2011 California Invitational: Tembhekar Defends Championship; Leland Takes Top Three

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)

Semi-Finalists

*John Cherian (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
*Ali Hasanain (Miramonte High School, California)
*Weston Mangin (Arroyo Grande High School, California)
*Mohammed Mostafa (Cherry Creek High School, Colorado)
*Jason Singh (Green Valley High School, Nevada)
*Vijay Singh (Bellarmine College Prep, California)

Quarter-Finalists

*Michael Greenbury (Clovis North High School, California)
*Kyler Hu (Cherry Creek High School, Colorado)
*Jason Kim (Monte Vista High School, California)
*Ben Mabie (James Logan High School, California)
*Alex Moskowitz (Cherry Creek High School, Colorado)
*Jaelen Pace (Ferris High School, Washington)
*Viraj Parmar (Saratoga High School, California)
*Sarika Ramakrishnan (Mira Loma High School, California)
*Sharath Reddy (Mira Loma High School, California)
*Laith Shakir (Leland High School, California)
*Cameron Silverberg (Sherman Oakes CES, California)
*Prerana Vaddi (Notre Dame High School, California)
*Patrick Wilkie (Claremont High School, California)
*Pranay Yeturu (Claremont High School, California)
*Mike Zhu (Dougherty Valley High School, California)

Octo-Finalists

*Sunny Advani (Leland High School, California)
*Jacob Borcover (Sherman Oakes CES, California)
*Alex Dhillon (Miramonte High School, California)
*Naveed Edalati (Miramonte High School, California)
*Kelsey Glenn (James Logan High School, California)
*Vivian Huang (James Logan High School, California)
*Anthony Hung (San Marino High School, California)
*Scott Kelley (Miramonte High School, California)
*Ishaan Kolluri (Saratoga High School, California)
*Jeff Leibenhaut (Mira Loma High School, California)
*Aditya Limaye (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
*Jack Lyding (Monte Vista High School, California)
*Omkar Mahajan (James Logan High School, California)
*Amy McCormick (Tahoma Senior High School, Washington)
*Sebastian Mertz (Leland High School, California)
*Alex Payne (Thurston High School, Oregon)
*Heidi Rangel (Gresham-Barlow High School, Oregon)
*Dan Morgan-Russell (George Washington High School, Colorado)
*Neil Prasad (Saratoga High School, California)
*Arushi Saxena (Mira Loma High School, California)
*Nick Shaffer (Cherry Creek High School, Colorado)
*Debnil Sur (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
*Emily Tribble (Miramonte High School, California)
*Madhu Vijay (Bellarmine College Prep, California)
*Yan Vinarskiy (Cherry Creek High School, Colorado)
*Eric Wang (Dougherty Valley High School, California)
*Cecily Zander (Longmont High School, Colorado)
*Jennifer Zheng (Clovis North High School, California)

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