Williams,+David+J.

Name David J. WIlliams School; Newton HS Kansas # of years debated in HS___0__ What School NOPE # of years debated in College_0 __What College/University__Nope Currently a (check all that apply) __x__Head HS Coach _Asst. HS Coach College Coach _College Debater Debate Fan who regularly judges HS debate # of rounds on this year’s HS Topic _10_ What paradigm best describes your approach to debate? _x__Policy Maker__ ___Stock Issues__ ___Tabula Rasa__ ___Games Player__ ___Hypothesis Tester__ ___Other (Explain) I think the aff should affirm the resolution and be topical and have the basic INH/PLAN/ADV/S structure.or something similar. I am willing to listen to any aff position but I am mainly a policy guy but a K aff is fine if you can explain it well enough. I won’t pretend to understand your position, aff or neg, so please prepare a presentation that balances a quicker than normal speech but not spewing and wheezing. Don’t speed through your 1ac and quit with 90 seconds to go.
 * What do you think the Aff burdens should be? **

I think the neg may choose to debate the case or go with a generic position but I am going to vote on offense. I hate topicality and most theory arguments mainly because I hate flowing it. IF the aff is topical, even a little, then don’t run T. I wont flow it the way you want me to and I will default more to reasonability. If is reasonable then I wont vote against them on T. If the aff is not topical then run T. I will punish affirmatives who are non-topical. IF the aff is unreasonable then Neg will win even if I am terrible flowing the T. How I feel about delivery (slow vs. fast)? Slow tags/authors and quicker on card content. If I cannot understand you I will say clear. I prefer a slower style of debate that still uses the flow. My flow will be accurate(if you let me) with a slower round. Faster rounds will be my best guess. I would say slow down and be persuasive and signpost for me. How I feel about generic Disads, Counter Plans, Kritiks? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Generics with good links are fine. I need to know the story of your arguments. If I cannot remember the story then I can’t voter for it. <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">How I feel about case debates? <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">I LOVE A GOOD CASE DEBATE…but I don’t require it.
 * <span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">What do you think the Neg burdens should be? **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Flashing is prep time. Flashing is not moving all your cards to a speech doc. THIS IS PREP TIME AND SPEECH PREP> IF you jump a speech to the other team please do so quickly. I believe the last step of every speech should be the flash. Once the flash drive is given to the other team..Prep starts for other team if the non speaking team wants to hold up speech to see if it is on jump drive. Prep is over for the non speaking team when they indicate they are ready. IF the speech did not make it or if the format is difficult to use. I will grant a grace period of 1 mintue to resolve the issue. Laptops are normal for me. I don’t want your face buried in your screen.