This year’s National Individual Events Tournament of Champions (NIETOC), counting for the first time as a National Points Race event, took place at Liberty North High School in Kansas City, Missouri. The tournament rotates host sites each year. More than 100 extempers from around the country attended, providing one of the bigger fields in the country this year.

Anwen Williams of Lawrence Free State High School (KS) won the tournament, defeating #21 Pranav Gorty of Plano East Senior High School (TX) by three ranks. The tournament was tabbed cumulatively and Gorty won the final round. However, Gorty did not win the final round by enough ranks to win the championship. Williams’ victory was assisted by drawing three first place ranks in the final round, more than any other competitor. She is the first Kansas extemper to win a National Points Race tournament.

A few ranks behind Gorty was the third place finisher Rehan Buvvaji of Plano West Senior High School (TX).

#3 Daphne Kalir-Starr made the final round, joining Gorty as extempers to reach the last round of all the TOC post-season tournaments. Kalir-Starr placed fourth, the same finish that she had at the UK TOC in late April.

The geographically diverse final round, which included extempers from five states, was rounded out by Alyson Johnson of Willmar High School (MN) and Fiona Macdonald of Denver East High School (CO), who were fifth and sixth, respectively.

#1 Robert Zhang of Elkins High School (TX) was the defending champion but did not attend to defend his title.

Several other ranked extempers were in the field and cleared to elimination rounds. #19 Aparna Iyer of Ridge High School (NJ) reached quarter-finals and #12 Andrew Zheng of the Harker School (CA) was an octa-finalist finisher.

The NIETOC was a fourth tier event, so all extempers who reached semi-finals will earn points. For winning the tournament Williams will receive 70 points.

Here are the results of the 2025 National Individual Events Tournament of Champions (Click here for tab sheet):

Champion: Anwen Williams (Lawrence Free State High School, Kansas)
2nd: Pranav Gorty (Plano East Senior High School, Texas)
3rd: Rehan Buvvaji (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
4th: Daphne Kalir-Starr (The College Preparatory School, California)
5th: Alyson Johnson (Willmar High School, Minnesota)
6th: Fiona Macdonald (Denver East High School, Colorado)

Semi-Finalists

*Sophia Amundgaard (Stillwater Area High School, Minnesota)
*Cody Brown (Jenks High School, Oklahoma)
*Angelo Ferris (Plano East Senior High School, Texas)
*Paul Fertig (Mounds Park Academy, Minnesota)
*Daniel Mitchell (Rocky Mountain High School, Colorado)
*Hunter Payne (Cypress Ranch High School, Texas)

Quarter-Finalists

*Shresta Antil (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Shahab Barlz (Rock Bridge High School, Missouri)
*M.J. Chu (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Kaitlyn Fan (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Joy Hu (The Harker School, California)
*Aparna Iyer (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Simon Johnson (North Kansas City High School, Missouri)
*Larkyn Kellen (Moorhead High School, Minnesota)
*Boyana Nikolova (Irondale High School, Minnesota)
*Aditi Patel (Rock Bridge High School, Missouri)
*Tyler Phillips (Princeton High School, Texas)
*Zoey Qin (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Rishi Raichur (East Ridge High School, Minnesota)
*Sam Rein-Strutz (Moorhead High School, Minnesota)
*Amal Sastry (Mounds Park Academy, Minnesota)
*Ashmiza Shalk (Millard North High School, Nebraska)
*Roshan Shivnani (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
*Sadie Zwonitzer (Cheyenne East High School, Wyoming)

Octa-Finalists

*Imaya Ambati (Woodbury High School, Minnesota)
*Aadil Ali (Harrisburg High School, South Dakota)
*Shrihan Avilala (Shakopee High School, Minnesota)
*Ravi Bhat (Carlsbad High School, California)
*Nate Brothers (Rock Bridge High School, Missouri)
*Lucas Dong (Woodbury High School, Minnesota)
*Jonah Downs (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Simon Forbes (Orono High School, Minnesota)
*Gary Hao (Millard West High School, Nebraska)
*Aanya Jain (American Heritage School – Broward, Florida)
*Avery Johnson (Hickman High School, Missouri)
*Tristan Khoshyomn (Greenwood Lab School, Missouri)
*Addie Kreger (Perry High School, Ohio)
*Arjun Kumar (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Samuel Kuykendall (San Angelo Central High School, Texas)
*Beth Lancaster (Belton High School, Missouri)
*Andrew Lee (Jasper High School, Texas)
*Jinu Lee (Moorhead High School, Minnesota)
*Belinda Lutterman (Fairmont Senior High School, Minnesota)
*Vivek Rajdev (Khan Lab School, California)
*Anokhi Shah (Eagan High School, Minnesota)
*Anvi Sharma (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Alana Trevino (Northside Warren High School, Texas)
*Feven Tsfaye (Burnsville High School, Minnesota)
*Jack Unsell (Park Hill High School, Missouri)
*Ella Venzke (Stillwater Area High School, Minnesota)
*Akash Vukoti (San Angelo Central High School, Texas)
*Amber Wang (The Harker School, California)
*Albert Yao (The Harker School, California)
*Andrew Zheng (Acalanes High School, California)

Extemp Central thanks organizers of the NIETOC for posting the results online.