Speech Forensics: Ranked for Drama Hats

Competitive speech has its own vocabulary: pieces, cuttings, blocking and character pops. Charlotte Urban Debate League's interpretation guide describes popping as switching characters and blocking as physical staging. In a community discussion, a competitor recalls ranks of one, one and six at state in interp, calling it the nature of the beast. That sharp difference between judges' rankings supplies one of this collection's most specific jokes. These speech forensics hats pair the clean Speech Team and Speech Kid badges with the established beautiful-day-for-forensics phrase, documented on an apparel listing with an item-specific buyer review. Other designs exaggerate a performer's character range, prize speech ballots above love letters, and give competitive drama a professional-sized attitude. Twelve characters is the joke, not an event requirement; professional drama is a boast, not an employment claim. The collection draws its language from individual-event speech: interp performance, judges' ballots and the speech piece. Wear it casually as a competitor or alum, or choose one as a gift for the speech kid whose everyday voice already deserves a dramatic reading. The forensics-day phrase and ballot-love-letter line each come in two colorways, with every design custom embroidered on a dad hat.