The pressure, self-imposed, was on all 11 young speakers: A win in Gainesville would carry the speaker to the state competition, and a win there, to the national contest in Phoenix. In Phoenix, the winner of the 2012 Rumbaugh Historical Oration Contest would receive a $3,000 scholarship.But first things first. In the local competition — conducted over two evenings — the speakers would, for the first time, deliver their speech to an audience they mostly didn’t know, including judges, a title generating jitters by itself.