First speech tournament!

Quite a few of the speech team really weren’t prepared for this tournament, namely the novice speakers. Friday, October 9, 2009 was the first speech competition of the year.
There are two main categories for the tournaments. First year speakers only compete against other first year speakers from other schools. Open rounds are for the second and above year speakers. Then there are the patterns. All tournaments have two patterns. The Marshfield invitational’s patterns were pattern A which consisted of expository, radio commentary, debate and oratory. Pattern B consisted of prose which is a ten minute story read from a book, poetry which is a collection of poems with a common theme (read from a book), humorous interpretations, dramatic interpretations and the always fun dual interpretations.
Novice DI only consisted of 3 contestants. Novice Robin Hill said “Well at least we know Bandon is sure to place first in novice”. Robin did a powerful dramatic interpretation titled Prissy Thomas which was an astonishing piece about a supportive mother who helps her daughter through a crisis. Robin received first place. The other novice was Autumn Gritzbach with Children of the Flames. Autumn received second place.
There were two open dramatic interpretations. Russel Hay came away with first place with his piece Extremely loud and Incredibly Close which was a narrative of a nine year old boy whose father is tragically killed during 9/11. And Dakota Bouher received second place for her piece titled Frozen which was about a mom dealing with the death of her ten year old daughter.
For the humorous interpretations, the talented Caitlyn McLauchlin received second place for the hilarious Anton in Show Business which was an absolute mastery of Caity’s talents. Kinzi Silburn received third for her piece entitled Miss Nelson is Missing.
The Speech students involved in prose were Chelsea, Dante and Desi. Even though Desi didn’t place she still tried with a dynamic piece about a girl who loses her mom to breast cancer. Chelsea Hill came away with first place in the novice round with Junie B, First Grader, Toothless Wonder by Barbara Park. And Dante Haruna came prowling into first place for the open prose round with a selection from James and the Giant Peach, a timely favorite.
Kacy Crook came away with third place in Lincoln-Douglas debate in the open round! Kacy did great for a first-year debater. So not only did she take third, she held her own against the big, bad debaters from the other fourteen schools.
Kinzi Silburn took first place with a radio commentary about sexting, a very captivating topic. Caitlyn McLauchlin came away with second place in oratory with “Individuality versus the Group Mentality.” Needless to say, all the speech students did great. Keep it up!