Background:

My background is in public forum. I competed all throughout high school on the national circuit and local circuit in Georgia. Currently, I am the President of the New Haven Urban Debate League and coach parliamentary debate at Yale.

PF Paradigm:

WEIGHING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU WILL EVER DO IN DEBATE! IT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN KNOWING YOUR OWN NAME!! PLS WEIGH.

If you don’t weigh, I’ll have to resort to my own weighing mechanism, which may be different every round depending on my mood. You don’t want that, so pls for the love of god, make my life and yours easier by weighing. It’s the easiest way to my ballot.

Other stuff:

-I can handle 250 words/minute. Go over, well...your arguments might not make it on my flow.

-I don't expect the first speaking team to extend defense in summary. However, you need to respond to turns. Second speaking teams need to extend defense and respond to turns.

-Second speaking team should TRY to respond to turns in rebuttal.

-Voters in final focus should be mentioned in summary.

-If your links don’t logically make sense, I’m probably not going to buy it, so warrant everything.

-I don't weigh anything in cross in terms of the ballot, so bring it up in speeches if there's something important.

Parli Paradigm:

I'm familiar with East Coast parli. I don't do well with theory, so I might not understand it. You can try it, but you still must interact with your opponents' arguments. The way to my ballot is by weighing. You don't need to go for everything at the end of the debate, but you should still respond to opponents' arguments and not extend through ink! Break the last speech into voters and weigh!

Other points (very similar to my paradigm for PF, so take that for what you will):

-Because you're not using evidence, please maintain a 200 word/minute maximum.

-Rebuttals should not be in the final speech. I believe that your rebuttals, at the very minimum, should begin in the member speeches. This allows for final interactions in the final speech between the two sides, and this avoids the idea of "no new arguments in the last speech."

-No tag teaming.

-If your links don’t logically make sense, I’m probably not going to buy it, so warrant everything. If I don't buy it, I will most likely not vote for it...

-Do not extend through ink! Conceded arguments are arguments that were poorly responded to or not at all; to which, you can extend, but if your opponents provide multiple warrants/responses to the argument, you must also respond to the rebuttals.

If you have any questions, please ask in rounds or after by emailing me at mary.chen@yale.edu

Hello!

Bronx Science 23' Princeton 27'

My name is Evan Li (He/Him). I debated Public Forum for 4 years at Bronx Science.

Email chains/Questions/Feedback: el2319@princeton.edu

Please be respectful to your opponents and the judge (me) during the round. I believe that debate should be a fun and educational activity so anything that infringes on that will upset me. I usually give reasonable speaker points but I will dock points for rudeness.

I will try my best to give everyone feedback on their individual speeches and on the round as a whole at the end. Feel free to ask me questions.

General info:

• I’m a flow judge, tech > truth

• Please give me warranting for all your contentions

• I listen to cross but generally don’t flow it

• I try to flow card names but don’t expect me to know what the card is saying just by repeating the tagline.

• I’m fine with speed, as long as you’re not spreading

• Running prog args is fine, just run it by your opponents first
• I'm also not a prog debater so keep in mind I won't be very good at flowing it; tldr run it at your own risk

DO NOTS:

Do NOT: make sexist, racist, homophobic, discriminatory, hateful etc. comments in or out of round.

Do NOT: harass or berate anyone participating in the round.

I will decimate your speaks and immediately drop you if you do either of these, and I will most definitely be reporting it to your coach and tournament staff.

Good luck to everyone competing and have fun!