Hello! My name is Mr. Abercrombie, and I am a high school science and TOK teacher. I have experience in assessing and giving feedback on presentations, so you can expect specific feedback after each round, however this is my first time judging for speech and debate. I can follow speech relatively quickly, but can only type so fast. If you notice yourself or your partner spreading, it may be a good idea to re-iterate key ideas if you have time to ensure I record these points and take them into consideration.

I am generally a flow judge and can follow fast paced debate.

Framework should be established and followed throughout the round. Tell me why your framework is superior and back up your claim with evidence in contentions. If there is no framework debate, the round will rely on weighing evidence in contentions.

Contentions should be clearly stated with supporting evidence and analysis. Your evidence should be fully explained and analyzed as to its impact on the debate. I prefer evidence be referred to by subject/topic throughout the round rather than simply the author's name. Know your evidence well enough defend it in cross-examination.

Your case should be organized, focused and come to a reasonable conclusion that convinces me to vote in your favor. Failure to communicate the importance of evidence, weighing values and impacts, or extending key arguments may result in a loss.

I am a new parent judge

I haven't competed in this event in almost 10 years. But spreading is heavily discouraged. If I can't understand your argument, it doesn't matter.

Hi, my name is Shelley Holland. I am a parent judge and a teacher. I primarily judge LD.

Value: The value debate is very important and you should weave your value into your contentions and throughout the debate. Values are key voter issues for me.

Speed: If I can't understand you, I can't flow it. Be sure to speak clearly.

CX: I don't flow CX, but if you bring up CX in rebuttal - that is fine.

Time: I will also keep time. I will not evaluate anything that is said after the allotted time.

Make sure to have a clear link chain with clear impacts.

I prefer an analytical debate where you are interacting with your opponent's argument.

I am a lay judge. Convince me on why the world you create is better than your opponent's.

Being courteous to your opponent is a requirement. Have fun!

I am a parent judge relatively new to debate.

Please speak clearly and slowly. Make sure you are organized in your speeches. Be respectful and professional, especially during cross. Please make it clear what's important to your case or detracts from your opponent's. Do not bring up any new arguments in the second half of a round, or they will be disregarded. I'm more truth over tech. Please refrain from using debate jargons.

I will keep time and encourage you to do the same.

I look forward to judging your round. Good luck and have fun!

I am parent judge, and I will judge you based on logic. Please do the following:

• Send case docs to winniehua@yahoo.com before your speeches so I can follow along as you read. I would also like to be added to the email chain.
• Read slowly and clearly. If I can't understand you, it won't turn out well.
• Please re-explain the reasoning behind your arguments when extending them.
• Let me know what the key voting issues are and how I should evaluate the round.

Good luck and have fun!

Keep it Simple. Do not use unknown acronyms and abbreviations. Be clear, crisp and concise with your points. Do not overload with facts but rather present your views on why it helps make the case. Speak slowly and focus on quality over quantity. Sometimes the less you say is better.

Most important of all, enjoy the debating experience as you will cherish these memories for life.

This is my second year judging. I appreciate a logical, good-spirited, and respectful debate. Clear speech helps me follow the argument - I will not flow what I cannot understand so please avoid spreading. I favor quality of the debate over quantity of points made. Have fun!!

Welcome PF Debaters.

I am a parent judge and sharing few suggestions how you and your team can be successful.

1. Please stay focused with your contentions all the time and time yourself for every speech
2. Please highlight the supporting data points/sources during your discussion and request/challenge similar information
3. Please maximize your prep. time and the cross-fire to support your debate, kindly consider sharing equal time with other debaters
4. If you speak too fast, I won’t understand anything you say and you’ll likely lose the round. It will also affect your speaker points
5. Please follow the PF rules, be respectful in rounds to both your partner and your opponents.

Debate should be a fun activity and debaters should enjoy it. All the very best.

PF Judge - Karthikk

Don’t be rude to your opponents. Articulate clearly.

Hello, my name is Jack and I participated in LD debate at Ardrey Kell ('20). I mainly competed in traditional LD rounds, but progressive/circuit LD was always something I found interesting. That being said, I'm probably not the best judge to have for a progressive given my lack of experience competing and judging the event.

Speed: Talk fast or talk slow, I'm not really fussed about it as long as it's coherent enough for me to follow. For debate events (especially LD), if you do choose to spread:

a) Be mindful of your opponent (if applicable) and how they feel (pretty douchey to run a 7 off against a novice), it could become a problem.

b) You must speak coherently or I'll stop flowing after a warning or 2

Presentation: Show some energy! Presenting a monotone speech may not leave the best impression, so use inflection where you see fit as it'll likely enhance the message you're trying to get across.

Other Stuff:

1) Warrants and Impacts. Don't bother dumping a bunch of cards into a case if you're not going to explain their importance. Help your judge help you. If we can't assess the impacts of your evidence, it may be hard to give your arguments the credit they deserve.

2) Weighing.Please weigh arguments. Without weighing, a debate can easily just sound like a bunch of issues and statistics scrambled into short speeches. This makes a debate hard to evaluate objectively. Make your judge's life easier by explaining why your arguments hold more weight relative to your opponent's

3) Framework. Personally not the biggest fan, but it can make for very interesting debates. Run util until your brain explodes if that's your style, but run it right. I'm not well versed on super dense philosophical arguments, but if that's your style then go for it (as long as you can make it make sense to me in the relatively short time you'll have in the round).

4) Be respectful and mindful of your competitors and judges. Any racism, sexism, xenophobia, homophobia, etc. is a no-go and you'll auto-drop.

5) Feel free to hammer plans, counterplans, disads, etc. if you have me as a judge. But please do it in a way where it's not super abusive toward the aff/pro. If you run a super, super specific counterplan (i.e., ban a certain policy in every country except Tuvalu) and respond to every aff argument by saying it fits under your counterplan, it does feel like you're disengaging from the debate. So be careful.

6) Run fun arguments! Judging can get dull when you hear the same 2-3 arguments every round, so don't be afraid to mix it up if you feel like you found something interesting that others might've missed. Briefs cover a lot of topic ground, but please don't limit yourself to that since it's lazy and uninspiring.

It will be helpful if you time yourself and respect the time please.

I give importance to clearly precisely speaking, ensure you convince me in all aspects.

I am a lay judge with some experience judging PF. I prefer that you don't talk as fast as an auctioneer - I need to be able to understand what you're saying in order to judge its merits.

I take a lot of notes and will judge on the flow. Please clearly articulate your contentions, back them up with warrants and support with strong evidence. I don't always fully flow Crossfire, so anything important that you want noted, please extend in your next speech. By your final focus, you should have made a convincing case why your impacts out-weigh your opponents'. TELL ME WHY YOU WIN.

Hi guys I’m his son. This guy hasn’t ever judged anything before so slow down and act like you’re talking to a cave man. Speaking clearly and having a good narrative will go a long way.

I’m a parent judge new to judging, please clearly outline your contentions, impacts, responses, and consistently extend them throughout the debate at a decent pace.

I am a parent judge very new to debate.

Please speak clearly and slowly. Make sure you are organized in your speeches. Be respectful and professional. Please make it clear what's important to your case or detracts from your opponent's.
I will keep time and encourage you to do the same.

I am a parent judge very new to debate.

Please speak clearly and slowly. If I can’t track what you're saying, I won’t be able to effectively judge you. Make sure you are organized in your speeches. Be respectful and professional, especially during cross.

I will try to take a lot of notes. Please make it clear what's important to your case or detracts from your opponent's.

Do not bring up any new arguments in the second half of a round, or they will be disregarded.

I will keep time and encourage you to do the same.

I very much enjoy the competition of debate and look forward to judging your round. Good luck and have fun!

I am a relatively new parent judge. I will probably take a lot of notes.

I am a parent judge and this is the second time I have judged so please talk slowly and explain your warrants. I will vote on an argument that has both evidence to back your claim up and warrants with well thought out logic.

I debated PF for four years at Delbarton. I currently coach for Charlotte Latin.

my email for the chain is alexsun6804@gmail.com

Tech over truth

go as fast as you want, but if there isn't clarity then none of the content within the speech will matter.

You should weigh and collapse on whatever arguments you think are the most important within the round.

Tell me where you are on the flow (signpost) for speeches after constructive, otherwise I'm going to be really confused.

For Rebuttal

Provide warrants (reasoning and explanation) and implications to your responses
First rebuttal should address your opponent's case and you can do weighing if you want

Second rebuttal should respond to your opponent's case and you should frontline your own case.

For Summary

Collapse on the most important arguments in the round

This is the latest you can start weighing, if you start weighing for the first time in final focus I'm not going to evaluate that.

Rebuttal responses are not sticky so extend them if they are conceded

General structure for summary can be your case, weighing, their case, but you can do whatever you want in terms of the structure as long as it makes sense

Always extend or explain your case in summary

For Final Focus

Should be very similar to summary with exception to front lining and comparative weighing

Other stuff

Have cut cards ready if something is called

Extend offense in the back half, otherwise, I'll be forced to intervene or presume

I've done some stuff with theory and Ks, but don't be really trigger-happy with either. I'll do my best to evaluate them if it goes down in round.

Don't be rude or say something problematic in round. It could cost you the round.

Good luck in round

Hi,

This is the second time for me as a parent judge.

1. Please speak clearly & slowly.
2. Please make sure your speech is organized and structured.
3. Appreciate if your statements either "for" or "against" are supported by examples, reasoning, logic etc.
4. Please be respectful.
5. Please try to stick to the permissible time limits.

Good luck and have fun...