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TOC Qualifier Results: James Logan High School MLK Invitational

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On January 17, 2011

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Here are the results of the James Logan High School Martin Luther King, Jr. Invitational, held on January 14th-16th.  This tournament was an Extemp TOC qualifier and all elimination round participants earned TOC bids.

U.S. Extemp

Champion:  Vijay Singh (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
2nd:  Madhu Vijay (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
3rd:  Kevin Ye (Gabrielino High School, California)
4th:  Kelly Wu (Leland High School, California)
5th:  Anna Diep (Gabrielino High School, California)
6th:  Kevin Ha (Gabrielino High School, California)

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TOC Qualifier Results: The Sunvitational

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On January 11, 2011

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Here are the results of the 3rd annual Sunvitational, held in South Florida at the University School.  The tournament was an Extemp TOC qualifier and all elimination round participants earned TOC bids.

Champion:  James Fishback (Western High School, Florida)
2nd:  Eryn Hughes (St. Thomas High School, Florida)
3rd:  Brandon Slotkin (Nova High School, Florida)
4th:  Bruno Mastrodicasa (St. Thomas High School, Florida)
5th:  Max Curtis (Nova High School, Florida)
6th:  Erica Turret (Stoneman Douglas High School, Florida)

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Live from the 2011 MBA Extemp Round Robin: Nabeel Zewail Coasts to Victory in the Tournament and the Exhibition Round; Donahue Takes Second

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On January 9, 2011

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The 2011 MBA Extemp Round Robin is now a part of history.  The 2011 winner is Nabeel Zewail of San Marino High School in California.  Zewail went wire-to-wire, never relinquishing first place during the ten rounds of the tournament.  He also took first place on nine of the eleven ballots in the Exhibition Round, which is an MBA record.  Both of Zewail’s national circuit victories have been in round robin tournaments.  He won the George Mason University Extemp Round Robin last month.  He is the first California extemper to win the Round Robin and the fourth extemper in the tournament’s thirteen year history to win the tournament and the Exhibition Round in the same year.  Nathaniel Donahue of Durham Academy in North Carolina, the leader in the National Points Race, placed second in the tournament.  In the Exhibition Round, Jared Odessky of Nova High School in Florida, who placed third in the tournament, finished second to Zewail.  The topic area of the Exhibition Round was recent news, as all questions were taken from news that had transpired over the last twenty-four hours.

The Exhibition Round was recorded by the National Forensic League and will be posted on NFL TV.  Jason Warren provided some post-round comments, which will make the video very insightful for extempers.  When the video is posted on NFL TV, we will link to it here at Extemp Central.

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TOC Qualifier Results: Dowling Catholic Paradigm

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On December 13, 2010

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In the midst of blizzard conditions, the 2010 Catholic Paradigm Tournament was held over the weekend.  The tournament is a major tournament in the Upper Midwest region and is a qualifier for the 2011 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions.  All of the extempers who made elimination rounds earned TOC bids.

Champion: Forrest Richardson (Savannah R3 High School, Missouri)
2nd: Eric Mattson (Lincoln East, Nebraska)
3rd: Samantha Karas (Lincoln East, Nebraska)
4th: Nathan Leys (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
5th: Taylor Johnson (Marshfield High School, Missouri)
6th: Kayleigh Courard-Hauri (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)

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TOC Qualifier Results: The George Armstrong Heart of Illinois Invitational

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On December 7, 2010

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‎Here are the results from the George Armstrong Heart of Illinois Invitational, held at Bradley University on December 3rd and 4th.  This tournament was an Extemp TOC qualifier so all elimination round participants earned TOC bids.

Champion:  Ryan Cunningham (Fullerton Joint Union, California)
2nd:  Jackson Gzehoviak (Millard North HS, Nebraska)
3rd:  Bryton Hiatt (Plymouth High School, Indiana)
4th:  Alex Buckley (Downers Grove North High School, Illinois)
5th:  Emily Temple-Wood (Downers Grove North High School, Illinois)
6th:  Patrick Felke (Plymouth High School, Indiana)

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TOC Qualifier Results: University of Texas Longhorn Classic

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On December 7, 2010

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Here are the results from the 2010 University of Texas Longhorn Classic, held at the University of Texas at Austin on December 3rd and 4th.  This tournament was an Extemp TOC qualifier so all elimination round participants earned TOC bids.

International Extemp

Champion:  Arvind Venkataraman (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
2nd:  Brittany Bradshaw (Victoria East High School, Texas)
3rd:  Suchee Shah (Ronald Reagan High School, Texas)
4th:  Susan Czaikowski (Lamar Consolidated High School, Texas)
5th:  Nikita Kansra (Travis High School, Texas)
6th:  Tuyen Pham (Travis High School, Texas)
7th:  Nicole Vital (Lamar Consolidated High School, Texas)
8th:  Cristina Facci (Booker T. Washington High School, Oklahoma)

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TOC Qualifier Results: The Princeton Classic

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On December 7, 2010

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Here are the results from the Princeton Classic, held at Princeton University on December 3rd-5th.  This tournament was an Extemp TOC qualifier so all elimination round participants earned TOC bids.

Champion:  Amode Tembhekar (Leland High School, California)
2nd:  Lindsay Pearlman (Syosset High School, New York)
3rd:  Sam Reynolds (Mt. Lebanon High School, Pennsylvania)
4th:  Neil Hannan (Regis High School, New York)
5th:  Trevor Joyce (Syosset High School, New York)
6th:  Zach Klein (Montville High School, New Jersey)

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2010 George Mason University Patriot Games: Fourth Time’s a Charm as Donahue Breaks Through

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On December 5, 2010

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The 2010 George Mason University Patriot Games has just concluded and Extemp Central can report that Nathaniel Donahue of Durham Academy in North Carolina is the champion.  This was the fourth National Points Race tournament final for Donahue this season and after enduring three consecutive second place finishes, he broke into the winner’s circle in Fairfax this weekend.  Donahue’s victory will give him a large lead in the National Points Race going into the Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin in January.  Nabeel Zewail of San Marino High School in California finished second and was denied in his bid to win the GMU Round Robin and Patriot Games Tournament in the same year.  Last year’s Wake Forest champion Emily Martin of Boone County High School in Kentucky took third and fellow Round Robin competitors Jason Singh of Green Valley High School in Nevada and Emily Bell of Ladue Horton Watkins High School in Missouri finished fourth and sixth respectively.  Ross Slaughter of Walt Whitman High School in Maryland, who was a third place finisher at the Glenbrooks several weeks ago, placed fifth.

New National Points Race rankings, MBA Bracketology, and TOC qual board updates will be posted later in the week.

Here are the results of the 2010 George Mason University Patriot Games:

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GMU Extemp Round Robin: Zewail Defeats Constine, Wins Second National Circuit Championship

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On December 3, 2010

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Today, eight extempers competed in the fifth annual George Mason University Patriot Games Extemp Round Robin.  Seven one-on-one preliminary rounds set up a final between Nabeel Zewail of San Marino High School in California and Ben Constine of Yorktown High School in Virginia, which Zewail won for his second career national circuit championship.  Reports indicate that Catherine Chiodo of Des Moines Roosevelt High School in Iowa finished third.

The following extempers were non-placing participants in this year’s Round Robin:  Emily Bell of Ladue Horton Watkins High School in Missouri, Joe Calder of Cary Academy in North Carolina, Emily Martin of Boone County High School in Kentucky, Jason Singh of Green Valley High School in Nevada, and Alex Song of Millburn High School in New Jersey.

George Mason’s Patriot Games Tournament, which is an Extemp TOC qualifier and a third tier tournament in the 2010-2011 Extemp Central National Points Race, begins tomorrow.  Zewail will attempt to become the third extemper in tournament history to win the Round Robin and the Patriot Games Tournament in the same year.  When Extemp Central gets information about breaks we will make sure to bring them to you as quickly as possible.

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TOC Qualifier Results: 2010 Villiger Tournament (Pennsylvania)

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On November 24, 2010

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Here are the results of the 2010 Villiger Tournament, held at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 20th and 21st. All of the elimination round participants earned bids to the 2011 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) at Northwestern University.

Champion: Sheha Walia (Shrewsbury High School, Massachusetts)
2nd: Nick Hansen (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
3rd: Brendan Zehner (St. Joseph’s Preparatory, Pennsylvania)
4th: Justin Kieran (Newton South High School, Massachusetts)
5th: Stephen Buell (Regis High School, New York)
6th: Christopher Grillo (Regis High School, New York)

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2010 Glenbrooks: Slinger Edges Donahue to Keep the Title in Minnesota; Monte Vista Places Two Extempers in Finals

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On November 21, 2010

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Results are in from the 2010 Glenbrooks have just come in.  After an intense competition involving many of the names in this year’s National Points Race, Dylan Slinger of Lakeville South High School in Minnesota edged out National Points leader Nathaniel Donahue of Durham Academy in North Carolina by one rank in the tournament’s final round.  Slinger took three of the five available first place ranks, while Donahue took the other two.  Slinger picked up two four’s from the other two judges on the panel, but Donahue pulled a heartbreaking six after receiving two second place ranks.  This was the first major national circuit appearance for Slinger, last year’s CFL national champion and final round national champion in United States Extemp at the NFL National Tournament.  Unbelievably, this is Donahue’s third consecutive finish at a National Points Race tournament this year, as he placed second at Wake Forest and Yale earlier in the season.  Slinger’s victory keeps the Glenbrooks extemp title in Minnesota for a second consecutive year.

In other tournament news, Monte Vista High School in California placed two extempers in the final round.  Jason Kim placed fourth and Louis Li, last year’s California state champion in International Extemp, placed sixth.  Kim and Li’s respective finishes will be a boost to Monte Vista’s standing in this year’s National Team Point Race.  The other extempers to make finals were Ross Slaughter of Walt Whitman High School in Maryland, who placed third, and Kimia Dargahi of L.C. Anderson High School in Texas, who placed fifth.

Several prominent extempers saw an early exit from the tournament.  Yale winner Curan Mehra of Scarsdale High School in New York dropped in preliminary rounds, Jared Odessky of Nova High School dropped in quarter-finals, and Catherine Chiodo of Des Moines Roosevelt High School in Iowa and Nabeel Zewail of San Marino High School in California dropped in semi-finals.

Since the Glenbrooks is a third tier tournament all of the extempers who broke will receive National Points Race points.  The National Points Race standings, the Extemp TOC qual board, and the MBA Bracketology page will be updated later in the week to reflect this weekend’s events.

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2010 Florida Blue Key: Calder Wins International, Odessky Wins U.S., Chiodo and Slotkin Final in Both

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On November 4, 2010

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Last weekend, competitors converged on the University of Florida for the 2010 Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament.  The tournament allowed extempers to do International and United States Extemporaneous Speaking and there was a lot of volatility in the final results.  Joseph Calder of Cary Academy in North Carolina, who was invited to compete at this year’s George Mason University Patriot Games Round Robin, won the International Extemp competition, while Jared Odessky of Nova High School in Florida won the United States Extemp competition.  Odessky adds this title to the International Extemp title he won last year at Blue Key.  Catherine Chiodo of Des Moines Roosevelt High School in Iowa, who will also be competing at the George Mason Round Robin, and Brandon Slotkin of Nova High School in Florida were the only extempers to final in both extemp categories.  Chiodo placed fourth in the United States Extemp portion and sixth in the International Extemp portion and Slotkin took fifth in both categories.

Since the Florida Blue Key is a qualifier for the 2011 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC), all of the competitors listed below earned TOC bids.

Here are the results from the 2010 Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament:

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2010 Florida Blue Key: Extemp Round Robin Results

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On October 29, 2010

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Yesterday, the 2010 Florida Blue Key Tournament kicked off with round robins in extemporaneous speaking, public forum debate, and congressional debate. The extemporaneous speaking round robin had six competitors from three different states.

Here are the results of the 2010 Florida Blue Key Extemp Round Robin:

Champion: Nathaniel Donahue (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
2nd: Jared Odessky (Nova High School, Florida)
3rd: Rishi Bajaj (Trinity Prep, Florida)
4th: Catherine Chiodo (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
5th: Indira Puri (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
6th: Matt DeBari (Lake Highland Prep, Florida)

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St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Results Corrected

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On October 18, 2010

In National Circuit Results

Several readers pointed out some inaccuracies in our report about St. Mark’s results.  In International Extemp, Karthik Sastry of Montgomery Bell Academy took fourth and Nikki Sachdeva of Plano East High School took fifth.  In United States Extemp, Shikha Garg of Plano Senior High School took fourth, while Neal White of Lake Travis High School took fifth.

Extemp Central apologies for the errors and thanks its readers for pointing them out so that they could be immediately corrected.  The initial results page for St. Mark’s has been updated to reflect these changes and can be found here.

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2010 St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational: Narayanan and Sachdeva Split Titles

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On October 17, 2010

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Over the weekend, extempers from Texas, Iowa, and Tennessee battled it out at the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational in Dallas, Texas.  The tournament allowed extempers to participate in International and United States Extemp categories and broke to quarter-finals this year.  In International Extemp, Akshay Narayanan of Plano Senior High School in Texas emerged victorious.  Nikki Sachdeva of Plano East High School in Texas won the United States Extemp portion.

Here are the results from the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational.  Thanks to Adam Johnson and local Texas sources, we are able to give you the results of the final rounds of International and United States extemp as well as the semi-finalists in each category.

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