Judge Obligations and Guidelines

Judge Obligations for each event type is below:

The following events have entries owed per entry.

Congress: 1 judge per 5 entries (maximum 3 judges). If you have more than 5 entries, you must bring one qualified parliamentarian as part of your judge obligation.

Speech: 1 judge per 6 entries.

California LD and Novice LD: 1 judge per 4 entries.

Parliamentary debate: 1 judge per 2 entries.

Public Forum debate: 1 judge per 2 entries.

World's School debate: 1 judge per 2 entries.

The following events have entries owed per round.

TOC LD and JV LD: 1 judge per 3 rounds.

All divisions of Policy debate: 1 judge per 3 rounds.