Don’t forget that you have until 5:00 p.m. on Friday to enter our 2010 MBA Pick’em contest. The contest asks you to predict the order of finish for the top five extempers at the tournament. Prizes include vouchers for SpeechGeek products, iTunes and Starbucks gift cards among other things.
To view the rules and procedures of the contest click here.
Everyone thinks they are an expert about rounds. Just go to a tournament, watch a final round that has a decent number of audience members, and after it is done listen in on what everyone thinks about it. Everyone has their own opinion about how the round went and how they’d rank it. Well this time, Extemp Central is asking you to put those skills to work and predict the top five extempers at the 2010 MBA Extemp Round Robin.
For the MBA Extemp Round Robin, the 16 competitors are placed into four rooms of four in each of the ten rounds of competition. There is a three-minute cross-examination period in each round and there is a balance between rounds that are United States and International extemp oriented. Competitors will hit each other twice and are judged in each round by a panel of three judges. Unlike last year, there will be no crossover between LD and extemp judges at the Round Robin. At the end of the ten rounds, the top five extempers go to an Exhibition Round that is adjudicated by the eleven extempers who do not make the Exhibition Round. Their scores determine who wins it and if there is a tie this year it will be broken by a panel of Round Robin alumni (confirmed Round Robin alumni that will be there this year include Jason Warren, Stacey Chen, Hunter Kendrick, and Logan Scisco among many others). Keep in mind, though, that the Exhibition Round scores are not put together with ranks from the ten rounds prior to the Exhibition Round. In other words, the Exhibition Round simply stands by itself.
So what are you playing for? Here are the prizes.
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