Fuck Yeah, Speech!

picture this: a tv show about high school speech and debate tournaments across the us; the drama, the success, the couples, everything. and the season finale every year is nationals BAM

Guys. This exists. In the form of a documentary. That in the screening for, we sat next to Chris Pine. It was very good.

*insert its_just_not_realistic.gif*

What’s the weirdest thing a judge has written about you?

“I expect to see you on Fox News in five years.”

I got “you seem shallow and superficial.” Wow, thanks for that little ray of sunshine!

“Try not to laugh at your opponents.”

“Could you stand a little shorter?“  ????

“You should practice with a real knife”

I like when your voice goes like this: ~~~~~~~

“Boom.”

“Your case shouldn’t be philosophical” In LD

“Everything else was a tie, but you won because your opponent sweats way to much.”

Not on a ballot but I got told by a coach at camp that if it was between two girls to give the win they would give it to the one in a skirt over the one in pants. And that it’s ok for guys to sweat in speech rounds but not girls.

not weirdest, but favorite. “Katherine, there is no need to be going that fast in constructive. Especially this early in the morning…slow that shit down.”

“try saying the T word more quietly.” in oratory. the word was transgender, and this was his only comment.

We were NEG: “even though you countered every aff point with evidence there was one thing in CX that didn’t hold up” (the one thing was never specified neither were we told whose cx it had been)

“I can’t believe you managed to place third last tournament.”

“Good use of your nice long arms”

Do you ever just hate another debater because they’re SO FAKE but then you look at yourself and realize

inspired by @gavelenvy

so my coach said that he was going to force me to do extemp even though i hate it until i threatened to make all of my speeches promote communism and then he said i didn’t have to do extemp