Wu,+Julia

I’m currently a junior debating for Lake Highland Prep and am in my fourth year. I qualified to the TOCs my sophomore and junior year.

tl;dr Woodward is my first time judging, so keep that in mind. I believe that the round belongs to the debaters, you guys can do what you want and I’ll do my best to adjudicate it.

I’ve read a lot of different types of arguments but I primarily read phil (both high theory and traditional), K, and T/theory. You can look at my wiki for reference if you want lol. But if you want to read util or tricks, feel free to do so. I don’t particularly care what type of positions you read so please don’t try to cater to me. If you’re good at util, read util. But if both you and your opponent are doing huge card dumps in that debate it would probably be to your benefit to also give me a big picture view of the round in the last speech.

I default to competing interps over reasonability, drop the arg on theory, drop the debater on T, no RVIs, truth testing as the role of the judge, and K and T on the same layer but I really don't want to have to use these defaults. If anyone introduces any argument against these then I will evaluate those. The only reason that I would use the defaults is if no one in the round says anything about these issues.

For extensions, if a layer is completely conceded then a barebones extension of the claim, warrant, and impact is fine. If your opponent puts no ink on a layer but you also don't mention it at all in your speech then I will assume that you have also dropped it.

I'll say slow and clear however many times I need to, but if I don't catch an argument then I will not vote on it. If I do not understand an argument, i.e. if you do not articulate a warrant in the last speech, and I cannot explain that argument in the RFD then I will not vote on it.
 * Speaks:**

I’ll give higher speaks if you: - have good strategy and time allocation - have a good cx - original well warranted positions - good ass weighing

I’ll give lower speaks if you: - are being mean or rude - make the debate messy - offensive arguments will give you low speaks and a loss