I'm flow

Novices: Don't bully each other. If you run Baudrillard against another novice I will not consider it in my decision, if you spread I will dock you speaker points unless both teams are spreading. Pretend I'm a lay judge unless both of yall went to camp or something then go ahead and make it a flow round.

Doing pen tricks during your speech gets you 30 speaks but if you drop the pen you get a 0

I was in speech and debate for four years in high school. I competed mainly in Parliamentary in my junior and senior year, and in Lincoln Douglas in my freshman and sophomore year.

That being said, I prefer clear speaking over spreading though a little bit of speed is fine. I also find traditional forms of debate more appealing, so try to prioritize logical reasoning over technical (or, of course, abusive) arguments. Remember to sign post, link, warrant, impact, weigh, extend, etc etc to make flowing and judging easier for me.

And stay respectful!

Hello! I am a Northwood HS Alumni, currently attending Indiana University for business. I spoke competitively for the Northwood team.

For debates: I am primarily a speech judge, so please slow down and explain everything to me as a lay judge. I also take into account speaking style when making my decisions.

Email (for evidence sharing): reyshankar9@gmail.com

Hi! I'm currently a student at UC Berkeley and I did both speech and debate for 5 years. I mostly focused on speech (mainly doing informative and program oral interp), but I have experience in PF, LD, and Parli debate.

That being said, please treat me like a lay judge. I don't flow much, so it's really on the competitors to speak clearly and make sure you emphasize voting points at the beginning and end of the round. READ WEIGHING, tell me why YOUR arguments are more important than your opponents, don't just restate your argument! I know tech and theory, and I can keep up if you feel as if it's necessary to run it, but the burden would fall on you to make sure that I, your opponents, and other judges in the round are able to adequately understand what you are doing. Personally, I am pretty familiar with most high theory lit and phil and I find it really interesting, but it's pointless if you can't relate it back to the topic at hand.

While who wins the round will be determined by the arguments read, speaking skills will influence how your arguments come across, so please keep this in mind! A general rule of thumb for weighing for me is that things like social well-being and human life are more important than economy or tech innovation, so, if your arguments center on the latter, please try to connect it back to how it would impact the people.

I will not vote for any team that is rude or discriminatory towards their opponents

I’ve been Involved with Speech and Debate since 2015, although I’ve been judging almost nonstop since 2019. Available as a judge-for-hire via HiredJudge per request.

9.9/10 if you did not receive commentary on your ballot after the tournament, you (hopefully) would get my judge email on there instead.

I don’t currently operate from a laptop so my ballot speed is not ideal atm; I’m usually typing out paragraphs from a doc until the last allowable minute, but my timing is not the most perfect. You won’t always get a pageful but its my personal policy to give a minimum of 5 sentences. If you send over an email asking about your round; it might take up to 24 hours post tournament but I -will- reply back.

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Ballot Style:

Where possible I add timestamps to help students pinpoint exact moments in their speech that address the issue as noted by comment.it is a personal philosophy of mine to try never have less than 5 sentences on any ballot.

Debate Philosophy: I can comfortably judge parli, LD, PF, SPAR & Congress due to judging almost nonstop since the start of the pandemic. I don't have a lot of experience with policy debate as of this writing, I’m working on understanding spread speak as I do more tournaments. [current speed: 2 notches down from the fast verse in Rap God ]

I LOVE it when students are able to be fully themselves and have fun in a round
Debate Judging: I’m not the biggest fan of utilitarian as a value metric, but otherwise I try to approach the round as a blank slate. I like hearing both Ks & Traditional Argumentation however my rfd really depends on how you use them (or inverse thereof) in the debate.

Sportsmanship (like, dont lower your performance/ be rude on purpose, please) > Argumentative Cohesion & Organization > CX utilization & Clash > Framework Discourse > Delivery > Structural Presence, but I am a little stricter on citation~ doesn’t need to be the full date but it needs gotta be there

Congress: (also see above) but I like those who can flip arguments in their favor;You dont need to be extroverted to be PO, but POs should be attentive with overall energy in the chamber and facilitating ethical and intentional inclusion beforesilence becomes a huge issue in round, in addition to strict yet -visible- timekeeping.

RFD FLOW - I try to have at least a paragraph summary explaining my flow (sometimes it’ll be copy/pasted)

Speech Judging: I can judge any speech event across all levels!

I would sincerely appreciate if students could self time so I can focus on ballots.

(For those who have read all the way through, some free interp gems that will be erased in a month, besides the basics: storyboarding, stop animation, pixar’s “inside out,” samurai jack, sound track your pieces.)