The Glenbrooks, a third tier event in the National Points Race, took place at Glenbrooks North and South High School in Northbrook, Illinois between November 17-19. Brian Zheng of Naperville North High School (IL) used home field advantage to its maximum extent to win the tournament and move into the top spot in the National Points Race. Zheng won by two ranks over Tristan Wertanzl of Cypress Bay High School (FL). Wertanzl won the international extemp portion of the Florida Blue Key several weeks before the Glenbrooks.
Zheng only took one first place rank among the five judges in the final round, but no judge ranked him lower than third. This helped him triumph over Wertanzl who took two first place ranks but also took one fourth and one fifth place rank, thereby hurting his composite score.
Daniel Chao of Kent Denver School (CO) made his first National Points Race final round this year and took third.
The final round had a significant number of other National Points Race notables as Kay Rollins of the Potomac School (VA) finished fourth, Mo Marks of Theodore Roosevelt High School (IA) finished fifth, and Jose Quinones of Cypress Bay High School (FL) finished sixth.
All of the competitors who reached elimination rounds earned National Points Race points.
Here are the results of the 2018 Glenbrooks (Click here for tab sheet):
Champion: Brian Zheng (Naperville North High School, Illinois)
2nd: Tristan Wertanzl (Cypress Bay High School, Florida)
3rd: Daniel Chao (Kent Denver School, Colorado)
4th: Kay Rollins (The Potomac School, Virginia)
5th: Mo Marks (Theodore Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
6th: Jose Quinones (Cypress Bay High School, Florida)
Semi-Finalists
*Arham Habib (Monte Vista High School, California)
*Anuj Kothari (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*Gustavo Lanz (Cypress Bay High School, Florida)
*Alex Massa (Hoover High School, Ohio)
*Anna Puhek (Lakeville North High School, Minnesota)
*Jaclyn Webber (Munster High School, Indiana)
Quarter-Finalists
*Abigail Brachio (Apple Valley High School, Minnesota)
*Tarun Chiruvolu (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*Pranay Dhondi (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Yaakov Huba (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
*Annika Hurd (Lakeville North High School, Minnesota)
*Sinan Kassim (NSU University School, Florida)
*Daniel Kim (Archbishop Mitty High School, California)
*Tyler Loring (Western High School, Florida)
*Jacob Mammen (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Maghana Vattigunta (Ardrey Kell High School, North Carolina)
*Ananth Veluvali (Edina High School, Minnesota)
*Alissa Vuillier (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
Extemp Central thanks the Glenbrooks for putting the results of the tournament online.