- PLEASE FLOW. I will be flowing your arguments on a spreadsheet and keeping track of responses.

- Please time and hold each other accountable.

Overall, just keep your narrative clear and be respectful to your teammates. :)

Best of luck, feel free to ask questions before the round begins and I would be more than happy to clarify!

I'm a PF coach and big advocate of empowering student voice. The fact that you’re here and well prepared is already impressive. It does not matter to me whether you speak quickly or slowly. That's a matter of your own comfort. Be respectful of all in the room. Theory is not my favorite. If it's used in the spirit of undermining your opponents rather than encouraging debate, it won't go over well with me.

Focus on the resolution and your position. Challenges against well intentioned preparation are off-putting and focussing on details outside the round often don’t work for me. If you have triggers to sensitive material, let your opponents know in advance..

I will be impressed by sound research, critical thinking and persuasive argumentation. Outline your intentions and accomplishments clearly. More important than anything is respect for your opponents' and the experience of debating. They will present valid arguments too, so don't tell me everything they said was wrong. Be judicious yourself as a debater and consider arguments that are more convincing in terms of impact. Consider your flow. Concede to their strengths, but convince me that yours have a greater impact. Please weigh your impact in final focus and don’t bring up anything new there. Quantifying an impact is helpful, but only if it comes from a credible source. Please don’t make up numbers.

Use crossfire to clarify any misconceptions. It's not a place to bring up new information.

Call cards only when seeing them will bring true value. Sometimes this is done to stall for time and often that exposes less than stellar evidence. Be careful not to set this trap for yourself.

Ks can work for me when well linked. I need you to spell out the probability of extreme impacts and what chain of events could set them off in an aff/neg world. Be careful with theory. It’s risky and I won’t vote for it unless you prove the purpose makes for a better debate.

Most of all, enjoy, reflect and grow from every debating experience. I will try to give you the best feedback I can to help you learn and grow.

Please add me to email chains of evidence exchange: dsorobey@ssis.edu.vn

Hi I'm Peggy (she/her) and I do PF at Saigon South

general stuff

if you're not nice and respectful, i will be upset and your speaks will suffer :)

i'm a flow judge, unless im judging MS kids.

tech > truth.

warrant everything.

speed

speed is fine. i tend to speak really fast during my own round as well. however, if you're mumble rapping your case like future, i will not understand you or even try. speak fast but speak with clarity pls.

extensions

i care a lot about extensions. you should not expect me to fully understand your argument if you only mention it once or twice during the entire round. i can't vote on arguments that i dont even understand.

cross

my favorite thing in pf even tho it doesn't affect my decision. i just like watching interactive cross. don't dodge questions, don't be unnecessarily aggressive and don't ask(say) things that are not in a question form. if you start reading an entire card during cross, i will get annoyed.

weighing

actual comparative (good) weighing makes me happy. please please please don't just throw weighing mechanisms into your speech and think you win. generally prefer better-weighed arguments.

speeches

- signpost and tell me where you are on the flow. roadmap is kinda unnecessary but idm

- anything not responded to in 2nd rebuttal is dropped. offense and defense in rebuttal are equally important to me.

- weighing in summary and ff should be consistent. you will make my life 10x harder and make me very confused if its not.

- collapse in back half but dont collapse and leave it unwarranted.

final words

just make debate fun and entertaining to watch. don't be sad if you lose, learning is the most important.

Hi guys, My preferences are: That debaters not spread, if I cannot follow your arguments it is hard to persuade me, this does not mean you cannot speak fast, you can but do not be Eminem in rap god. That crossfire is friendly to a certain extent. Being rude and/or cutting a speaker off will lose your points. This is only my second year of debating, but I have been to many debate competitions in those years, so I will try to give you guys the best feedback I can. Good luck!