"call me water because i vote by following the path of least resistance." - edmond wen

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i’m studying biology and africana studies at johns hopkins. my debate philosophy is profoundly influenced by michael koo and joseph barquin.

affirmconscientization@gmail.com

active affiliations: colleyville cz, little rock lp, baltimore city college, beacon high school

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people seem to not take this part of my paradigm seriously, but i mean it – the speed at which y’all debate at is unnecessary or detrimental. take your time, be purposeful with your speed, and slow down. do not go at lightspeed just because you can. i promise you can deliver warrants and implications at a slower pace; you do not need to card dump at 500wpm.

pf toc: dumping a bunch of cards on me and then not implicating them to show the effect on the link chains in this round, but tagline extending instead, is not debating. do not expect speaks above a 27.5 if you do this – clash and warrant. this is true even if you’re going for something cold conceded.

^ also, start setting up the email chain shortly before the official start time so we can get going. thanks!

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tech determines truth – this is my general principle except for oppressive positions such as “x-ism good” or “the usfg should bomb (anywhere in the global south)” – do not read anything in this vein in front of me lest you risk a swift loss and the lowest speaks i can give.

i like k debate, i hate american hegemony.

but really – i can judge other strategies and styles, and i’ve thought “the 2nr should’ve been framework” too much for me to believe i hack against it. although i sincerely believe we can all do better than arguing for american hegemony, i’m technical enough to vote for it… but the impact turn is very persuasive c:

at the end of the day, just collapse on the path of least resistance (said it twice, so you know this is important to me). this lets me know how sharp your round vision is and it will be well rewarded in speaks. please warrant and implicate your arguments. be comparative in rebuttals – layer, frame, and filter the arguments! if you leave me with unresolved issues, you will likely hate the assumptions i make, so fill in the gaps for me.

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tidbits: (1) do not read tricks in front of me, i am not a kid. (2) when asked to look at cards, i will only check to see whose articulation of the evidence is more accurate, so you still need to have evidence spin. (3) engage case – hard to vote neg when you let the aff run away with the 1ac. (4) implicate the ontology debate!! why do you win the round if your thesis is true? (5) topicality and theory debates are the hardest for me to resolve – you need to be extremely clear with robust explanations. (6) if this applies -- please have a screenshot of the violation ready in the doc/email chain before you start your speech. (7) evidence should be cards -- this is especially a problem in pf -- if you send ev in a format where i cannot verify its integrity, your speaks will drop and i may discount the ev and the argument it serves entirely.

do not post-round me in bad faith. it's extremely... ironic, how some of y'all will read arguments about racial equity, even within debate, and then yell at a femme of color once the round is over. either write me off as a bad judge and move on, or learn from it.