Eye of the Tiger Invitational

2023 — Broomfield, CO/US

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Original Oratory

Event Description:

Original Oratory Rules (3A/4A/5A Event):
A. The competitor presents a memorized oration composed by him/her/themself and not used
during a previous Regional Qualifying or State Tournament. A student may not use the
same speech or topic in Informative Speaking and Original Oratory.
B. An oratory is an original speech designed to persuade. The general purpose of the speech is
to persuade/convince the audience. Any other purpose such as to inform or to entertain shall
be secondary.
C. An orator holding a manuscript may not be ranked higher than fourth in the round.
D. The orator must be truthful. Any non-factual reference, especially a personal one, must be
identified.
E. There is no minimum time, but the speaker may not exceed 10 minutes. After a 30-second
grace period and an audible STOP, the judge may not rank the speaker who goes over time
first in the round, provided all timing rules in 1J were followed.
F. For the State Tournament the orator’s script must be sent to CHSAA with the team’s
registration. It must have an Oratory/Informative Speaking cover sheet (see Appendix)
attached to the front and filled out. The script must identify the quoted materials, state the
number of quoted words, and both the speaker and the coach must attest by signature that
the speech is the original work of the contestant. The oratory that is submitted with the
registration is the one with which the competitor must compete.
G. The oratory may not contain more than 150 words of quoted material. Extensive
paraphrasing from other sources is prohibited.
H. If an orator submits an oratory with more than 150 quoted words, the meet director will give
the orator a chance to correct the error. Those who fail to do so by the deadline given by the
tournament director will not be allowed to compete.
I. No props or visual aids may be used in Original Oratory.
J. Orators caught plagiarizing or extensively paraphrasing will be disqualified.