Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament
2020 — Classrooms.Cloud, IL/US
Judge Information and Hired Judge Considerations
Because The Glenbrooks prides itself on the quality of the competitors and adjudicators, judges provided by the individual schools must be qualified to judge a national circuit forensics competition. Only persons who have graduated high school may judge, with the exception that high school varsity debaters may be used in novice policy. Judges must be designated for each division since the tournament will be held in multiple buildings.
Phone Numbers - We ask that you enter the correct phone numbers for all of your judges. You will not be able to enter a judge into the tournament without providing their phone number.
All policy and LD debate judges are required to submit a philosophy to tabroom.com by 5pm Central Time November 12th. Schools that have judges who have not submitted their philosophies will not be allowed to submit a strike sheet. This is a self-reporting system – it is your responsibility to make sure the philosophy is published.
ALLOCATIONS
We do ask that schools provide as much qualified judging as possible. For this year, we are removing the restriction that schools must provide at least one judge in each pool they are represented. The Glenbrooks will work with you to hire judges if you need judging. We can't guarantee that we can accommodate all hired judge requests but we will do our best. Once you put in a request to hire a judge and that hired judge request has been approved, your judge has been hired. There are no refunds for hired judging requests that have been approved.
If you feel that you have judges that are suited better for other pools than what you are obligated to fill, please contact Tara Tate at ttate@glenbrook225.org for possible arrangements to have judges in one pool covering your obligations in another.
A school is responsible for paying the hired judge fee or may not be asked to return if any of its judges miss a round for any reason, including failing to check both the varsity and the JV LD schematics.
All debate judges are required to judge the first elimination round OR judge one round past the last elimination round in which their school participated (whichever comes last).
Placing judges in elimination rounds becomes more difficult each year because judges leave once their school’s competitors are eliminated from the tournament without fulfilling their commitment to adjudicate one round beyond their school’s last outround. Directors are responsible to make sure that their school’s judges are available to fulfill their ENTIRE judging commitment. We try our best to release individuals as quickly as possible, but the tournament requires the highest quality judging pool possible even after any particular school is finished competing. Schools who have judges that do not meet their elimination round obligation may not be invited to return.
Given the need for LD judges over the last several years we are instituting an entourage rule for LD. Any adult at the tournament that is capable of judging must be in the pool for at least 2 rounds and available to judge elimination debates. If there is a reason someone needs an exception, this must be approved by the tournament. We will also have the same entourage rule for policy.
You may not split one judge between two different pools unless you have coverage for elimination round commitments in both pools.
Hired Judge Policy
A limited number of judges are available for hire through the tournament.
There are no refunds for hired judges - once we have accepted your hired judge request, you will be invoiced for the hire. This is true if you find a judge on your own after requesting one.
1 Congress or Speech judge = $450
Each round of VLD = $100
Each round of judging for any other debate division= $75
No hired judges will be available after October 30 at 8 am CT. If you intend to hire judges, please make sure you request one by October 30. If you find yourself in an emergency needing a judge after that deadline, please email Tara at ttate@glenbrook225.org and we will try to work with you.
If you are interested in hiring out rounds beyond your commitment in VCX or VLD ($30 a round), please contact Tara at ttate@glenbrook225.org .