Brooke Wade: 1st Place Extemporaneous Speech (NCFCA National Championship 2011)

Brooke Wade's speech in Extemporaneous finals at the 2011 NCFCA National Championship earned her the title of Extemporaneous National Champion. (Note: the camera was only taking 5-minute segments, so there is a brief gap at the 5:00 mark.)

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Entertainment

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• NCFCA
• Nationals
• 1st place
• Extemporaneous

[DumbAndLethal]

I competed in my first speech competition a couple weeks ago. I only competed in extemporaneous nationals B. I knew a good deal about my topics, but I think that for my personality type, I found that the best way to fill in the holes and make your speech pleasing, the key is to be exuberant, and crazily charismatic. If I didn't have a fact, I would make a joke. In fact, one of my speeches was a satire haha. But apparently they like excitement and energy because I won at my first competition!

[concertoman1011]

@DumbAndLethal I would definitely second that. If the ballots alone give any indication, the judges really enjoy watching limited prep speeches like that...and besides, they're really fun to give anyway. Within bounds of course---as a judge I wouldn't necessarily go for the speakers that going overboard trying to be funny---but charm is key. (Oh yeah, and congrats at winning at your first competition!)

[dominicpodom]

She would get destroyed in the NFL. NCFCA must be a joke

[concertoman1011]

@dominicpodom Thanks for watching! I agree, the NCFCA is a great league and we've got a wonderful crop of people. Keep in mind that it split about a year ago and there wasn't quite as much competition this past year, and we're still not anywhere near as large as the NFL. But I wouldn't be so quick to sneeze at everything that comes out of the NCFCA. Since you obviously seem to be very knowledgeable on the subject, would you like to offer some critique on improvement of our extemp speeches?

[Chidorispell]

critiques

What u were good at

1) nice voice loud strong but not overly strong

2)points are pretty coherent

what u wanna improve on

1) not that it was particularily bad but Maybe u should have the quotes flow more with ur speech becuz it seems that they are almost by themselves and not part of it.

2)i don't know NCFCA regulations, but in NFL looking at notecards are prohibited, so im just saying but not having one would make u look so well compared to others

[chairmanRob]

lol reading off cards

[wallstreetatheist]

True reform (besides economic, because of market correction) would increase the chance of reelection.

Higher interest rates (above central bank levels) incentivize savings; savings enable capital investment; capital investment increases productivity, manufacturing, and producing.

Regardless of her views on Foreign policy, the free market will foster trade with the nation, and it will continue with or without her dedication to it. The FP of military interventionism should be ignored + rejected.

[dontuenvyme]

i will be competing in my first extemp debate this weekend, must i memorize my speech or may i read it off a sheet?

[TheRobot452]

Hey, is she in novice or senior?

[DumbAndLethal]

@concertoman1011 Thanks! As an update, at my second competition there were like 3x more people in my division than at the previous tournament. I "only" placed 2nd this time I did awesomely in the first round, and pretty good subsequently. However, my tactic of trying to be funny didn't work in the third round. There was only one judge, and he didn't get any of my jokes. His face clearly said "huh what.. me no understand." I think he may have given me a bad rank that made me lose

[LoveTheVoiceWithin]

nice speech this will surely help me with my very own Extemporaneous speech for my English class

[dominicpodom]

@concertoman1011 Well, first of all the card is very distracting. I know she must be allowed to use one but I think her speech delivery would be much more fluid if she relied on it much less or not at all. When she speaks she fidgets, the upper tier at NFL is very poised and static when they are speaking (almost to the point of being stiff). Her first point was entirely too short. Her conclusion would have been better if she would have closed with the quote at the intro to tie it all up