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Last weekend’s James Logan MLK Invitational, held at James Logan High School in Union City, California, played host to the second part of the “California Swing” of the National Points Race and this year’s event was dominated by Archbishop Mitty High School (CA).  In International Extemp, Ismail Shaik of Archbishop Mitty won a five rank victory over Shreyan Jain of Bellarmine College Preparatory (CA) and in United States Extemp, Pranav Govindaraju of Mitty narrowly defeated Charles Tang of Leland High School (CA) by one rank.  The tabulation of the tournament was cumulative.

Although the tournament attracted talent from Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, California extempers dominated the final rounds.  The only non-California extemper to make a final round was Kshitiz Singh of Desert Vista High School (AZ), who placed fifth in United States Extemp.

Extempers that reached each final round will receive National Points Race points due to the fact that James Logan is a fifth tier tournament in the National Points Race.  Since each final round had seven finalists, only the top six will receive points.

Here are the results of the 2016 James Logan MLK Invitational (Click here for tab sheet):

International Extemp

Champion: Ismail Shaik (Archbishop Mitty High School, California)
2nd: Shreyan Jain (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
3rd: Pranaya Pahwa (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
4th: Melinda Sun (Cupertino High School, California)
5th: Anirudh Prabhu (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
6th: Benjamin Hoffner-Brodsky (Davis High School, California)
7th: Mirwais Omarkhil (James Logan High School, California)

Semi-Finalists

*Max Davidson (Denver East High School, California)
*Siddhant Gannu (Archbishop Mitty High School, California)
*Tony Lin (Cupertino High School, California)
*Jason Ma (Gabrielino High School, California)
*William Martin Glennie (Denver East High School, Colorado)
*Arjun Narayan (The Harker School, California)
*Jonathan Pham (Archbishop Mitty High School, California)

Quarter-Finalists

*Chance Boreczky (James Logan High School, California)
*Dalton R. Boyt (Stockdale High School, California)
*Colton Fertig (Cheyenne East High School, Wyoming)
*Siddhant Gannu (Archbishop Mitty High School, California)
*Joel Joseph (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*Joshua Joseph (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*Andrew Lo (Gabrielino High School, California)
*Jimmy Ma (Gabrielino High School, California)
*Ravi Prasad (James Enochs High School, California)
*Arian Raje (Saratoga High School, California)
*Akaash Tawade (Archbishop Mitty High School, California)
*Jason Tran (Gabrielino High School, California)
*Roshan Verma (Saratoga High School, California)
*Marvin Vinluan (Cheyenne East High School, Wyoming)

United States Extemp

Champion: Pranav Govindaraju (Archbishop Mitty High School, California)
2nd: Charles Tang (Leland High School, California)
3rd: Bryant Cong (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
4th: Ryan Frazier (Clovis East High School, California)
5th: Kshitiz Singh (Desert Vista High School, Arizona)
6th: Deandra Du (Gabrielino High School, California)
7th: Amulya Yerrapotu (Archbishop Mitty High School, California)

Semi-Finalists

*Nick Adair (James Enochs High School, California)
*Abhijeet Singh Grewal (James Logan High School, California)
*Arjun Narayan (The Harker School, California)
*Sanjaye Narayan (Gabrielino High School, California)
*Ishaan Singhal (Cupertino High School, California)
*Andrew Talley (Denver East High School, Colorado)
*Andrew Tang (Leland High School, California)

Quarter-Finalists

*Ben Ashkenazi (Cupertino High School, California)
*Zeeshaan Chunawala (Los Gatos High School, California)
*Nandit Gurtu (Cupertino High School, California)
*Adiyan Kaul (Cupertino High School, California)
*Soy Koy (Gabrielino High School, California)
*Ruchi Maheshwari (Saratoga High School, California)
*Anil Prasad (Basis Independent Silicon Valley High School, California)
*Nevin Prasad (Saratoga High School, California)
*Atul Saha (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*Katie Stamm-Kirk (Bentley High School, California)
*Afrah Arebu Tahir (Granite Bay High School, California)
*Sohan Vichare (Cupertino High School, California)
*Kyle Wang (Saratoga High School, California)
*Alex Young (Cupertino High School, California)

Extemp Central thanks James Logan High School for putting the results of the tournament online.