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The Exhibition Round participants have recently been announced for this year’s Montgomery Bell Academy Extemp Round Robin. These are the top five placing competitors of the tournament, but they will not know their final placements until the awards ceremony, which will take place at 4:00. The Exhibition Round will be judged by the eleven competitors that did not make the Round Robin, with a tiebreaker panel of MBA alumni also judging the round. The alumni panel will be composed of Jason Warren, Tyler Fabbri, Logan Scisco, David Tucker, Peter Vogel, Hamilton Millwee, and Aaron Lutkowitz. The Exhibition Round does not count into the tournament final standings, although the winner of the Exhibition Round will receive a separate award.
For the first time in MBA history there is a tie for first place. Tournament director Adam Johnson has decided that the alumni panel will break this tie based on the Exhibition Round. This means that of the two competitors that tied for the first the one with the better Exhibition Round performance will win the tournament. This is very interesting when one considers that the wacky graph has shown the same competitor in first place for the duration of the tournament.
The topic area for the Exhibition Round is today’s headlines.
Here are the participants in this year’s Exhibition Round (listed in speaking order):
*Arel Rende (Booker T. Washington High School, Oklahoma)
*Lily Nellans (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
*Miles Saffran (Trinity Preparatory School, Florida)
*Josh Wartel (Lake Braddock Secondary School, Virginia)
*Chase Harrison (Millburn High School, New Jersey)
For those that want to see how the wacky graph turned out at the tournament’s conclusion: