After finishing up round one, competitors are currently prepping for round two. This will be the last round of the first day of the tournament. Each extempers National Points Race rank is identified within parenthesis to the left of their name.
The topic area for this round will be Europe.
After some brief words of advice from tournament director Adam Johnson, the pairings for the first round of the 2010 Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin have been released. Each extempers National Points Race rank is identified within parenthesis to the left of their name.
The topic area for this round will be Constitutional Issues, Courts, and States.
As a reminder, today is the last day that you can enter the Extemp Central MBA pick’em contest. If you can correctly choose the order of finish for the top five extempers in the tournaments you can receive such prizes as gifts from SpeechGeek.com and iTunes and Starbucks gift cards. For rules and procedures click here. The deadline for receiving entries to the contest is at 5:00 p.m. EST today so give it a shot!
Also, live coverage of tonight’s Round Robin begins this evening. Tonight will see the first two rounds of competition, followed by six rounds tomorrow, and three rounds on Sunday. Late Sunday afternoon will see the Exhibition Round and awards take place. The draw for the first round takes place at 7:10 p.m. and if everything goes according to plan this is the time that Extemp Central will be able to post round one pairings. We will also keep you notified if any of the snow that has hit the central U.S. has prevented any competitors from attending and if there are any last minute substitutions.
Don’t forget that you have until 5:00 p.m. on Friday to enter our 2010 MBA Pick’em contest. The contest asks you to predict the order of finish for the top five extempers at the tournament. Prizes include vouchers for SpeechGeek products, iTunes and Starbucks gift cards among other things.
To view the rules and procedures of the contest click here.
Everyone thinks they are an expert about rounds. Just go to a tournament, watch a final round that has a decent number of audience members, and after it is done listen in on what everyone thinks about it. Everyone has their own opinion about how the round went and how they’d rank it. Well this time, Extemp Central is asking you to put those skills to work and predict the top five extempers at the 2010 MBA Extemp Round Robin.
For the MBA Extemp Round Robin, the 16 competitors are placed into four rooms of four in each of the ten rounds of competition. There is a three-minute cross-examination period in each round and there is a balance between rounds that are United States and International extemp oriented. Competitors will hit each other twice and are judged in each round by a panel of three judges. Unlike last year, there will be no crossover between LD and extemp judges at the Round Robin. At the end of the ten rounds, the top five extempers go to an Exhibition Round that is adjudicated by the eleven extempers who do not make the Exhibition Round. Their scores determine who wins it and if there is a tie this year it will be broken by a panel of Round Robin alumni (confirmed Round Robin alumni that will be there this year include Jason Warren, Stacey Chen, Hunter Kendrick, and Logan Scisco among many others). Keep in mind, though, that the Exhibition Round scores are not put together with ranks from the ten rounds prior to the Exhibition Round. In other words, the Exhibition Round simply stands by itself.
So what are you playing for? Here are the prizes.
Here is the very last installment of profiles for the sixteen competitors who will be at the 2010 MBA Extemp Round Robin. This last installment details Florida’s competitor in this year’s field, a pair of teammates from California that are making their MBA debut, and a Minnesota state champion who is making her return to the tournament.
Keep in mind that tomorrow on Extemp Central we return to providing you with regular content on the website and will unveil the rules of our contest where you can predict the order of finish for the top five competitors at the Round Robin and the winner of the Exhibition Round. At stake will be gift certificates/cards to SpeechGeek, iTunes, and Starbucks.
Here is the third day of profiles for the competitors at the 2010 Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin. Today’s profiles center around three of the four competitors who are returning to this year’s field.
Don’t forget that Monday will be the 2010 launch of content at Extemp Central. The weekly news quiz will be posted as well as the day’s R&D. The MBA Round Robin contest will also be announced with rules, procedures, etc. MBA Round Robin live coverage will begin late Friday evening and run through Sunday afternoon when the tournament concludes. We hope that you will check the site for updates to follow the action.
Here is day two of our profiles of the sixteen competitors who will face each other next weekend at the 2010 Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin, a second tier tournament in this year’s National Points Race that will award 150 points to the winner.
This year’s tournament is dominated by International extemporaneous speaking competitors. It also has an unusually high amount of seniors as only two extempers competing in the tournament are juniors. Texas and California have the largest contingents at the tournament with three extempers each. This is the third consecutive year at the Round Robin that Texas has either had or shared this distinction.
Starting today and running through Sunday, Extemp Central will be providing detailed profiles of the sixteen extempers that have been invited to this year’s Extemp Round Robin at Montgomery Bell Academy. These extempers will be competing for 150 National Points Race points and the opportunity to add their name to a distinguished list of champions at arguably the most prestigious extemp tournament of the year.
Just like last year, Extemp Central will provide live coverage of the event by providing pairings for rounds as well as Exhibition Round participants when they become available on Sunday afternoon. Results will also be provided after the tournament concludes.
Extemp Central will also be having a contest where readers will have the opportunity to win prizes by guessing the exact placing of the top five extempers at the tournament. This contest will open Monday and run through mid-day Friday. Further details will be provided on Monday.
The profiles of the sixteen extempers attending will be grouped into fours and will be listed in alphabetical order.
Adam Johnson, tournament director for the Montgomery Bell Academy Round Robin, has posted the field of competitors for the 2010 edition on Forensics Online.
The January 8-10, 2010, Round Robins in extemp and Lincoln-Douglas debate will feature some of the nation’s top competitors.
The Extemp round robin will feature 10 rounds with 4 competitors in each of the 4 sections. The extempers will meet exactly once in the first 5 rounds and exactly once in the subsequent 5 rounds. The top 5 competitors will advance to an exhibition round. Each and every round will feature 3 minute cross-examination.
Best of all, Extemp Central will once again bring you live coverage of the tournament round-by-round. Until then, here’s the field of competitors.
Shahid Ahmed – Plano Senior High School (Plano, Texas)
Jacob Baker – Bellarmine College Preparatory (San Jose, California)
Gabriela Barahona – Spring High School (Spring, Texas)
Rohan Bhargava – Jackson High School (Massillon, Ohio)
Steven Elliott – Lakeville North High School (Lakeville, Minnesota)
Tyler Fabbri – Chesterton High School (Chesterton, Indiana)
Mirza Germovic – Theodore Roosevelt High School (Des Moines, Iowa)
Anna Gunderson – Desert Vista High School (Phoenix, Arizona)
Dillon Huff – Carroll Senior High School (Southlake, Texas)
Jane Kessner – Walt Whitman High School (Bethesda, Maryland)
Aaron Lutkowitz – Montgomery Bell Academy (Nashville, Tennessee)
James Mohan – Danville High School (Danville, Kentucky)
Jared Odessky – Nova High School (Davie, Florida)
Oscar Wang – San Marino High School (San Marino, California)
Nabeel Zewail – San Marino High School (San Marino, California)
Karen Zhou – Lakeville North High School (Lakeville, Minnesota)
The 2009 Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin has concluded and here
are the final results:
1st place: Matt Arons (Millburn HS, New Jersey)
2nd place: Evan Larson (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
3rd place: Stacey Chen (North Allegheny Senior HS, Pennsylvania)
4th place: Nicholas Cugini (Cypress Ridge HS, Texas)
5th place: Dillon Huff (Southlake Carroll HS, Texas)
6th place: Jane Kessner (Walt Whitman HS, Maryland)
It took a cumulative score of 63 across ten rounds to make the Exhibition Round (the top five). The winner of the Exhibition Round was Dillon Huff.
It is interesting to also note that in rounds that were labeled as IX topic areas, Matt Arons beat the field, but in US Extemp topics Stacey Chen was the best.
The ten rounds of competition at the MBA Extemp Round Robin have been completed. Adam Johnson, the director of the MBA Extemp Round Robin, has just released the names of the Exhibition Round competitors.
Here are your Exhibition Round participants for the 2009 Round Robin. They are listed in the order that they will speak for the round:
*Stacey Chen (North Allegheny Senior HS, Pennsylvania)
*Nicholas Cugini (Cypress Ridge HS, Texas)
*Evan Larson (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
*Dillon Huff (Southlake Carroll HS, Texas)
*Matt Arons (Millburn HS, New Jersey)
The Exhibition Round will be judged by the other eleven competitors who did not make it and there will be a guest judge on the panel that is still TBA. Prep for the Exhibition Round begins in ten minutes.
In five minutes, draw for the very last preliminary round of the 2009 Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin will begin. The topic area for this round is U.S. Economics.
Here are the pairings for the final round of competition. Remember, that under the MBA format, this last round will determine competitors final placings of one through sixteen, with the top five competitors moving onto an Exhibition Round later this afternoon.
Section One:
Judges: Scott Baker, George Clemens, and Jon Cruz
1. Aaron Lutkowitz (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
2. Jason Bell (Ladue Horton Watkins HS, Missouri)
3. Dillon Huff (Southlake Carroll HS, Texas)
4. Evan Larson (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
Section Two:
Judges: Tim Hogan, Sam Duby, and Logan Scisco
1. Brennan Morris (Randolph Macon Academy, Virginia)
2. Amanda Johnson (Eagan HS, Minnesota)
3. Nicholas Cugini (Cypress Ridge HS, Texas)
4. Morgan Booksh (McNeil HS, Texas)
Section Three:
Judges: Neil Conrad, Howard Miller, and Eric Melin
1. Jane Kessner (Walt Whitman HS, Maryland)
2. Rahul Sangal (Plano East HS, Texas)
3. Alex Tolkin (Newton South HS, Massachusetts)
4. Karen Zhou (Lakeville North HS, Minnesota)
Section Four:
Judges: Diane Forbes, Corey Metzman, and Tim Greenfield
1. Ryan Pereira (Nova HS, Florida)
2. Stacey Chen (North Allegheny Senior HS, Pennsylvania)
3. Matthew Arons (Millburn HS, New Jersey)
4. Alex Draime (Howland HS, Ohio)
Following the completion of this round, there will be lunch for the competitors and the Exhibition Round participants will be announced in the library at 1:35 p.m. CST. Extemp Central will release those participants as they are announced by Adam Johnson at that time, with results following later this evening.
Here are the pairings for round nine of the MBA Extemp Round Robin. The topic for this round is international relations.
Section One:
Judges: Liz Vieira, Bill Healy, and Neil Conrad
1. Dillon Huff (Southlake Carroll HS, Texas)
2. Jane Kessner (Walt Whitman HS, Maryland)
3. Brennan Morris (Randolph Macon Academy, Virginia)
4. Matthew Arons (Millburn HS, New Jersey)
Section Two:
Judges: Brian Raymond, Matt Murrell, and Dean Rhoads
1. Nicholas Cugini (Cypress Ridge HS, Texas)
2. Evan Larson (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
3. Rahul Sangal (Plano East HS, Texas)
4. Ryan Pereira (Nova HS, Florida)
Section Three:
Judges: Steve Moss, Anjan Choudhury, and Joe Vaughan
1. Alex Tolkin (Newton South HS, Massachusetts)
2. Stacey Chen (North Allegheny Senior HS, Pennsylvania)
3. Aaron Lutkowitz (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
4. Amanda Johnson (Eagan HS, Minnesota)
Section Four:
Judges: Diane Forbes, Corey Metzman, and B.A. Gregg
1. Alex Draime (Howland HS, Ohio)
2. Karen Zhou (Lakeville North HS, Minnesota)
3. Morgan Booksh (McNeil HS, Texas)
4. Jason Bell (Ladue Horton Watkins HS, Missouri)
Starting at 7:30 p.m. CST, the MBA Extemp Round Robin begins its last day of competition. According to the rankings line graph, the top positions are still close, with lots of movement in the top ten spots. The lines from 11th-16th place are becoming more consistent, though.
Today’s competition involves three more preliminary rounds and the Exhibition Round will take place in the late afternoon. Awards is scheduled for after 4:00, and results will be posted later this evening.
Here are the pairings for round eight. The topic area will be U.S. politics.
Section One:
Judges: B.A. Gregg, Justin Seiwell, and Scott Baker
1. Morgan Booksh (McNeil HS, Texas)
2. Aaron Lutkowitz (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
3. Jane Kessner (Walt Whitman HS, Maryland)
4. Ryan Pereira (Nova HS, Florida)
Section Two:
Judges: George Clemens, Cherian Koshy, and Dan Sheehan
1. Dillon Huff (Southlake Carroll HS, Texas)
2. Alex Tolkin (Newton South HS, Massachusetts)
3. Alex Draime (Howland HS, Ohio)
4. Nicholas Cugini (Cypress Ridge HS, Texas)
Section Three:
Judges: Jimmy Ficaro, Jason Warren, and Sam Duby
1. Jason Bell (Ladue Horton Watkins HS, Missouri)
2. Amanda Johnson (Eagan HS, Minnesota)
3. Matthew Arons (Millburn HS, New Jersey)
4. Rahul Sangal (Plano East HS, Texas)
Section Four:
Judges: Ron Kendler, Anjan Choudhury, and Eric Melin
1. Karen Zhou (Lakeville North HS, Minnesota)
2. Evan Larson (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
3. Brennan Morris (Randolph Macon Academy, Virginia)
4. Stacey Chen (North Allegheny Senior HS, Pennsylvania)
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