Lorence,+Nick

I debated for Walt Whitman for 4 years, all of which were in LD. I debated locally for 1 year and on the circuit for 3. I generally was a framework and theory debater during my career, but towards the end of my senior year I became interested in critical positions.

First off, I have not debated or heard spreading in quite some time. This doesn't mean don't spread, but if you could start off at maybe 75-80% and gradually get up to top speed, I'd appreciate that greatly. I will call slow or clear as much as I need, and I won't punish you at all unless it seems like you are intentionally not trying to help me out in any way.


 * I don't have any preferences about what you run in front of me.** Do whatever suits your debate style best or whatever you honestly want to do. I'm going to be as tab as possible. Also, entertaining rounds = high speaks. Theory clusterfucks = meh speaks.

This being said, there are things you can do to make my decision easier and likely in your favor. **Please slow down on taglines and author names**. I don't care too much if you just blaze through the card as long as it's marginally comprehensible, and as long as I have a general idea as to what you're spurting out, I'm chill with it. Also, good weighing is definitely going to help you out. I don't want to have two contradicting pieces of evidence and have to decide a winner with no guidance as to which I should prefer. If you weigh, you're going to get high speaks. This being said, you don't need to repeat yourself like 5 times. That's going to put me to sleep and I won't be too happy.

If you have any more questions regarding paradigmatic stances to positions you may be running, just ask me. But when in doubt, just go for it.

I was always screwed by speaks in high school, so for now I think I'm going give good speaks. Best way to get good speaks is to be able to explain your case coherently, doing good weighing, and giving me a very easy way to vote for you. Also if you're funny I will reward that. And not to be incredibly cliche, but if you're not funny then please please don't try.

Additional things to get you speaks:
 * 1) Do both cx'es in a Russian or Indian accent (if this becomes annoying for you or your opponent theres no punishment for stopping)
 * 2) Edit: Please don't actually do this it is in fact very distracting. Go figure.
 * 3) Scream "I am the captain now" at some point in your speech and don't make it seem random
 * 4) Say 'tomasi swag' at least 4 times in round
 * 5) Convince me that you're a total badass
 * 6) Make me forget about my extreme sleep deprivation by making the round entertaining for me to judge