Here is a calendar of this year’s major extemp tournaments. These tournaments count for the 2024-2025 National Points Race and/or are other notable tournaments nationally.
If a tournament is a National Points Race event, its tier and points for a champion are listed underneath it in red.
NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE SEASON OPENER HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY
Date: September 7-9, 2024
Location: NSDA Campus
Last Year’s Champion: Amy Cao (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
Fifth tier National Points Race event (40 points)
YALE UNIVERSITY INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT
Date: September 20-22, 2024
Location: Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
Last Year’s Champion: Amy Cao (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
Fourth tier National Points Race event (70 points)
THE NEW YORK CITY INVITATIONAL
Date: October 18-20. 2024
Location: The Bronx High School of Science in New York, New York
Last Year’s Champion: Eshaal Ubaid (Stuyvesant High School, New York)
Fifth tier National Points Race event (40 points)
FLORIDA BLUE KEY SPEECH & DEBATE TOURNAMENT
Date: November 1-3, 2024
Location: University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida
Last Year’s Champion: Charlotte Reitman (The University School, Florida)
Fourth tier National Points Race event (70 points)
THE GLENBROOKS
Date: November 23-24, 2024
Location: Glenbrook North High School in Northbrook, Illinois
Last Year’s Champion: Lishore Kumar (Tomball Memorial High School, Texas)
Third tier National Points Race event (100 points)
VILLIGER
Date: November 23-24, 2024
Location: St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Last Year’s Champion: Madeline White (Gwynedd Mercy High School, Pennsylvania)
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS LONGHORN CLASSIC
Date: December 6-8, 2024
Location: The University of Texas-Austin in Austin, Texas
Last Year’s International Extemp Champion: Katherine Lee (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
Last Year’s United States Extemp Champion: Waleed Haider (Hendrickson High School, Texas)
Third tier National Points Race event (100 points)
THE PRINCETON CLASSIC
Date: TBD
Location: Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey
Last Year’s Champion: Eshaal Ubaid (Stuyvesant High School, New York)
Fourth tier National Points Race event (70 points)
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY PATRIOT GAMES TOURNAMENT
Date: TBD
Location: George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia
Last Year’s Champion: Siri Ural (Shrewsbury High School, Massachusetts)
Fifth tier National Points Race event (40 points)
MONTGOMERY BELL EXTEMP ROUND ROBIN
Date: January 4-5, 2025
Location: Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee
Last Year’s Champion: April Zhang (Neuqua Valley High School, Illinois)
Second tier National Points Race event (150 points)
JAMES LOGAN HIGH SCHOOL MLK INVITATIONAL
Date: January 17-19, 2025
Location: James Logan High School in Union City, California
Last Year’s International Extemp Champion: Abhijay Rana (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
Last Year’s United States Extemp Champion: Evelyn Tsoi (Velasquez Academy, California)
Fifth tier National Points Race event (40 points)
BARKLEY FORUM FOR HIGH SCHOOLS
Date: January 24-26, 2025
Location: Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia
Last Year’s Champion: Katherine Lee (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
Fourth tier National Points Race event (70 points)
APPLE VALLEY MINNEAPPLE SPEECH TOURNAMENT
Date: TBD
Location: Apple Valley High School in Apple Valley, Minnesota
Last Year’s International Extemp Champion: Eunsol Lee (Woodbury High School, Minnesota)
Last Year’s United States Extemp Champion: Nick Zylstra (Eastview High School, Minnesota)
Fifth tier National Points Race event (40 points)
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LIBERTY BELL CLASSIC
Date: TBD
Location: University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Last Year’s Champion: Akshaya Karanam (Mount Saint Mary Academy, New Jersey)
STANFORD NATIONAL INVITATIONAL
Date: February 8-10, 2025
Location: NSDA Campus
Last Year’s International Extemp Champion: Brandon Cheng (Flintridge Preparatory School, California)
Last Year’s United States Extemp Champion: Matthew Abrams (George Washington High School, Colorado)
Fourth tier National Points Race event (70 points)
HARVARD NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE TOURNAMENT
Date: February 15-17, 2025
Location: Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Last Year’s Champion: Sruti Peddi (BASIS Scottsdale, Arizona)
Second tier National Points Race event (150 points)
CALIFORNIA INVITATIONAL FORENSIC TOURNAMENT
Date: February 15-17, 2025
Location: University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California
Last Year’s Champion: Austin Bauman (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
Third tier National Points Race event (100 points)
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
Date: April 26-28, 2025
Location: University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky
Last Year’s Champion: Charlotte Reitman (The University School, Florida)
Third tier National Points Race event (100 points)
EXTEMP TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
Date: TBD
Location: Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois
Last Year’s Champion: Sasha Morel (Plano West Senior High School, Texas)
Fourth tier National Points Race event (70 points)
DIGITAL SPEECH & DEBATE E CHAMPIONSHIP
Date: TBD
Location: NSDA Campus
Last Year’s International Extemp Champion: Geoffrey Foong (San Marino High School, California)
Last Year’s United States Extemp Champion: Emma Parker (Princeton High School, Texas)
NATIONAL INDIVIDUAL EVENTS TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
Date: May 16-18, 2025
Location: Liberty North High School in Kansas City, Missouri
Last Year’s Champion: Robert Zhang (Elkins High School, Texas)
Fourth tier National Points Race event (70 points)
NATIONAL CATHOLIC FORENSIC LEAGUE GRAND NATIONAL TOURNAMENT
Date: May 24-25, 2025
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Last Year’s National Champion: Amy Cao (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
Second tier National Points Race event (150 points)
NATIONAL SPEECH AND DEBATE ASSOCIATION NATIONAL TOURNAMENT
Date: June 15-20, 2025
Location: Des Moines Area, Iowa
Last Year’s International Extemp National Champion: Anthony Babu (Concord-Carlisle High School, Massachusetts)
Last Year’s United States Extemp National Champion: Tea Shouldice (Half Hollow Hills High School East, New York)
First tier National Points Race event (200/250 points + 40/50 final round points)