Dear Speech Coaches:

The Blaine High School Speech Team invites you to the Blaine Speech Tournament on February 20th, 2016.  We look forward to hosting great tournament and providing an excellent experience for your students.

We will offer the 13 MSHSL categories, plus impromptu speaking and program oral interpretation.  Impromptu speaking will be no more than 7 minutes per student from the time of the draw.  Students may triple enter, but not across draw entries.  We encourage everyone to consider trying impromptu.

 

There will be three preliminary rounds and a final round in each category. If numbers allow, we would like to have a novice final round in each as well. 

 

Fees -- School fee of $20.  Registration fee is $6.00 per entry,  and a duo = one entry.  Registration fee for impromptu is $2.00.  

Judges --Each school must provide one judge for each 6 entries or fraction thereof.

Draws – Storytellers will draw from the first 10 stories.

Draws- Extemp Speakers will draw from the MSHSL question areas.

Draws-Extemp Readers will draw a piece of literature each round.  They will have 30 minutes to read, cut and prepare their piece of literature for the standard Extemp Reading time.  

Discussion topics will be drawn from Section II: Young Adult/College

 

We will have a full array of concessions for students to buy.  We will also have a judges'/coaches' lounge. 

 

Contact Cody Goodchild with any questions you may have:

goodc005@umn.edu

Blaine High School

12555 University Ave NE

Blaine, MN 55434

612-670-5056

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