st place champion!
Prose – Alex, 1st place champion!
Prose – Holly, 3rd

For debate, Bridget was a semifinalist and won 4th place overall!

For debate speaker awards, Bridget was 2nd & Bay was 4th!

The team also won 2 team awards!

For team sweepstakes, we were 2nd place overall. The team also walked away with the Ed Leonard award which is given annually to a competitor and a team who best emulate the characteristics of Ed Leonard, the competitor that the tournament is named after. This award means a lot to us as a team as it is not based on competitiveness but on team personality! (pictures of the award below!)

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The Sunday tournament was called the SNAFU Charity Ball! Each team was tasked with providing a charity and the SNAFU organization donated to the top 3 teams’ charities of choice! We were 5th place overall so we did not win a donation to our charity, but this is a great incentive for teams to perform. The charity we chose was Third Street Alliance, a women’s shelter in downtown Easton, where Lafayette is located. The results (and pictures!) from the Charity Ball tournament are below:

ADS – Penelope, 2nd, Holly 4th

Rhetorical Criticism – Natalia, 2nd
Persuasion – Natalia, 5th
Poetry – Alex, 1st place champion!
POI – Natalia, 6th

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