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The third and final day of this year’s Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin has kicked off. The competition will be taking place today in the Nashville Airport Marriott and two rounds of competition remain. Once those rounds are over, competitors will enjoy a forty-five minute lunch break and the participants in the Exhibition Round will be announced by tournament director Adam Johnson at 1:35 p.m. CST.
Last night’s experimental round saw extempers presented with a list of names of notable people that passed away in the last year, which included Tom Foley, Helen Thomas, and others. Extempers had to discuss who this figure would “haunt” if they returned to Earth and what they would do.
The topic area for this round is every extemper’s favorite: domestic social.
Section One
Judges: Bill Thompson, Deirdre Sullivan, and Jim Honeyman
*Arel Rende (Booker T. Washington High School, Oklahoma)
*Josh Wartel (Lake Braddock Secondary School, Virginia)
*Christopher Jordan (Brophy College Preparatory, Arizona)
*Jack Glaser (George Washington High School, Colorado)
Section Two
Judges: Maryrose Kohan, Meredith Deaton, and Dean Rhoads
*Jasper Primack (Newton South High School, Massachusetts)
*Davis Larkin (Parish Episcopal School, Texas)
*Brian Anderson (LaRue County High School, Kentucky)
*Chase Harrison (Millburn High School, New Jersey)
Section Three
Judges: Eric Cecil, Matt Murphy, and Duane Hyland
*Lily Nellans (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
*Rohan Dhoopar (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*Lyubov Kapko (Tempe Preparatory, Arizona)
*Vaikunth Balaji (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
Section Four
Judges: Logan Scisco, Elizabeth Clarke, and Hamilton Millwee
*Gabe Slater (Denver East High School, Colorado)
*Jad Hamdan (Jackson High School, Ohio)
*Miles Saffran (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Will Walker (Fullerton Joint Union High School, California)