Email chain: eric.boxuan.gao@gmail.com

Stanford '25

Debated 3 years of Policy at Kudos, 4 years at Northwood. Have done all speaker roles at some point, mainly was a 2N/1A.

I've gone for both policy and kritikal arguments.

K affs should be at least related to the topic.

You should be timing yourself. I will stop flowing if your time goes too over.

CP/DA

Have ev comparison - this is usually the fastest way to win debates.

Explain why your cards being true means their theory is wrong.

A DA by itself can win a debate, as long as there's sufficient turns/solves case analysis.

T/Theory

Treat it like a disad - compare standards and weigh them against one another.

I'm not against voting for theory, as long as it's debated well. I personally kicked the aff to go for theory a bit more times than I should have.

Kritiks

K's I've gone for: Lacan, Cap, Security, Berlant, Puar (in that order of familiarity)

When going for the K, the most important thing is to have specific analysis regarding the aff. In a k debate, the team that talks about the AFF more wins.

Tie your story together, instead of just "aff is like [x concept] and [y concept] is bad".

PLEASE EXTEND YOUR IMPACTS.

I've seen too many debates that are much closer than they should be because of a lack of extended impacts. The best link story without impacting it out is ultimately still not a reason to vote for your side.

I appreciate strategic argumentation instead of reading blocks - if they drop a turn, go for it instead of some other piece of defense.

University High School 2016-2020, NYU Class of 2024, Majoring in Economics

Was a 2N for 9-10th grade and a 2A for 11-12th, went to the TOC for Policy senior year

Pronouns: he/him

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"2As are a bunch of liars, cheats, and narcissists, and 2Ns are just cold, calculating a--holes" - Lee Thach

Top Level

I have zero topic knowledge - be clear with your aff, send docs, and don't assume I know whatever acronyms exist for this topic specifically

Cool with spreading, and any kind of argument (specific preferences below)

The Rest

I've mostly run kritikal arguments and k affs when debating in high school, living that small school K team life

That being said, please don't change your strat and run Ks in front of me just because I'll probably be more familiar with them, stick with the 1AC/1NC you're good with and I'll be sure to adapt. This is also a function of me being someone who hates seeing badly done K aff/K debates (they remind me too much of myself)

Things I like - Good Case debating (Especially Case turns), Creative CPs, Specific DA links, Ks that are actually about the aff, T debates that aren't just 2AC time sucks, Impact Calc and Evidence comparison, Short overviews, Line by line

Cross-ex is where I get a lot of the missing context from speeches, if you're good at controlling that conversation then that context will be you-favored. It is my firm belief that this is the most criminally underrated part of the debate.

Some minor preferences, all of these are 60-40 at most and can easily be overcome with good debating

- Condo Good > Condo Bad

- Durable Fiat > No Durable Fiat

- Reasonability > Competing interps (this is like 51-49, I will default to this only if neither side does anything to explain)

- 0% risk exists > 0% risk doesn't exist (come on make some better disads PLEASE)

Some major preferences, these are more like 80-20, run them if you must but understand you're debating an uphill battle

- Death Bad > Death Good

- T is a voting issue > T is not a voting issue (Yes I debated with a ton of K affs. Yes bad anti-framework blocks piss me off. You should know what you're doing against it if you expect to debate it every round.)

That being what it is, debate what you want, I try to be as tabula rasa but we all know that's never fully possible.

I've only been judge for one tournament until now. And I have no experience on theory or kritik. So, please make sure you explain clearly and do not spread. If you spread, please make sure it is clear and understandable, and please form an email chain.

My email: tigerjade@gmail.com