Sundance Open Invitational Online
2022 — NSDA Campus, UT/US
Prepared Impromptu
Event Description:
Prepared Impromptu
NOTE: This is an Asynchronous Event, you will not see students in person or go to a room. You will see on your ballot the names of the students with a camera icon...click on that icon and view their speech and evaluate it on the ballot. After viewing all of them, you will make your decision and submit your ballot. Please do so as if this was a real round in real time.
Students for Prepared impromptu will receive topics on the Monday week of the tournament. They will prepare their speech, record, and upload by Wednesday Evening.
It will be a 4-7 speech based on random topics, quotes, words, etc.
Impromptu is a public speaking event that tests a student’s ability to analyze a prompt, process his or her thoughts, organize the points of the speech, and deliver them in a clear, coherent manner. Students’ logic is extremely important. They must be able to take an abstract idea, such as a fortune from a fortune cookie, and put together a speech that has a thesis and supporting information.
In speech, a typical round will contain six different contestants, although this number can fluctuate depending on how many students are entered in the event.
At the end of the round, the judge will evaluate the speakers and rate them on a scale from one to six, with the best performance receiving the one ranking.
Please refer to the appropriate sample ballot to assist you in what to look for in this round to help in your decisions as needed
https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Sample-Ballot-All-Speech-Events-Blank.pdf