ONE of the organisation’s top trophies for senior speechmaking headed back to the East Region this year when one of two teams from Bankfoot JAC showed they have the gift of the gab to win the trophy.

The club’s ‘A team’ in fact produced some of the top scores for each speaker as well as the best score by far for team work. Fresh from their win at the East Region qualifying round the previous week, they streaked six points clear to win with 99 2/3 on the score board.

With Anna Sloan chairing the team, proposer Romy Jackson and opposer Ewan Penny discussed ‘Millennials have a poor work ethic’, before arbiter Catherine Sloan weighed up both arguments. 

The winning team from the North finished in second place with 93 2/3. That was Udny JAC’s ‘Blue team’, consisting of Gary Bruce, Helen Willis, Gemma Bruce and Amy Jo Reid, with Gary also picking up the most points for any chairman and therefore the prize for best chairman outwith the winning team.

Just one third of a point behind with 93 1/3 was Avondale YFC, with further celebrations for the team's Annie Bryson when she was best opposer outwith the winning team.

Other prizes outwith the winning team went to Crossroads YFC’s Robert Campbell who was proposing his team’s motion, while newly crowned Member of the Year Lianne Brunton, from East Fife JAC, was best arbiter.