diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index c1856babc..b164d0295 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@ install:
 
 script:
   - ./runtests.py -p3
-  - ./runtests.py -p2 -x tornado sqlalchemy 
+  - ./runtests.py -p2 -x sqlalchemy