08 - Volunteer Judge Resources

Below you will find some general resources that might be helpful to effectively judge at the Bellaire Forensic Tournament. Note that we will continue to update this page over the next few days as we continue to edit and add materials.

For general technical support on judging for tournaments:

• This is a link to a Volunteer Judge spreadsheet that identifies the pools that judges are entered in as well as the time slots they're currently coded as available for.
• This video explains how to create a Tabroom.com account, and this document has step-by-step written instructions along with guidance for how to write a paradigm.
• This video clarifies the technology of speech and debate tournaments and what judges will have to do.

For general summaries:

• This document has the topics for the debate events
• This folder has the speech times for the debate events
• This one-pager provides a quick summary of most of the speech and debate events

For specific information about the different formats:

• Judging Congressional Debate (CD)
• Judging Lincoln Douglas Debate (LD)
• Judging Public Forum Debate (PF)
• Judging Dramatic Interpretation (DI)
• Judging Duet (DA)
• Judging Duo Interp (DUO)
• Judging Extemp (NX, DX, or FX) or Impromptu (IMP)
• Judging Humorous (HI)
• Judging Informative (INFO) or Original Oratory (OO)
• Judging Poetry (PO)
• Judging Program Oral Interpretation (POI)
• Judging Prose (PR)