No pain, no gain. There is so much truth in this saying. Why? Because each time you go through the stress (read pain!) of organising a contest, you grow in your organisational and leadership skills. Delegating has always been one of my weaker areas. At the club contest in September, I ended up preparing a lot of the stuff myself. This time round for the area contest, I delegated as much work as I possibly could.
Still, I ended up with a lot of loose ends and details that I overlooked. Like not having an extra SD card to take videos of the contestants, not having blank paper for judges and contestants to take notes. Not only that, one of the air-cons in the room broke down (on a positive note, it gave us a warm audience) and there were not enough chairs - it was literally full-house. The food was also insufficient. Areas for improvement...
In my closing address, I was able to draw laughter from the audience by tapping on the contestants' earlier humorous speeches. But oops, I forgot to mention the chief judge and judges when thanking everyone for helping out in the contests. It will definitely help to write down the key points and run through them in my mind before I go up to speak.
Next assignment: contest chair for the Division Z contest on 10 October 2009.
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