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Two new national champions in International and United States Extemp were crowned a little more than an hour ago in Salt Lake City, Utah at the 2016 National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament.
In International Extemp, Marshall Sloane narrowly overtook National Points Race winner Justin Graham of Trinity Preparatory School (FL) in the final round to win his first major championship. For the second consecutive year Graham carried a lead into the final round, but was once again upended by the final round winner as Sloane won it by six ranks (after high/low were dropped). This gave him a three rank margin of victory, thereby making him the first junior to win International Extemp in four years and the first Massachusetts extemper to win an NSDA extemp championship since 2008.
Graham was trying to become the fourth extemper in history to win the National Catholic Forensic League (NCFL) National Tournament and the NSDA National Tournament in the same season year. He ends his season by finishing second at three of the year’s four majors while winning one of them.
In United States Extemp, Micah Cash of Tulsa Washington High School (OK) cruised to a double-digit victory, assisted by an eleven rank win in the final round. Marshall Webb of Saint Mary’s Hall (TX) placed second. Cash is the second extemper from Tulsa Washington to win U.S. Extemp in the last four years and his win gives the school three victories in the category over the last four NSDA national tournaments. A school has not had this level of dominance in an extemp category at NSDA since the IX/USX split in the mid-1980s.
Jacob Thompson of Des Moines Roosevelt High School (IA) was the highest placing non-senior in U.S. Extemp. He finished the tournament in third plac
For the first time since 2011 the winners of each category won their respective final rounds, thereby preventing a “split” between the overall winner and the final round winner.
Here are the result from the 2016 National Speech and Debate Association National
Tournament (Click here for tab sheet):
International Extemp
National Champion: Marshall Sloane (Milton Academy, Massachusetts)
2nd: Justin Graham (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
3rd: Vaikunth Balaji (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
4th: Shreetika Singh (Seven Lakes High School, Texas)
5th: Charlie Barton (Regis High School, New York)
6th: Nikhil Ramaswamy (Jasper High School, Texas)
Final Round National Champion: Marshall Sloane (Milton Academy, Massachusetts)
United States Extemp
National Champion: Micah Cash (Tulsa Washington High School, Oklahoma)
2nd: Marshall Webb (Saint Mary’s Hall, Texas)
3rd: Jacob Thompson (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
4th: Brian Xu (San Marino High School, California)
5th: Neil Patel (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
6th: Katherine Hu (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
Final Round National Champion: Micah Cash (Tulsa Washington High School, Oklahoma)
Also of note is that extemper Bradley Wascher of St. James School (AL) won Extemp
Commentary. And Marshall Webb won the NSDA Student of the Year, so congratulations to both for being great representatives for the extemp community.
Extemp Central thanks all of our readers who followed our coverage of the 2016 NSDA National Tournament. Safe travels to those in Salt Lake and we look forward to covering the 2016-2017 season!
grahamk
We love your site and appreciate all of your insight and accounting throughout the year. One point in your recap of tonight’s final results – Justin Graham won TOC and NCFL and was runner-up at Extemp TOC and NSDA. He was runner-up in two of the last four majors (not three as indicated).
Logan Scisco
Thanks for the comments! The UK TOC that Justin won is not a major championship (although it is a National Points Race event). The four majors are the MBA Extemp Round Robin, Extemp TOC, NCFL, and NSDA. However, the UK TOC was a big event and Justin should be proud to have won that one!
Prepd
HUGE CONGRATULATIONS to all the Prepd extempers who spoke in the final rounds of IX and USX at the NSDA National Tournament!
Micah Cash from Tulsa Washington HS is the NATIONAL CHAMPION in USX and Marshall Webb from Saint Mary’s Hall came in second!
On the IX side, congratulations to Charlie Barton of Regis HS and Nikhil Ramaswamy of Jasper HS for placing 5th and 6th (respectively).
1/3 of all the national finalists actively used Prepd this season and throughout the national tournament! 45% of all the students who advanced out of prelims in either USX or IX were using Prepd.