Hammack,+AJ

(Written by Dana Christensen with AJ’s permission and sign-off.)

AJ debated for Kearney HS in Nebraska for four years. Following that he debated at UMKC and had great success including an out round run at CEDA nationals. AJ has debated a variety of strategies over the course of his career. He is well versed in counterplan and disad debates as well as debates that may take a more alternative form. While AJ is open to a variety of arguments and styles he is strongly tied to the flow. He will hold you to a high burden for extending and explaining arguments on the line by line. If it isn’t there in an earlier speech you can guarantee he will know it and give credit to new arguments accordingly. AJ will also read evidence. In my experience he does this in most cases to ensure that warrants claimed in the debate match the evidence but also in close debates about contested issues the quality of competing pieces of evidence might be the tie-breaker. As for most judges topicality and theory debates are great but you should slow down on these parts of the debate and make sure to interact arguments not just read giant theory dumps at top speed. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">He will expect that these arguments are warranted and impacted just like <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">any other argument if you intend to go for them at the end of the round. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Lastly, AJ is a super friendly and helpful person if you have any specific <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">questions before the round feel free to ask.

<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">**Note: This is AJ’s first tournament on this topic. He does have some <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">background from working in the summer and being around debate but you <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">should be clear about obscure acronyms or highly technical aspects of the <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">space debate. With that being said I think there should be no problems. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.917969); color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Great Nebraska judge here folks…rank him high.