About Me:

Hi! I'm Ayush, and I debated for Westborough for four years, two of which were on the national circuit. I qualled to TOC junior and senior year.

Preferences:

tldr: Debate on the flow + don't be overbearingly fast

I'm a pretty standard tech judge and I don't have a ton of preferences. Here they are anyways:

Speed is a massive turnoff for me. Even though I spoke pretty fast when debating, I can't flow super fast nor do I think it improves the quality of rounds at all. If you can explain your arguments without going light speed it's a good thing and it'll reflect in your speaks.

When extending arguments, I need more than author names. Explain what that author says and why it matters. Warrants are dope, weighing is dope.

All offense from second constructive and after needs to be frontlined in the next speech. This means turns in second constructive (yes this is a thing) need to be frontlined in first rebuttal. Second rebuttal should frontline any arguments that they want me to vote on.

If you're planning on reading progressive args you should probably strike me. I'll try my best but I never ran them nor do I know much about how to evaluate them. If a round becomes abusive then I'll try to intervene.

I'm not calling for evidence unless I'm told to.

Defense can be sticky if you want but it's much more compelling if you extend it in summary.

I don't flow cross, nor do I care that much about it. Bring up any concessions in the next speech. That being said, if you dominate cross without being a jerk then I'll for sure reward that.

I think I give out pretty high speaks, do with that info what you will.

Feel free to reach out before the round on fb or ig with any questions, or just ask me before the round.

Call me Ayush in round. Make me laugh. Debate is not that deep and I want to have fun judging y'all