The top fourteen in International and United States Extemp have been announced at the 2011 NFL National Tournament.  Of these fourteen, only six will advance to Saturday and compete for the national championship.  Semi-finals start at 2 p.m. CST and we should know by early this evening who our “Saturday Six” should be.

The biggest news is that Nathaniel Donahue, who has led the National Points Race for much of the year, is out of the tournament.  However, Donahue will still win this year’s National Points Race because of the wide lead he opened before the tournament.  This is the second year in a row that the #1 ranked extemper in the National Points Race has fallen in the quarter-final round at NFL.  The biggest National Points Race competitor to fall in IX was Isabelle Taft, who entered NFL in seventh place in the points race and had secured two victories on the national circuit this season.  Other known competitors to fall in the quarter-finals of IX included Pennsylvania extempers Matt Rauen and Sam Reynolds.  United States Extemp, which saw most of its notable competitors advance in octofinals, saw the departure notable competitors in rounds nine and ten, such as Shikha Garg, Samantha Karas, Jason Kim, Jason Singh, and Forrest Richardson, who placed seventh in USX last year.

International Extemp

*(T25) Rishi Bajaj (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Abhishek Bhargava (Jackson High School, Ohio)
*(23) Louis Li (Monte Vista High School, California)
*(16) Ben Mabie (James Logan High School, California)
*Ian MacGillivray (Columbiana High School, Ohio)
*(4) Curan Mehra (Scarsdale High School, New York)
*Milap Mehta (Downers Grove South High School, Illinois)
*Philip Mulder (Portage Northern High School, Michigan)
*Grace Pyo (Olentangy Liberty High School, Ohio)
*(62) Bushra Rahman (Alief Elsik High School, Texas)
*(T52) Asheshananda Rambachan (Eastview High School, Minnesota)
*Dhruv Ranadive (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*(2) Dylan Slinger (Lakeville South High School, Minnesota)
*(T25) Neal White (Lake Travis High School, Texas)

United States Extemp

*Richard Clark (Cardinal Mooney High School, Ohio)
*Bryton Hiatt (Plymouth High School, Indiana)
*William McDonald (Brophy College Preparatory, Arizona)
*(6) Jared Odessky (Nova High School, Florida)
*Robert H. Peck (Riverton High School, Wyoming)
*Edward Roberge (Downers Grove South High School, Illinois)
*Vijay Singh (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*(T67) Brandon Slotkin (Nova High School, Florida)
*(31) Amode Tembhekar (Leland High School, California)
*(8) Peter Vogel (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Qian Wang (Mason High School, Ohio)
*Alex Wasdahl (Jackson High School, Ohio)
*Kelly Wu (Leland High School, California)
*(15) Kevin Ye (Gabrielino High School, California)

Extemp Central wishes these twenty-eight extempers the best of luck as they try to manuever themselves into the top six for Saturday.  When we know of the finalists, we will bring them to you!

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