Here are the results of the 2010 South Plains Swing, held on December 10th and 11th.
Coronado Half
U.S. Extemp
Champion: Jacob Kirksey (Lubbock High School)
2nd: Christopher Casanova (Lubbock High School)
3rd: Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School)
4th: Cody Bean (Central High School)
5th: Xinjie Luo (Flower Mound High School)
6th: Clancy Taylor (Flower Mound High School)
7th: Jeremiah Evans (Lubbock High School)
8th: Elizabeth Patterson (Frenship High School)
Here are the results of the Creekview High School Tournament, held at Creekview High School on December 11th.
U.S. Extemp
Champion: Tanya Rajan (Newman Smith High School)
2nd: Samuel Alleman (Shepton High School)
3rd: Matthew Rindelaub (Plano Senior High School)
4th: Zachary Stone (Plano West High School)
5th: Michael Schrag (Newman Smith High School)
6th: Pranav Murthy (Centennial High School)
Here are the results from Clear Brook High School TFA Qualifying Tournament, held at Clear Brook High School on December 10th and 11th.
U.S. Extemp
Champion: Lina Meghji (Cypress Falls High School)
2nd: Kristina Vu (Clear Springs High School)
3rd: Romil Patel (Clear Lake High School)
4th: Alex Tran (Channelview High School)
5th: Kevin Ly (J. Frank Dobie High School)
6th: Darya Balybina (Clear Springs High School)
Here are the results of the Warren Winter Forum, held at Earl Warren High School on December 10th and 11th.
U.S. Extemp
Champion: Nick Schaedel (Sandra Day O’Connor High School)
2nd: Alex Birnel (Sandra Day O’Connor High School)
3rd: Jason messmer (La Vernia High School)
4th: Haley Czarnek (La Vernia High School)
5th: Angie Storey (William Howard Taft High School)
6th: Cameron Herber (San Marcos High School)
Here is your R&D for December 16th:
Could there be a Tet Offensive in Afghanistan? from the Washington Post
In this op-ed column, George Will warns that a Tet Offensive might be brewing in Afghanistan after the war effort has been hampered by corruption, WikiLeaks, and a weak Afghan government.
Israel can’t defeat Hezbollah: Israeli expert from Reuters
A former Israeli national security adviser warned today that the Jewish state cannot defeat Hezbollah in a conventional military engagement.
Vladimir Putin’s warning shot to liberals: society must have order from the Guardian
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin denounced extremist actions during a national Q&A session today, but warned liberals that a national security apparatus is needed if liberals don’t want to face off with right-wing extremists themselves.
Here are the results of the Alief Taylor High School Tournament, held at Alief Taylor High School on December 10th and 11th. This tournament is a qualifier for the 2011 Extemp TOC so all outround participants earned TOC bids. We are still missing semi-finalist names from this tournament, so if you have any please send them to us.
U.S. Extemp
Champion: Drew Hoffmaster (Alief Elsik High School)
2nd: Susan Czaikowski (Lamar Consolidated High School)
3rd: Grayson Clark (Lamar Consolidated High School)
4th: Drew Heugel (Lamar Consolidated High School)
5th: Gregory Heugel (Lamar Consolidated High School)
6th: Philip Parmar (Alief Elsik High School)
7th: Tirhakah Love (Alief Hastings High School)
8th: Jasmine Barnes (Northland Christian School)
Here are the results from the third Washington-Arlington Catholic Forensic League tournament, held at Westfield High School in Fairfax, Virginia.
Champion: Ross Slaughter (Walt Whitman High School, Maryland)
2. Craig Vincent (Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, Maryland)
3. John Al-Haddad (West Springfield High School, Virginia)
4. Rohan Prasad (Osbourn Park High School, Virginia)
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Here are the results from the 27th Annual Capitol City Classic, held at Stephen F. Austin High School on December 10th and 11th.
U.S. Extemp
Champion: Emily Guthrie (Westlake High School)
2nd: Fiona Wilson (Westlake High School)
3rd: Alex Pustelnyk (Lake Travis High School)
4th: Chinmay Baxi (L.C. Anderson High School)
5th: Adam Lang (L.C. Anderson High School)
6th: Ellen Hense (Pflugerville High School)
Here are the results from the 1st Annual University of Texas at Tyler Winter Classic Invitational, held at the University of Texas at Tyler on December 10th and 11th.
U.S. Extemp
Champion: Carver Hodgkiss (North Lamar High School)
2nd: Kaitlyn Bull (North Lamar High School)
3rd: Arjun rawal (Whitehouse High School)
4th: Dakota Wade (Whitehouse High School)
5th: Caleb Walters (Georgetown High School)
6th: Hannah Drake (North Lamar High School)
Here are the resuls from the Del Valle TFA Qualifying Tournament, held at Del Valle High School on December 10th and 11th.
U.S. Extemp
Champion: Dominique Egger (Franklin High School)
2nd: Adi Soto (Coronado High School)
3rd: Nicholas Corral (Hanks High School)
4th: Ellie Dzubey (Franklin High School)
5th: Mariana Hernandez (Loretto Academy)
6th: Brian Gutierrez (Coronado High School)
Here are the results of the Williston-Elko High School Tournament, held on December 9th.
Champion: Dillon Shumpert (Berkeley High School)
2nd: Dexter Smith (Barnwell High School)
3rd: Shaquille Brown (Barnwell High School)
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Here is your R&D for December 15th:
Only Connect from Time
Time Magazine has named Mark Elliot Zuckerberg as the 2010 Person of the Year. Zuckerberg is the founder of Facebook. Julian Assange and the Tea Party were the runner-ups.
The Municipal Debt Bubble from Reason
America’s cities and states are drowning in red ink, setting the stage for the next economic crisis.
Importing pessimism from the Economist
Asian policymakers are worried about importing inflation and sagging growth in Western nations, which have been strong export markets for them over the last decade. Asian nations also worry about a rise in commodity prices, which occurred in the spring and summer of 2008.
Here are the answers for this week’s Extemp Central news quiz. Although there will not be any new extemp questions until after New Year’s Day, the quizzes will keep rolling so check back next week!
Here is your R&D for December 14th:
Berlusconi May Expand Majority, May Resign To Do So from the Wall Street Journal
After surviving a vote on no confidence in the lower house of the Italian parliament, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has kept his political career alive. However, Berlusconi has announced that he may formally resign in order to expand his parliamentary majority in new elections.
Obama officials warn of ‘devasting consequences’ if mandate struck down from the Hill
After a Virginia judge struck down the individual mandate in President Obama’s healthcare reform law yesterday, the Obama administration issued a warning that the ruling could hurt the ability of the law to control healthcare costs.
Deutschmark redux from Press Europ
As the European financial crisis continues, calls are rising in Germany for a return to the Deutschmark. Although economists worry about the impacts on Germany’s exports if it were to leave the euro, they concede that Germany could pull off the move if it wanted.
Here are the results from the WKU Hilltopper Classic, held at Western Kentucky University on December 11th. It was an Extemp TOC qualifier so all outround participants earned TOC bids.
Champion: Paige Settles (Floyd Central High School, Indiana)
2nd: Nate Johnson (Danville High School, Kentucky)
3rd: Jono Beto (Danville High School, Kentucky)
4th: Ross Hildabrand (Ravenwood High School, Tennessee)
5th: Joe Weston (Danville High School, Kentucky)
6th: Paul Drexler (Ravenwood High School, Tennessee)
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