Foster Summer Creek Back to School TFA Swing
2024 — Richmond, TX/US
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Speech drop is cooler tho
About me:
LV Hightower '24
POLICY DEBATER
Debated TFA, UIL, and NSDA policy circuit
Not debating in college :'(
NOVICES!!
Stop reading my paradigm (read this section but nothing below)!!! I don't want my paradigm to influence the way you debate. I suggest you don't read it because it will get you confused. Just debate how your coach taught you and I will follow. As a novice, your #1 job is to have fun debating and enjoy your experience. After the round ask me as many questions as you would like and I will try to answer them to the best of my ability with my prior debate knowledge.
Just remember what you practiced and what your coach taught you, no matter win or lose it is great that you are here!
In novice rounds, I will never vote off theory unless it is absolutely egregious/abusive (if you don't know what this means forget I said it).
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CX
Tech -x---------- Truth
Condo bad --------x--- Just get good
Policy ---x-------- K
Limits -------x---- aff ground
T -x---------- K aff
Policy fw ---x-------- Any other fw
General:
1 bad - 5 good
Planless K aff - I will use your debate round as an hour-and a half-nap nap then vote neg
DA - 5(who doesn't run DAs)
CP - 5
K - 3 (I only understand a couple so explain)
Topicality - 5 (these are so underused)
Theory - 4 (I love good theory debates that aren't pointless if the theory debate is pointless your speaks will reflect it)
In constructive spread however fast you want(as long as its understandable) just make sure I have speech doc, if you are reading analytics tell me and slow down and make it a noticeable change in your voice so I know what analytics.
Background:
I was a policy-focused degrowth debater in my senior season of high school. So if you run degrowth and you know your stuff, good shot you can win my ballot.
General:
The name of the debate is policy so that's what I expect. I hate going into these debates about how debate is bad and how debate as a norm hurts people. First of all, it really doesn't(why are you here) second of all idgaf. Acc debate something about the topic. Overall I'm tab, I will weigh any kind of argument (Cap good/bad, death good/bad, all that stuff) I'm not picky just make it make sense. The debates I hate judging the most are the debates where nothing is clear and I'm throwing a dart blindfolded for my ballot.
Theory:
If you want me to vote for T or theory it needs to make up at least 2 minutes of the final speech (2nr or 2ar). If you don't cover it at least that much it the arg has to be so convincing that I feel bad for you about the round. Overall I'm pretty open to all theory as long is it makes sense. Be sure to say "down the debaters" or smth if you want me to vote the round on it. Give me some trigger to pull and I might pull it for you.
Condo:
If you want me to vote for condo you gotta go for it (minimum 2 min in the 1ar and 4 min in the 2ar). I am very conflicted on the Condo debate, I know there are a lot of judges that will never vote on an answered condo shell, and there are other judges that will eat up condo if you are answering more than 3 off in the 1ar. I feel like I am somewhere in the middle with it. I feel like if you are answering 4 off in the 1ar its fine as long its not like 3 different Ks. Being the 1ar I'll give you a lot of leeway on condo.
Topicality:
I don't default competing interps but I almost always go for them. I think the whole debate of our definition is a legal one there's is from some article is total bs unless your opponent's interp is from an actual joe smoh. If you want to win the interp debate tell me why you interp is more important for your standards and better for debate.Make your standards and voters clear. If you want me to vote for topicality you need to do a lot of work there. I will buy an aff argument that says "Non topicality good" or "Extra topicality good" if you don't answer it properly. It is so crucial to the neg that you explain why topicality is important and why I should vote for it.
DA:
IDK what you want me to say about DA debate. Its a DA. just run it i guess? idfk. I think the neg has the right to read impact addons in the block, just like the aff has the right to read impact addons in the 2ac. I evualte the DA based on the biggest impact you win on it and I'll compare that in the round.
CP:
CPs were my jam in HS. The group of "traditional" CPs I am the most familiar with are court CPs (Con Con, Preamble, Precedence). Also if you run degrowth as a CP I eat that stuff up. Overall its pretty easy to win a ballot on a CP just show how the aff misses this crucial opportunity and why they can't do your plan.
LD
I know a bit about the debate, if you are prog please run prog its what I will fully understand coming from CX. Other than that I really want to see a good debate between battling frameworks. I think the whole trad LD debate saying "My value is this... My value criterion is this" is overplayed. Just tell me why you win under a fw idc what you value who you value or how you achieve your value. Just outweigh the fw debate and prove you are right and you have my ballot.
I'm cool with DA, CP, and most K's (I'm not the biggest fan of the far-left identity K's there is nothing wrong with them but they leave me with the feeling of voting for the person, not the argument and that is a moral position I would prefer not to be in)
Overall, my ballot is pretty easy to get in LD just don't be basic and be offensive, win FW and outweigh.
PF
I really don't understand this event. I will try to vote as best as I can. I would judge it as a lay CX round about who outweighs the topic. Just be persuasive and make good args and you will be fine. I am very sorry if I jf you. :)
Speaker Points
I tend to give high speaks. I start at a 29 and give you points if you do something good or entertaining and take points if you do something dumb or talk past time (0.1 points for every 5 sec unless ur finishing ur sentence).
If you say "Yeet that argument out of the window" with a straight face in your speech I'll give you one extra speaker point, For WSD I'll give points as I see fit