RULES AND REGULATIONS SPEECH COMPETITION

SPEECH COMPETITION
THEME : AGRICULTURE


RULES

• Familiarity with contest rules and procedures often makes the difference between winning and losing.
• Be a winner – know the rules and procedures.

ELIGIBILITY

1. To be eligible to compete in Speech Contest, an individual must: Student at Agriculture Faculty.
2. There is one person or two for each Hima/Unit/BEM/DLM.

GENERAL PROCEDURE

1. The Speech Contest will be for Agriculture faculty .
2. The content of the speech must be about Agriculture.
3. The judging of the speech will be on the basis of content, delivery and language.
4. The Contest will be run in two rounds:

   A. Preliminary Round

• Contestants must prepare their own five to seven-minute speeches, which must be substantially original. Any quoted material must be so identified during the speech presentation. Every contestant will send the script of the speech to the Committee on the competition day.
• The specific subject or theme for the prepared speech will be announced in the technical meeting on Tuesday March 27 2012.
• The top three to five contestants will be selected to compete in the final round. If the contestants (for each level) are or more than 10 persons, top 5 contestants will run to the final round. If not, only top 3 contestants run to the final round.

B. Final Round

• The top three to five finalists will give a three to five-minute impromptu speeches which theme or subject will be given on the final round day.
• The finalists will be given the time up to thirty minutes to prepare their speeches.
• After delivering the speeches, all contestants will be asked by each judge with some questions related to the speech content and the contestants have to answer or give a response toward the questions (not exceed to one minute for each question).
• Announcement of Contest winners is final unless the list of winners is announced incorrectly, in which case the chief judge or Committee may immediately interrupt to correct the error.

TIMING OF THE SPEECHES
A. Preliminary Round

• Speeches will be five to seven minutes. A contestant will be A contestant will be decreased the score from the contest  if the speech is less than four minutes thirty seconds or more than seven minutes thirty seconds.
• Upon being introduced, the contestant shall proceed immediately to the speaking position. Timing will begin with the contestant’s first definite verbal or nonverbal communication with the audience. This usually will be the first word uttered by the contestant, but would include any other communication such as sound effects, a staged act by another person, etc.
• Timer shall provide warning signals to the contestants, which shall be clearly visible to the speakers.
• A green signal will be displayed at five minutes and remain displayed for one minute.
• A yellow signal will be displayed at six minutes and remain displayed for one minute.
• A red signal will be displayed at seven minutes and remain on until the conclusion of the speech.
• No signal shall be given for the overtime period.
• Any sightless contestant may request and must be granted a form of warning signal of his or her own choosing.
• In the event of technical failure of the signal, a speaker is allowed 30 seconds extra overtime before being disqualified.

   B. Final Round

• Speeches will be three to five minutes. A contestant will be decreased the score from the contest  if the speech is less than one minutes thirty seconds or more than five minutes thirty seconds, or if answering the judges’ questions exceed to one minute for each question.
• Timer shall provide warning signals to the contestants, which shall be clearly visible to the speakers but not obvious to the audience.
• A green signal will be displayed at one minute.
• An yellow signal will be displayed at three minutes.
• A red signal will be displayed at five minutes.
• No signal shall be given for the overtime period.
• Any sightless contestant may request and must be granted a form of warning signal of his or her own choosing.
• In the event of technical failure of the signal, a speaker is allowed 30 seconds extra overtime before being disqualified.
• • The maximum time to answer or give the responses toward the question shall not exceed to one minute for each question.
• On the forty fifth second, the time keeper will give a red flag signal.

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