Stokes,+William

William Stokes Years Debating: 4 1/2 Schools I debated for: Baltimore City College High School University of Mary Washington

I went 3-4 at the TOC my senior year of high school, so take from that what you will.

Probably the most important things you need to know when I’m judging you:
 * I just started judging this year and am not that familiar with the topic. This means tone down topic specific jargon and go a little slower.
 * Ideal 2NR strategies in order of favorite to least favorite:
 * Topicality
 * DA and Case
 * Impact turns
 * CP and DA
 * K
 * CP with internal net benefit
 * I believe defense is a 100% takeout, but can be persuaded otherwise.
 * I find myself usually resolving debates around questions of the internal link. I think the causal link chain to the terminal impact is usually very silly, and I find myself more often then not voting for the team that points this out.
 * I will vote on cheap shots if:
 * The other team doesn’t say reject the arg and not the team
 * The other team only says reject the arg and not the team and concede a reason that the cheap shot has caused in round abuse
 * I find that generic political capital links are generally unpersuasive to me. If you are running a politics disad in front of me, you should either read a focus or horsetrading link or be ready to read a lot of cards on the political exists/doesn’t exist question.
 * I view topicality through the frame of limits, with predictability the largest internal link to limits.
 * I think that the role of the judge regarding the k is to compare the world of the alternative to a world of the affirmative. It is very hard to persuade me otherwise, and will probably only happen when one team or another drops arguments.
 * That said, theory arguments regarding the k like vagueness are in my opinion very persuasive solvency takeouts.
 * My views on theory
 * Legit: Neg fiat, PICs, One Conditional Advocacy
 * Maybe Legit: Word PICs, Two Conditional Advocacies, Agent Cps
 * Not Legit: CPs that compete on certainty, CPs that compete on immediacy, international fiat, uniform 50 state fiat, and multi-actor fiat.