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Sat March 9, 2024 at 1:10 AM PDT
Email is forvirenra@gmail.com. I will clear 3 times before I stop flowing. No clarification questions regarding what was/wasn't read before CX - start CX and ask any questions you need. Send marked doc after CX and take prep if you need time to mark it. All of these rules apply online as well. The burden is on you to record your speeches. I will only record if I believe that a team has clipped.
About me:
I'm Reyna (she/her) debated LD for 3 years and graduated from Northwood High School (Irvine, CA) in 2019. I qualified to the TOC my junior and senior year, receiving bids and speaker awards in the process. I have been an active coach and judge for 5 years, having (at different points in time) worked at The Debate Intensive, Debate Drills, and Peninsula High School. I have also privately coached students from various high schools across the country. My students have cleared at the TOC, among other major tournaments, also receiving bids and speaker awards in the process.
I am transgender. This should not affect how you debate in front of me. I debated almost exclusively on the west coast. This should affect how you debate in front of me.
What I read in high school + coach my students to read (aka the kinds of debates I enjoy seeing):
Aff - big stick util, soft left structural violence, fringe topical plans
Neg - topic da+advantage cp, politics/elections+states, cap, afropessimism, security, topicality
Paradigm:
1. Non-negotiable:
- Will not vote on anything that took place outside the debate that is unverifiable.
- You must ask questions relevant to the debate in CX. No "How's your day?"
- Anything evidence ethics related: clipping, reading falsified evidence, reading evidence not accessible publicly, anything inauthentic or deliberately intended to deceive. If someone makes an evidence ethics claim, the round will be decided on the claim, and I will stop the round if I am the only judge. Automatic L 25 to the loser of the claim, W 30 to the winner. If no claim is made but I notice it, the debate will still be decided on ethics, but I will let the debate continue because I think practicing speeches in a competitive setting is still valuable. In an elim, my decision will hinge on evidence ethics regardless of what happens in the rest of the debate.
- Nothing blatantly designed to attack or harm someone in the room. Nothing "_____ist" or "______phobic." Use the right pronouns or gender neutral pronouns if no pronoun is given (or anything neutral, e.g. "the other team" or "the 1AR"). Automatic L 20 otherwise.
2. Hard defaults: (it will be very difficult to change my mind)
- Competing interps for T
- Theory is a reason to reject the arg except condo. I also hate seeing aff teams go for condo
- Affs must advocate for a shift from the squo
- Counterplans must at least be functionally competitive
- ROB = vote for the better debater
3. Soft defaults: (it will be an uphill battle to change my mind but not impossible)
- Textual + functional vs functional alone
- Plantext in a vacuum
- Affs get the case against the K
- Judge kick and judge choice
- Affs should defend a shift from the status quo as determined by words in the resolution. This typically entails government action but is up for debate.
- Fairness > skills
4. Other stuff:
- I like impact turns that aren't spark / wipeout
- T-substantial and T-subsets are not the same argument and should have different caselists, different offense (hint: 1 argument is a lot better than the other)
- Don't spread through blocks. Being persuasive will increase your odds of winning
- Explain what your interpretation of textual and functional competition is
