Club Contest Announcement!

July 15, 2010

As announced yesterday, we will have the Humorous Speech and the Table Topics contest on August 16th!

This is a great opportunity to come up with some funny speeches which is a great way to work on gestures, stage movement and voice. The winners not only win prizes but also get a chance to represent our club at the Area level contests and above! Trust me, it is a very rewarding experience! :)

The winners will be decided by 5 judges and a Chief Judge from outside the club.

Eligibility for the contests is as below:

  • All toastmasters who are members in good standing are eligible to participate. This means if you have paid your dues, you are good to participate which all of you are.
  • The speech must be original and there must not be large parts of quoted text. Plagiarism is prohibited. The humorous speech must not be just jokes or funny quotes but rather a speech which is humorous.
  • Table topics participants will answer the same topic.
  • All contestants except the one answering the topic will leave the room.
  • Time limit for speeches are 5-7 minutes with 30 seconds grace time on either side, so basically 4 minutes 30 seconds to 7 minutes 30 seconds is the allowed time
  • Table topics should be within 1 minute to 2 minute 30 seconds.
  • There will not be any evaluation. Judges are not permitted to evaluate the speech so please refrain from asking comments from the Judges after the contest.
  • Contestants are required to be at the contest at 6:30 pm in order to be briefed by the Chief Judge.

That is all the information I can think of right now. I will prepare a sign up sheet and bring it on Monday so all of you can sign up for the contest. :)

Volunteering for the contest.

Members I may require some of you to help me with the contest preparations especially with the food, will also need a timer, vote counter etc. I will prepare a list and bring this along with the contest sign up sheet next monday. Some volunteers can even get credit in the CL manual for their role

Thanks and would love for all you to compete in this contest. :)

Sri Thiagarajan
VP Education
Preston Persuaders Toastmasters Club