The draw for round four is currently taking and here are the subsequent pairings for that round.  After this round there will be a lunch break for an hour and forty-five minutes.  Draw for round five will begin at 1:45.  Each extempers National Points Race rank is identified within parenthesis to the left of their name.

The topic area for this round is Domestic Politics.

Section One::  Diane Forbes, Robert Kelly, and Cheryl Potts

Judges

1.  (NR) Jane Kessner (Walt Whitman High School, Maryland)
2. (6) Jared Odessky (Nova High School, Florida)
3. (T7) Oscar Wang (San Marino High School, California)
4. (T7) Nabeel Zewail (San Marino High School, California)

Section Two:: Anjan Choudhury, Lisa Miller, and John Moynihan

Judges

1. (T15) Rohan Bhargava (Jackson High School, Ohio)
2. (NR) Karen Zhou (Lakeville North High School, Minnesota)
3. (NR) Gabriela Barahona (Spring High School, Texas)
4. (12) Mirza Germovic (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)

Section Three:: Carly Anne Barnes, Sebastian Pyrek, and Tom Wall

Judges

1. (1) Dillon Huff (Southlake Carroll High School, Texas)
2. (2) Steven Elliott (Lakeville North High School, Minnesota)
3. (T17) Shahid Ahmed (Plano Senior High School, Texas)
4. (T9) Tyler Fabbri (Chesterton High School, Indiana)

Section Four:: Howard Miller, Seth Peckham, and Stacey Chen

Judges

1. (3) Jacob Baker (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
2. (T9) James Mohan (Danville High School, Kentucky)
3. (T4) Anna Gunderson (Desert Vista High School, Arizona)
4. (T4) Aaron Lutkowitz (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)