hi

I am a third-year debater from Spring Woods Sr. High School. My primary events are Congress, and Extemp.

CONGRESS

Presentation will make you noticeable. Argumentation will make you sensible. Both of these factors make you memorable.

But if you are the only person, in a novice room, who has clash, you will have my 1.

EXTEMP

I am looking for a tone of voice that is easy on the ears. Whether it be humorous, conversational, dramatic, it must intertwine with your words and make me want to listen to you. If you are monotone, you will be upped.

I am largely forgiving of fluency breaks.

Contrary to popular belief, extemp is not an event where you put down the tracks as the train hurtles south. It must be evident to me that you know your topic. I expect to see differentiated points that tie back to the question, and are clear and concise.

If you're funny, you're upped.

Be luh calm

Congress: the most important part of Congress is the guts of your speech. make sure before you even start giving your speech that the argument that you make is strong and true. I'm not the biggest stickler on presentation but I will mark you down for reading off your pad, bad posture, or not having any confidence just make sure your presentaion makes you seem confident and untouchable. also make sure you have clash.

Questioning: Make sure you can actually respond to questions you are given and don't try and rely on "Im sure you can tell me" if you can answer them then do it cause it will show you know about the topic. when asking questions give the speaker time to respond and make it important to the topic.

Other Events: I don't know much about them so just give good speeches and be confident.

Congress

Argumentation - Make sure your arguments make sense(CWDI), please don´t do non solvency or nonunique arguments, it get´s pretty boring to your judges. You must have impacts, don´t give me word salad. Clash :)

Presentation - PLEASE DON´T READ YOUR INTRO OFF YOUR PAD, it should be our first impression of who you are and if you can´t memorize something as integral as your intro it´s not a good look. Maintain eye contact, don´t overuse gestures, speakers triangle. Funny intros are good, but just make sure they relate in some way to the bill or topic itself. If you say ¨the opposite of congress is progress¨ in your speech I will down you. Engage me and I will listen to you, you´re already here, make the most of it.

Questioning - If you ask a question make sure you know the answer too it, it get´s pretty awkward when you somebody says ¨im sure you can tell me¨ and you can´t. Be direct, use your time well, engage the questioner. Active questioners will be noticed, and having a presence in the chamber is equally as important as speaking itself.

PO - Be confident, know parli procedures please, if you can make your PO sheet available to observers(tinyurl or bit.ly) it will be noted. Keeping decorum is a must, you will not be an automatic break just for POing. Please tell your judges to mark you down as the Xth speaker after each hour. POing isn´t really my thing, if you step up to do it if no one in your round wants to I´ll keep it in mind, most importantly don´t let the small mistakes get to you, and have fun.

Extemp

Restate the question, have an engaging intro, good presentation, use your time well, make sure you give me your sources+dates. I will listen to a confident, collected speaker any day over someone rushing.

LD/PF/CX

Spreading is a death sentence

Everything else

Have fun, I´ll try my best, be entertaining