Annual Speech Contest

This coming Friday we'll hold our annual speech contest. As veterans know, its a chance to meet classmates and faculty, and hear some Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. We've been doing this for upwards of fifteen years now, but to be honest I haven't heard much feedback from students. This might just be a function of me not teaching a 100-300 level language class. Or, it might be that there just isn't that much feedback to be had. I'm curious to know the case, regardless. Comment, please, on what you think of speech contests in general and/or ours in particular.