Bluebonnet Classic at Johnson High School
2024 — San Antonio, TX/US
Lincoln Douglas Paradigm List
All Paradigms: Show HideHi my names Mish I debated at Brandeis for 4 years and am now a freshman in college!
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General:
- Time your own speeches
- Don't be rude, especially during CX my pet peeve is when the team asking the questions doesn't let their opponents answer
- Spreading is fine as long as I can understand it and I have what is being read so I can follow along
- Pretend I am a child that you are walking through the debate, at the start of the debate I know nothing which means I want everything explained well I prefer quality over quantity, nobody likes listening to 7 different arguments in the 1NC
- Tech over truth
- make sure to explain why you're winning each argument you are going for in the 2NR/2AR, I heavily go off of these speeches for my decision
- Have fun! debate is a game treat it as one
T args
- Do I think T args are stupid? Yes. Do I like T args? Yes (but this doesn't mean I'll vote off of it, unless the arg is insanely amazing)
CP's
-Nothing much here I like them again explained well
- Case turns I eat those up
DA's
- I love DA's I prefer facts which is why all the technical args speak to me more than k's if I'm being honest
- Case turns on DA's I love as well, keeps the debate spicy
- The link on the DA needs to be strong, if theres not a strong link theres no point in reading the arg
K's
- I like K's I was a K team
- K's are a lot of work, I will not assume anything for you make sure every part of the K is covered and explained well
- EXPLAIN THE ALT!!!!
- I need a strong link, again if the link isn't strong enough there is no reason to read the argument
AFF
- For aff anything if fine I don't prefer any specific thing on affs
- I will say for K affs just try to be a little more clear because I need everything laid out for me