Results are in from the 2010 Glenbrooks have just come in. After an intense competition involving many of the names in this year’s National Points Race, Dylan Slinger of Lakeville South High School in Minnesota edged out National Points leader Nathaniel Donahue of Durham Academy in North Carolina by one rank in the tournament’s final round. Slinger took three of the five available first place ranks, while Donahue took the other two. Slinger picked up two four’s from the other two judges on the panel, but Donahue pulled a heartbreaking six after receiving two second place ranks. This was the first major national circuit appearance for Slinger, last year’s CFL national champion and final round national champion in United States Extemp at the NFL National Tournament. Unbelievably, this is Donahue’s third consecutive finish at a National Points Race tournament this year, as he placed second at Wake Forest and Yale earlier in the season. Slinger’s victory keeps the Glenbrooks extemp title in Minnesota for a second consecutive year.
In other tournament news, Monte Vista High School in California placed two extempers in the final round. Jason Kim placed fourth and Louis Li, last year’s California state champion in International Extemp, placed sixth. Kim and Li’s respective finishes will be a boost to Monte Vista’s standing in this year’s National Team Point Race. The other extempers to make finals were Ross Slaughter of Walt Whitman High School in Maryland, who placed third, and Kimia Dargahi of L.C. Anderson High School in Texas, who placed fifth.
Several prominent extempers saw an early exit from the tournament. Yale winner Curan Mehra of Scarsdale High School in New York dropped in preliminary rounds, Jared Odessky of Nova High School dropped in quarter-finals, and Catherine Chiodo of Des Moines Roosevelt High School in Iowa and Nabeel Zewail of San Marino High School in California dropped in semi-finals.
Since the Glenbrooks is a third tier tournament all of the extempers who broke will receive National Points Race points. The National Points Race standings, the Extemp TOC qual board, and the MBA Bracketology page will be updated later in the week to reflect this weekend’s events.