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Storytelling Contest

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Speech Duration

The Storytelling Contest has the goal of finding excellent story creators and narrators who can entertain, move, and teach people. The stories must be an original creation of the contestant (the contestant can't simply narrate an existing story), but they don't need to have happened in reality - they may be complete fiction. The setting of the story may be anything - past, present or future, real or imaginary world.

Speeches entering the Storytelling Contest must have a maximum duration of 10 minutes.

The stories may include humor, but they must not be solely based on humor.

Selection of Judges

For contests at the Country and above levels, judges will be non-Agora members from the following professions:

  • Media professionals - presenters, show hosts, actors, producers,  etc., from the TV, radio, press, or movie industries.
  • Fiction writers
  • Journalists
  • Speakers from the professional (for-pay) public speaking circuits.
  • Speakers from other public speaking events such as TEDx., Munk Debates, etc.


Scoring of Speeches

Judges will score speeches according to the following criteria. Each criterion is scored from 0 to 10:

STORYTELLING Speech Scoring
Criteria Explanation Weight
Originality Will consider how original the story was. 1
Story development Will consider the overall story arc, its opening, development, climax, etc., and especially whether it had a clear and understandable structure with seamless transitions. 2
Character portrayal

Will consider the characters in the story:

  • Were they original or cliche characters?
  • Were they described with enough detail?
  • Did they have enough depth, or were they instead "cardboard" flat characters?
  • Did the presenter provide enough background?
  • Could an emotional connection - either positive (liking) or negative (dislike) - be established with them, or were they difficult to relate to?
2
Character development Will consider whether the characters evolved and changed throughout the story. 2
Setting and Context Will consider whether the presenter provided a rich and detailed enough backdrop against which the story was developing. 2
Use of Language Will consider the richness, expressiveness, and vividness of the language used. The ability of the speaker to project images into the audiences’ minds. 1
Narration Quality Will consider vocal variety, body language, pauses, and other narration characteristics. 1
Emotional Content Will consider the storyteller's ability to convey and elicit a varied range of emotions in the audience. 2
Story Message Will consider the depth of the story's core moral message. 2
Universality Will consider how universal the story was,  and how understandable it was to audiences from different cultures and countries. 1

For each speech, the weighted average of the above scores will be computed, and that will be the final score assigned to that contestant.

Titles

The winner of any level except the World Final will have the title of “Best Storyteller of (region)”


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