Email - isaaccopley2005@gmail.com

English uni BP Debater

Speak clearly as possible! If you are Eminem and can speak quickly and clearly this is good, if not, try to speak slowly as this helps with clarity (I suffer with speaking too quickly myself)

I will say "clear" if I cannot understand you

I prefer chains of analytical reasoning over arguing about statistics and papers

Use of unnecessarily vivid/inappropriate/discriminatory language or imagery will result in a much decreased speaker score and potential disregard for the given argument

I always enjoy humour and banter within debating, we should never take it too seriously :)

Hi!

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Fiona Friess, she/her

Avery Coonley ‘24

1A/2N for most of my career, recently have been a 2A as well

Debated in middle school for 4 years, started high school debate my 8th grade year

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Just do your thing! :)

I'm a brand new judge of a first season debater with no experience at all. I can handle pretty rapid speech, but I've had to ask one debater to slow down. I dislike hyperbolic predictions of doom. Although I understand this is a legitimate tactic, i will likely experience unconscious bias against a team using unlikely worst case scenarios. I have a strong preference for objective data over quoting authors.