The 2010 George Mason University Patriot Games has just concluded and Extemp Central can report that Nathaniel Donahue of Durham Academy in North Carolina is the champion. This was the fourth National Points Race tournament final for Donahue this season and after enduring three consecutive second place finishes, he broke into the winner’s circle in Fairfax this weekend. Donahue’s victory will give him a large lead in the National Points Race going into the Montgomery Bell Extemp Round Robin in January. Nabeel Zewail of San Marino High School in California finished second and was denied in his bid to win the GMU Round Robin and Patriot Games Tournament in the same year. Last year’s Wake Forest champion Emily Martin of Boone County High School in Kentucky took third and fellow Round Robin competitors Jason Singh of Green Valley High School in Nevada and Emily Bell of Ladue Horton Watkins High School in Missouri finished fourth and sixth respectively. Ross Slaughter of Walt Whitman High School in Maryland, who was a third place finisher at the Glenbrooks several weeks ago, placed fifth.
New National Points Race rankings, MBA Bracketology, and TOC qual board updates will be posted later in the week.
Here are the results of the 2010 George Mason University Patriot Games: