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With the 2014-2015 national circuit season beginning next weekend in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who are the extempers that might be destined for big things? In this season preview Extemp Central breaks down the eighteen extempers who could make waves in the National Points Race. Extempers are listed alphabetically, and all of those listed, save one who we could not contact, shared some information about their goals for the season and future plans.
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by Logan Scisco
Today, Extemp Central presents part two of its 2013-2014 Year in Review, covering the season’s top seven memorable, surprising, and controversial moments.
Part one of Extemp Central’s 2013-2014 Year in Review can be found here.
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by Logan Scisco
The 2013-2014 season ended several weeks ago in Overland Park, Kansas. The season yielded some record breaking moments, surprising upsets, and unusual situations. Extemp Central compiled the top fifteen stories of the national circuit season as part of its review of 2013-2014, with stories chosen for their historical value, newsworthiness, and controversial nature.
This first part of our review will cover stories ranked #8-#15. Check back tomorrow to see which stories cracked the top seven.
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On Monday, the 2014 National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament will begin in Overland Park, Kansas. More than 400 extempers will compete in International Extemp or United States Extemp in what is the largest speech tournament of the season.
There are five major storylines for this year’s NSDA National Tournament. Extemp Central has compiled them for competitors and casual observers of the national circuit as they participate and follow next week’s action.
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The topic areas for this year’s National Catholic Forensic League (NCFL) Grand National Tournament have been released. There are nine topic areas. Since the tournament is eight rounds, one of these topic areas will not be used. The topic areas are:
NCFL Grand Nationals utilizes an interesting question writing system where coaches, competitors, and fans of the event can send questions about these topic areas to tournament officials. Those who are interested in sending questions about any of the topic areas above are encouraged to e-mail them to [email protected] by April 18, 2014.
Extemp Central is happy to announce that Gabe Ferrante of Iona Preparatory (NY), last year’s NCFL National Champion, will be writing a free analysis of this year’s topic areas. This analysis will identify major issues in each area extempers should be aware of, provide some strategy tips on navigating the tournament, and provide some sample questions from each topic area that extempers can practice with before the tournament. We hope to release this topic analysis sometime during the first week of May.
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Adam Johnson, tournament director of the Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin, also known as the Billy Tate Memorial Southern Bell Forum Extemporaneous Speaking Round Robin, has just released the field for this year’s tournament. The competition will take place on the campus of Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee over three days from January 3rd-5th and will feature sixteen of the best extempers in the country. This year’s field features five returning participants, three of which made last year’s Exhibition Round. The field also features six finalists from last year’s NFL National Tournament and includes the defending United States Extemp National Champion, Arel Rende of Booker T. Washington High School (OK).
Extempers are invited to compete based on their results at national circuit events since last year’s tournament and their performance at CFL and NFL Nationals. This year’s tournament will be the first held since the passing of Billy Tate, the head coach of Montgomery Bell Academy, National Forensic League Hall of Famer, and President of the NFL from 1998-2012.
Extemp Central will provide its annual live coverage of the event and will break down the field in the coming weeks. The Round Robin is the first “major” tournament on the extemp calendar and is the first leg of the Grand Slam of extemporaneous speaking, which includes MBA, the Extemp TOC, CFL Nationals, and NFL Nationals. Lily Nellans of Des Moines Roosevelt High School (IA) is the two-time defending champion and if she successfully defends her title she will tie Kevin Troy’s record for most career major titles with six. Troy, who competed for Eagan High School (MN), is the only extemper to win the Grand Slam. He accomplished that feat in 2005.
Here is this year’s field (* indicates returning participant):
*Brian Anderson (LaRue County High School, Kentucky)
*Vaikunth Balaji (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
*Rohan Dhoopar (Bellarmine College Preparatory, California)
*Jack Glaser (George Washington High School, Colorado)
*Jad Hamdan (Jackson High School, Ohio)*
*Chase Harrison (Millburn High School, New Jersey)*
*Christopher Jordan (Brophy College Preparatory, Arizona)
*Lyubov Kapko (Tempe Preparatory, Arizona)
*Davis Larkin (Parish Episcopal School, Texas)
*Lily Nellans (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)*
*Jasper Primack (Newton South High School, Massachusetts)
*Arel Rende (Booker T. Washington High School, Oklahoma)
*Miles Saffran (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)*
*Gabe Slater (Denver East High School, Colorado)
*Will Walker (Fullerton Joint Union High School, California)
*Josh Wartel (Lake Braddock Secondary School, Virginia)*
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Here is the list of participants in this year’s George Mason University Patriot Games Extemp Round Robin Tournament, which will take place this weekend in Fairfax, Virginia. The tournament features eight competitors and is a head-to-head competition. Each extemper will compete against the other and acquire wins and losses throughout the composition. The two competitors that post the best win-loss records will participate in an Exhibition Round against each other. This year’s field features four finalists from last year’s NFL National Tournament and a collection of winners from this year’s major national circuit tournaments. Last year’s champion was Lily Nellans of Des Moines Roosevelt High School (IA), who will try to become the first two-time champion in tournament history. We thank Bill Thompson for providing us with this list and wish all competitors the best of luck in the Round Robin.
*Carunya Achar (Cypress Creek High School, Texas)
*Brian Anderson (LaRue County High School, Kentucky)
*Chase Harrison (Millburn High School, New Jersey)
*Rabul Nanchahal (Freedom High School, Virginia)
*Lily Nellans (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
*Miles Saffran (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Josh Wartel (Lake Braddock Secondary School, Virginia)
*Henry Zelenka (Kent Denver School, Colorado)
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Courtesy of Bill Thompson, here are the semi-final pairings at this year’s Glenbrooks. The quarter-finals are also included in the post below. Congratulations to all extempers who made the semi-final round and due to the size of the field all extempers who made the quarter-final round earned qualifying legs for the 2014 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC).
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Courtesy of Bill Thompson of LaRue County High School (KY), here are pictures of the round one, round two, and round three pairings at this week’s Glenbrooks tournament. Click on the “continue reading” button below to look at the pairing sheets.
We hope to provide more updates as the tournament moves along.
This year, Extemp Central did not continue its National Points Race, but the site Debate Rankings, sponsored by the Institute for Speech and Debate, conducted their own national rankings throughout the season. Here are the top ten extempers in the country according to Debate Rankings:
1st: Lily Nellans (Des Moines Roosevelt HS, Iowa)-1420 pts.
2nd: Nathan Leys (Des Moines Roosevelt HS, Iowa)-1235 pts.
3rd: Chase Harrison (Millburn HS, New Jersey)-855 pts.
4th: Josh Wartel (Lake Braddock Secondary School, VA)-650 pts.
5th: Gabe Ferrante (Iona Preparatory School, NY)-610 pts.
6th: Allison McKibban (El Dorado HS, KS)-520 pts.
7th: Adam Stromme (Eagan HS, MN)-510 pts.
8th: Cyrus Ghaznavi (Parish Episcopal School, TX)-500 pts.
9th: Kohinoor Gill (Desert Vista HS, AZ)-480 pts.
10th: Ashesh Rambachan (Eastview HS, MN)-410 pts.
If you would like to see the full listing of this year’s extemp rankings, click here. You can also view rankings for other speech and debate events at Debate Rankings as well. I’m not certain if the National Points Race will return next season, but if it does expect to see a few changes.
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The list of participants in this year’s Texas Capital City Extemp Round Robin have been announced. The tournament will feature sixteen Texas extempers and will take place this weekend. Extemp Central wishes these participants the best of luck and we will provide you with the results of the tournament next week.
*Blade Angel (Lake Travis High School)
*Marcela Arevalo (Klein High School)
*Lindsey Butler (Hendrickson High School)
*Tim Dominguez (Southlake Carroll High School)
*David Engleman (L.C. Anderson High School)
*Cyrus Ghaznavi (The Parish Episcopal School)
*Tushar Madan (Plano West High School)
*Matt Marxer (Byron Nelson High School)
*Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School)
*Diana Pop (Newman Smith High School)
*Sanjana Puri (Flower Mound High School)
*Alex Pustelnyk (Lake Travis High School)
*Tanya Rajan (Newman Smith High School)
*Zachary Stone (Plano West High School)
*Arvind Venkataraman (Southlake Carroll High School)
*Sara Wofford (L.C. Anderson High School)
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Here are the announced finalists for the 2011 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions at Northwestern University. These extempers, as well as te finalists, earned foruth tier National Points Race points. Thanks to Robert Sheard for these posting updates.
*Emily Bell (Ladue Horton Watkins High School, Missouri)
*Ben Constine (Yorktown High School, Virginia)
*Susan Czaikowski (Lamar Consolidated High School, Texas)
*Matthew Hinojosa (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
*Matt Rauen (Pennsbury High School, Pennsylvania)
*Dylan Slinger (Lakeville South High School, Minnesota)
Quarter-Finalists for the 2011 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) have been released. All of these individuals have earned an automatic qualification to next year’s TOC. These come courtesy of Robert Sheard. Some competitors information has not been collected, so if you know who certain people are below, please let us know by commenting in this post or e-mailing me at [email protected].
Thanks to Robert Sheard, we have a listing of the Harvard extemp finalists. Draw for the round starts at 8:30 a.m. and the final round kicks off at 9:00 a.m. Congratulations to the finalists and Extemp Central hopes to provide a full listing of results from Harvard when the tournament finishes today.
*Henry Chapman (Millburn High School, New Jersey)
*Nathaniel Donahue (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
*Shikha Garg (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
*Curan Mehra (Scarsdale High School, New York)
*Sam Reynolds (Mount Lebanon Senior High School, Pennsylvania)
*Peter Vogel (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
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The list of participants in this year’s Texas Capital City Extemp Round Robin have been announced. The tournament will feature sixteen Texas extempers and will take place this weekend at the Westover Church of Christ in Austin, Texas. Extemp Central wishes these participants the best of luck and we will provide you with the results of the tournament next week.
*Lindsey Butler (Hendrickson High School)
*Ricky Chiang (Westwood High School)
*Jennifer Conner (Plano West High School)
*Kimia Dargahi (L.C. Anderson High School)
*Matthew Hinojosa (Flower Mound High School)
*William Hoenig (Lake Travis High School)
*Nick Lowrimore (Southlake Carroll High School)
*Akshay Narayanan (Plano Senior High School)
*Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School)
*Bushra Rahman (Alief Elsik High School)
*Jessica Rubio (Big Spring High School)
*Paul Samuel (Southlake Carroll High School)
*Suchee Shah (Ronald Reagan High School)
*Arvind Venkataraman (Southlake Carroll High School)
*Neal White (Lake Travis High School)
*Joshua Yun (Flower Mound High School)
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