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SoF Speech Contest results for the 2009/10 season

Area Speech contest Report 18/2/2010

Club Contests - Felixstowe

In the last of the local club rounds, the Speech Contest was held on 28th January 2010. At the risk of becoming monotonous the winner was once again Trevor White with his speech entitled "The Largeness of Cats". This really is Trevor's year so very well done!

The runner-up was Paul Graham.

Thanks to our judges this time, Mike Saucede and Tony Gould.

Winner of the first of the local club rounds in December 2009 at Felixstowe was

Speech Contest - Trevor White

Runner-up Rene Schwarz

Evaluation Contest -
Trevor White

Runner-up Keith Dickerson

Many thanks to our judges for the evening, Bill Rollings, Tony Gould and Deborah Stones.

This year's ASC Area Speech Contest was held at Ipswich Club's new venue at the University Campus Suffolk building on the waterfront.

The Area President James McGinty opened the meeting and welcomed a large audience with a number of guests.

Ipswich, Bury, Felixstowe and Colchester were all represented (though Colchester sadly only by James).

If anyone was a Chic Murray fan that evening they were in for a treat as Grant Elliot, Chairman for the Topics Contest, had plenty of jokes from that Scottish comedian. It got so bad, sorry popular, that even the Area President added some of his repertoire of Chic Murray jokes.

Topics was the most keenly contested with representatives from all four clubs competing - James McGinty (Col), Trevor (SoF), Kenneth Moxton (Ips) and Robin Goodchild (Bury).

"Imagine you are the Director of Tourism for Lowestoft and you are encouraging the audience to spend their summer holidays there" was the subject of the topic. Luckily everyone had a pretty good basic knowledge of Lowestoft and were all able to make convincing cases. Someone talked at large of the Young Offenders Unit though I'm not sure that would attract too many visitors (unless they were relatives).

The evaluation contest was on B3 "Technology & Sport - levelling the Playing Field" by David XX from Ipswich. A good delivery and good evaluation material.
Contestants were Peter Watson (Bury), James McGinty(Ips), Trevor (Sof).

Speech Contestants were Duncan Broatch (Ips), Simon Brown (Bury), Trevor (Sof).

Results - Ipswich sweeps the board. Topics, Kenneth Maxton - Evaluation, James McGinty - Speech, Duncan Broach. Well done to all!

Needless to say Trevor was very disappointed to not bring a victory for SoF, despite his valiant effort.