It’s that time of the year again! We hosted our annual tournament, the OchoIE over the weekend of the 12th and 13th. As always, it was a great experience hosting on our beautiful campus. We had a total of 8 schools visit us from as far as Ohio (hello Ohio University!) and as close as Bloomsberg, PA. 

The great thing about hosting is that we get to do whatever we want for our tournament, and as always, we pulled out all the works. We provide a unique 2 day 3 round schedule for the weekend which allows students to be more relaxed during the tournament, gets them additional practice and feedback from judges, and allows for a later start time and earlier end time. In addition to that, we provided coffee and donuts for competitors and judges over the weekend, as well as lunch on both days for everybody. On Sunday morning, we had our traditional omelette bar breakfast for coaches and judges. And most notably, we gave away the largest trophies in the entire region (pictured below) and a super cool wrestling belt for the winner of the quality award, which was West Chester University!

Since we hosted this tournament, we only had our new recruits compete. We had numerous IPDA entries and 1 speech entry and our novices were amazing! Results are below:

 

Olivia, 4th – prose

Juan, 6th – IPDA speaker

Bridget, 2nd – IPDA speaker & IPDA quarterfinalist (pictured below)

 

 

 

The team also won 4th place in debate sweepstakes! What a great 2nd tournament of the season! Stay tuned for more!