Forensics is starting up soon at EC with the team’s first warm-up tournament immediately followed by the Claremont Invitational hosted by Claremont College.

This will be an unprecedented tournament for EC because no other community college has ever been invited to participate in the tournament.

EC will be competing against Cal State Berkeley and universities from Arkansas and Wyoming in their quest to win gold in team parliamentary debate.

Team president, Lillian Cavalieri, and team captain, Joseph Evans, will partner up during the invitational and be EC’s lone representatives in the tournament.

“We went to forensics camp over the summer and learned strategies from top coaches from other colleges, so hopefully that will give us a small edge when competing against their teams,” Cavalieri said.

Being a community college, the team feels it has a lot to prove to the universities, so they practice and prepare constantly.

The team calls its own practices, without coaches to help first-year team members.

“The main way that we prepare for forensics tournaments is by motivating everyone on the team and helping them do well,” Cavalieri said.

Although only one partnership will be going to the Claremont Invitational, all members of the forensics team will be competing in the Warm Up tournament on tomorrow through Saturday.

“We have a lot of great first-year team members this year that will really help our rookie and novice teams,” Cavalieri said.