Tag: 2010-2011 Extemp Central National Points Race

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.

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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.

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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.

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