The qualification board for the 2011 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions has been updated to reflect last week’s busy TOC qualifying weekend. We appreciate everyone who helped us gather results from these tournaments.
Thirty-four extempers qualified to the Extemp TOC last week, bringing the total number of extempers qualified to the TOC at 260. California qualified more extempers than any other state last week with fourteen. New York followed with six, Texas and New Jersey had four, and Arizona, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania added one qualifier to their totals. Sixty-one extempers earned their first TOC leg last week and the total number of potential qualifiers now stands at 336. These extempers will have one last opportunity to qualify this weekend under category at the Robert D. Clark High School Tournament at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon and the Vestavia Hills High School Tournament at Vestavia Hills High School in Vestavia Hills, Alabama.
After next week, the qual board will remove all of the potential qualifiers for the TOC and will settle in on who has qualified under each of the three TOC categories. The focus will then shift to state tournament results because all state finalists at state tournaments held prior to April 15th will earn an automatic TOC qualification under category 2C.
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