Judging/Judges

Judging/Judges

Judges owed

Policy: 3 rounds of judging per team entry

LD: 2 Rounds of judging per entry

Public Forum: 2 Rounds of Judging per team entry

 ALL JUDGES MUST STAY ONE ROUND PAST THEIR SCHOOL NO LONGER BEING IN ROUNDS!

*Hired Judging:

LD: $40/round

Policy: $50/round

PF: $30/round

**Utah schools need to provide their own qualified judges and should hire only in dire circumstances.

***No judge may be entered for more than 6 prelim rounds. If sharing between schools, please notify the tournament directors so that can be sorted out.

****NEW! Entourage Rule

Due to the issues of having too many people leave from judging and not being available during the tournament times we are implementing the Entourage Rule. This means, any Coach, assistant coach, or individual on site in any capacity must be included in the judging pool with their paradigms in preferred LD/Policy qualified area for at least 2 rounds and be available for elims, if necessary, one round past your team being eliminated. Parent chaperones who are trained in LD/Policy may be placed in those pools, otherwise should be put in Public Forum. Any team who does not include these members attending in their judge pool will be fined $100.

All paradigms for these individuals are also necessary and should be entered with their commitments on tabroom by November 1, 2018 as well.

Judging Preferences

LD and Policy will be using mutual preferred judging. Entries must be covered by qualified judges. Policy and LD judges are expected to have already completed a judging philosophy and posted it on the judge philsophies wiki or on their tabroom account, no later than November 1, 2018. As a courtesy to out-of-state schools that will not be able to cover all of their entries, we will arrange judging services on a case-by-case basis.

**Please request judging hires at registration and contact Tanya Roundy/Carol Shackelford directly  through altasilverandblack@gmail.com if you need to arrange for a hired judge or are a judge who wishes to be hired, no later than October 31st.  

***Schools with judges who do not show up for rounds will be assessed a $50 fine per round missed in prelims and $100 for Elimination rounds. Reminder that your school is responsible to have judges stay one round past your school being eliminated fully from competition even if they have fulfilled their prelim judging earlier in the week you MUST have a judge available for Elimination rounds.

****Teams missing judges as of November 1st will risk having teams dropped to meet their entered judges.

Judge Conflicts

Please indicate on the tournament entry website all preclusions for all judges. Judges should preclude themselves from any debater who they have previously coached, had a close, personal relationship with, or for any other reason the judge believes they cannot be objective towards them if assigned. This includes any judge who has done any paid or volunteer coaching, even if conducted digitally or otherwise-remotely. Any college debater or coach should preclude herself or himself from any debater whom they have seriously recruited to attend their school. Judges should preclude themselves from judging their alma mater. Judges should preclude themselves from judging any school which they previously coached in the three-years prior to the 2017-2018 academic year. It is the judge’s obligation to communicate any conflicts to the tournament director prior to the start of the tournament.

Judges are also expected to adhere to Event-Specific Rules regarding Judge Conflicts.

In the event a pairing is distributed, and a judge, or team, reports a conflict after the fact, resulting in a changing of the pairing, that school will be charged a $50 fine.