The meeting on September 3rd was like no other in the year, it was the City of London Toastmasters’ Humorous speech and Table Topics Contest!
Why is this different from a normal meeting?
Normal meetings at our club are very casual and friendly. However, for club contests, rules have to be followed so the meeting will be structured with more rules as our speakers for the night will be judged externally. The winners will proceed onto participating at the Area and District level of the Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest.
What happened?
Our contest chair, Hannah Redgewell did a fantastic job of briefing all contestants and opening up the night. The table topics question was ‘what is the one thing you must do before you die?’ and this was repeated to all six of our contestants (All contestants are kept in a separate room and called out individually to answer the question.)
Table topics contest
Our table topics contestants were (in no particular order):
- Joseph Baum
- Agnes Favillier
- Scott Baker
- Samantha Jacobs
- Nicholas Kyrke-Smith
- Diprenda Mistry
After a brief networking break, we proceeded onto the humorous speech contest section. Our contestants have all prepared a 5 – 7 minute speech to ensure that the audience will be laughing their socks off.
Humorous speech contest
Our humorous speech contestants were (in no particular order):
- Ga Lok Chung
- Jon Lam
- Neha Arora
Winners
Table topics contest winners
1st place winner: Scott Baker
2nd place winner: Joseph Baum
3rd place winner: Nick Kyrke-Smith
Humorous speech contest winners
1st place winner: Jon Lam
2nd place winner: Ga Lok Chung
3rd place winner: Neha Arora
Congratulations to Scott Baker and Jon Lam who will be representing the club at the area level of the Humorous Speech and Table Topics Contest.
Thank you!
In addition to everyone mentioned above, thank you to Tim Cummins, Caroline Gormley, Olga Galaiko, Sarah Bergin, our external judges and as always the City of London Toastmasters Committee Team on helping us bring this great evening together!
See you in our next meeting (which will be more casual and have more laughs at the pub after) on Tuesday, September 17th 2019.
