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The new 2011-2012 Extemp Central National Points Race standings have been released. These standings reflect the results of the Florida Blue Key. Check out these standings by clicking on the National Points Race tab above or by clicking here.

Our calculations for Blue Key, based on the same system used for St. Mark’s, came out as follows:

1st: Lily Nellans (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa) (4 points)
2nd: Nathan Leys (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa) (6 points)
3rd: Joe Calder (Cary Academy, North Carolina) (20 points)
4th: Eryn Hughes (St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Florida) (30 points)
5th: Carolyn Evans (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa) (32 points)
T6th: Jason Singh (Green Valley High School, Nevada) (34 points)
T6th: Matt DeBari (Lake Highland Preparatory, Florida) (34 points)

As a result of being the top overall extemper at the Blue Key, Nellans will earn 40 National Points Race points. Singh and DeBari will equally split the ten points available for sixth place and will receive five National Points Race points each in the new standings.

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Since the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational allows extempers to do International and United States Extemp, Extemp Central combines extemper’s finishes in each category to prevent counting both as separate tournaments and giving extempers who attended St. Mark’s an advantage over other competitors in the National Points Race.  Prior to St. Mark’s, Extemp Central announced how it would determine which extempers would receive National Points Race points.  At St. Mark’s, extempers received points based on their finishes in International and United States Extemp.  The six extempers with the lowest point totals were awarded National Points Race points.

Here is a quick rehash of that system:

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Starting tomorrow, the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational will take place in Dallas, Texas.  The tournament is unique in that it allows extempers to do both United States and International Extemp.  The St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational is a fifth tier tournament and is the third tournament of the year in the Extemp Central National Points Race.

To award points at this event, Extemp Central will combine extempers performance in U.S. and International Extemp categories.  For each part of the tournament extempers will receive points based on their finish.  The points awarded go as follows:

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This year, there will not be a significant shake up in the Extemp Central National Points Race, which is heading into its fourth year.  The five different tiers will remain and while new tournaments have been added and some have been shifted around, the points that are offered at the tournament will not be adjusted.  Except for the case of a tournament that was just moved into the second tier, the same points structure that existed last year will remain intact.

The only major change is going to occur in how the National Team Points Race is tabulated.  In the past, it was possible for one competitor to win the National Team Points Race for their squad.  The most notable example of this is when Stacey Chen helped North Allegheny Senior High School defeat Bellarmine College Prep during the inaugural year of the National Points Race.  This year, in an attempt to make the race more of a “team” event, an extemper’s top three finishes during a season will count towards their team total.  Any finishes beyond this will not count toward their school.  For example, if an extemper were to win NFL, MBA, GMU, Yale, and Wake Forest, their finishes at NFL, MBA, and GMU would be the only ones counted because those would be their top three finishes relative to the points they earn in the National Points Race.

Here is a quick overview of the tournaments in this year’s National Points Race.

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The first issue of this year’s Ex Files magazine revealed that the way the National Forensic League (NFL) National Tournament was computed in the National Points Race would be different for the 2010-2011 season.  Instead of awarding the same amount of points, which was 200 last year, to both United States and International Extemp, Extemp Central decided to give weight to the extemp category that had the most participants in the top 25 of the National Points Race after the Catholic Forensic League (CFL) Grand National Tournament.  The category with more participants will earn bonus points and the winner will receive 250 points, instead of the usual 200.  Other participants in the category will earn more points for their placings from finals to octofinals relative to their counterparts in the other extemp category.  In cases of a tie, the winners of both categories would receive 200 points, with no bonus awarded.

Here is how this year’s NFL field shakes out based on the information that Extemp Central has been able to obtain.  The extemper’s rank in this year’s National Points Race is placed in parenthesis to the left of their name.

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The 2010-2011 Extemp Central National Points Race and National Team Points Race standings have been updated to reflect the results of the Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions. Check out the newest standings by clicking on the National Points Race tab above or by clicking here.

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The 2010-2011 Extemp Central National Points Race and National Team Points Race standings have been updated to reflect the results of Harvard and the California Invitational. Check out the newest standings by clicking on the National Points Race tab above or by clicking here.

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The 2010-2011 Extemp Central National Points Race and National Team Points Race standings have been updated to reflect the results of the Barkley Forum. The tournament only caused a few minor positions to change in the rankings.  You can find out what those changes are by clicking on the National Points Race tab above or by clicking here.

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The 2010-2011 Extemp Central National Points Race and National Team Points Race standings have been updated to reflect the results of the Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin. There are some new names and teams in the latest rankings so find out who they are by clicking on the “Natl Pts Race” tab above or clicking here.

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The 2010-2011 Extemp Central National Points Race and National Team Points Race standings have been updated to reflect the results of the George Mason University Patriot Games Tournament.  There are some new names and teams in the latest rankings so find out who they are by clicking on the “Natl Pts Race” tab above or clicking here.

The Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin, the only second tier tournament in the National Points Race, is the next National Points Race tournament and it will take place in four weeks in Nashville, Tennessee.  Extemp Central will provide live coverage of this event, as well as several preview pieces for it in the weeks ahead.

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The 2010-2011 Extemp Central National Points Race and National Team Points Race standings have been updated to reflect the results of last week’s Glenbrooks Tournament.  Find out who made a move in the individual and team points races by clicking on the National Points Race tab above or clicking here.

The next National Points Race tournament can’t come soon enough as next week’s George Mason University Patriot Games Tournament is a third tier tournament that will offer 100 points to the winner and points to quarter-final and semi-final finishers.  George Mason is the last National Points Race tournament of first semester and it will set the National Points Race standings before the Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin in early January.  It is also the last chance for extempers who are on the MBA bubble to solidify their chances of making the field.

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The National Points Race have been updated based on the results of the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational. You can check out the standings by clicking on the National Points Race tab above or by clicking here.

The standings will be updated in mid-November to reflect the results of the Glenbrooks.

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Since the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational allows extempers to do International and United States Extemp, Extemp Central combines extemper’s finishes in each category to prevent counting both as separate tournaments and giving extempers who attended St. Mark’s an advantage over other competitors in the National Points Race.  Prior to St. Mark’s, Extemp Central announced how it would determine which extempers would receive National Points Race points.  At St. Mark’s, extempers received points based on their finishes in International and United States Extemp.  The six extempers with the lowest point totals were awarded National Points Race points.

Here is a quick rehash of that system:

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