General Procedure Continued
In addition to briefing contestants before a contest, the Contest Chair performs this task.
Enable contestants to draw for their speaking position.
In addition to voting judges, these functionaries attend the judges' briefing.
Timers and ballot counters
Voting judges should do this after tearing off the
bottom portion of the ballot and before holding up their
results for the ballot counters to collect.
Place the ballot in a provided envelope.
Of the 2 Timers required for a contest, this one maintains and delivers to the chief judge the written
record of elapsed time of each speech on the Speech Contest Time Record Sheet and
Instructions for Timers (Item 1175).
The timer with the stopwatch
Protests are limited to eligibility, originality, and this additional rule violation.
Reference to another contestant’s speech
The person in this role is permitted to attend the contestant briefing in place of the primary contestant if the primary contestant is absent from the briefing.
The alternate speaker, if present, is permitted to attend the briefing in place of the primary contestant.
This judging functionary does NOT attend the Judges' Briefing.
Tie-breaking judge.
This functionary collects the ballots.
Chief Judge
Of the 2 Timers required for a contest, one is given a stopwatch. What is the other one given?
A signaling device that displays green, yellow, and red colors
Voting judges and this additional group of role players are the only participants who can lodge protests.
Contestants
The person in this role is disqualified if not present when the person conducting the contest is introduced.
If the primary contestant is not present when the person conducting the contest is introduced, the primary contestant is disqualified and the alternate officially becomes the contestant.
This judge does not judge contestants.
Chief Judge
The Chief Judge submits this form, which is submitted to the contest chair of the next level or to World Headquarters in the case of the International Speech Contest at the District level
Notification of Contest Winner form (Item 1182)
This is the minimum time at which a contestant qualifies when delivering an International and Humorous contest speech.
4:30
This is the deadline by which a protest must be lodged.
Before the contest is adjourned.
A contestant arriving after the briefing but before the person conducting the contest is introduced is permitted to compete if these 3 conditions are met.
1) Reports to the contest chair upon his/her arrival.
2) Has all required paperwork in good order before the person conducting the contest is introduced to begin the contest.
3) Waives the opportunity of a briefing.
When the last contestant finishes speaking, the contest chair will ask for silence for this period of time.
Until the ballot counters have collected all ballots
If multiple contests are taking place at one event, a contest must be officially adjourned by this point, even if winners have not yet been announced.
Before the next contest begins.
This is the minimum time at which a contestant qualifies when delivering a Table Topics speech.
1 minute
Any protest must be lodged with either of these 2 functionaries.
Chief Judge or Contest Chair
The identity of the person in this role is known only to the Chief Judge.
Tie-breaking judge
For a ballot to be valid, judges shall complete their ballots by entering their choices for first, second, and third place and also do this.
Sign and print their names on the ballot.
This is the only situation under which the announcement of contest winners is not final.
The list of winners is announced incorrectly, in which case the chief judge, ballot counters, or timers are permitted to immediately interrupt to correct the error.
This is the point at which timers begin timing a contest speech.
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.
These 2 things must occur before a contestant is disqualified for originality.
The contestant must be given an opportunity to
respond to the voting judges. A majority of the voting judges must concur in the decision to disqualify.