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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The National Points Race have been updated based on the results of the Yale University 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-October to reflect the results of the St. Marks Heart of Texas Invitational.
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The first standings in the 2010-2011 Extemp Central National Points Race have been posted. These standings reflect the results of the Wake Forest National Early Bird Tournament. You can check out the standings by clicking on the National Points Race tab above or by clicking here.
The standings will be updated next week to reflect the results of the Yale Invitational, which is happening this weekend in New Haven, Connecticut.
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by Logan Scisco
Last month, Extemp Central revealed the tournaments that will make up this year’s Extemp Central National Points Race. Unlike last year, no tournaments were dropped from the National Points Race, although George Mason University Patriot Games and the Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions switched tiers. The decision to keep the California Invitational in the fifth tier aroused criticism, but the placement decisions are final for the 2010-2011 season. Any changes in the California Invitational’s position, as well as that of any other tournament, will take place after the National Forensic League (NFL) National Speech and Debate Tournament in June.
This year’s first and second tier each have one tournament. These are the most prestigious tournaments of the year and are the tournaments that extempers aspire to win the most.
Extempers who finish in the octo-final and quarter-final rounds in the first tier tournament will be awarded points in the National Points Race.
Just like last year, the third tier of the Extemp Central National Points Race has more tournaments than any other tier. With the Extemp TOC falling into the fourth tier, find out which tournament moved up.
Also, this year there will be a change in how third tier tournaments are tabulated. Instead of points only being given to finalists, students who reach quarter-final and semi-final rounds at these tournaments will also receive points. A breakdown of how points are awarded will be revealed next week.
The following tournaments have been selected as fourth tier tournaments for the 2010-2011 National Points Race. The criteria in selecting these three tournaments for this tier is that they had more participation or higher quality fields than tournaments in the fifth tier, but lacked the prestige and/or the extremely wide participation of tournaments in the third tier.
This year, Extemp Central will award points for the finalists AND semi-finalists of these tournaments. A complete listing of the points that will be awarded will be announced next week.
This year the Extemp Central National Points Race will keep the five tiered system that was introduced last year. Tournaments in this year’s fifth tier will award points for all finalists, or those that finish in the top six if there are more than six finalists.
Below are the tournaments that will compose this year’s fifth tier of the National Points Race.
Before each new extemp season, a set of pre-season rankings serve as a valuable starting point. Competitors like to know how they match up against each other and are interested to see who is returning to the circuit. Extemp Central looked over last year’s results and put together a pre-season top ten based simply on last year’s National Points Race standings. The logic goes that the standings showed finishes that were accumulated by competitors during last season at major tournaments and since points in the National Points Race are only given out for final placings (with the exception of nationals), all of the competitors below had some major showings last year.
by Logan Scisco
The Extemp Central National Points Race is a competition designed to reward extempers for placing high at selected national circuit competitions throughout the year. Tournaments are placed into five tiers based on their level of prestige and each tier awards a different amount of points towards the top six finishers (CFL and NFL Nationals award points for semi-finalists). To find out what point value tournaments are worth, check out the first issue of The Ex Files on the tab above. At the end of the season, the winner of the National Points Race will receive a customary glass trophy recognizing their achievement courtesy of Extemp Central.
Extemp Central also sponsors a National Team Points Race competition. When extempers compete and place highly at selected tournaments they earn points for themselves and their school. In the case of a tie, the number of finalists schools have had throughout the year is used as a tiebreaker.
After three days of competition, the final rounds for International and United States extemporaneous speaking are set for NFL Nationals. Of those in the National Points Race, James Mohan of Danville High School (Kentucky), Jacob Baker of Bellarmine College Prep (California), and Steven Elliott of Lakeville North High School (Minnesota) are in the International Extemp final. In United States extemp, CFL national champion Dylan Slinger of Lakeville South High School (Minnesota) and Oscar Wang of San Marino High School (California) are still alive. National Points Race leader Dillon Huff dropped in the quarter-final round of International extemp and that has given all of the extempers listed above an opportunity to walk away with the National Points Race trophy tomorrow evening. Nabeel Zewail and Aaron Lutkowitz, where were ranked behind Huff in the National Points Race, were eliminated from the IX octofinal and quarter-final rounds, respectively.
Based on the fact that the finalists listed above need to accumulate 320 points to pass Dillon Huff and take the National Points Race title, Extemp Central has broken down what placings the extempers in those rounds will need to do that. The number listed beside the placing is what their point total will look like if they achieve that position. The number in parenthesis is the amount of points they will earn if they earn that placing and win the final round.
The National Forensic League national tournament next week in Kansas City, Missouri will decide this year’s Extemp Central National Points Race and National Team Points Race. NFL Nationals is the only first tier tournament in the National Points Race and unlike last year, the title is not clinched prior to the tournament. The fourteen extempers who make the semi-final round will be battling for the 200 points that will go to the tournament champion. Extempers will then earn points on a graduate scale from 200 to 25 based on their finish from first through fourteenth place. To see how points are awarded in the National Points Race, check out the Wake Forest edition of the Ex Files for this season by clicking on the Ex Files tab at the top of the page.
Based on the fact that extempers can only earn a maximum of 225 points at NFL Nationals, all extempers who have less than 125 points in the National Points Race are mathematically eliminated from winning the championship. The following extempers have a mathematical chance of winning the title:
The 2009-2010 Extemp Central National Points Race standings have been updated to reflect the results of the Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) at Northwestern University. After new results were put in, the National Points Race has become more competitive and the National Team Points Race has a new leader. To check out the new standings, click on the “Natl Points Race” tab at the top of this page or click here.
There are two National Points Race tournaments remaining: CFL and NFL Nationals. CFL is a third tier tournament and will provide 100 points to the winner. NFL Nationals is the only first tier tournament on the schedule and it will provide 200 points to its winner and 25 additional bonus points to the winners of the USX and IX final rounds. With these tournaments remaining, the National Points Race is still up in the air so keep following Extemp Central through NFL to find out who the 2009-2010 National Points Race champion will be.
Unsurprisingly, after the Harvard Invitational and the California Invitational there is some shake up in the National Points Race standings. While the top of the standings did not go through much change, there were significant shakeups in the middle of the pack for the individual and team points race contests. Click here or click on the “National Points Race” tab on the top of this page to check it out.