C. Championship Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - - NFA LD @ 10:45

  1. Speaker 1


    1. “It doesn't take a crystal ball to see a cowboy always finds a way to leave.” -Ella Langley, Choosin’ Texas
    2. “So, baby, let's get on the same page. Stop making me read between the lines.” -Olivia Dean, Man I Need
    3. “Day after day, we’ll make the mundane our masterpiece.” -Alex Warren, Ordinary
  2. Speaker 2


    1. “I thought my house was haunted. I used to live with ghosts.” -Taylor Swift, Opalite
    2. “Put some spirit in it, put your heart into it, that's all I need.” -Bruno Mars, I Just Might
    3. “I’m done hidin’. Now I’m shinin’, like I’m born to be.” -Huntrix, Golden
  3. Speaker 3


    1. “Ophelia lived in fantasy.” -Taylor Swift, Ophelia

    2. “The devil in your eyes won’t deny the lies.” -Sombr, Back to Friends

    3. “I know it’s getting cold out, but it’s not frozen.” -Kehlani, Folded

  4. Speaker 4


    1. “Where you are is where I belong.” -Luke Combs, Be By You
    2. “All those years I put in for the American Dream.” PinkPantheress & Zara Larsson, Stateside
    3. “Where the hell is my husband?” -RAYE, Where is My Husband!
  5. Speaker 5


    1. “I wave goodbye to the end of beginning.” -Djo, End of Beginning

    2. “I know you like it when I tell you what you want.” -Justin Bieber, Yukon

    3. “Yeah, they only shoot the birds who cannot sing.” -Noah Kahan, The Great Divide

  6. Speaker 6


    1. “Starved ‘cause his words don’t have a meaning.” -Sienna Spiro, Die on This Hill
    2. “Go forth, ask questions later.” -Harry Styles, Aperture
    3. “Forced to know on Heaven’s door, cause mine ain’t workin’ anymore.” -Jelly Roll & Shaboozey, Amen
  7. Speaker 7


    1. “Run from the sunlight, Dracula.” -Tame Impala, Dracula
    2. “Ain’t this supposed to be painless? Then why am I so anxious?” -Brent Faiyaz, Butterflies
    3. “I’m not her, and she’s not me, and you’re not mine.” -Tyla, Chanel

Round 2 - 1:00 - NFA LD @ 1:30

  1. Speaker 1


    1. “I had wings once, and they were strong. But they were stolen from me.” -Maleficent

    2. “I believe whatever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you…stranger.” -The Joker

    3. “If only you knew the power of the dark side.” -Darth Vader

  2. Speaker 2


    1. “You’re in my world now, not your world.” -Dr. Facilier

    2. “There’s no taming this tiger.” -Agatha Harkness

    3. “It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.” -T-800

  3. Speaker 3


    1. “The world is dark, and selfish, and cruel. If it finds even the slightest ray of sunshine, it destroys it!” -Mother Gothel

    2. “The hardest choices require the strongest wills.” -Thanos

    3. “People always make fun ‘cause of the way I look.” -Pennywise

  4. Speaker 4


    1. “Name’s Hades, Lord of the dead. Hi, how ya doin’?” -Hades

    2. “Strong enough to have it all…too weak to take it!” -Green Goblin

    3. “The more people you love, the weaker you are.” -Cersei Lannister

  5. Speaker 5


    1. “You can’t get something for nothing, you know.” -Ursula

    2. “Do you know the oldest lie in America, Senator? It’s that power can be innocent.” -Lex Luthor

    3. “I don’t care who you are. I don’t care how you feel.” -Regina George

  6. Speaker 6


    1. “You’d be surprised what you can live through.” -Jafar

    2. “Nice guys like you shouldn’t have bad days.” -Harley Quinn

    3. “You can’t begin to imagine the life you denied yourself.” -The Borg Queen

  7. Speaker 7


    1. “I want to make art. And I want to make trouble.” -Cruela de Vil

    2. “You will bow to me, or you will die.” -Doctor Doom

    3. “I think my monster encourages your monster, right?” -Villanelle

Round 3 - 1:15 - NFA LD @ 1:45

  1. Speaker 1


    1. “The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” -Rosa Parks, Civil Rights Activist
    2. “I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.” -Susan B. Anthony
    3. “If I’m going to be a vegetable, I’m going to be an artichoke: prickly on the outside, with a big heart in the middle.” -Ed Roberts
  2. Speaker 2


    1. “If you want something, you better make some noise.” -Malcolm X

    2. “By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.” -Laverne Cox

    3. “Hope is an interesting thing: the darker the world gets around you, the brighter it shines.” -Jane Goodall

  3. Speaker 3


    1. “No movement is possible without hope.” -Angela Davis

    2. “If I do a good job, people won’t care if I am green or have three heads.” -Harvey Milk

    3. “How dare you! You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.” -Greta Thunberg

  4. Speaker 4


    1. “Speak up, speak out, get in the way.” -John Lewis

    2. “If one man can destroy everything, why can’t one girl change it?” -Malala Yousafzai

    3. “And with that rage we ripped a hole in the status quo.” -Judith Heumann

  5. Speaker 5


    1. “We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live.” -Cesar Chavez

    2. “Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned.” -Sylvia Rivera

    3. “You cannot enslave a mind that knows itself.” -Wangari Maathai

  6. Speaker 6


    1. “The thing about nonviolence is that it spreads.” -Dolores Huerta

    2. “No pride for some of us without liberation for all of us.” -Marsha P. Johnson

    3. “We should not believe that our lives are lived in a linear fashion.” -Winona LaDuke

  7. Speaker 7


    1. “I’m not a humanitarian, I’m a hell-raiser.” -Mother Jones

    2. “I am everywhere and I am nowhere. That is the beauty of the internet age.” -Ai Weiwei

    3. “Fight for your lives before it’s someone else’s job.” -Emma Gonzalez

Finals - 5:30 / Elim 1 (NFA-LD) 6:00

  1. Speaker 1


    1. “A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.” -Tom Hanks (attended Chabot College)

    2. “The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.” -Morgan Freeman (attended LA City College)

    3. “I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life.” -Annette Bening (attended San Diego Mesa College)

  2. Speaker 2


    1. “So much of life is what you roll and where you land.” -Mark Hamill (attended LA City College)

    2. “It’s almost a preordained destiny that you’re going to run into this wall–that your very success will become your nemesis.” -Bruce FaBrizio (attended Mt. San Antonio College)

    3. “It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world.” -Teri Hatcher (attended De Anza College)

  3. Speaker 3


    1. “I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.” -Dana Carvey (attended College of San Mateo)

    2. “Good luck has its storms.” -George Lucas (attended Modesto Junior College)

    3. “Isn’t hate merely the result of wounded love?” -Amy Tan (attended San Jose City College)

  4. Speaker 4


    1. “Honor the hands that harvest your crops.” -Dolores Huerta (attended San Joaquin Delta College)

    2. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” -Steve Jobs (attended De Anza College)

    3. “One of the good things I learned here is that mistakes are part of the process to mission success.” -Adriana Ocampo (attended Pasadena City College)

  5. Speaker 5


    1. Pushing yourself over the barrier is a habit. I know I can do it and try something else crazy.” -Florence Hyman (attended El Camino College)

    2. “Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something.” -Earnest Gaines (attended Solano Community College)

    3. “To be led by a liar is to ask to be lied to.” -Octavia Butler (attended Pasadena City College)

  6. Speaker 6


    1. “No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.” -Jenni Rivera (attended Long Beach City College)

    2. “No job is worth feeling uneasy every day.” -Gabrielle Union (attended Cuesta College)

    3. “A lot of people said I should retire, but I stuck with it.” -Felix Sanchez (San Diego Mesa College)