2010-2011 National Points Race: How NFL Will Be Decided

The first issue of this year’s Ex Files magazine revealed that the way the National Forensic League (NFL) National Tournament was computed in the National Points Race would be different for the 2010-2011 season.  Instead of awarding the same amount of points, which was 200 last year, to both United States and International Extemp, Extemp Central decided to give weight to the extemp category that had the most participants in the top 25 of the National Points Race after the Catholic Forensic League (CFL) Grand National Tournament.  The category with more participants will earn bonus points and the winner will receive 250 points, instead of the usual 200.  Other participants in the category will earn more points for their placings from finals to octofinals relative to their counterparts in the other extemp category.  In cases of a tie, the winners of both categories would receive 200 points, with no bonus awarded.

Here is how this year’s NFL field shakes out based on the information that Extemp Central has been able to obtain.  The extemper’s rank in this year’s National Points Race is placed in parenthesis to the left of their name.

International Extemp

*(2) Dylan Slinger (Lakeville South High School, Minnesota)
*(4) Curan Mehra (Scarsdale High School, New York)
*(5) Ben Constine (Yorktown High School, Virginia)
*(7) Isabelle Taft (Henry W. Grady High School, Georgia)
*(13) Matt Rauen (Pennsbury High School, Pennsylvania)
*(16) Ben Mabie (James Logan High School, California)
*(17) Emily Bell (Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Missouri)
*(18) Matt Linn (The University School, Florida)
*(21) Henry Chapman (Millburn High School, New Jersey)
*(22) Paavan Gami (Southside High School, South Carolina)
*(23) Louis Li (Monte Vista High School, California)
*(24) Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*(T25) Neal White (Lake Travis High School, Texas)
*(T25) Rishi Bajaj (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)

United States Extemp

*(1) Nathaniel Donahue (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
*(6) Jared Odessky (Nova High School, Florida)
*(8) Peter Vogel (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*(11) Shikha Garg (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*(15) Kevin Ye (Gabrielino High School, California)
*(19) Jason Singh (Green Valley High School, Nevada)
*(20) Matthew Hinojosa (Flower Mound High School, Texas)

Not Attending, Did Not Qualify, or Qualified in Another Category

*(3) Nabeel Zewail (San Marino High School, California)
*(9) Ross Slaughter (Walt Whitman High School, Maryland)–Likely qualified Congress
*(10) Karthik Sastry (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
*(12) Ben Denton (Pinecrest High School, North Carolina)–Qualified Policy debate
*(14) Emily Martin (Boone County High School, Kentucky)

Based on this information, International Extemporaneous Speaking will receive the bonus at this year’s NFL National Tournament since it has fourteen confirmed participants in the top 25, whereas United States Extemp has seven.

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