This week’s local results include competitions from Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. We also have the results of the Purdue University’s Boiler Clash.
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This week’s local results include competitions from Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, and Ohio. We also have the results of the Bradley University’s L.E. Norton Invitational.
If you would like us to post the results of your event, please send them along to [email protected].
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This year’s Illinois High School Association State Speech Final was primed as a showdown between Parth Patel of Huntley High School and Vinesh Kannan of the Illinois Math and Science Academy. Last year both extempers, along with Saumya Jain of Neuqua Valley High School, shared the state championship after an unbreakable three-way tie. However, the anticipated story did not go as planned as Kannan finished one rank out of the final round and Moyo Abiona of Carl Sandburg High School defeated Patel by one rank to win Sandburg’s first-ever extemporaneous speaking state championship.
Abiona had an interesting road to the final, being one of the last extempers to make the break into the round with a cumulative score of twelve. Once there, though, Abiona took control of the tournament, winning three of the five available first place ranks. Although Patel had a better cumulative score across all five judges, Illinois drops the lowest rank from a competitor’s final round total. This enabled Abiona to shed a fifth place rank and win with a 1-1-1-2 composite versus Patel’s 1-1-2-2.
Aside from Patel, the final round also featured another return finalist, Bethany Dain of Belleville West High School. Dain took fifth place at the tournament, which was an improvement over her sixth place finish last year.
Steven Chun of Hinsdale Central High School, who finished third, was the only extemper in the final round to have pre-qualified for this year’s Extemp TOC at Northwestern University. By virtue of TOC rules, which allow for the automatic qualification of 2015 state finalists (as long as their tournaments are held prior to April 2), Illinois qualified five new extempers to this year’s TOC. Those acquiring a qualifying leg are indicated in italics below.
Here are the results of the 2015 Illinois High School Association State Speech Final (Click here for tab sheet):
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Eighty-three extempers competed last weekend at the Downers Grove South Varsity Invitational in Downers Grove, Illinois. After five rounds of competition, Colette Bare of Glenbard West High School (IL) was crowned as the tournament champion, defeating Steven Chun of Hinsdale Central High School (IL) in the tournament’s final round. Charlie Stark of Downer Grove North High School (IL) placed third.
The tournament featured a diverse final round, with six different Illinois schools represented. Defending tournament champion Parth Patel of Huntley High School (IL) did not participate in this year’s event.
The top three finishers at the tournament earned a qualifying leg for the 2015 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) at Northwestern University. Chun and Stark completed their at-large qualification via their placings at the event, while Bare earned her first qualifying leg of the season.
Here are the results of the 2015 Downers Grove South Varsity Invitiational:
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The 2014 Illinois High School Association’s State Series culminated last weekend in Peoira, Illinois and produced the most unusual finish to a state championship in recent memory. At the end of three rounds of competition, which included eleven judges, Saumya Jain of Neuqua Valley High School, Vinesh Kannan of the Illinois Math and Science Academy, and Parth Patel of Huntley High School ended up with eighteen cumulative ranks. Judges preference was not an effective tiebreaker for the round, as none of the three competitors established dominance, so all three shared this year’s state championship in extemporaneous speaking. In the records Extemp Central possess of state championships this is an unprecedented event.
Four of the extempers in the final round of the Illinois state final earned automatic qualifications to this year’s Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC). Kannan and Patel were previously qualified to this year’s TOC prior to last weekend. Those extempers earning automatic qualifications are indicated in italics below.
With at-large tournaments completed, the only way for extempers to lock in a bid for this year’s TOC is to final at their state tournament. Four states will offer those opportunities this weekend – Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and South Carolina – and Extemp Central wishes the competitors attending those tournaments the best of luck.
Here are the results of the 2014 Illinois High School Association State Final (Click here for tab sheet)
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The last of the three Illinois-based 2014 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) qualifying tournaments, the Downers Grove South Varsity Tournament, took place last weekend at Downers Grove South High School in Downers Grove, Illinois. The tournament featured an all-Illinois final and Parth Patel of Huntley High School emerged as the tournament champion over Saumya Jain of Neuqua Valley High School. Neuqua Valley and Wheaton Warrenville South High School each had two finalists and Neuqua did better as Jain’s teammate Abhishek Nigam took third.
Patel was the only extemper that had earned a qualification to this year’s TOC before the tournament. The other five finalists earned their first qualifying leg and are indicated in italics below.
Here are the results of the 2014 Downers Grove South Varsity Tournament:
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