Hired and School Judging Information

If you would like to signup to be a judge for our tournament, please visit the Judge Signup link.

All judges must have a Tabroom account, which will be used to send ballots out throughout the tournament.  Ballots for synchronous events will contain a room link via NSDA Campus which will host the live round.  Ballots for asynchronous events are not attached to a competition room, but will contain each video link with them.

School and hired judges who do not receive a round should report to the judge pooling room, which will be sent out privately and wait to be cleared by the tournament.  Judges who fail to report may miss a round that they are substituted for, which could result in a fine and, if continuous or egregious, removal of your teams from the tournament.

***All speech/extemp judges are expected to be available for the duration of the tournament.***

***All debate judges are expected to be available for one round past your team's elimination.***

 Judge Training

The NSDA and NFHS have created some valuable resources for judging.  Implicit bias and cultural competence training are super important.  We encourage all judges to familiarize themselves with these concepts, which you can do at this website: https://www.speechanddebate.org/judge-training/