Auburn High School Mike Burton Annual Novice Debate Tournament
2022 — Auburn, WA/US
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Do not be rude to your opponents. Crossfire should remain respectful, even if you do need to cut your opponent(s) off. There should be no yelling
Please tell me WHY I should vote for you. Why are your impacts more important? Do they happen sooner, with a higher probability? Do they impact more people? Do the weighing for me in summary and FF to make it clear why you win
Make a pop culture (music, TV, anime, etc...) reference for extra speaker points :)) Debate should be fun, so make some jokes in round and everybody can have a good laugh
I'll listen to pretty much any argument as long as it's warranted with solid evidence. I love funny cases!!
competed PF all throughout high school for Bellevue
consider me a flay judge, I'll flow but I most likely won't catch everything
- I have to write feedback, I'll flow constructive on paper, don't worry I'm still listening when I type feedback after constructive speeches
- please be kind in cross, but don't let the other team walk over you. I like a heated cross, but no insults thrown pls ????????
- I don't flow cross, but I'm listening
- no Ks or anything crazy, I'm not tryna work my brain too hard
- NO MUMBLE RAPPING or else I will start crying and throwing up in round and make ur speaks 0
- please interact with the opponent's case, don't assume I know everything you're talking about, and WEIGH
- truth>tech
- be kind and have fun, bring me food or compliment me every time u start prep for +1 speaks (u can tell me my hair looks nice or smth)
-NO NUCLEAR WAR PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
Hi, I'm David Zeng, a high school senior. I mainly do speech and I'll be judging novice LD.
Spreading is fine. No theory plz.
Be mature, be good to people.
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I flow
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Im okay with speed, I am not okay with mumble rapping
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run wtv u want just keep in mind I will unlikely vote for tricks or frivolous theory
- don't bang the table at any moment
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General preferences :
Rabula Tesla, BS>truth>tech, I define BS as any words that come out of my mouth so please quote me to win.
Second re-bundle must line-front and first summary must extend deed feces.
I will literally be weighing your arguments in a round by bringing in a scale. Print out your cases and put them onto the scale. Whoever’s arguments weigh heavier are the ones I will look to first. The same applies to extensions. Every time you extend an argument, please stretch the argument on the piece of paper or else it will not be evaluated. Longer extensions win rounds. As for collapsing, sadly the tournament told me I cannot encourage kids to faint in rounds. Sorry. No collapsing in my rounds or else I will have to report you to tab for my own safety.
Speed:
Unfortunately, with my debate experience, I have developed a fervent dislike of normal speed speeches. If you don't go over 300 wpm, i will give you very low speaks.
Progressive:
As a flay congressional debater, I do not understand Prog. However, I do understand Pog, so if you can yell pog as many times as you read your progressive arguments, I will vote on them. (Example: a is the pog interp, debaters must not poggly paraphrase. B is the pog violation: they paraphrased poggly.)
Speaks:
I believe everything in life has to be earned step by step so speaks start at a prompt 0 and go up .01 for everything you did that I liked. If you have ever done the wonderful art known as congressional debate, your speaks will start at promptly -1. This is a simulation for the real world in which nothing will come easily.
Cross: Debate is an activity that prepares you for the real world. In the real world, you WILL have people who yell at you when they ask questions. So naturally, you MUST be louder to win those confrontations. Thus, whoever yells louder in cross will get +5 speaker points.