“Do personal stories in Oratory have to be true?” This question kinda blew my mind when a coach from another school asked me after judging a few Oratory rounds for the first time. How many times have we sat in Oratory rounds and listened to personal anecdotes that just make you want raise your eyebrow and think “ Huh...I’m pretty sure that never happened”. For example, I once had saw a kid giving a speech about consumerism and one of his anecdotes was about how his 15 year ol