stop reading this its embarrassing

I'm a high school debater pronouns she/her

I can flow fast speeches, but online debates lend themselves best to slightly slower speakers. If you're speaking too fast for my internet connection, I will ask you to slow down.

I judge based on arguments not style. Speaker points are awarded based on the quality of your argumentation, not the quality of your speaking style. For rebuttal speakers, quality argumentation means effectively collapsing arguments and weighing. If you just repeat your arguments in a rebuttal speech, you're not doing your job.

I like examples. Since it's parli debate, that includes hypothetical examples. Please extend your arguments in constructives by giving new examples, new evidence, or new warranting or impacts. I don't like it when debaters repeat what their partners have already said. It's boring for me and it does nothing for your case.

Theory: I'm not a fan of theory. Unless your opponents have committed a crime against nature, I don't expect to be receptive to it, but I'll try my best to understand where you're coming from. Kritiks must be linked into the topic for me to be receptive to them. I also have veeerrry little experience when judging/understanding kritiks so please go slow and easy with me.

Be respectful! I don't ask for pronouns because no one should be forced to explain their pronouns but don't assume your opponents' pronouns. I'd prefer you say "my opponent" than "he" or "she".

Pronouns: She/Her

I debate high school parliamentary and policy on the East Coast, and little experience with World Schools. If you want to run theory go for it, but make sure to clearly explain it and make sure it's organized.

If you want you can have an offtime roadmap, but is it really going to help you?

Sign posting= ez dubs. Being a judge suck up=no dubs ---this is obviously a joke.

Talk at a reasonable pace, if you spread make sure not to just randomly say stuff to look cool, but actually be intentional with what you say...faster doesn't mean superior.

Also, if you don't want to debate make sure that doesn't show in your speech, your parents forced you to do a debate for a reason.

Have a chill round no need to make things stressful or confusing for your opponents.

If you are reading this during prep it probably won't help you win the round, but hey at least you weren't stalking me on insta.

I want to be on all evidence and file sharing email chains. (Briggsc24@stlukesct.org)

TLDR: My paradigm isn't that long but I'll evaluate everything just do it well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

General

I was a HS policy K debater so I will evaluate everything, Ks, theory etc. Speed is good so go as fast as you want just be clear. Don't spread faster than you can because bad spreading sucks so don't be bad at it.

Other than that I don't really care what you run I will evaluate it regardless of what the rest of my paradigm says.

If you have any questions about my RFD ask me. If there is no round disclosure at the tournament I probably will disclose anyway just don't tell tab <3.

For in round stuff (for policy, open cx that kind of thing) do whatever you want as long as the other team agrees.

All of this is for whatever event I am judging. The rest of my paradigm is just my personal thoughts on some arguments to let you know where I personally stand even though it will not impact my decision.

Theory

I'll evaluate it just do it right.

Tricks are for kids. That being said, I am a kid.

Theory - CX

If you run ks bad, cps bad, or try to convince me that ks and cps as a whole are abusive or don't belong in the space I will evaluate it but the burden on negative team is low, it's not the 70s. Go to open ev, do research, get good. (Obviously there are some CPs that are actually abusive thats a different story) I just generally hate this theory but I guess I'll evaluate it.

T-T is a theory you need all the parts.

CX - General

KAFFS -I love them. I ran one my senior year and loved it. I don't have any major opinions about kaffs but I do believe they have a space in the activity. That being said I will vote on framework. I don't really think that fairness is a voter I think it is an internal link but I could be wrong and will vote on it being an impact.

KVK Please please please please do this. I love kvks I think they are awesome like all ks.

PF

I probably have a fair amount of knowledge of whatever topic you all are doing and I would like to be on ev share, whatever that looks like.

K- It belongs in PF just don't suck at it

For novice, you probably shouldn't be running prog anyways but if you know what you're doing go nuts.

Hello! My name is Akshaj and my pronouns are he/him. I have debated for about 6 years in a variety of debate formats. I like to see lots of reasoning and impacts in addition to your evidence. Do not just give evidence and assume that everyone understands the reasoning! Also, be sure to explain to me why your world wins OVER THE Opposition world if you are Government as you have the burden of proof. Make sure that you are providing lots of clash to the other team to create a better and more educational debate. Try not to make abusive definitions or frameworks as it doesn't make the debate fun or educational.

Solid weighing, and put the words in my mouth assume I don't know how to think anything that isn't basic linking weight and impacting needs to be done for me to put it on my flow.

I judge my rounds almost entirely off my flow chart, so signpost and be clear about where you are on the flow.

Hey there! I'm Annie/Yuqi Liu (pronouns she/her), and I'm a parliamentary debater on the East Coast. Hence, I'm unfamiliar with West Coast parliamentary norms, and I may also be unfamiliar with jargon from other debate formats. I do have experience judging parliamentary and CTMSDL.

With that in mind:

- Please speak in laymen's terms or tabula rasa

- Only use topicality against abuse

- If you do use theory, explain it thoroughly - this is both for me and your opponent

- Be clear and organized; outline your contentions (claim, warrants, impacts) and clash

- Weighing and analysis is very important!

- For novice debaters: please refute your opponents with more than just with one-liners; don't just state your case and not counter your opponent's case. Remember that my job my job is to decide whether you or your opponent convinces me more. I don't want to and will not do the refuting/weighing/impacting for you

About speed: if you start going too fast I'll tell you during the round, but so long as you're not spreading you should be fine.

Above all, remember to have fun and be courteous! I'll do my best to be a fair and considerate judge in return :)

Hello! My name is David and my pronouns are he/him. I have been debating for about 3 years in a variety of debate formats. I like to see lots of reasoning and impacts in addition to your evidence. Do not just give evidence and assume that everyone understands the reasoning! Also, be sure to explain to me why your world wins OVER THE Opp world if you are Prop as you have the burden of proof. Make sure that you are providing lots of clash to the other team to create a better and more educational debate. Try not to make abusive definitions or frameworks as it doesn't make the debate fun or educational.

I am a high school debater who has been debating for the past 6 years. I have much experience with tournaments on the East Coast, along with some international competitions.

Please signpost! It makes things so much easier for me to follow.

Talk at a comfortable pace as long as you are sure that I can understand you.

Remember to be calm and try your best! Have fun with it, and no matter what the result is you can only learn.

I think a few simple things can easily lose you a round, so I will caution people to avoid them but don't feel pressured by a paradigm to debate a certain way. I think paradigms only make people pander to judges rather than actually consider their style, but I'll still write a few for those who would like one. I am heavily experienced in parliamentary, presidential, and most extemporaneous debate, I can judge LD and PF but try to not box me out of the round with confusing metrics, sign posting is the first thing a judge considers.

- Do not spread, the point of debate is to be understandable by the public and a general layperson to judge an argument it should not a barking competition. Maintain a reasonable speed for anyone to understand, even if I'm a naturally fast speaker.

- I know how to flow tech terms but preferably don't run Kritiks, T-Shells, or any form of Theory for the sake of my sanity, if you need to please spell it out for me very clearly and don't linger on it for too long

- Please time yourself; I will also be timing, don't run too over time but I do allow a bit of grace

- I will run heavily on flow and speaks will vary based on quality of argumentation and speaking ability, the better speaker will not always win, however being a clear and intelligible speaker will make your arguments easier to follow and vote for

- Do not speak in absolutes, one of my biggest gripes is when someone spats on about uniqueness for 30 seconds and says "their entire case is absolutely disproven we win", what was the point of debating if your opponent just loses like that, try to keep your language to not sound so certain, "And because of x, y, and z we win this debate judge and urge you to vote for x" it's much better than saying "judge we win so you must vote for x" just a general gripe because often debaters who speak in absolutes strawman and only hit the surface level of arguments

- My scoring range for normal 30 point is pretty standard,

- 22: (extremely rare) awful and probably inappropriate

- 23: (rare) really bad, barely spoke

- 24: bad, not speaking for full time

- 25: average, not good but decent enough

- 26: good, nothing fantastic but good

- 27: I really enjoyed you as a debater, very good

- 28: (rare) fantastic, clear, well argued, and extremely efficient

- 29: (extremely rare) phenomenal, no real critiques and offered flawless argumentation and speaking ability

- 30: (never going to be given, but try and prove me wrong and earn it) felt like Churchill was in the round

Generally I just like a debate where each team gives their all, is civil, and acts human. Best of luck to anyone I judge and I hope this was helpful!

Extemporaneous Policy Debate

-I appreciate humor and I will laugh at your jokes

-Don't call your opponents racist (can't believe I have to say that )

-Clash is important and addressing your opponents refutations

-NO NEW ARGUMENTS IN YOUR LAST SPEECH (I will not flow new arguments)

-Don't be monotone

-You should ask at least 3 questions during cross ex

-In your rebuttal, tell me why you win and your opponents' arguments fall flat

-Please be civil, I do not tolerate overate aggression. There is a difference between being firm and being a rude

-Fill time in for cross ex, if you don't that's an automatic loss

-No abusive definitions

-If a question takes longer than 20 seconds to ask, you probably shouldn't ask it

-Please do not use parli jargon when debating

Parliamentary Debate

-Stress impacts

-Allow a POI once or twice

-Weigh

-Don't call your opponents racist

Public Forum Debate/Lincoln Douglass

-I do not tolerate anyone calling their opponents racist, if you do that, you will get substantially lower speaker scores

-Speak at a level of comprehension

-No spreading under any circumstance

-Do not be monotone