TCU Forensics had a successful trip to the 2016 Sun Carnival Swing co-hosted by El Paso Community College and Arizona State University in El Paso, Texas. The team won first place in debate team sweepstakes, individual event sweepstakes for both days of the swing, and the overall team championship. Full results are listed below.

2016 EPCC SUN CARNIVAL SWING DAY 1

Timothy Betts:

1^st, Individual Sweepstakes (Day 1 only)

1^st, Parliamentary Debate (w/ Colten Meisner)

1^st, Parliamentary Speaker

2^nd, Program Oral Interpretation

2^nd, Communication Analysis

2^nd, Impromptu Speaking

3^rd, Extemporaneous Speaking

Amanda Bulot:

1^st, After Dinner Speaking

2^nd, Individual Sweepstakes (Day 1 only)

2^nd, Informative Speaking

2^nd, Extemporaneous Speaking

4^th, Communication Analysis

Semi-finalist, Parliamentary Debate (w/ Azhan Hasan)

Azhan Hasan:

1^st, Persuasive Speaking

4^th, Impromptu Speaking

5^th, Individual Sweepstakes (Day 1 only)

Semi-finalist, Parliamentary Debate (w/ Amanda Bulot)

Colten Meisner:

1^st, Parliamentary Debate (w/ Timothy Betts)

2^nd, Parliamentary Speaker

3^rd, Persuasive Speaking

3^rd, Impromptu Speaking

4^th, Individual Sweepstakes (Day 1 only)

5^th, Program Oral Interpretation

Bao Thach:

6^th, Persuasive Speaking

2016 ASU SUN CARNIVAL SWING DAY 2

Timothy Betts:

1^st, Overall Individual Sweepstakes (Combined Swing)

1^st, Program Oral Interpretation

2^nd, Individual Sweepstakes (Day 2 only)

2^nd, Communication Analysis

2^nd, Extemporaneous Speaking

3^rd, Impromptu Speaking

5^th, Poetry Interpretation

Amanda Bulot:

1^st, After Dinner Speaking

3^rd, Overall Individual Sweepstakes (Combined Swing)

3^rd, Communication Analysis

3^rd, Informative Speaking

Azhan Hasan:

2^nd, Persuasive Speaking

5^th, Extemporaneous Speaking

Colten Meisner:

1^st, Persuasive Speaking

1^st, Impromptu Speaking

2^nd, Program Oral Interpretation

3^rd, Extemporaneous Speaking

3^rd, Individual Sweepstakes (Day 2 only)

5^th, Overall Individual Sweepstakes (Combined Swing)

Bao Thach:

6^th, Persuasive Speaking

The team’s next tournament is the For the Sake of Argument Swing, co-hosted by TCU and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette on October 14-16, 2016 at TCU.