pronouns: she/her
hello! thank you for taking the time to read my paradigm (I hope you weren’t expecting too much).

I competed in Oregon Speech & Debate for all four years of high school (mainly in impromptu, prose, DI, some public forum, and a dabble of parli and Lincoln Douglas). This means that while I understand the fundamentals of debate (excluding policy and congressional), I’ll probably have a hard time keeping up if you use speed and/or jargon excessively. Please keep that in mind if I am in your round! Thanks.

Some miscellaneous notes:

- I appreciate sign-posting and roadmaps (very much so)
- I don’t flow cross-ex.

I am open to most any type of argumentation. I love kritiks, theory shells, topicalities, and all things squirrelly. That said, I believe spreading is an unethical practice and if I can't understand you enough to flow, you didn't say it. I have voted on probably 80% of speed Ks I have heard.

I competed in events including extemporaneous speaking, Congressional debate, impromptu speaking, commentary, oratory, informative speaking, prose, poetry, and more throughout my six-year Speech and Debate career. I look for strong logic and proper speaking techniques (preferably with a unique style). Being respectful is critical, and any discriminatory and/or demeaning behavior should not be condoned in Speech and Debate.

I prefer speechdrop but here is my email for document sharing/evidence chains if you need it:betty.stanton@jenksps.org

I'm the head coach of a successful team, and have been coaching for 18 years. I did CX in high school so long ago that Ks were new, and I competed in college.

LD: I'm a very traditional judge. I like values and criteria and analysis and clash. I want framework debate to actually mean something.

PF: I’m a very traditional judge. If the round becomes a very short CX round instead of a PF round, we have a problem. I want evidence and actual analysis of that evidence, and I want actual clash.

CX: I can handle your spread and I will vote where I'm persuasively told to with the following exceptions: 1) I have never voted on T. I think it's a non-starter unless a case is so blatantly non-topical that you can't even see the resolution from it. That's not to say it isn't a perfectly legitimate argument, it's just to say that I will probably buy the aff's 'we meet's and you might have better uses for your time than camping here. 2) If you run a K, you should firmly and continuously advocate for that K. 3) I, again, will always prefer actual clash in the round over unlinked theory arguments.

General Things ~

Don't claim something is abusive unless it is.

Don't claim an argument was dropped unless it was.

Don't advocate for atrocities.

Don't be a jerk to your opponents (This will get you the lowest speaker points possible. Yes, even if you win.)