Flow judge, preference to impacts and real world application.

Hello everyone,
I have debated policy for two years with LACC and continue to be involved with the debate community for about three years (assisting teams and judging tournaments). This paradigm should be applied to any round I judge, whether it is LD, PoFo, Parli, Policy and anything else debate related. 

I am open to any type of debate as long as it make sense, so that means you as a debater should tell me how your aff response the resolution (or not). If you are the neg, tell me why the aff is wrong. simple, right?!

Speed: I can flow it, but I do not like when i cannot understand the words that are being uttered. So please ENUNCIATE! 

I am good with T's, K's, and theory, but be advise that I do not want to hear pre written blocks that have no clash. This makes the debate boring and less educational for everyone in the room. I would also like to say, if you are running a K that you are running in the aff and the neg, i expect you as a debater to make CLEAR connections. 

If you have a straight up debate, that will make my day because we will be doing what this activity is set out to do. haha

CX: I do pay attention, so I might flow it I might not. So I hope this sways you to use your CX usefully. Be polite, I do not enjoy yelling and I bet your opponent does not either. I will dock you speaker points if you are just  being rude (you might get the round, but not the speaker award). 


I expect from all debaters to paint me the BIG PICTURE!!!!!! By the time we get to the rebuttals, start collapsing to your strongest points to justify your position. Give me the impact calculus, turns, net benefit, and/or anything that makes your case.   
Please do not read evidence in the rebuttals or just sight your cards, but instead tell me how your evidence should give you the win.

dropped arguments I do weigh heavy in the round, if used correctly. Extend the dropped argument and tell me how that drop argument works in your benefit. This brings me to my last point, please do not use only debate jargon and expect me to do the work for you. I expect you to tell me how it works in your favor. 


I am also open for questions before round, so please ask for clarity if there is something you need answer. Let these long debates begin! 

University High School 2011-2015
if you promise to read what you want to read, i promise i’ll try my best to evaluate it fairly (:

topicality 
Don’t really have many strong opinions here. Strong case lists and T version of the aff arguments are always killers though. 

theory
Theory is generally where I have my biases. I’ll try to evaluate it fairly, but some theory arguments just aren’t that persuasive (1 condo bad) while others are really strong (delay counterplans bad). If you want to go for theory as a voting issue in the final speeches you need to be flushing out some of your theory explanations earlier than the 2AR. Extending blips of the 2AC theory block in the 1AR, then sitting on it for 5 minutes in the 2AR won’t cut it. 

disads
universally good. Prioritize impact work and evidence comparison. I’ve done my fair share of politics research and I generally know the intricacies of the argument. I enjoy thorough impact work on how the disad impact messes around with the 1AC. 

counterplans
also good. Solvency advocates are really important and the 2ac should call out the 1nc if theres no specific advocate in the speech. Please read your CP texts slowly and if you’re reading a multi plank counterplan, make sure theres some sort of oral separation between the planks. thanks in advance!

kritiks
I like kritiks. I’m sympathetic to kritiks that are more generic to the topic, but I still think that they should still have specific links to the affirmative and the impact analysis should incorporate 1ac advantages. The k also doesn’t always need an alternative and can effectively work as debate winning case turns. The non unique disad argument is okay at best for me. I'm not super well versed on high theory literature so a good rule of thumb is the more French your author is, the more explanation you'll need to do in the block/2NR. 

kritik affs 
Should be related to the topic, though I’m generous with what that means. You should also probably have a clear ROB early on in the debate and not have it be 

final notes
You should be physically marking your cards whether it means physically folding the piece of paper you’re reading or hitting the tilde key on your keyboard during the speech. You should also probably give a marked copy to the other team. Don’t expect them to memorize the location of the six different cards you cut early.

i don’t take time for flashing, but it shouldn’t take longer than 30 seconds to email/jump your speech. There’s a little usb button on the top of the verbatim template which automatically puts the speech into the flash drive