“A lot of different people worked very hard to achieve one goal,” junior Ameera Ramzan said. “For Lip Sync, it was almost every single morning office hours, practicing wherever we could make our dance moves, acting and blocking perfectly. Our eagle painters were there till the late hours of spirit night finishing up our eagle. We saw our relay captains and representatives giving it their all.”

Setting their lip sync at a “zombie” homecoming dance, juniors dressed in white button-ups and danced to songs like Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” The seniors’ magic-themed lip sync featured math teacher Victor Adler as Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter and economics teacher Dean Lizardo as Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony.

“I helped choreograph the My Little Pony part of our routine,” Senior Albert Yao said. “That was the cutest part of the dance, and it was great getting all the guys involved with little party hats and Mr. Lizardo with the Twilight Sparkle costume.”

The ranking for the lip sync included the juniors in first place, the sophomores in second, the seniors in third and frosh in last place.

Receptionist Ted Ujifusa, one of the five faculty judges for the lip sync routines, reflected on his impressions of the class’ performances.

“It’s difficult because everybody’s so involved and they’re very enthusiastic,” Ujifusa said. “But there are certain dance elements, and you can tell the older the class, the more coordinated they were. The freshmen, this is kind of all new to them, so some of this stuff is not quite as polished, and you can tell the older they got, the better they were.”

Two elected student representatives from each class also competed in three relay games: identifying teachers from close-ups of their facial features, pulling ketchup bottles with toilet paper and collecting balls corresponding to their class color in Picky Picky Hippos. The juniors came first in the relay, with the sophomores, seniors and frosh following.

“The class all seemed in unison with their chanting, and I like how the teacher face game was crowd active,” relay participant and SAB member Brady Tse (12) said. “So I didn’t really feel pressure on my shoulders, like expectations to do well or not. I know that I’m just gonna go out there and try my best, and that’s all that my class wants.”

In the scream-off competition, the seniors won with 124.4 decibels, followed closely by the juniors with 124.2 decibels, the sophomores with 120.8 decibels and the frosh with 118.6 decibels.

This year, HSLT introduced a new Taskmaster-style game for class deans. In a pre-recorded video, deans attempted to guess corporate receptionist Ted Ujifusa’s secret word with yes-or-no questions. Sophomore dean Carol Green correctly guessed the word “sorry” first, earning donut holes for her class.