Unfortunately, the lack of a wireless connection prohibited live coverage from yesterday’s elimination rounds at the TOC. Despite that, this post contains the pairings for the quarter-final, semi-final, and final rounds so everyone can see how the tournament developed. The number in parenthesis is the seeding of the extemper based on preliminary results. It took a cumulative score of 32 across 11 ballots (the lowest rank of each extemper was dropped in prelims) to break to quarter-finals.
Quarter-Finals
Section One
Judges: P. Zehner, P. Gupta, C. Hill, G. Viswanathan, and W. Hoenig
1. (9) Taylor Rayne Smyth ((Calvert Hall College High School, Maryland)
2. (14) Brittany Bradshaw (Memorial High School, Texas)
3. (25) Katherine Leung (Albuquerque Academy, New Mexico)
4. (17) Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
5. (6) Shaan Hang Devan (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
6. (1) Oscar Wang (San Marino High School, California)
7. (24) Samantha Karas (Lincoln East High School, Nebraska)
Section Two
Judges: J. Uhler, N. Frederick, T. Zacahas, R. Stauffer, and J. Ting
1. (10) Rachel Yang (San Marino High School, California)
2. (2) Haley Wheat (Whitehouse High School, Texas)
3. (20) Amy Chen (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
4. (7) Susan Czaikowski (Lamar Consolidated High School, Texas)
5. (15) Teagan Lende (Fargo Shanley High School, North Dakota)
6. (23) Audrey Denis (Berkeley Carroll School, New York)
Section Three
Judges: J. Rhodes, J. Hiew, J. Fox, S. Gusman, and Seth Phillips
1. (19) Grayson Clark (Lamar Consolidated High School, Texas)
2. (16) Hani Zewail (San Marino High School, California)
3. (8) Valerie Shen (James Madison Memorial High School, Wisconsin)
4. (3) Haydn Forrest (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
5. (11) Maesen Churchill (Lincoln East High School, Nebraska)
6. (22) Emily Martin (Boone County High School, Kentucky)
Section Four
Judges: C. Dietz, E. Blankenship, Pellicciotto, J. Voss, and M. Davis
1. (21) Vance Lindholm (Saratoga High School, California)
2. (4) Mirza Germovic (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
3. (18) Matt Linn (University School, Florida)
4. (5) Nathaniel Donahue (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
5. (13) Scott Hancox (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
6. (12) Nabeel Zewail (San Marino High School, California)
Semi-Finals
Section One
Judges: Berkman, Chris Mair, Joe Knudsen, J. Blough, and B. Sain
1. (4) Mirza Germovic (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
2. (10) Rachel Yang (San Marino High School, California)
3. (3) Haydn Forrest (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
4. (24) Samantha Karas (Lincoln East High School, Nebraska)
5. (22) Emily Martin (Boone County High School, Kentucky)
6. (1) Oscar Wang (San Marino High School, California)
Section Two
Judges: Harry Strong, K. Nash, Jack Chen, S. Holmes, and E. O’Hare
1. (6) Shaan Hang Devan (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
2. (12) Nabeel Zewail (San Marino High School, California)
3. (2) Haley Wheat (Whitehouse High School, Texas)
4. (8) Valerie Shen (James Madison Memorial High School, Wisconsin)
5. (5) Nathaniel Donahue (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
6. (7) Susan Czaikowski (Lamar Consolidated High School, Texas)
Finals
Judges: Ryan Lauth, Steven Moss, Jason Warren, Ryan Murphy, Logan Scisco, Becky Suhr, Michael Garson, Weston Elkins, and J. Hill
1. (1) Oscar Wang (San Marino High School, California)
2. (12) Nabeel Zewail (San Marino High School, California)
3. (8) Valerie Shen (James Madison Memorial High School, Wisconsin)
4. (3) Haydn Forrest (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
5. (6) Shaan Hang Devan (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
6. (4) Mirza Germovic (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)