Hap Hingston Forensics Invitational

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General information

This is a High School tournament in Oregon.

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September 2025

Dear Forensics Colleagues:

Pacific University is pleased to invite you to the annual Hap Hingston Forensics Invitational to be held on January 9-10, 2026. 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:

• We have moved the tournament back to Friday-Saturday schedule. Debate, including Congress, will be on Friday only; Speech rounds will be only on Saturday. 
• Because Pacific has January-term classes in session on Friday, we will return debate entry restrictions to make sure we have classroom space available. 
• Please review our updated debate pairing policy.
• We will use electronic ballots–please bring a laptop and power cords to complete ballots. Typing comments is much easier on keyboards!
• Please note our registration and change deadlines are Tuesday, January 6 and Thursday, January 8. We will post schematics on Thursday afternoon 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. 

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

Dan Broyles

Director of Forensics

dsbroyles@pacificu.edu

630-247-5330

Jennifer Conner
Assistant Director of Forensics

jconner@pacificu.edu

503-789-4414

TOURNAMENT REGISTRATION

Entry Deadline: Tuesday, Jan 6, 2026 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 Friday (Debate) and once for Saturday (IE). 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: Thursday, Jan 8, 2025 at 12:00 pm

Fees are calculated based on entries at this time. Email drops after this date to jconner@pacificu.edu. Please inform us immediately about drops past the deadline; it can affect event paneling, room and judge usage, the ability of other teams to participate, and a number of other logistical issues. We enjoy running tournaments, but they run much more effectively when we have up-to-date entry data for teams - thank you for helping us with this!

SPEECHWIRE ASSISTANCE

If your team has participated at the Hingston before, your school likely has an account already. If you are a new coach and not sure what the login is, please email Speechwire support to transfer the school to your account. Find additional support documents here.

For autopost to work in Speechwire to NSDA, students will need to be linked on the Speechwire roster prior to the end of the tournament.

HIRED JUDGES

We do hire some judges for our Hap Hingston tournament. If you are, or know local judges, that would like to be hired for our tournament, please fill out the interest form here: Hingston Judge Survey

We will notify folks the week of the tournament if we can accept them as hired judges.

Manager contact information

Jennifer Conner
Email address: jconner@pacificu.edu
Phone number: 5037894414

Mailing address

2043 College Way
ATTN: Dan Broyles
Forest Grove, OR 97116