Hi, I'm Sam Arter. I am a senior at Edmond Memorial High School. I have done mainly PF and INF but I have experience with Oratory, Extemp and LD. I have done speech and debate for 3 years. Please be respectful, nice, and a good sport. Don't be mean, rude, racist, ableist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or entitled (I will vote you down). Take this seriously, but remember it is supposed to be enjoyable. Please ask questions if you have any. YOU CAN DO IT!! BE CONFIDENT AND HAVE FUN!!

Debate-

• Tech over Truth

• I don't prefer spreading but I will understand if you do it. If I stop writing- I'm not following.

• SIGNPOST!!!! Use an off-time roadmaps. I will be flowing so signposting helps me understand where you are on the flow.

• I vote frameworks and impact calc if they have a valid warrant and is upheld throughout the entire round.

• Carry arguments through the round. Drops don't count if you don't bring them up.

• I don't flow cross so if you want something from cross to flow through the round bring it up in another speech. Please don't be aggressive in cross.

• Please state your cards in the format (Authors last name, Year).

Speech-

• I like triangle or diamond blocking. Please make sure your structure is clear.

• State your sources in your speech.

• Make your movement and hand gestures purposeful.

• It's fine if you have a notecard but please do your best to not look at it.

• Use jokes. Make it fun.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please email me- fridayshome.sa@gmail.com

It's cool to ask me my paradigm in round also read everything

Oklahoma paradigm:

Speaker points

25- Your speaks weren't great and you didn't add a lot of substance to the round.

27- Decent speaks, ok responses, and ok weighing basically you did your part in the round.

30- Perfect speaks and every response you read can change the ballot.

-If you want me to see a card after round I would love too see it.

-Call for cards, if like 3+ cards have horrible cutting I might consider it an auto win.

extend or lose

Defense is not sticky(ask about this in round)

Any speed is probably fine its Oklahoma.

No k's or theory.

-Do impact calc

Everywhere else:

Read all

(Tech > truth) but if you say something like the sky is actually red im not buying it without some warranting

Call for evidence it makes me happy, if the card cutting is bad enough run an ivi but dont kick substance. I will stay a while to read cards after round.

Example of bad ev: If you read 50% of people rely on fish to survive but the card says 50% of people rely on fish for 30% of their protein i'm probably not going to evaluate your impact.

Speed: 300 wpm is fine but if there isn't clarity i'm going to drop some stuff.

-Signpost clearly, line by line is not optional, and give off time roadmaps for speech order and make sure you make it clear what you're collapsing on.

-Please do weighing

-Defense is not sticky.

-extend impact and links or lose it.

-I hate blippy responses just have a bit of warranting.

-Theory is really an ehh for me I don't really like it and if I feel like you're just doing it to win, you probably don't get the ballot. Best case scenario don't run theory on me.

-I don't evaluate disclosure

-I evaluate paraphrasing theory but if you're caught a single time paraphrasing, probably an instant down vote

-no friv

-If you run SV you can't just say it's invisible to get out of proving UQ, if your evidence just says the government did this one thing one time and the other team just responds with "Bad actors will always exist, that doesn't mean the institution itself is evil, turn the argument and look to actual policy x warrant finds we help x group" you're probably not winning the round.

Speaker points

25- Your speaks weren't great and you didn't add a lot of substance to the round.

27- Decent speaks, ok responses, and ok weighing basically you did your part in the round.

30- Perfect speaks and every response you read can change the ballot.

The best way for you to get my ballot is doing Framework right, explain it, extend it, weigh on it, and you'll be golden. If I don't know what you want me to do with it I can't vote on it.

If you want me to vote on your impacts, weigh them, I don't want to decide which impact I Care about more, defend your impact and tell me why it's the most important.

Don't spread, if I'm going to vote on it I need to flow it.

Call things pog and your speaks get boosted, which is pog.

My paradigm, above all, is quantity over quality. If one side is more articulate in their speaking, but fails to address a certain point, it could possibly mean that they are not addressing a crucial part of the debate.

I’m cool with whatever. Run your case however you think it’ll be best.

I’ll vote for who I think wins.

Open to squirrelly cases

More likely to judge on clear and evident lines of logic

Prefer clear voters

If you don’t say it, it doesn’t count