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History made at CLU

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History was made at the Cal Lutheran Invitational today, as a hybrid team of Nick Hall (Valencia) and Iain Lampert (Cleveland) became the first parli team ever to pull off a perfect tournament. In addition to winning the tournament, Nick and Iain were top seed, had a perfect (15-0) ballot count, and were first and second speaker respectively. In the past, several teams came close to this accomplishment, namely Lynbrook’s Kasturiraman / Chandran at iTOC ’06 and, more recently, Asthana / Mabie from James Logan at UOP ’09, but, as far as POI results archives go, Nick and Iain are the first perfect team.

In the varsity final round, Nick and Iain defeated Iain’s teammates Kevin Amirdjanian and Will Craft on a 3-0.

Cleveland’s debate team topped off the weekend by taking first in the novice breakout. CLU has collapsed its 15 team varsity and 6 team novice divisions, but had a separate final round for the top two non-advancing novice teams (a practice pioneered, in California, by the Harker tournament). In it, Cleveland’s Adam Revello and Leo Tuchman defeated Dani Dichter and Mannie Jacob from Monroe on a 3-0 decision.

Our final congratulations go to the California Lutheran University, which has been able to put together an enjoyable and efficient inaugural tournament.
Parli followed CHSSA rules with 3 topics given per round.