Rylee Buchert

- Graduated Jenks HS in 2019.

- Currently debating CX for MSU and LD for TU.

- Qualified to the TOC twice and took 9th/3rd at NSDA my Junior and Senior years.

Top Line Stuff

- Add me to the chain: ryleebuchert@gmail.com

- Regarding online debate, I am more than willing to be patient and let everyone get their computers set up so the debate can flow smoothly. If at any point your internet cuts out or something goes wrong, just let me know and we will pause the round.

- Evidence quality matters a lot to me, I will reward you if you correctly assert that your cards are good.

- Do evidence comparison, it's the best way to boost your speaker points with me.

- Don't assert something was dropped if it wasn't.

CJR Topic

- I haven't done any research on this topic, but I'm picking it up pretty quickly. Just don't spread a bunch of acronyms at me without explaining what they mean first.

DA/CP/Impact Turns

- Yes

- If you're going to read spark (Or similar impact turns) I'm probably not the best judge for you.

Theory

- Aside from condo, most theory args are a reason to reject the arg not the team.

- Condo is good (I will not likely vote for it unless it's dropped). I had 1NCs with 4+ condo off, I don't really care if you have 50 CP's/K's in the 1NC. (Updating this as I voted for Condo bad in a round - I will not vote for this unless the neg severely mishandles it, please don't).

- Please slow down on theory, if you spread through a chunk of text, I will only vote on what I get down.

- If your theory shells in the 2AC are one line long, chances are I won't vote for them.

T

- I think most teams spend too much time explaining the impact to things like limits/ground and not enough on the internal links. Especially on this topic, I would like to see teams really flesh out the specifics on why the aff's interpretation is bad and not just rant about limits and ground being important.

- If you extend T, I would prefer it be a full extension, not just a blippy one minute time skew.

- Competing Interps > Reasonability.

K

- Didn't go for many K's in high school but have enjoyed judging these rounds a lot.

- I am most likely not familiar with any lit base outside of Cap/Security, so please don't spread through a three minute overview without explaining things.

- Be specific on the links and relate them to the aff.

- I will probably let the aff weigh their case against the K unless they really mess up the theory debate.

- If your arguments are death good or debate bad, don't pref me.

FW

- I think that all Affs should be connected to the topic in some way.

- I think impacts like topic education and others of the sort can be very persuasive if framed the correct way.

- This is the one argument where a long overview is acceptable to me in the 2NC, as long as it frames the ballot well and lays out the impacts you're going for.

- I wouldn't extend every impact in the block/2NR but instead collapse down and explain.

K debate is the best, I really don't care what ypu run just convince me what I should be voting on. That being said mosts cps are abusive so I normally err towards aff.

spreading is fine, flash your evidence prior to speeches.

most likely wont vote on T

make sure to do some type of framing in your rebuttals

I will entertain topicality arguments. If the negative reaches the high bar of topicality, and convinces me that the affirmative case is not topical, the negative wins. Otherwise, my decision will be weighted 60% stock issues, 30% communication skills as generally accepted by the public, and 10% debate theory.