Live from the 2011 MBA Extemp Round Robin: Round 9 Pairings Are Released and Day 3 Begins

Draw is currently underway for round nine, one of the last two rounds at the 2011 MBA Extemp Round Robin.  Extempers will finish these two rounds, have a lunch break, and the Exhibition Round participants will be announced shortly after 1:30.  The eighth round last night was a second experimental round, which is unusual because MBA typically only has one experimental round each year.  In this second experimental round, extempers were given hypothetical scenarios and a question to accompany each scenario.  They then had to answer that question in their speech.  For example, an extemper may draw “The Democrats win the 2010 midterm elections.  Where do they go from here?”  Extempers will be jockeying for position today, as the top five extempers will make the Exhibition Round this afternoon and the top six will receive National Points Race points.  In this round, Nathaniel Donahue and Nabeel Zewail, two of the top three extempers in the National Points Race will face off in section one.  Each extempers National Points Race rank is identified within parenthesis to the left of their name.

The topic area for this round is judicial, constitutional, and federalism issues.

Section One:

Judges: Christopher Dietz, Aaron Lutkowitz, and Don Crabtree

1. (T14) Alessandro Pauri (Flower Mound High School, Texas)
2. (1) Nathaniel Donahue (Durham Academy, North Carolina)
3. (3) Nabeel Zewail (San Marino High School, California)
4. (NR) Susan Czaikowski (Lamar Consolidated High School, Texas)

Section Two:

Judges: Jon Rhoads, Gabriel Alisna, and Harry Strong

1. (T40) Jared Odessky (Nova High School, Florida)
2. (7) Peter Vogel (Ridge High School, New Jersey)
3. (NR) Forrest Richardson (Savannah R3 High School, Missouri)
4. (NR) Amode Tembhekar (Leland High School, California)

Section Three:

Judges: Stacy Thomas, Jason Warren, and Jack Grennan

1. (13) Karthik Sastry (Montgomery Bell Academy, Tennessee)
2. (NR) Matthew Yasuoka (Kamehameha Schools, Hawaii)
3. (11) Catherine Chiodo (Des Moines Roosevelt High School, Iowa)
4. (T9) Jason Singh (Green Valley High School, Nevada)

Section Four:

Judges: A.J. Moorehead, Tyler Fabbri, and Logan Scisco

1. (12) Kimia Dargahi (L.C. Anderson High School, Texas)
2. (5) Curan Mehra (Scarsdale High School, New York)
3. (NR) Kevin Ye (Gabrielino High School, California)
4. (NR) Teagan Lende (Fargo Shanley High School, North Dakota)

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