2025 Blacksnake NIETOC
2025 — Pocatello, ID/US
Original Oratory
Abbreviation
OO
Format
Speech
Entry Fee
$5.00
Entry Limit Per School
10
Entry
1 competitors per entry
Event Description:
Original Oratory - 10 minutes with a 30-second “grace period.”
No time signals provided.
1. Purpose: The general purpose of the speech is to persuade
in order to accomplish a response of feeling, belief, or action.
Any other purpose such as to inform or entertain shall be
secondary.
2. Contest: This contest comprises only memorized orations
actually composed by the contestants and not used by them
during a previous contest season. No visual aids are
permitted.