-Consider me a lay judge, never did debate in highschool, but have been judging for couple of years. Primarily debates. (mostly policy.)

Policy

- I don't need to be shared on the email chain.

- neg should spend time defending their arguments as well. If you only have offense, but none of it is upheld in your speeches, I can't flow it through.

- Don't Tell me that because your impact is bigger then the other team and that's why you should win the round, unless you give me why you won the warrant battle first. Warrants give you access to your impacts, so if you lose the warrant battle, the impact does not matter.

- I have dealt with enough spreading to get by, but if you are terrible at it, I probably can't understand what you are saying, so I won't be able to flow it.

- Sometimes, new debate jargon still confuses me. If you are using jargon, don't just assume I know what it means.

- as a lay judge, it's easier to kind of rap my head around on case arguments a bit better. I will weigh K's and theory, but Its a risk to run them with me. ( Oh, and I hate when people use the"I'ts bad for the debate space" argument.

-honestly, I'm pretty chill with most things. Just have fun.

I debated for Logan High School for 4 years and have a variety of events under my belt. I am most familiar with PF and Policy but look for the quality of the arguments over the quantity.

Speed:

Be reasonable about your speed, depending on what event you are doing this would differ but if you are spewing many offs to overwhelm your opponents you better have a clear understanding of each of them. It is also important to me that you aren't going too crazy as if you're just mumbling I will stop flowing. Make sure you slow down on Taglines and roadmap if you choose to go down a path that is fairly fast.

PF Specific:

Framework debate is awesome, please do it! It's important to either have a framework that everything you're arguing goes under or have a clear enough understanding of the topic to be able to argue/default to the opponent's framework. It's important everything links and the basis of my decisions will be based on who upholds the framework of the round better or whose framework is better based on the flow of the round.

Policy Specific:

If you're gonna go super progressive or super fast please start an email chain, or whatever they use now. It would help lots for everyone to have the cases to argue fine print if necessary. I'm also fine with tag team in policy as long as it's clear that both members of each team have an understanding of what is going on (One partner should not overwhelmingly contribute more than the other). Besides that, I'm pretty open to most things in Policy as I debated MMM in highschool.

Please don't hesitate to email me if you want further explanation on your ballots and/or questions!

Email: curtisliu4@gmail.com