CLUB LEVEL HUMOUROUS SPEECH & SPEECH EVALUATION CONTESTS ARE ON AUGUST 3 2016

ATTENTION!
Taiping Toastmasters Club will be holding its Humourous Speech and Speech Evaluation Contests on 3 August 2016 at 8.00 pm in Panorama Hotel.
HUMOUROUS  CONTEST  RULES ( In brief ) :
1.  A contestant must be in good standing of the club. ( Paid fees - active status )
2.  The length of speech - 5 - 7 mins.  
3.  It must be selected by the contestant and can be substantially original.
4.  The speaker should avoid potentially objectionable language, anecdotes and materials.
5.  The speech must be thematic in nature ( opening, body ,and close), not a monologue ( series of one-liners ) 
6.  A contestant will be disqualified if the speech is less than 4 mins. 30 secs. , or more than 7 minutes 30 secs.
7.  Timing will begin  once there's verbal or non-verbal communication with the audience.
8.  Green light - will be displayed at 5 minutes and remain displayed for 1 minute.
9.  Yellow light - will be displayed at 6 minutes and remain displayed for 1 minute.
10.  Red light - will be displayed at 7 minutes and remain displayed until the speech is concluded.
11.  There will be one minute of silence between the contestants, during which the judges will mark their ballots.
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SPEECH EVALUATION CONTEST RULES 

1.  At the beginning of this contest , a five-to-seven-minute test speech will be presented.
   a.  The test speech shall be either a contest-type speech, or taken from one of the assignments
         in the Competent Communicator manual.
   b.  Contestants are permitted to make preparatory notes during the test speech using
         materials of their choice.
   c.   It is recommended that at all levels of the contest, the Toastmaster giving the test speech
         is not a member of the same club as anyone of the contestants.
   d,  The test speaker shall be introduced by announcing the speaker's name , speech title and
         the speaker's name.
   e.   Neither the manual project nor any objectives that the speaker may have shall be made
         known to the contestants , chief judge, voting judges, tie breaking judge or audience.

2.  At the conclusion of the test speech, all contestants shall leave the room.  They then have
    five minutes to prepare their evaluation using materials of their choice.
   a.  Timing and preparation supervision shall be under the control of the contest sergeant at
         arms.
   b.  Where it is not practical for contestants to leave the room,  contestants will complete their 
        five - minute preparation in the same room under the control of the contest sergeant at
       arms.
  c.  After 5 minutes have elapsed, no further preparation shall be allowed and with the
      exception of the first contestant, who shall be called back as first evaluator, all others shall
      hand all written materials to the contest sergeant at arms.  Preparation materials shall be
     handed back to contestants as they are introduced to present their evaluation.
  d. Introduce the contestant by announcing the contestant's name twice because Evaluation
      speeches do not have titles.

3.  Timing of Evaluation speech:
  a.   The green light will be displayed at 2 minutes and remain displayed for 30 seconds.
  b.  The yellow light will be displayed at 2 minutes 30 seconds and remain displayed for 30
       seconds.
  c.  The red light will be displayed at 3 minutes and remain displayed until the evaluation is
       concluded.

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