well it's good to hear everything turned out alright! :) we're going to states as well, and we were surprised even though we did pretty well on super quiz. i got silver in lit and gold in music which was a pretty great feeling. any tips for speech? u seem like the perfect person to ask :^)
Congrats on the gold, silver, and state! I honestly don't know how I got gold, I thought i was gonna get a bad score for speech tbh, but one of the things that I really worked on was body language. I'm a really anxious person, and in such close proximity with the judges, they can definitely tell. My hands and legs will shake, so I worked on not pacing, only occasionally shifting my weight from hip to hip, and also making my hand gestures really intentional. I was even more surprised, because one of my friends who is a senior GOD at speeches, had the same judges, and he didn't medal, and I used HIS tips, so I'm really not sure how I did so well.