CX:

I'm a tab judge, I'll care about what you tell me to care about. Framing is very important to me when evaluating a round. If you don't give me framing I default to policymaker. Ks are fine but make sure you understand and can explain your lit to me. If it's a crazy intellectual out there K, that's great, but you need to explain it to me like I'm five years old, and if you even think about spreading some esoteric academic jargon and expecting me to just follow along I will vote you down on principle. For everything else, I don't care if you spread but your tags should be super clear. If you're running a plan text you have to have all of the stock issues to win the round. Clash is encouraged but always be respectful to each other and me. All argument types are encouraged but if you're running a K neg with a pedagogy alt you're going to have to do a lot of work convincing me that the aff cannot perm. I love impact calc, please do all the impact calc you can, especially with plan texts/disads.

LD:

I was mostly a policy debater but I have the gist of what y'all get up to in LD, I just ask that you make your value and your value criterion SUPER clear. Most of the paradigm is the same as CX, but I will add that I think spreading has a lot less of a place in LD than it does in CX, so if you're going to do it you better be flawless.

General:

Yes, I would love to be included on the email chain! Please ask me!

Signposting every time you speak, and following your signpost, is so important to me and it will factor into your speaker points.

If you spread in a rebuttal I won't necessarily vote you down but it will make me a lot less disposed to give you the ballot.

I'm not going to keep super close track of prep but I will keep an eye on it so just don't make it awkward and make me call you out.

I don't think I should have to say if you say something blatantly racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, or otherwise hateful, the round stops there. You will not get a second chance. Just respect me, your opponents, and yourselves, and we shouldn't have a problem.

Meghan Clark (she/her)

Experience:

–competed in LD on the Texas UIL circuit

–coached LD for 7 years, policy for 5, also on the Texas UIL circuit

–currently coach extemp/platform events at Plano West

PF:

--I am a fairly typical flay judge.

--Truth over tech. I do not particularly like kritiks or other non-resolution based arguments (not a huge fan of progressive debate). Don’t run theory about dates, speaks, disclosure, etc. - I have zero interest in judging this. I strongly dislike frivolous theory arguments and tricks. Don’t run them.

--Make sure that you extend your arguments and signpost clearly. No sticky defense.

--I care a good deal about weighing impacts in the back half of the round. Make sure you do this. Don’t introduce new arguments in the second half of the round, and I don’t want arguments that consist of three blippy arguments with buzzwords. I would vastly prefer substantive weighing of impacts. I generally default to probability over magnitude.

--I care about quality rather than quantity of evidence. You must have clear taglines for your evidence. Don’t paraphrase.

--Make sure you are courteous to opponents and don’t speak over them during crossfire. I expect professionalism, respect and civility towards me and towards your opponents. If you are verbally or non-verbally showing disrespect towards your opponents or me, expect to lose speaker points. It goes without saying that you should not be racist/sexist/ableist/homophobic/etc. in any way during the round.

--I do not like spreading. PF should be accessible to a wide audience, and spreading makes that difficult. Speak at a normal rate of speed if you expect me to flow your argument. Extreme speed will most likely result in lower speaks. If I call “clear,” slow down.

--In final focus, make the case for why you deserve my vote - don’t demand my vote.

--Strike me if you’re reading a meme or social experiment case.

--Stick to the time structure - no skipping grand cross for PF.

--If a card is heavily disputed during round, I will call for it.