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Last week, the Crestian Tradition, the successor of the Crestian Classic, took place at Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Florida. The tournament featured thirty-one extempers and Noah Wexler of Nova Senior High School (FL) emerged victorious in the final round by one rank over Daniel Greene of the University School (FL). Wexler did not take a single first place rank in the final, but his straight 2’s were good enough to triumph, demonstrating that consistency can be a speaker’s best weapon. The final round featured extempers from Florida, Texas, and California and Nova Senior High School placed two extempers in the final, which was more than any other school.
Due to the size of the tournament field, only the extempers that reached the final round receive a qualifying leg to the Extemp TOC. Those extempers who earned a qualifying leg are indicated in italics below. In total, five extempers received a qualifying leg from the tournament and two of them, Wexler and Justin Graham of Trinity Preparatory School (FL), who placed fourth, acquired a second qualifying leg, making them the second and third extempers, respectively, to tentatively qualify at-large to the 2014 Extemp TOC.
There are no TOC qualfying tournaments this weekend, but next weekend will feature two opportunities for extempers to earn qualifying legs: the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational in Dallas, Texas, which will allow extempers in the U.S. Extemp and International Extemp categories a chance to earn two qualifying legs, and the Cal State University-Fullerton High School Tournament in Fullerton, California.
Here are the results of the 2013 Crestian Tradition (Click here for tab sheets)