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.
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The first day of competition at the Extemp TOC has concluded. There were a few drops, which reduced the field to 67 competitors. Quarter-finals is scheduled to go off tomorrow at 8 a.m., with an announcement of the 24 quarter-final participants scheduled at 7:30 a.m. Unfortunately, Northwestern University wasn’t very accomodating with their wireless passwords for guests across the entire campus so the live updates we had planned will likely not be able to take place. If anything changes, Extemp Central will let you know but results will be posted around 2 or 3 in the morning on Monday.
Some of the notable people competing in this year’s TOC include: Nabeel Zewail, Oscar Wang, Nathaniel Donahue, Mirza Germovic, Shaan Heng-Devan, Haydn Forrest, Audrey Denis, Emily Martin, Amelia Martin, and Kat Leung. There are others in the field, but these were some that were spotted at registration/early this morning.
Registration for the Extemp TOC concluded several hours ago and Extemp Central can provide some information about this year’s eighth annual Extemp Tournament of Champions (TOC) at Northwestern University. This year’s tournament has 69 competitors, which is twenty more than last year’s competition. Tournament directors are attributing this to increased Texas participation in this year’s field and the lack of swine flu scares. The expanded field will allow the tournament to break to quarter-finals on Sunday. Also, unlike last year’s competition, all rounds will be held at Northwestern’s campus tomorrow and Sunday.
For those unfamiliar with the TOC, the tournament has six preliminary rounds of competition. Each round has two judges and competitors have their lowest prelim rank dropped. The first four preliminary rounds are preset and the last two are power matched. In elimination rounds, the tournament utilizes five judge panels (seven for finals) and open cross-examination. For competitors who do not make elimination rounds, there is a supplemental impromptu competition that they can enter.