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At last weekend’s Yale Invitational in New Haven, Connecticut, Miles Saffran of Trinity Preparatory School (FL) won his second consecutive national circuit tournament of the season with a commanding victory over 2011 Yale champion Chase Harrison of Millburn High School (NJ) and Lily Nellans of Des Moines Roosevelt High School (IA). Saffran’s margin of victory was eleven ranks in the cumulative tournament and he nearly picket fenced the entire tournament, claiming only one rank below a one all weekend. Saffran went straight 1’s in the final, which featured five judges. Saffran is the first Florida extemper to win at Yale since at least 2001 and he becomes the first extemper in the last thirteen years to win Wake Forest and Yale.
105 extempers competed at Yale, meaning that all elimination round participants have earned an unofficial qualifying leg to the 2014 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) at Northwestern University. Nineteen extempers that were not previously qualified to the next TOC received qualifying legs and one extemper, Nathaniel Saffran of Trinity Preparatory School, becomes the first extemper to earn an unofficial at-large bid to the tournament after breaking at Wake Forest two weeks ago. Extempers that earned a qualifying leg are in italics.
Here are the full results from the 2013 Yale Invitational Tournament:
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