An updated qualification board for the 2012 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions has been posted. This qualification board reflects the results of the 2011 National Forensic League National Tournament and the results of the Class A portion of the North Dakota State Tournament.
Forty-one extempers qualified to the Extemp TOC by making octofinals at the NFL National Tournament (category 2B) and three qualified from the Class A section of the North Dakota State Tournament (category 2C). This brings the total number of students who have qualified to next year’s TOC at 132. Ohio qualified seven extempers to next year’s TOC at NFL Nationals, which was more than any other state. Kansas still leads other states with twenty-four qualifiers and California sits in second with eleven. The only routes available to next year’s extempers to qualify for the Extemp TOC is to make elimination rounds at two qualifying tournaments (whose list will be announced before next season) or to make the finals of their state tournament if it is held prior to April 15th, 2012.
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