Hill Forensics is ready for another triumph at Lawrenceville Weekend.

Hill Forensics consists of two sections: debate and speech. This year, Peter Tobias ‘19 and Nicholas Donnelly ‘19 will compete in a public forum debate against The Lawrenceville School. The judge will be a selected representative from the Princeton debate panel.

The resolution for Lawrenceville Weekend will be “Deployment of anti-missile systems is in South Korea’s best interest.”

According to Joshua Schmidt, the Hill debate team advisor, the students have already debated the topic several times.

“The debate during L’Ville Weekend is different from a regular tournament,” Schmidt said. “Debaters can make mistakes in regular tournaments because there is more than one round.”

Because there will only be one round and one judge in the competition during Lawrenceville Weekend, many debaters feel it is not as professional as other tournaments.

“It’s like baseball, the better teams win more on average,” Schmidt said. “A series of competitions is a better way to show the ability of a debate team.”

The Lincoln-Douglas debate team will not be competing with Lawrenceville since the school does not have their own Lincoln-Douglas debate team. The Lincoln-Douglas competitors will go on another debate tournament at William Tennent High School next weekend, instead.

“The teams want to do well for the school since it’s an important rivalry for Hill,” Schmidt said. “However, it is individually not important for the debate team because the match with Lawrenceville will not be the way how debate is usually done.”

The speech team will not be judged during Lawrenceville Weekend. Instead it will be more of an exhibition. The speakers will be: Richard Wang ’19 with his topic “Inglourious Basterds,” Shaariq Khan ‘18 with the topic “Apologies,” and Grisham Vazirani ’21 with “Dr. Strangelove.”

“Skill wise, Lawrenceville is not better to the extent that we can’t defeat them,” Wang said, who has been doing speech since his 3rd form year.

“It’s nice to expand the rivalry beyond athletics,” Schmidt said. “But I wouldn’t really say Lawrenceville is our rivalry in debate. The focus is still on the athletic field.”

The exhibition and debate will start at 1 p.m. on Saturday in the Heely Room in the Woods Memorial Hall on Lawrenceville’s campus.