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Judge Training

The Big Blue Invitational - May 5, 2024

Pre-Round Prep

• Judges will receive a text of email regarding judge assignments about 30 minutes prior to the start of the round
• Be in your breakout room at least 10 minutes prior to the beginning of the round.
• Have all of your ballot open before the round begins.
• Make sure the correct students are in your round.
• information found on ballots
• Make sure ballots from previous rounds are submitted!

Speaker-timekeeper script

Timekeeping:

• Recommend your debaters to time themselves as well as their opponents.
• However…still, time your debaters!
• Speeches: provide a 10 second grace period
• Cross-examination (CX): allow debater to finish asking/answering question if overtime
• Preptime: strict 3 minutes of total preptime

Keep rounds within 45-60 minutes!

Round format:

Ballot Form

• Available via Tabroom
• click “start round” on the Tabroom ballot as soon as all debaters are present

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SUBMIT BALLOTS DIRECTLY AFTER ROUND!! You can add/edit feedback later.

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Debater Feedback

• Keep speaker points within a 25-30 range
• 2 options:
• feedback to everyone in the round
• feedback to each debater in the round
• it is recommended that judges fill out both!
• Give feedback to each debater and each pair
• Give CONSTRUCTIVE feedback
• DO NOTS:
• “Don’t be so aggressive in CX.”
• “You were dressed professionally
• and seemed well prepared for this
• speech.”

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D1 -

D2 -

Example:

Assigning speaker points

Limit points within a 25-30

Disclosing

Submit your ballot*, then please disclose/give win/lose results IN ROUND!!

• Feel free to give a run down on your decision after disclosing only if time allows
• DO NOT go over the round time giving feedback
• keep oral feedback within 5 minutes

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Oral Feedback:

• Final voters/contentions of the round
• what did you weigh your decision on?
• Main focus of the round
• were there points left unaddressed?
• Specific debater feedback
• areas of improvement? strengths?

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keep in mind, there is another opportunity to give more feedback in the ballots!

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*Don’t worry - after submitting your ballot, you can still add/edit feedback to the debaters. The tournament just needs decision info ASAP to keep us moving on-schedule.

Paradigms/

Preferences

• It is highly recommended that judges fill out their paradigms!
• Available via Tabroom
• General Structure:
• Experience with debating/judging
• rounds preferences (eg. speed, weighing, dropping arguments, etc.)
• Feel free to include humorous ways to achieve full speaker points, but make sure they are appropriate.
• eg. Incorporate a reference to Whiplash in the constructive.

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Examples:

Cultural Competence

• It is important to remember that the feedback provided to students will be utilized as a tool to further their development, and as such should stand as productive and educational in its content
• Please remember that although some comments may seem well-intentioned, they may only serve to reinforce the status quo of societal norms, potentially creating a non-inclusive space for students.

More details found here:

https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Culturally-Competent-Judge-Training.pdf

Some final notes…

• Drop into the main zoom if you have any questions
• Email phillipsacademyspeechdebate@gmail.com if you have any questions
• Please keep your Zoom video on at ALL times (both judges and debaters)
• in the event of an internet glitch/someone gets kicked out, the judge should stop the round and wait for the student to rejoin
• if the student does not rejoin within 15 minutes, the judge should contact Tabroom for further assistance
• judges should wait 10 minutes before calling a no-show for the round (notify Tabroom)

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Thanks for listening!

• Good luck to all competing teams!