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New standings for the 2024-2025 Extemp Central National Points Race are have been posted to reflect the results of the Florida Blue Key.  Check them out by clicking here or the “Natl Points Race” tab above.

There is a new leader in the National Points Race as Al Zaidi of Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy (FL) grabbed the top spot after a third place finish at Glenbrooks.

This weekend features the first triple header in National Points Race history.  The University of Texas-Austin’s Longhorn Classic, the Princeton Classic, and the George Mason University Patriot Games will close the first semester, offering points to extempers from different regions of the country.  The Longhorn Classic will be a third tier event, the Princeton Classic will be a fourth tier event, and the Patriot Games will be a fifth tier event.  The outcome of these tournaments has the potential to significantly shake up this year’s standings and will be the last chance for extempers to impress for bids to the 2025 Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin.

New standings for the 2024-2025 Extemp Central National Points Race are have been posted to reflect the results of the Florida Blue Key.  Check them out by clicking here or the “Natl Points Race” tab above.

Robert Zhang of Elkins High School (TX) still leads the competition but his lead has been trimmed considerably after Al Zaidi of Holy Trinity Episcopal School (FL) finished runner-up at the Blue Key.

The next National Points Race event will be the Glenbrooks, taking place next weekend.  It will be the first third tier tournament in this year’s National Points Race, awarding 100 points to its winner and points to all extempers who reach the quarter-final round.

The first standings for the 2024-2025 Extemp Central National Points Race are up! Check them out by clicking here or the “Natl Points Race” tab above.

Robert Zhang of Elkins High School (TX) has the lead after winning two of the first three National Points Race tournaments.  17 extempers have earned points in this year’s competition.

The next National Points Race event will be the Florida Blue Key, hosted by the University of Florida in Gainesville.  Blue Key was upgraded in the offseason, so this year it will be a fourth tier event, awarding points to finalists and semi-finalists.  Charlotte Reitman of NSU University School (FL) will be defending champion.

Next month the 2024-2025 national circuit season will begin online when the University of Kentucky hosts its annual National Speech and Debate Season Opener.  And that means the return of the Extemp Central National Points Race, which is entering its tenth year.

The Extemp Central National Points Race is a season-long competition that seeks to identify the top extempers across a select group of prestigious national circuit events.  Extemp Central recognizes that in some years the top extemper in the nation may not win the National Points Race due to the inability of some competitors to travel extensively.  Still, seven national champions are among the nine previous National Points Race winners.

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Final standings for the 2023-2024 Extemp Central National Points Race have been posted.  Check them out by clicking here or the “Natl Points Race” tab above.

In the closest National Points Race in nine years, Brandon Cheng of Flintridge Preparatory School (CA) won the National Points Race by 39 points over Sruti Peddi of BASIS Scottsdale (AZ).  Cheng was powered to the championship by one win in six National Points Race final round appearances.  He is the first Californian to win the National Points Race since the 2009-2010 season when Jacob Baker of Bellarmine College Preparatory won the title.

California had a strong year nationally as three of its extempers finished in the top 10, the most of any state.

Updated standings for the 2023-2024 Extemp Central National Points Race have been released.  Check them out by clicking here or the “Natl Points Race” tab above.

The new standings do not reflect much of a change at the top as highly ranked competitors did not attend this year’s Extemp TOC or the National Catholic Forensic League (NCFL) Grand National Tournament.  Sruti Peddi of BASIS Scottsdale (AZ) remains the nation’s number one ranked extemper, holding a 106 point lead with one tournament remaining.

That tournament will be the National Speech and Debate Association (NSDA) National Tournament in Des Moines, Iowa.  The last top 25 before NSDA decides which extemp category at NSDA will receive a 50 points bonus.  Since 15 of the top 25 competitors are doing International Extemp, this means that the winner of International Extemp will earn 250 points and the final round winner will receive 50 points.  The winner of United States Extemp, which has 5 ranked competitors, will receive 200 points and the final round winner will receive 40 points.

Updated standings for the 2023-2024 Extemp Central National Points Race have been released.  Check them out by clicking here or the “Natl Points Race” tab above.

The new standings reflect the result of last weekend’s University of Kentucky Tournament of Champions (TOC).  Charlotte Reitman of NSU University School (FL) was the winner of that competition and earned 100 points.

This weekend features the other prominent Tournament of Champions (TOC) event on the calendar when Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois hosts its annual TOC of Extemporaneous Speaking.  The season’s second major is another third tier event and the winner will receive 100 points.  All competitors who reach the quarter-final round will also receive points.