December 2022

Dear Forensics Colleagues:

Pacific University is pleased to invite you to the annual Hap Hingston Forensics Invitational to be held on January 7-8, 2023. The tournament is named after A.C. “Hap” Hingston. Hap was a faculty member at Pacific University from 1942–1973 and continued serving on Pacific’s Board of Trustees until 1983. He also served as chairperson of the department of communication and the director of forensics for many years. We are proud to have our tournament named after Hap Hingston.

We have a few tournament announcements this year:

• Congress Legislation is available under the "Files for Download" Tab. Please send legislation ASAP if you do not see yours in the packet. Students may bring legislation with them to the tournament, but it cannot be addressed until the packet is considered. 

• Junior and Open Duo are in Pattern A; the invitation and registration have been updated!

• We plan to run an in-person event! We are working with our administration for COVID-19 requirements concerning masking and vaccination. We will share updates as we receive them. We strongly encourage students to be vaccinated and mask in rooms when they are not speaking.

• We will use electronic ballots–please bring a laptop and power cords to complete ballots. Typing comments is much easier on keyboards!

• We will run IEs on Saturday, January 7 and Debate (including Congress) on Sunday, January 8. Please submit Congress legislation by Friday, Dec 30.

• To financially help programs again, our fee schedule is designed to cover operational costs.  Please contact us if you have any questions.

• Please note our registration and change deadlines are Tuesday, January 3 and Thursday, January 5. We will post schematics on Friday, January 6 so students and coaches can check for errors early.

• We are delighted to announce that the Top Individual Events Sweepstakes winner will receive a scholarship, should they choose to apply and enroll at Pacific University in the future.

Finally, while we use the OSAA Speech Handbook as a guide, we will not strictly adhere to tournament procedures that govern the OSAA State Championship. This means we will: a) allow exceptions for use of notes, b) utilize unique topic areas in impromptu, c) utilize speaker points to break ties in individual events, and d) maintain brackets in semifinal and finals debate. We believe that we will meet Auto-Qual requirements based on the size of the tournament and usage of Oregon events.

Please let us know if you have any questions. We look forward to seeing you in January.

TOURNAMENT REGISTRATION

Entry Deadline: Tuesday, Jan 3, 2023 at 10:00 pm 

This is your initial deadline to register for the tournament on SpeechWire. When registering judges that are available both days, they will need to be entered twice: once for Saturday (IEs) and once for Sunday (Debate). Please note in the comments if a judge has any restrictions to their availability or events they may judge; otherwise we will use them for any available round or style of competition.

Registration Close: Thurs, Jan 5, 2023 at 12:00 pm

Fees are calculated based on entries at this time. Email drops after this date to jconner@pacificu.edu