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Here is the annual wacky graph at the MBA Round Robin.  Each line represents a competitor during the tournament.  Lines that are straight illustrate a competitor holding their rank and position.  Lines that go down are illustrating a competitor moving up in ranking (e.g. going from fifth to third).  Lines going the opposite direction illustrate a competitor moving down in ranking (e.g. going from third to fifth).  Competitors do not know their lines, so it leads to much correct (and incorrect) speculation about who is who at this point in the tournament.  Do you know the line of the competitor you are rooting for?

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We are halfway through the competition at the Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin in Nashville, Tennessee. Competitors have three rounds remaining in the day and the next round will be a domestic round, with the focus on President Obama and his administration.

Last round’s experimental topic concerned the Sochi Olympics. Extempers had two fake news stories to read discussing a new terrorist attack in Russia and the disaffection in the Russian military and then had to use that information to inform their approach to one of four questions they could select on various approaches toward the Sochi Olympics, which involved moving them to Vancouver, a Western boycott of the Olympic Games, whether Vladimir Putin should meet a series of Western demands about human rights in order to get security assistance, and whether the Olympic Games should be cancelled. There will be one more experimental round in the tournament that will be domestic in nature.

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Lunch is over and the rounds have resumed at this year’s Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin.  This round features the first of two experimental rounds, where extempers handle topics and questions that are unconventional.  The exact nature of this year’s experimental round will be revealed in the next round’s pairings since competitors are unaware of what it will entail before they do their draw for the coming round.

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Round four draw has just started and after this round competitors will have a lunch break until 1:00, when draw for the next round will begin.  After lunch, competitors will have four consecutive rounds before ending competition for the evening.

The topic area for this round is U.S. economics.

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Round three draw is about to get underway as we kick off day two of the 2014 Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin.  Extempers will compete in a grueling six rounds of competition today, so today is very important for extempers looking to gain and hold position for the last two rounds tomorrow.  Luckily, all of the competitors made it to Nashville in spite of the weather, although that did not carry over to some nationally recognized critics that usually come to the tournament like Dr. Steve Moss.

The topic area for this round is American foreign policy.

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Draw has begun for round two, which is the last round of the day.  Competition will resume tomorrow at 8:30 a.m., with draw beginning at 8:00 a.m.

The topic area for this round is election 2014.


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Draw has begun for the first round of this year’s Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin.  Competitors will have two rounds tonight and the first round will run from 6:40-7:40 p.m.  Draw for the next round will take place at 7:50 p.m.

The topic area for this round is international relations.

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For those who plan on following our live coverage of this year’s Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin, here is the schedule for this week’s tournament.  The tournament will take place starting tomorrow evening and run through late Sunday afternoon.  The tournament will feature ten rounds of competition, with four rooms of four competitors.  Each round will have three judges and will feature three minute cross examination.

Our live coverage will provide the postings for the rounds, the topic areas for each round, the announcement of Exhibition Round participants, and the results of the tournament.  We will try to be as prompt as possible when putting the pairings online.

The first two days of the tournament will take place on Montgomery Bell’s campus and the last day of the tournament will be held at the tournament hotel, the Nashville Airport Marriott.

Here is this year’s tournament schedule:

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