Hi all! I’m a parent judge who has judged a few tournaments before.

Preferences:

Please don’t spread, be clear and weigh/impact.

No theory and k’s please as I am a parent judge.

Be courteous and kind to your opponents (maintain civility).

Thanks!

Hello! I'm Shreya (she/her), a 4th year varsity parliamentary debater in high school! If you're reading this right before the round (breathe! you’re going to do great!), here's what you should know:

• Weigh, weigh, weigh! I really dislike judge intervention and avoid it as much as possible but I can only do that if I have arguments weighed for me. No matter how good your argument is, if it’s not weighed against the other team’s arguments, I can’t evaluate it in the context of the round which will make me sad :(

• Signpost please! I can handle speed for the most part, but I need to know where you are on the flow. The more technical/complicated the argument, the more I need signposting. Passing texts can help with that if you choose to do so.

• Be nice! This one’s simple, just be respectful to others. You are opponents right now, but you are fellow debaters and human beings first and foremost. Disrespect will make you lose speaks at best and result in you being dropped at worst. I trust y’all to be kind though, just do your best and have fun :)

Feel free to ask me any questions about any of the stuff on here before the round. Good luck!

Note for events besides parli: I don't have experience in them, so please limit the jargon-y terms! Sometimes a debate-specific phrase is needed; in the case that a word has a specific meaning in your debate event that someone wouldn't immediately understand from context, please explain it. I will do my best to keep up and flow of course, but this will make it a lot easier for me.

Hello debaters!

If you're reading this right now, you're probably stalking your judge 10 minutes before the round. Take a deep breath, calm down, and think rationally - that's how the best debaters win rounds. I'm a varsity debater myself (as my partner Divya Mohanty says in her paradigm, it’s literally our whole lives ), and I personally love a detailed paradigm when I’M freaking out 10 minutes before the round, so I'll try to make this as interesting and useful as possible.

Paradigm Order:

1. Parli
2. Lincoln-Douglas

PARLI

tl;dr: organization, weigh everything (terminalize impx!!!), relevant but not abusive POIs, speaks for fun (anime references <3), have fun!

General: when it comes to speeches themselves. I would prefer if your speech is as organized as possible. Make sure to signpost (label everything you're going to say) throughout so that I can flow everything you say properly. That being said, I'm pretty good with speed considering I debate almost every weekend myself. Don't slur over your words and jump from place to place (try to make sense LOL) BUT also make sure that your opponents can understand everything you say. Speaking fast just so that they can't write down a single thing is cruel and abusive, and I WILL mark you down for it.

Weighing: What that means that you need to tell me why YOUR impacts and points are more valuable than your opponents. I understand that it can be hard to weigh and impact everything out in a round, but links and showing why your impacts are better than your opponents are really key to winning a judge's ballot (and they WILL be key to winning my ballot).

POIs: I think POIs should be used if they NEED to be. Do not just call a POI to mess up your opponent's speech and waste their time. That's definitely strategic but it's cruel. For the third speech, if you think your opponents are bringing up a new point and you want to call a Point of Order, then CALL IT. I would prefer not intervening with the round and waste time making my own decision on whether something was brought up earlier or not, but if it comes down to it, I will do so. Just don't be unhappy with my decision.

Speaker Points: Those usually aren't too important, but I do understand that it's nice to see a judge's evaluation of your speaking style and communication. Me personally, I'll generally give high speaks, between 27-30 depending on performance. HOWEVER, if you make a reference to anime that I know AND you can incorporate it into your speech, then I will give you 30 speaks right away. (Jujutsu Kaisen, Demonslayer SpyxFamily, HunterxHunter, Love is War, Naruto, Black Clover - there are more but I can't remember them right now so ask me before the round if you plan on talking about one)

Feedback: I’ll give you verbal rfds after the round as long as the tournament allows it, along with disclosing. I’ll write the same feedback in your ballots (for the most part - i get lazy so I’ll use conjugations LOL) i'll also be willing to stay after the round to answer any questions, give more extensive feedback on your speaking specifically, along with give y'all any tips (on flowing, teamwork, etc.) if you’d like.

LINCOLN-DOUGLAS

• I'm a parli debater, but I judged LD at CFL Novice Debate so I kind of have some idea about it.
• I may need some understanding of how things work, but I'm kind of used to it by now
• Cross-apply my parli preferences here for the most part

Those are all the things I think I would like to see in a paradigm, so I think I'll conclude now. If you have ANY questions at all about my preferences, then feel free to ask me right before the round.

Good luck debating, and most of all, try to have fun and not cry after a bad round :)

hi hi!

i'm divya mohanty (she/her), a junior parli debater at washington high school. i love debate a ton, and this is my 4th year doing it, and if i may toot my own horn a little, i think i'm pretty decent at it. if you're seeing this, you're probably either a novice or a middle schooler and probably a little newer to this, so just take a deep breath and debate the best you can. best case scenario you're stunning and amazing and win and all that jazz, and worst case scenario you lose one round of one tournament and get some solid feedback out of it cuz it's really not that deep.

for cfl novice:i can't disclose, but i'll give some simple feedback after the round. other than that i'm always willing to stay afterwards to answer any questions, give more extensive feedback on your speaking specifically, along with give y'all any tips (on flowing, teamwork, etc.) if you want. if you don't debate parli, i'll adapt to your event. add me to the email chain: divya.mohanty@gmail.com .

tl;dr: signpost pls, don't worry about speaks, impact and weigh good, extend your arguments or i won't vote on it, have fun, ask me anything pre or post-round!

onto what I actually want to see in a debate round :)

general tips: signpost (tell me where you are on the flow: ex. DA 3, Public Health DA, etc) so that i know where you guys are throughout the debate, and can do the round justice. try not to jump all over the place. i can handle speed, but if i think that you're just trying to skew your opponents out of the round, i will call a warning "slow" or "clear". if you don't adjust, i will be angry and. (pro tip: if your opponents are going too fast for you, call "slow" or "clear" as well!)

POIs: POIs are very helpful if used in moderation. PLEASE do not be calling one every other second, because at that point, you're probably doing it to throw off your opponents, and that makes me not want to like you. i protect against new arguments brought up in the last speeches, but if you catch something, call a POO just to make sure it doesn't accidentally slip through on my flow or i don't misinterpret it as a cross-application.

speaker points (speaks): don't stress about these at all. i'm pretty liberal with speaks and will typically average a 28.5-29. i will give speaker points to a 30 if you make a well included atla/hq/jjk/f1/hamilton reference or make me laugh in your speech.

other important good stuff:

• please please please impact stuff out, like terminalize them
• give me a clear, warranted link chain as to why your plan/your opps' plan leads to impacts of some sort. do not just leave them unsaid and make me assume why something leads to climate change or death, because i won't and then we'll both be sad
• please weigh the impacts in this round. tell me which ones i should be voting for you on, and why those should be placed over your opponents' impacts
• please actually engage with your opponents arguments, don't sidestep them because as a second speaker there's literally nothing i hate more than people pretending to answer a refute and not actually saying anything of substance.

that's the end of my rather long-winded paradigm! good luck, and you guys are going to do amazing, so have fun :))

TLDR: be respectful, fine with theory if you explain it clearly (no K though), and I won't argue with whatever is on the flow (if it makes it on the flow)

Hello debaters!

My name is Sandy Xu and I am a sophomore at Los Altos High School. Parli is my main event, though I am familiar with PF and LD. However, since they aren’t my main events, I’d prefer it if you explain things a bit more and call out any rule breaks.

Judging Preferences:

• I will be flowing during the round.
• Feel free to spread, but if I'm unable to catch it then it will not be flowed and won't be part of my decision
• Please signpost because it enables me to follow your logic better
• I am a "Tabula Rasa" judge, meaning I won't argue with whatever is on the flow. For example, if you say the sky is green and your opponents don't respond, I will assume for the context of the debate that the sky is green.
• I will be voting on flow so please remember to weigh the impacts.
• Please mention at least once in the round a framework and how I should weigh the round
• Case debate is preferred, can evaluate theory but not Ks.

Parli Specific Preferences:

• I don't protect the flow against new arguments, you have to call a point of order
• I will stop time on Points of Orders
• Feel free to do whatever about POIs, take it, don't, it doesn't affect my ballot

Speaker Points (if it’s exists):

• I give speaker points on a scale from 26-30
• You start with 28 speaker points and I will give you more or less depending on how well you speak
• If I am unable to decipher what you are saying, you will lose speaker points
• Being rude will also cause you to lose speaks
• You can gain speaker points by speaking in an even, consistent rhythm and speaking without using filler words such as um, like, ok, etc
• If you would like, you may use humor in your speech. I will add speaks if you give an engaging speech as long as it doesn’t sacrifice the information it provides.
• Just a note: I do not give speaker points based on how well you debate, only how well you speak

Good luck everyone! I look forward to seeing you debate!

- Sandy