BCFL Season Opener
2020 — NSDA Campus, BC/CA
Novice Extemporaneous Paradigm List
All Paradigms: Show HideFor the sake of clarity, please extend your rebuttals and contentions you want considered through summary and into the final focus.
Good clashes and impact calculus makes me happy. Anything to keep me from having to intervene makes me happy
Any speed is good. Maybe no Godzilla rapping, but as long as it's clear, I'll understand.
TLDR: Flay judge but zero topic knowledge. I'm not kidding. I have very minimal topic knowledge so make sure to put that 'public' into public forum lol
The most frustrating thing as a debater was not knowing how judges made decisions. It makes the activity more unpredictable than it already is.
How I make a decision:
- Who is winning the weighing?
- If team A is winning the weighing, I look to their argument(s) first.
- If team A wins their argument(s), gg, I will not evaluate the rest of the flow
- If team A is not winning the weighing, I look to team B's argument(s)
- If team B is winning their argument(s), gg.
- If team A and B are not winning their argument(s), I presume to the team who is winning the weighing debate (I have my reasons for this), unless other presumption arguments are read
General things:
- Preflow before the round. Delaying the round is the quickest way to lose speaks from me.
- Evidence exchange must happen in <1min or else it is discarded from the round
- Don't steal prep. Call your opponents out if they are.
- Let's skip the handshakes - germs are scary.
- I am not experienced with progressive arguments. You are free to run them, but don't expect me to make an ideal decision.
- I will call for cards at the end of the debate if (1) you tell me to (2) I need to clarify something
- Good analytics > unwarranted cards
Debate related:
- Weighing is cool but meta weighing is cooler
- Second rebuttal should frontline turns at minimum
- Don't be afraid to drop case and go for other pieces of offense on the flow (make sure it's still weighed)
- Fully extend arguments - I will not do any work for you
- Speed is usually fine, but because I'm not familiar with this topic, please go slowww
- Comparative analysis > more blocks
Qualifications: I competed in speech and debate tournaments for five consecutive years throughout all of high school. Most of my debate experience comes from public forum and I have extensive judging experience as well.
Paradigm:
- I am fine with speed, but please talk clearly. If I cannot understand you, what you say will not appear on my flow.
- Organization is important. If you are organized, I will be able to connect your speeches throughout my flow better and (hopefully) end up voting for your team. Be especially clear with taglines.
- Weigh the impacts and clearly tell me why you win. If you don't, I will end up having to put my input into the vote.
- Impacts are important. Even if you have a clear claim and warrant, nothing will count unless you have an impact as a result of that. I will most likely vote based on your impacts and voters, so make sure they are clear and strong.
- Warrants are important. If you have an impact but no clear warrant or link to the resolution, I will not vote for it.
- Be sure your arguments are backed up by evidence. The better your arguments are backed up, the stronger it will be.
- I do not flow during crossfire. If anything important comes up during crossfire, be sure to mention that within your speeches if you want that to go on my flow.
Any clarifying questions about my paradigm can be asked before the round starts or to anstlgus02@gmail.com.
Hello everyone! I am a university student studying Criminology at Simon Fraser University.
I am currently a PF coach, but my main focus of teaching is younger students in PRO-CON debate.
Tips on receiving higher points and winning the round:
1. I personally like off-time road map for easier flow.
2. Please have your camera on AND time yourself. It is important for you to get in the habit of timing yourself and being able to adjust to the timer.
3. I am HEAVY on frontlining (reconstruction) during second rebuttal AND summary. If I don't hear a frontlining in the second rebuttal, I will be disappointed.
4. I like clear weighing mechanism and USE the weighing mechanism terms in your speech. (ex. we outweigh on ____).
5. If your case is a sole contention, make sure to emphasize the subtopics AND impact and terminal impact.
6. Make sure your contention title is related to your argument and what you are talking about.
7. I highly favour quantifiable evidence over ANYTHING ELSE. So, use numbers!
Not Do's :
Any type of racism, sexism, discrimination, rude comments and negative behaviour will give you very low speaker points. So please be polite to one another :)
Do not talk over people OR cut people off during crossfire. I care a lot about mannerism and etiquette during the rounds. It is important to get your idea addressed, but please let others talk.
Lastly, Have Fun:)