DIVISION A DISTRICT 120



Good morning/afternoon/evening everybody,I am _________________________ your contest master for the Humorous Speech Contest. I welcome you all to the Club/Area Ax /Division A of CLUB NAME/AREA NAME/Division NameThe purpose of the humorous speech contest is to provide an opportunity for speakers to improve their speaking abilities, to recognize the value of humor in speaking, and to recognize exceptional speakers.The first and second winners will represent our Club/Area in the Area Ax /Division A level Contest to be held on DD MM YYY I would like to take this opportunity to recognize the Contest Chair TM/DTM _______________________ and the Chief Judge TM/DTM _________________________Today for this contest, we have talented speakers. I am sure the audience is going to have a good time listening to some really good humorous speeches.Let me set the rules for the contest.1. I request the audience to be on mute at all times and not use the chat feature during the progress of speakers. 2. No flash photography or recording is allowed or required while the contestants are giving their speech. As an Online Contest, this contest is being recorded.3. Sergeant at arms, note that once the contestant is on stage, no one's video should be on except for the contestant 5. The time allotted for every speech is 5 to 7 minutes. Any contestants who speaks less than 4 min and 30 sec and beyond 7 min and 30 sec will be disqualified. The contestants needs to pin the TIMER video during the Audio/Video Check and I would request timer to operate the device as I read out the timing signal rules <wait for time screen to display> GREEN at the 5th min, AMBER at the 6th min, and RED at the 7th min. Please note that the red signal will be up till the speaker completes his/her speech. No signal will be given to intimate the exceeding of time limit.6. Any disqualification with respect to time will be notified at the end of contest, and no names will be announced for the disqualified contestant.7. Protests can only be raised by either contestants or judges only to Chief Judge TM_______________________ OR to Contest Chair TM __________________ through WHATSAPP prior to the results declaration.8. JIDGES decision is final.9. One-minute silence will be given for judges to mark their ballot and 3 minutes silence will be given after the last speaker for judges to tally their ballots. (Via Breakout room if Zoom or WhatsApp Call etc.,)10. The contestant speaking order has already been chosen. For the benefit of the Judges, Role players and the audience, I will now read out the speaking order of contestants. Zoom Master can you display the contestant speaking order on the screen? Instruction to the Contest Master: Read the speaking order and say each contestant’s name the same way (No bias or preferential treatment). Read it out very clearly. Be sure to pause after each name to provide the timers and judges time to write the contestants names (or better yet, you can read each contestant’s name twice)Contestant no. 1. ______________________________________Contestant no. 2. ______________________________________Contestant no. 3. ______________________________________Contestant no. 4. ______________________________________Contestant no. 5. ______________________________________Contestant no. 6. ______________________________________Contestant no. 7. ______________________________________Contestant no. 8. ______________________________________Contestant no. 9. ______________________________________Contestant no. 10. ______________________________________12. Chief Judge, are all the judges briefed? Shall we begin the contest?13. Contestants can move around near their device during other contestant’s speaking order, and practice. Sergeant at arms, please ensure that the immediate next contestant is present in the meeting when a contestant is speaking.Ladies and gentlemen, the Humorous Speech contest shall now begin!(During this time the ZOOM MASTER will make the first contestant a panelist, when he/she has become a panelist)TM <CONTESTANT NAME> You are a panelist now. Please do an audio and video check and confirm that you are ready. Say a sentence or two for mic check.***Instruction to Contest Master: Follow this exact same format for all the contestants. For Ex., you will have to say “Contestant #1, Contestant Name, Topic …. Topic, Contestant Name”Contestant # _____ Name: ____________________________ Topic: _______________________________________Topic: ___________________ Name: _____________________________After the Contestant Finishes, do not acknowledge anything to the Contestant like Good Speech or Thank You. Let us give 1 minute for the judges to mark their ballots, timer please indicate when 1 minute has elapsed. (During this One-minute the ZOOM MASTER will make the next contestant a panelist and do the Audio/Video Check)REPEAT THE SAME TO ALL CONTESTANTS – BEST PRACTICE IS TO COPY PASTE ABOVE WITH CONTESTANT NAME AND TOPIC FOR EACH CONTESTANT SO YOU DON’T MISS OUT ANYONE<<< After all the contestants have delivered their speech …. >>Let us give 3 minutes for the judges to mark their ballots, timer please indicate when 3 minutes has elapsed. Audience… Please remain silent until the judges have completed their ballots, and the tally counters and judges are moved to the Breakout Room with the ballots.<<< After 3 minutes have elapsed …. >>Fellow toastmasters, thank you for your patience!We shall now begin Contestant Interviews.<< Call each contestant up and award certificate of participation. Ask each contestant the name of their club and how long they have been a Toastmaster. Ask one or two questions to each contestant based on the available time. DO NOT ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SPEECH. ASK questions only from the bio data form filled by the speaker >>Once Contestant Interviews are Done - Handover the Session to Contest Chair / Area Director / Division Director depending on the level of contest to recognize ROLE PLAYERS.<Once Contest Chair confirms results are ready>Now would I like to call upon the Contest Chair, TM/DTM __________________________ to announce the results of the contest. In Club Level: The Contest Chair will call the Chief Judge and AD/DD if present and announces the resultIn Area Level: The Contest Chair will call the Chief Judge and Area Director / DD if present and then announce the resultsIn Division Level: The Contest Chair will call the Chief Judge and Division Director and District Trio if available and then present the resultsANNOUNCE THE RESULTS IN REVERSE ORDERThe 3rd Place goes to _____________________The 2nd Place goes to ________________________And the Winner of Club Name/Area Name/ Division Humorous Speech Contest is _________________________<Results are announced, Capture Screen as each winner is announced and certificated is displayed>Contest Chair will say: (For Club & Area)This concludes the Humorous Speech Contest of Club/Area. Congratulations to all the winners. Contest Chair ClosesContest Chair will handover to EmCee (For Division Contest)EmCee Closes ................
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