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Blagoevgrad Speech and Debate Tournament
General information This information is from a tournament in a past season! This is a High School tournament in Intl-Bulgaria. View manager contact information
Dear English Teacher,
The Bulgarian Forensics League (BFL), in conjunction with the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG), invites all high school students to register now for its inaugural National English Speech and Debate Tournament. The tournament will be held April 12-13, 2013 at the AUBG main campus in Blagoevgrad. This competition will be a challenging, engaging, and fun opportunity for students to practice their public speaking and argumentation skills in English, as well as meet other motivated students from around the country.
Students can compete individually in the following events: Prose, Poetry, or Oratory. They can also compete in teams of two in the following events: Duet or Parliamentary Debate. Detailed explanations and rules for each event are outlined below. Participants are divided into Novice Level (Grades 8 and 9) or Varsity Level (Grades 10, 11, 12). Winners will receive medals, certificates, and local media publicity.
Please register your students through the SpeechWire website. Registration will close on March 31, 2013 at 11:59 PM. Please direct any questions to blagospeech@gmail.com
We look forward to seeing you and your students there!
Sincerely,
Blagoevgrad Speech and Debate Tournament Organizers
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Speech and Debate Event Rules
Prose
Students express thought through language recorded in sentences and paragraphs: fiction (short stories, novels) and nonfiction (articles, essays, journals, biographies). Only published, printed works may be used. The student may have a printed copy of their piece in front of them, in a black standard-sized folder. The time limit is 7 minutes with a 30 second grace period.
Poetry
Poetry is writing which expresses ideas, experience, or emotion through the creative arrangement of words according to their sound, their rhythm, their meaning. Poetry may rely on verse and stanza form. Only published, printed works may be used. No plays or other dramatic materials may be used. The student may have a printed copy of their piece in front of them, in a black standard-sized folder. The time limit is 7 minutes with a 30 second grace period.
Duet
This is a two-person category in which the selection may be either humorous or dramatic in nature. Selections shall be cuttings from published-printed novels, short stories, plays, poetry, or any other printed-published materials. Presentations must be memorized, without costumes. Students will have two chairs to use as props. The time limit is 7 minutes with a 30 second grace period, which includes an introduction.
Original Oratory
Orators are expected to research and speak intelligently, with a degree of originality, in an interesting manner, and with some profit to the audience, about a topic of significance. Although many orations deal with a current problem and propose a solution this is not the only acceptable form of oratory. Your oration may simply alert the audience to a threatening danger, strengthen its devotion to an accepted cause, or eulogize a person. An orator is given free choice of subject and judged solely on the effectiveness of development and presentation. The speech has to be the original work of the student. The time limit is 7 minutes with a 30 second grace period.
Parliamentary Debate
The two-on-two debate format will address a topic that changes each round. The debate does not permit published material to be used or consulted during the round, but debaters may reference scholarly work in their speeches. Debaters will not read pre-written speeches, briefs, or evidence. Instead, debaters speak impromptu from a few notes that record the arguments the other debater made, as well as outline his/her own main points. Each of these points should be signposted, explained, supported by relevant facts and examples, and given impact. Debaters must learn to think on their feet, adding and elaborating upon arguments while speaking.
The Tournament Debate Topics will be as follows:
1) This House believes that ex's should remain friends.
2) This House believes that what costs little is of little worth.
3) This House believes that television destroys lives.
4) This House believes that the local is preferable to the global.
5) This House believes that individual rights should be valued over the collective interest.
6) This House believes that virtual communications are not worth while.
7) This House would value green energy over the status quo.
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