What's up peeps,

I'm Gabe Templeton and I go by He/Him pronouns. I'm a sophomore poli sci/education major at JMU and debated by for four years at Stone Bridge High School. In general, I'm pretty lenient in round but please don't excuse that for being annoying and rude. I will dock points and if you keep doing it I'll vote you down for -isms like sexism or racism. Now onto the more specific stuff.

If no offense holds after Final Focus, default to Pro.

New evidence is okay after summary, but only if it upholds an argument extended through all speeches.

Speaking of extensions, I only vote on anything that has been extended from first speech to last by either team. For novices, this means you have to bring up your own arguments in your own speeches.

If you're novice, I'll probably stray from these rules a bit because I want debate to be fun and not just "whichever team knows what the word extension means."

I don't take any notes during cross for the flow in general but if you get some serious info out of them take a break from it and call me out. Cross is still a speech, but I won't flow it.

I vote on the flow first, but I'm not just going to buy your nuke war argument on a domestic policy topic though because I have a standard of probability.

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASPLEASEPLEASE WEIGH YOUR IMPACTS THAT IS THE NUMBER ONE WAY TO WIN WITH ME IF YOU DON'T WEIGH AND YOUR OPPONENTS DO YOU LOST THE ROUND THIS GOES FOR EVERYONE

If you draw a good fat yoshi I will give you extra speaks (I would say bring me reese's but rona ruined that so)

I lean liberal but I won't automatically vote that way. It's your job to build up your evidence. I'm going to read up on the topic so if you give me taglines for common pieces of evidence I'll probably know them. But if you abuse that and not explain to your opponents I'm not voting on it.

All of this aside, have fun. The reason I'm judging right now is because I love debate. It may be on the classist side of things, but have fun with it.

Also if you want me to give you a really really in-depth RFD and you read this tell me in round and I will give one.