The last two speech seasons have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced the cancellation of the 2020 NCFL Grand National Tournament and made last year an online-only year for teams across the country. Hopefully this season begins the transition back to in-person competitions, but regardless of the format of this competition year Extemp Central hopes to provide resources for those doing extemporaneous speaking across the country.
In keeping with that mission, we do plan to revive the Extemp Central National Points Race as well as provide more recaps of national circuit and local competitions. As always, we appreciate our readers providing results so we can post them. Aside from following results, other past bits of Extemp Central’s content will be making a comeback as well, namely news quizzes and R&Ds. Here is the content schedule that can be expected for this season.
Mondays: HotTopics International and United States Extemp questions
Tuesdays: Recaps of local results and/or results from national circuit competitions. This may also be a time for the posting of specialty columns on upcoming tournaments and/or interview pieces.
Wednesdays: News quiz posting in short answer format (spoiler tags will hide the answers)
Thursdays: Recap of any local results and/or national news not posted on Tuesdays. This may also be a time for the posting of specialty columns on upcoming tournaments and/or interview pieces. The revived National Points Race will also feature columns on this day.
Fridays: Weekly R&D about a pertinent, newsworthy topic
Extemp Central will soon be doing interviews with NSDA national winners Pranav Pattatathunaduvil and Laurel Holley, which we will hope to have posted in the coming weeks. We will also be assembling the tournament calendar for 2021-2022 in time for the beginning of the national circuit season in September.