Month: January 2012

The second round of the Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin hasconcluded, which finishes the first day of the tournament.  The pairings were to be released priorto the round, but because of a temporary wireless connection problem on campus and reaallly slow wireless at the hotel, the pairings were delayed.  The topic area for the second round was America’s Economic Health. Tomorrow is “moving day” at MBA, as competitors will try to position themselves within the top eight after round six, which will give them a chance to win the tournament.  Tomorrow features six rounds of competition and the third rounds kicks off at 9:00 a.m. CST, which is when our updates will begin (although it’s possible they may be posted earlier).

Here were the pairings for round two:

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The 2012 Montgomery Bell Round Robin is underway and one of the sections features the top three in the National Points Race.  The topic area for the first round of the tournament is International Politics.  The first six rounds of the tournament are set in stone and after six rounds the field will be split into two round robins.  One will have the top eight competitors and one will have the bottom twelve competitors.  The first round has four sections of five competitors, but all of the other early preliminary rounds will feature five sections of four competitors each.

Here are the pairings for round one. The competitor’s current National Points ranking is placed in parenthesis to the left of their name.

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