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- Generally, to be successful in Oratory, you should pick a unique topic that educates the audience as well as persuades them to a specific position on that topic.
- The competitor presents a memorized oration composed by him/herself and not used during a previous Regional Qualifying or State Tournament.
- An orator holding a manuscript or notes will be ranked last.
- The orator must be truthful. Any non-factual reference, especially a personal one, must be so identified.
- There is no minimum time, but the speaker may not exceed 10 minutes. After a 15-second grace period and an audible STOP, the judge will rank the speaker last.
- The oration may not contain more than 150 words of quoted material. Extensive paraphrasing from other sources is prohibited.
- No props or visual aids may be used in Original Oratory.
- Orators caught plagiarizing or extensively paraphrasing will be disqualified.
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