Month: January 2010

Here is the third day of profiles for the competitors at the 2010 Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin.  Today’s profiles center around three of the four competitors who are returning to this year’s field.

Don’t forget that Monday will be the 2010 launch of content at Extemp Central.  The weekly news quiz will be posted as well as the day’s R&D.  The MBA Round Robin contest will also be announced with rules, procedures, etc.  MBA Round Robin live coverage will begin late Friday evening and run through Sunday afternoon when the tournament concludes.  We hope that you will check the site for updates to follow the action.

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Here is day two of our profiles of the sixteen competitors who will face each other next weekend at the 2010 Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin, a second tier tournament in this year’s National Points Race that will award 150 points to the winner.

This year’s tournament is dominated by International extemporaneous speaking competitors.  It also has an unusually high amount of seniors as only two extempers competing in the tournament are juniors.  Texas and California have the largest contingents at the tournament with three extempers each.  This is the third consecutive year at the Round Robin that Texas has either had or shared this distinction. 

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