[aggressively finger guns at the end of speech]

crys || she/they || main event is oratory, but i also dip my toes into other events. this year i'm trying out poi and di hopefully

[screech-and-debate]

fellas is it wrong for me, as a queer person, to use queer, the respected academic term, in one small section of my oratory

[screech-and-debate]

the nature of speech and debate is that sometimes you get 2nd place overall in one tournament and in the tournament next weekend, using the exact same speech, you get last in every single round

[we-all-talk-too-fast]

turning your english assignment into an oratory is debate culture

[screech-and-debate]

the vibe is writing your whole oratory in one day and being one place away from breaking and the one round that you did shit on, the one that stopped you from breaking, didn’t give any comments

[screech-and-debate]

my lovely coach who always gets so excited about our speech topics and how well we’re doing: so how’s your oratory coming along? i can’t wait to hear it, it sounds so interesting!

me, with the intro half-done:

[here-be-a-dragon]

High quality debate memes courtesy of my procrastination

[piplup]

when you forget your oratory in the middle of a round

[nevercursed]

judge: *gives me a five*

me: hoe don't do it

judge: "good job"

me: oh my god

[lilliofthvalley]

Remember when judges wrote helpful ballots?

Yeah I don’t either

[adhominem13]

debate team meeting

expectation: insightful discussion about current events, such as brexit, immigration, college admissions, cybersecurity, and content moderation

reality: spending 25 minutes arguing about the correct way to write the letter “N” and then proceeding to do the same for the rest of the alphabet

[4n6-4ever]

The Events as Emojis

Extemp: 🗂😱

Prose: 📚😪

DI: 😭😭

HI: 😜😂

Policy: 🖕🏼😤

LD: 🕴⁉️

Poetry: 😰☠

PF: 📰🔚

OO: 🙏🏼🆘

Inform: 🤓🔬

Impromptu: 🕐😊

IDA: 👯😘

Duet: 💑👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

[speechanddebatememes]

when you say some absolute garbage in round and try to play it off so your opponent hopefully won’t call you on it

[flowpaper]

[piplup]

when they don’t laugh at the jokes in your original oratory so you dont laugh at theirs

[speechanddebatememes]

What actually happens pre-round

[debatehell]

You've heard of debate and forensics now get ready for:

Actually sleeping

[wildlystrawberry]

“The tournament is running late

Novices:

Varsity: