The participant list for this year’s Montgomery Bell Academy (MBA) Extemp Round Robin was revealed this afternoon by tournament director Adam Johnson.  It is one of the stronger fields in recent memory, featuring two reigning national champions, last year’s National Points Race winner, and nine of the top ten competitors in this year’s National Points Race standings.

Congratulations to the following 16 extempers who will speak it out in the first major tournament of the season during the first weekend in January:

*Anthony Babu (Concord-Carlisle High School, Massachusetts)
*Brandon Cheng (Flintridge Preparatory School, California)
*Arya Goyal (Scarsdale High School, New York)
*Waleed Haider (Hendrickson High School, Texas)
*Aparna Iyer (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Daphne Kalir-Starr (The College Preparatory School, California)
*Kate Liu (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Kajal Parmar (Cary Academy, North Carolina)
*Charlotte Reitman (NSU University School, Florida)
*Rowan Seipp (A&M Consolidated High School, Texas)
*Tea Shouldice (Half Hollow Hills East High School, New York)
*Sahana Srikanth (Mason High School, Ohio)
*Ellie Sohn (Flintridge Preparatory School, California)
*Evelyn Tsoi (Arcadia High School, California)
*Al Zaidi (Holy Trinity Episcopal School, Florida)
*Robert Zhang (Elkins High School, Texas)