<p>It really depends on the school.</p>
<p>In my circuit my team is probably considered the most pretensious, just because we win like every tournament. But at the same nobody at school really hates on the speech &debaters.
Yet I've talked to competitors from other school who have told me that nobody likes or supports forensics, or just think they are annoying losers!</p>
<p>But yeah, it doesn't really have anything to do with the activity. Just individual personality along with team dynamics.</p>