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ignore below for Stanford 2021

I have judged for 5 years at HS level. I will be providing detail feedback including who won verbally right after the debate is over.

I care less for speaking style, but focus more on the content and logic. You can use debate jargon as well.

2019-20 is my 3rd year as a parent judge. Please speak clearly and not too fast.

I'm a parent of an experienced debater. I've judged mostly congress for 6 years and some PF as well at fairly high levels.

Ask for my congress paradigm verbally before the round starts. It's pretty simple, I trust that most of you know what to do.

PF:

I am a lay judge. I want to see clearly established links and easy to follow arguments. I do not want to get lost in my flow trying to make sense of your argument. I will still evaluate an argument if I have to make some leaps of logic but I'm less likely to evaluate it to the strength that you intend. As for responses, I want both refutation and weighing. Just because a response exists, doesn't mean it is good enough to take out the argument. I need to buy that your response does what you say. I always want to see weighing, debate is a comparative activity. The side that wins is the side that is better, not the side that is right. For frontlines, I don't want a repetition of your argument, I've heard it already. I want to hear, very clearly, what your response to the refutation is, there's multiple speeches for a reason.

As for speaking, I'm not a huge fan of speed. I'd prefer if you slowed it down a little. Slightly faster conversational is what I prefer. I want fluid speaking for high speaker scores. A little variation always helps me follow a long. If you have any massive fluency meltdowns, unintentional pauses, or just get obviously stumped at any points during your speech I'll deduct speaker points heavily, and depending on how bad it is, it can cost you the round.

Lastly, I highly value adaptability in debate. If your opponent says something that has you completely lost, it's not a good look and it can cost you the round.

Please be succinct and courteous.

Speak clearly.

I've judged parli for several years now.

Please enunciate and speak slower. Especially with debates online, sometimes I struggle to hear speeches properly when someone is talking fast.

Make sure you have logical arguments with clear reasoning that I can flow.

Do not try to run theory or kritiks.

I encourage POIs

I am a varsity debater and have been debating for 2 years now. I am pretty fine with flow debates. However, do make sure your enunciation is clear and understandable. If I don't understand/can't hear you, I obviously won't flow it.

I am "tabula rasa," meaning, I will not put forth any of my prior knowledge into judging the debate. I am judging the debate purely off of your skills in communicating your ideas. This does not mean you can make up statistics or lie because if it is an untruthful statistic or fact, chances are your argument will not be carried out very well!

I like theory and am a strong believer that theory is a priori. Please collapse to theory if you go for it, I don't like theories that are used as a time suck for the other team or don't actually show the abuse the other team has caused. I will vote for theory if the abuse is articulated well, otherwise it’s a wash

K's are fine if they do come up in a round, but I do not think this should be the main theme in novice debates...

Don't forget, normal case debates are perfectly fine too!!

Remember: I am the judge and I SHOULD NOT have to put any of my own judgement and thought into deciding who should win the debate. Make which team I should vote for very clear and simple for me. (impacts are everything)

If there is anything I did not address here and you still have questions before the round, feel free to ask me (unless we're in a time crunch).

I am a parent judge with no debating experience. I do not vote on theory or other debate technicalities. Please keep a steady flow that is easy follow so I can flow all of your points, is you spread I may not be able to record all or your contentions on my flow. I tend to vote heavily on impacts so be sure to clearly link all of your arguments and their larger impacts.