Prep for the sixth round of this year’s MBA Extemp Round Robin is about to kick off.  This is the last round for extempers to move themselves into the top nine and have a shot at this year’s championship. 

For the last round’s topic area extempers were given a prompt that explained that President Obama was not running for president in 2012 and they had to take on the personality of a Democratic candidate that would run in his stead and explain why they were running for the office and why they would win.  The extempers that I saw in the round chose Al Gore, John Kerry, Jon Huntsman, and Matt Damon.

Here are the pairings for round six:

Section One

Judges:  Bill Healy, Steven Ebensberger, and Jon Rhodes

(1) Nathan Leys (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
(6) Henry Chapman (Millburn High School, New Jersey)
(4) Joseph Calder (Cary Academy, North Carolina)
(NR) Teagan Lende (Ronald Davies High School, North Dakota)

Section Two

Judges:  Scott Ginger, Molly Beck, and Brian Raymond

(T24) Alex Wasdahl (Jackson High School, Ohio)
(10) John Cherian (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
(3) Isabelle Taft (Henry W. Grady High School, Georgia)
(18) Zachary Stone (Plano West High School, Texas)

Section Three

Judges:  Carole Hamilton, Mario Herrera, and Shahid Ahmed

(14) Emily Bell (Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Missouri)
(13) Matt Rauen (Pennsbury High School, Pennsylvania)
(11) Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
(9) Chase Harrison (Millburn High School, New Jersey)

Section Four

Judges:  Steve Moss, Cherian Koshy, and Jason Bell

(17) Abhishek Bhargava (Jackson High School, Ohio)
(T41) Karthik Sastry (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
(NR) Vijay Singh (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
(2) Lily Nellans (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)

Section Five

Judges:  Scott Pollack, Forrest Richardson, and Billy Strong

(NR) Kelly Wu (Leland High School, California)
(8) Jason Singh (Green Valley High School, Nevada
(7) Ben Constine (Yorktown High School, Virginia)
(5) Bill McDonald (Brophy College Prep, Arizona)

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