In order to provide a stage for people who enjoy competitive speaking, and in order to showcase the best, Toastmasters clubs hold speech contests every year. Each contest starts at the club level and works its way up through Area and Division to the District. The District speech contest winner competes against seven other contestants at the Region II Conference.  The winner of the Region II contest then competes at the World Championship of Public Speaking held at the Toastmasters World Convention each August.