At last weekend’s California Invitational at Berkeley, a fifth tier tournament in the National Points Race, Amode Tembhekar successfully defended his championship and earned forty points in this year’s National Points Race. Tembhekar’s school, Leland High School, took the top three places at the tournament, an impressive feat that will make the team a contender in this year’s National Team Points Race standings. The only finalist who had earned points at a National Points Race Tournament so far this year was Louis Li, last year’s California state champion in International Extemporaneous Speaking. Li finished sixth this year at Glenbrooks and finished fourth last weekend. Thank you to Robert Sheard and Chris Wardner for providing us with results.
Since the California Invitational is an Extemp TOC qualifier, all of the elimination round participants earned Extemp TOC bids. The top six finishers earned National Points Race points and the National Points Race will be updated tomorrow to reflect the results of Harvard and Berkeley.
Champion: Amode Tembhekar (Leland High School, California)
2nd: Adil Majid (Leland High School, California)
3rd: Mihir Bhaskar (Leland High School, California)
4th: Louis Li (Monte Vista High School, California)
5th: James Thomas (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
6th: Myke Samuels (Cherry Creek High School, Colorado)
7th: Conor Bean (Miramonte High School, California)
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