PREFACE
In this competition, participants will be
delivering English stories in accordance with the characters in their own
style. Participants are given 10 minutes for their performances. Participants
are allowed to use costumes, pictures, visual aids, and any supportive
materials to make their stories more interesting.
The scoring criteria of
the competition are Matter (grammar, vocabulary, story substances,
pronunciation) and Performance (interaction, intonation, and punctuality of
time,).
COMPETITION SEQUENCES
LOVECOMP 2015 Story
Telling Competition will be held in three rounds, preliminary round, semifinal
round, and final round.
· Preliminary round and semifinal round
Prepared
stories. The participants have 10 minutes for performance.
GENERAL RULES
1. The
Competition will be held in three rounds, preliminary round, semifinal round, and
final round.
2. Each
participant must prepare 3 copies of their story (preliminary round and
semifinal round).
3. Preliminary
round is the first round where every registered participant competes.
4. Semifinal
round is the second round where only ten
participants with the highest score from preliminary round compete for Next
Round (Final Round).
5. Final
round is the third and last round where only five participants with the highest
score from semifinal round compete for championship.
6. Themes
for preliminary round and semifinal round are as follows:
a) Preliminary
round : Magic World
b) Semifinal
round : Fairy Tale
7. Every
rule must be followed. Disqualification is necessary for any participant who
violates the rule. The judges' decision is final and no correspondence
pertaining to the judging process will be reconsidered.
RULES DURING THE COMPETITION
1. Each
participant must come at least 30 minutes before the competition begins.
2. There
will be two rooms for the participants. They are performing room and quarantine
room. When the first participant is performing, the other participants have to
wait in the quarantine room.
3. The
participants who have performed may be the audience or get out of the room.
4. Every
communication device must be silenced or turned off at the competition venue,
unless permitted by the Committee.
5. Recording
devices are allowed within the competition venue.
6. Supporters
must not disturb any of the participant’s performance (ex: taking photo is
allowed without flash). The
Committee will expel
supporters who violate
any of these
rules from the competition venue.
7. None
of Supporters or participants come in or out the competition venue while
performances
8. None
of the participants is allowed to read any story text or keynote when
delivering the story.
9. Participants
may opt to use equipments (props or costumes), at their own expense, during the
delivery of their performance.
10. Each participant
will be called
three times in
a row based
on his/her turn
to perform (first chance).
11. Participant who
doesn’t show up
at the first
call, three times
in a
row (first chance)
will be called on the last turn
(second chance).
12. Participants
who don’t come on the second chance will be disqualified.
13. Equipments
are as follows:
·
Participants are
allowed to bring
equipments to enhance
their story telling performance, as long as they take
responsibility for those equipments, the committee will not
be responsible for
any lost or
damage of the equipments brought
by the participants.
·
Participants’ equipments may
not consist of harmful material or object
14. If participants still use the harmful material as the
equipments while performing, he/she will be DISQUALIFIED at that time.
RULES WHILE PERFORMING
1. Participants
must not endanger him/herself and/or anyone else’s health.
2. Should the
participant continue to
violate this rule
after being warned,
he/she will be disqualified from the competition.
3. The
timekeeper as a sign for a participant to start delivering their story will
raise a green flag up.
4. A
yellow flag will be raised up again on the 4th, 6th, 9th minute.
5. A
red flag will be raised up as a waning for the participants that the 10th
minute time is up.
6. 15
seconds will be given as a tolerance time right after the 10th minute.
7. The
tolerance time will be a consideration for score lessening. Thus every second
past the tolerance time will reduce the score.
SCORING ASPECTS
a. Matter (55%)
- Grammar 10%
- Vocabulary 10%
- Story Interpretation 25%
- Pronunciation 10%
b. Performance (45%)
- Interaction (stage act,
eye contact, 30%
costume, equipments,
expressions and
body language)
- Intonation 10%
- Time management 5%
