I am a parent judge and I mostly judge PF but am familiar with debate structure and have been judging for a while. Please keep your own time.

I will flow everything in round except cross, so if something significant happens bring it up in the round and I will add it to my flow. Off time roadmaps are helpful, but please keep it brief.

I sometimes think the evidence read is weak or unrelated but if your opponent doesn’t challenge it, I likely won’t either. If evidence conflicts I will typically believe whichever one is more more convincing to a reasonable individual.

Two of the most important things to me as a judge are dropped arguments and impacts.

Please be nice, everyone is doing their best, if you are rude you will lose points. I appreciate kindness to your competitors especially in novice. It doesn’t matter to me if you sit or stand, nor does it matter how you dress. Be comfortable and have fun.

Good luck :)

I am a former high school social studies teacher, elementary principal, and now work in the district office with assessment and research. In my time as a teacher, I coached Academic Decathlon and Speech and Debate, as well as soccer. This will be my first foray into judging in many years.

Judging Philosophy: I am new to judging, but believe my approach will be to focus on logical arguments and evidence. How you present your evidence and lay out a rational, logical argument will persuade me far better than trying to talk around the objective.

Core Values: I value creativity, critical thinking, and character.

Criteria for Evaluation: I believe that my judgement of your performance will rest on how well you develop an argument and the strength of the evidence that supports it. The development of that argument will be apparent through your delivery and organization. A style that seeks to be understood will score more points with me than a style that seeks to convince, but also keeps me engaged and not bored.

Balance of Objectivity and Subjectivity: I am a rule follower and expect to see those rules followed. While some things can be evaluated subjectively, I prefer to be more objective.

Feedback: I tend to focus on areas to refine, however also like to ensure that I've identified areas of reinforcement. Being new to judging, I may tend to be more general in my feedback versus targeted.

I believe in evaluating each competitor based on the quality of their presentation and trying to evaluate everyone according to the same criteria. I will endeavor to be fair and objective in my evaluation.

Public Forum:

I flow the rounds and judge based on your speeches not cross fire. I review notes, contentions that flow from beginning to end. Please make sure to have definitions and framework. Framework is very important to your case. Make sure you are clear in your contentions and arguments. If I cannot understand you or you are talking too fast, I miss things and it can be a problem. You are there toconvince mewhy your team wins-explain the impacts and weighing, FRAMEWORK and explain the reason for decision. Pretend I do not know anything about the topic.Be respectfulof your opponents and let them talk during cross fire. You should be able to provide your cards, evidence quickly. You should be organized and have them quickly to provide competitor if asked.

LD

LD is a speech form of debate and I need to understand your case and reasoning. Flowing is very common today, but it does not mean you are an excellent debater, logical or can convince someone to your side of the argument. You need to convince me, your contentions, framework and the reasons why you won the round. I will flow the rounds and judge based on your speeches not cross fire. I review notes, contentions that flow from beginning to end. Please make sure to have definitions, values and criterion. Make sure you are clear in your contentions, definitions and arguments. If I cannot understand you or you are talking too fast, I miss things and it can be a problem for you. You are there to convince me why you win-explain the impacts, logic, reasoning explain the reason for decision. Pretend I do not know anything about the topic. Debate the resolution and topic. Some LD topics are more like PF but keep to the resolution.

I am a first time parent judge.

Hi, I’m Frederick and I debated in both Public Forum and Congress for three years. State champ PF, went to nats in Congress.

Email: fchangho@asu.edu

Overall, pretty standard tech.

The easiest way to win my ballot is by having clear warranting throughout the debate. Evidence is great and all, but please have reasoning for WHY that evidence matters in the round. You need to be able to explain the logical progression in your link chains every time you mention your arguments. Don’t say NYT 19 and move on and expect me to go along with it.

Weigh. But make sure your link chain is intact and you’ve made clear extensions through the round.

Signposting is good. Organization is important.

If you get a concession in cross, bring it up in speech.

When possible, frontline in rebuttals.

No prep time for card reading is okay, but don’t take too long to pull up a card for your opponent to read. If there are card issues that you want me to look at, tell me to call for them too in speech. I will choose to view them at my discretion.

NO SPREADING.

Don’t be a jerk to your opponents. If I need to intervene b/c someone’s consistently talking over another in cross, you’ll be on pretty thin ice. Watch your own time. Watch your opponents’ time. Don’t talk during others’ speeches or make any rude gestures.

Off-time roadmaps are okay, but you don’t need to tell me what you’re doing in your first rebuttal for example.

Clash. Address opp’s arguments and explain to me how yours interact with theirs + why yours are better. Simple way to win.

PF-specific

PF’s intent is to be accessible to the average Joe. Don’t do anything that hinders that.

Generally tech>truth, but please don’t pull up with some nuke war argument that vaguely relates or anything else that requires a significantly unlikely chain of events.

I would rather vote for a well-warranted argument without an impact over a poorly-warranted one with a good impact.

Key voters are great for staying organized, but if you choose to do line-by-line just remember to signpost exceptionally well.

I don’t pay attention during cross. Unless something blatantly wrong happens.

LD-specific

Before I ever judged LD, I had only ever seen 3 LD debates. I’ll be able to follow along with your arguments, but progressive will be relatively difficult for me to evaluate in the scope of the round unless your warranting is pristine (which it should be anyway). Disads, CPs make the most sense to me. Topicality shells and K’s, somewhat. High risk, low reward if you run theory.

please speak clearly, explain your reasoning, and give impacts.

I prefer you to time yourselves and hold yourselves accountable on timing.

Please keep it respectful and keep around a conversational pace.

I am parent judge and have been judging from past one year in multiple debate competitions.

Don't speak too fast, where I loose the content and discussion. Maintain your pace, present the cards and evidences.

Manage your time properly, i do take notes.

Don't use lot of technical stuff, where i might not get the core of the argument.

I do consider how you speak, how you conduct yourself. Don't be offensive and rude.

Respect is greatly important to me, I will not tolerate any disrespect among all parties. I will dock points for any condescending remarks.

I do not prefer spreading. Card reading should be 3 minutes max.

Take a breath, don't overstress, and most importantly have fun! I know you'll do great :)

I am a mountain ridge mom. I have never competed as a student and judge once a semester. I believe the students can speak as fast as they want to the point that I can understand them.

Make eye contact with me and convince me with good reasons, evidence, and a strong argument. I value well structured cases, clear arguments, and explicit weighing.

Be respectful and have fun!

Hello, my name is Lu Gan.

For debate:

• I am a lay judge, please don't spread and talk at a decent pace.
• I have basic knowledge of topics so please make your arguments clear to me.
• Please make sure that your links are made clear and if I call for evidence, you should be able to show it to me. Your arguments must make sense logically.

For speech:

• Make sure I can understand what you are trying to say
• Stay on topic, and don't deviate

Good luck!

I am a lay judge.

1) Speak slowly enough that I can understand you. If I cannot understand what you are saying I cannot vote for you.

2) I like off time roadmaps and make sure to frontline arguments in your responses

3) Be sure to weigh your arguments' impacts against your opponents as I will be voting on which collapsed argument is the best.

4) Be kind to your opponents during crossfire

5) Good luck and have fun!

Put me on the email chain: neha.gupta11@gmail.com

I am a parent judge and this is my 3rd year judging. I would prefer if you could talk clearly and slowly (AKA avoiding talking at the speed of light).I look for points that are supported with evidence, so stick with the facts. Lastly, I heavily weigh confidence and speaking style, so be mindful and be kind.

That being said , remember to have fun!!! All the best.

I am lay judge. Please make logical arguments and make sure that your impacts are reasonable. Don't talk over each other in cross and talk at a conversational pace. Also, keep your own time and please don't go over. I know debates can get heated, but make sure to be respectful.

I am a lay judge. Please keep in mind a couple of things.

1. Please speak at medium pace and speak clearly, so that I will be able to understand everything that you are saying.
2. Please do not use debate jargon.
3. Do not assume I know everything about about the topic. Please make sure to give clear explanations about the arguments that you are making.
4. I would like comparative analysis and weighing.
5. I will not be keeping time. Each team should be keeping their own time and should not be going over time.
6. Be specific, I don't want generic claims and I want you to interact with your opponents arguments.
7. I also heavily value statistics, but you need to back it up with real analysis.
8. I will pay attention during all crosses, so make sure that you that you can explain your arguments well.
9. Make sure to be polite and respectful to each other in round.
10. Don't forget to have fun!

I am a lay judge. I will flow your debate arguments to the best of my ability, but it really helps me if you signpost well and refer back to yours and your opponent contentions.

I am a parent judge.

Please make sure you speak clearly and not too fast so I can follow your argument and track the flow better.

Please explain terms that you think that might be helpful for a person that new to PF.

If I cannot comprehend your terms / arguments or follow your flow, I will not vote on it.

Please be respectful to your opponents. Don't be mean. There is a difference between being aggressive and being mean.

Don't lie or misconstrue your evidence.

Good luck!

Hi, I competed in speech for all four years of high school. I've now judged/coached for about 5 years! :) Here's what I have (in terms of my rules) to say about speech and debate:

For everyone: please don't try to shake my hand (it wont affect your score, i get its for being nice and thanking me for judging your round) but idk where your hands have been.

SPEECH: Have fun, don't be nervous, and do you best. I judge fully based off the performance. If you go over the grace period of your performance, cool, but like, know you can't be ranked the 1. I love topics of public health, healthcare, child/maternal health, and health equity.

DEBATE: I am a lay judge, however I've now been judging traditional debate for 3 years (mostly PF and LD, BQ, but I know it's not traditional debate lol). Don't be nervous to correct me on debate lingo or debate rules. If you want me to disclose, I can. However, I will not disclose during elimination/outrounds!

Please make sure you can take your own times! I will be taking my time from now on to make sure the round runs as fairly and efficiently.

I'm fine with spreading, just make sure I can understand your sources (Name, Date) plzzz

Have your cards ready and set to go, in case I want to see them!

Checking and reading cards is not a part of prep time, but if you go over like 2 1/2 min or more, I'll start counting it towards your prep time.

Have fun, be cool, make me laugh, you could get extra pts, idk (life is short, yolo). Also, no sexism, racism, or any kind of hatred because it will lead you into an auto-drop. ALSO, yes to the email chain! abhern12@asu.edu

CONGRESS: I love clash! Speak eloquently and loudly please! Answer all of your questions succinctly as you can during CX! If you make me laugh in the round, that could possibly help lol. Please keep the debate as creative and interesting towards the bills you want to pass. Repeating arguments are irrelevant, please always add a new/interesting point during your speeches :) Have fun too! :) (if u talk about public health, delivery of healthcare systems, access/utilization of healthcare, child/maternal health, or health inequity and disparities, maybe you might catch my eye and get ranked idk) ((public health is cool))

Hi! I'm Preesha Kumar and I'm an S&D alum from Brophy. I competed in PF, POI, Congress, DUO, and a bit of DI.

Paradigm (PF) :

DO NOT say what your school is in case or before case (say you and your partner negate/affirm). I would hate for any of y'all to get a biased judge, and I also don't want it to influence my judging.

• do not yell at your opponents (this is a debate, not a shouting match), and treat everyone with respect. I don't tolerate disrespect.
• Don't spread (please)
• have proper blocking and extend well. State your points cleanly and neatly so I'll be able to catch them and evaluate them when I judge
• When you drop contentions, don't bring them up in final extensions. If you drop it you drop it
• Have fun and good luck!

Speech:

- If you have triggering content, INCLUDE TRIGGER WARNINGS BEFORE YOU START!! (anything related to violence, hate crimes, sh, etc.) I want to be mindful of the spectators and competitors.

• blocking!! it can take your piece to to next level
• make sure to stay on time, the grace period is 30s
• have fun! honestly the less you worry about who's watching you, the better you do. Most of you have spent a lot of time cutting your pieces and alot of these stories mean something to you. Don't hold back :]

I am a lay parent judge.

I value a clearly laid out argument, supported both by evidence and logic.

I do value using card names and numerical evidence is good too.

I have judged before but I am still fairly new.

Don’t spread, speak clearly it is pretty hard to follow and vote if I don't understand the arguments properly.

I don't vote off of cross but if there is any disrespect I might dock off points.

Signposting is much appreciated for ease of keeping up.

Stay organized and try not to jump from arguments without being clear.

I generally don't keep time, so you have to time yourselves.

In general be respectful to everyone in the room.

Hello, my name is Haris.

I competed in Public Forum for four years in Arizona, doing extemp speech as well in addition to a few random speech and debate here and there. I mainly competed as a second speaker on the local circuit, but I went to a few nat circuits and competed for a bit as a first speaker. I went to TOC in both PF and extemp, and competed at Nats for PF.

As a judge I am looking for clear, organized argumentation and respect. Just debate your best and be a good person. Please sign post and weigh. Second rebuttal has to frontline and second speaking team cannot make new arguments in the very last speech. Don't be abusive.

As a former debater, I consider myself able to evaluate basically anything, but I do have a warning for progressive arguments. If you want to run theory and K's, go ahead, but I am not confident in my ability to fully understand them since as a PF debater I never ran one myself.

Also, I prefer actual warranting as opposed to only evidence dumping with no explanations or warranting following so don't just drop 10 responses that assert something because this card said so. Give me a warrant.

Ask me in person for clarification and I'll be happy to elaborate. Remember that debate is supposed to be educational and fun.

I am a first year "lay" judge and I am NOT a native English speaker. Hence, kindly avoid using over-the-top vocabulary (with more than 5 syllabuses) and speak slow enough at conversational speed.

Two thousand years ago, I competed on the Toastmasters (speech) circuit as a young person. So, I will pay special attention to each speaker's ability to explain the contentions and in turn will award individual speaker points.

It is my belief that good presentation skill is a prerequisite to good argumentative skill. If your delivery is choppy and messy, I will likely NOT vote for your team. During the cross, avoid using language a lay judge will not understand. For example; If you say "cross-apply the turn on the de-link on their C1 , which triggers solvency for our terminal impact on C2."???? I will have NO clue what you are saying and I will vote for your opponents IMMEDIATELY.

Remember: If I can't understand your contentions/arguments, I can't vote for you.

Other comments:

- Brownie points for a case with numerical impacts. I love numbers.

- Be respectful, please do not yell during Cross (I'm not deaf, at least....not yet)

- Chill, have loads of FUN and not get too stressed over the results.

I am a speech and debate coach and an English teacher, who taught logic, technical writing, composition, and Literature in college for 11 years. I debated in high school. These are some of the things you should consider when debating:

1. Speak clearly, do not spread. I am mostly deaf and I rely on imperfect hearing devices and lip reading. If I can't hear your arguments you haven’t made your argument.

2. Have empirical evidence and use it concisely.

3. Consider your structure. Make the time for a well thought out planned case or response that makes sense logically.

4. Be mature and respectful at all times. Yes, be confident and assertive, but do not yell, bully, belittle, roll your eyes, use sarcasm etc. . ..

5. For speaker points make sure to have a polished presentation style with appropriate eye contact, volume, dynamics, dramatic pauses, rhetorical appeals, tone etc. . .

I am a parentjudge

I prefer eye contact (you may get extra speaker points)

Do not yell at each other

Do not go to fast

Do not go over time ⏰ more than 7 sec (possibly minus points)

Let's enjoy this !!

I am a parent judge with a year of experience. I value the flow of a debate round with a clean structure that I can follow.

PF Preferences:

• Keep it civil, be respectful of each other. If there is an issue then let me know in a professional manner.
• I appreciate when you outline and conclude your speech with the narrative, rather than cramming cards or arguments into a speech.
• I ignore cross fire completely.
• Do not spread.
• Each team should keep their or their opponents time.  I may stop listening if 20 seconds over time limit.
• I value sign posting and succinct off time roadmaps. Off time roadmaps should not include arguments or new evidence.
• No theory debate, its not productive and will be dropped.
• Impacts should be clearly flowed all the way through.
• Do not try to pull me into the debate as an individual.  As a judge, I consider both sides, not the emotional appeal. 

I am a parent judge.

Don't spread. If I can't comprehend your argument/ what your points are, I will not flow it, and therefore will not vote on it.

Be respectful to your opponents, especially during crossfires.

I appreciate off-time roadmaps, as long as they are at max 10 - 15 seconds.

I consider impact weighing to be crucial, as it shows why I should vote for you.

I consider key voters during final focus to be vital, as it helps me understand why I should be voting for you.

Lastly, if you cannot explain what the evidence is saying, or your argument is not logically sound, I won't consider it.

While I hold strong beliefs, for this debate, consider me to be a blank slate. Explain to me your value and your criterion. Explain to me your contentions and what standards should be used for judging this round.

I take lots of notes, while I may not be looking at you, I am listening.

In order to win this round, show respect to your opponents. Avoid rude, harassing behavior. Controversial topics may be used, but please keep it civil. I expect teams to hold each other accountable for time. Please speak clearly and not too fast, if I cannot understand you, I can’t understand your argument.

Thank you.

Hello Debaters

-No spreading please. I cannot follow and may work against you.

-Clear logical arguments always resonate with me.

-Passion is great but rudeness or aggressive behavior is not. Be respectful of your opponents.

-Good luck to all.

I am a parent lay judge, and I value clear arguments that logically make sense. For speed, please speak at a normal pace so i can understand and flow everything you say.

This is my first year judging PF. This means that you must do your job to adapt to me as a judge, but at the same time I will do my best to follow what you say and take notes.

Please speak slowly, and explain everything that you are saying very clearly. Do not skip any steps in your logical chains - things that are intuitive to you might not seem that way to me. If you see me lift up my pen or not write anything for a while, it means you are going too fast for me. Slow down and speak at an understandable pace.

I will do my best to judge the round fairly as long as you do your best to convince me on why you should win. Please speak in a conversational tone - do not yell - and be as persuasive in round as you can. Most importantly, have fun.

I'm a parent judge and both of my kids have done PF debate. I am an engineer by profession and worked for 15 years in large corporations in executive role, now I have been an entrepreneur for the past 10 years. My main thing is that if I can't hear you clearly, I can't evaluate your arguments. Speak clearly and be respectful to other team.

Hello, my name is Rajin, this is my first year judging a PF and LD judge. You can consider me a lay judge. Make sure your arguments make sense, and please refrain from any negative remarks outside of resolution.

I am a parent judge and this is my third year of judging. I will only vote for arguments that I will understand, So please be clear with your warranting - don’t just tell me that something will happen, tell me why it will happen.

Clearly explain your framework, why it should be used , and how I should weigh the round based off it.

I don't flow cross-examination.

Weigh Impacts, If you don't do it then I have to and you may not like the outcome.

Be polite and respectful always, If you cross the line I will drop you from the round solely for that reason and report to Tab.

Hey! I'm Dens!

Do what you want tbh, idrc.

Policy: No K affs pls

Hey! I'm Ajay and I debated in Public Forum for 4 years and did Extemp for 3 years at BASIS Peoria in Arizona. I've qualified to nationals in both Public Forum and International Extemp.

Public Forum: Please please please weigh. That's the biggest thing. If one team weighs and the other doesn't, I think you can guess who I'll vote for. Frontlining has to be done (at the latest) in the 2nd rebuttal and 1st summary. I'm tech over truth but that does mean my threshold for responses to crazy arguments is inherently lower.

Just card dumps without warrants mean nothing, make sure you back up all your evidence with solid warranting. That being said, its not an excuse to throw evidence ethics down the drain. I will call you out.

I'll evaluate almost anything but fair warning for progressive debaters, I rarely ever ran progressive args being a PF debater, so my ability to understand your K or theory may not be where you'd want it. So run those with caution.

Oh and make sure to signpost.

Policy: I'd strike me if I were you.

I am a lay parent judge, with 3 yrs of experience judging PF and LD.

Public Forum:

I’m okay with most arguments as long as the evidence provided is clear and concise and I can see a clear link from your argument to the conclusion you make. Be sure to extend your arguments through Final Focus, I’m only going to consider them if you do. Impact weighing is crucial and wins rounds: tell me why your impact outweighs. Don’t spread; if I can’t discern your words, I won’t flow them.

Cross Ex: I believe that Cross Ex is a crucial part of the round. Maintaining composure and delivering sound responses is an essential part of debate and shows your knowledge of the case and ability to think fast on your feet.

Lincoln Douglas:

DO NOT SPREAD !! If you do I will drop you. Use logical, well reasoned arguments, support it with evidence and also highlight their value and impact. Dont simply read lengthy quotations - instead summarize them to explain how they support your contention(s).

And finally, be respectful of your opponents, and have fun.

Hi I am Miranda Vega. I competed in PF debate, Congress, info, and various interp events in high school, and now I am the assistant coach for ACPHS. This will be my 4th year judging debate, so I am looking forward to it! I will disclose quickly after the round if time permits; however, I will not disclose if the tournament directors explicitly tell me not to, or if one of the competitors are not comfortable with it. I do try and provide really extensive feedback within the ballots but for some reason if I forget to finish it or it cuts off please email me @ mirandakathleenvega@gmail.com you put in a lot of time and effort and you deserve your feedback.

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Here is some general paradigms I have:

Spreading: I think this is an educational activity; therefore, I do not like any sneaky tactics that give you an unfair advantage, like talking at the speed of light. For this reason, I HATE SPREADING, I think this makes debate inaccessible for the general person, and forces your opponent to also spread so they can respond to all of your points. This is especially true for debate formats like PF and BQ, as they are meant for lay judges. DONT SPREAD IN PF AND BQ. If you spread in PF or BQ two things will happen. Generally I will be very annoyed and hate judging the round, and I will not get very much down on the flow which will more likely than not lead to you losing the round. At a certain point I just stop flowing, and as a tech judge you are probably going to get the L. If you are going to spread in LD and CX, that is fine. HOWEVER, you should only be spreading the card text and I should still be able to understand what you are saying. If you are mumbling and I don't know what you are saying then I am not going to understand the evidence being read. You need to slow down on the Contention Names, card names, tags, warrants, and analytics. Spreading anything that isn't card text will ultimately end up with me not really flowing and you, most likely, losing the round. Debate is an oral argument so I should be able to hear and understand what you are saying. That is why if you are going to spread you only spread card text. Anything else I won't get on the Flow

Evidence Violations:If I catch you committing an evidence violation I will automatically drop you and cite that as the reason for the loss. Evidence violations are getting worse on the circuit and I believe it is no longer enough to just drop the argument. So make sure your card says what is says and don't misconstrue the evidence. This also includes debater math. You can't just mush two stats together and call it a day.

Cross examination/fire: I never flow this. I am typically writing in the ballot during this time; however, I am still paying a bit of attention to make sure you guys are being respectful to each other. If I notice it is getting out of hand I will give a warning to the person being disrespectful, and if it happens again then I will drop debater. If something completely and horribly disrespectful happens in round (racism, sexism, xenophobia, ableism), I will just drop debater. This is also a period for you to clarify things, not do another rebuttal. CX no tag teaming. The reason I say this is that 1). It was never originally meant to be that way anyway 2) that is time that your partner can be prepping. No tag teaming.

Tech>truth: you still have to tell me that your opponents dropped something I am not just going to automatically flow that through. Also, if you run something really far fetched you can, but the second your opponent calls it out as such I am less likely to buy it.

No sticky defense: if you drop an argument it is conceded in the round. That doesn't mean I am just going to automatically flow it to the opposing team. They still have to extend in every speech that it is conceded. If you pick up a dropped argument, I will not weigh it at the end of the round. Generally, when you do that you are wasting time that you can be telling me why you should win the round.

Signpost:Please please please signpost! Telling me you are responding to the first contention isn't enough. Tell me "On their C2, "specific warrant", we have "number" of responses". Or for progressives tell me what part of the progressive you are going to attach. If you are responding to a DISAD tell me if you are responding to uniqueness, external link, impact or internal link. Please be as organized and specific as possible. If you are going to address an argument as a whole TELL ME THAT, and tell me why that should be enough.

Weigh: Tell me why you win! Please weigh for me! If I have to do this you may not like the outcome. Also, it is not enough to tell me "I outweigh therefore I win". How do you outweigh? Are you outweighing on magnitude, scope, timeframe???

Extensions:You MUST extend in every speech. However, just saying EXTEND is not an extension. You need to analytically interact with your opponent's responses and tell me why I should buy your argument over theirs.

Everybody should time their own prep: I am timing speeches and cross. There is no 10 second grace period, I don't know where everyone got this rule from, but it doesn't exist. I stop flowing at the end of the time regardless if you keep speaking.

STAND FOR ALL SPEECHES AND CX PLEASE (exception GCF in PF)

If aff doesn't win enough offense or impacts for me to weigh that offense I presume negation.

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PUBLIC FORUM

The paradigms mentioned above are pretty much it.

If no framework is mentioned my default is a cost-benefit analysis.

The team that wins my ballot will tell me why their impacts outweigh the others.

NO PROGRESSIVE ARGUMENTS. I can't believe that I have to say this, but this is a lay friendly debate format. There is also not enough time to properly run and respond to them. I will drop the argument if it is run. Please just don't I will be so annoyed. If that is something you love to do then join LD or CX, but no progressives in PF.

I don't take prep time for calling and reading cards. That being said. If a card is called and it cant be located within 2 min it is dropped. It should be already cut and easily found. If there is a tech issue that is different. That being said. If you are reading the card don't take an eternity either.

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POLICY DEBATE

Refer to the general paradigms I listed above.

You can put me on the email chain with my email, but know that I am only flowing what I hear you say. You can spread but ONLY CARD TEXT. You need to slow down on your tags, warrants, impacts etc and for your analysis for why I should extend your argument further in the round. I am NOT going to yell clear, so if you see me stop flowing you need to slow down otherwise you are most likely going to lose the round.

Run whatever you want, just make sure that what ever you are running is formatted correctly.

SIGNPOST SIGNPOST SIGNPOST PLEASE I BEG OF YOU For some reason policy people don't sign post enough. If you are reading responses to a disad or the plan you should tell me what parts you are responding to so for example this is what I am expecting:

"Onto the [BLANK] Disadvantage. First onto uniqueness, we have [#] of responses. 1) response response response 2) response response response. Then onto the external link we have [#] of responses" That is what I am expecting when I say signpost.

Any other questions please ask me!

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LINCOLN DOUGLAS

I think I have judged LD on a circuit only a few times. I judge my LD kids all the time, and judge Policy now on the circuit regularly.

Like I said no spreading but card text. If there is an email chain put me on it, just know that I am only flowing what I hear.

The way I will judge the round is whoever wins under the winning framework. So just because you don't win your framework doesn't mean you can't win the debate. If you can still prove to me that you solve for the standard better than your opponent I will vote for you. That being said I understand that sometimes your arguments may be mutually exclusive from your opponents.

Since I judge policy so often I am fine with progressives run whatever! I am cool with K's, performance K's if you want (just make sure your K's are well linked), any plans or CPs I am cool with.

If you have any other questions please let me know!

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CONGRESS

For the love of all that is holy, this is Congress not debate. Do not use debate jargon. Dont say drop, extend, my opponent, vote aff.... this is Congress you say "pass this bill" or "fail this bill", "my fellow representative/senator" etc...

PLEASE TAKE YOUR SPLITS BEFORE THE ROUND! My biggest pet peeve judging Congress is when y'all agree on a docket, and there is no first aff or neg. And you have to take a bunch of 1 minute recesses. Those are also a pet peeve.

I really do not like rehash, at a certain point in the cycle you need to start doing rebuttal speeches and if you are all the way at the end of the cycle then do a crystallization speech.

Try not to rely heavily on your legal pad.

The more you sound like a Congress person the better you will rank. Rhetoric is your best friend.

I will rank PO pretty high if you do a good job. I won't rank PO in the top 6 though if there are A LOT of precedence and recency errors.

I've coached Speech & Debate for around a decade now. I do not support any form of progressive debate in PF. Prove you understand the resolution and the content of the topic. Here’s some advice:

- No spreading, I’ll say “clear” if you need to slow down

- Use taglines and signpost to maintain clarity of flow

- I do not flow cross examination so be sure to include ideas in speech

- I am a believer in pragmatism over the ideological

- Clear elaboration and correlation is as important as card use

-Link the arguments, don't make assumptions or just point to a card

-It should not take over a minute to find cards, please be familiar with your evidence

- Keep the round moving, I’ll keep time of speeches and prep

I am a parent lay judge. This is my 3rd year judging PF. Please be polite and respectful to judges and your opponents, and display good sportsmanship.

Make sure you explain your link chain properly and tell me why your contentions or responses make sense.

I would also appreciate it if you tell me why your contentions are more important than your opponents'.

Please speak slow enough so I can understand you and take notes.

Enjoy your debate!

I am a parent lay judge. This is my third year judging PF.

Please speak slowly and clearly. Clearly express your side and argument. Be polite and respectful to judges and your opponents, and display good sportsmanship.

New judge.

Don't spread

Be respectful