Draw is currently underway for round nine, one of the last two rounds at the 2011 MBA Extemp Round Robin. Extempers will finish these two rounds, have a lunch break, and the Exhibition Round participants will be announced shortly after 1:30. The eighth round last night was a second experimental round, which is unusual because MBA typically only has one experimental round each year. In this second experimental round, extempers were given hypothetical scenarios and a question to accompany each scenario. They then had to answer that question in their speech. For example, an extemper may draw “The Democrats win the 2010 midterm elections. Where do they go from here?” Extempers will be jockeying for position today, as the top five extempers will make the Exhibition Round this afternoon and the top six will receive National Points Race points. In this round, Nathaniel Donahue and Nabeel Zewail, two of the top three extempers in the National Points Race will face off in section one. Each extempers National Points Race rank is identified within parenthesis to the left of their name.
The topic area for this round is judicial, constitutional, and federalism issues.
