Judge Philosophies
Allison McCrady - Hired Judges
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April Silva - Hired Judges
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Beau Woodward - UP
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Charise Giberson - Hired Judges
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Daniel Broyles - Pac U
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Erik Miller - Hired Judges
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Erika Hein - LCC
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Glenn John Cervantes - LCC
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Jennifer Conner - Pac U
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Jennifer Capell - Hired Judges
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Jeremy Schoenberg - Hired Judges
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Jovanna Bustamante - UA Debates
Please just have a fun and civil debate. I like to see clash and evidence. Don't spread fast.
Kaden Meyers - OSU
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Katelyn Berezo - Hired Judges
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Leah Moore - Hired Judges
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Lindsay Keevy - Hired Judges
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Liz Olufson - Hired Judges
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Mark Porrovecchio - OSU
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Matt Keevy - Hired Judges
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Mike Catlos - Lewis & Clark
Nadia Steck - Lewis & Clark
Nadia here, I am currently the Coach for Lewis and Clarkâs debate team I graduated from Concordia University Irvine where I debated for 2 years, before that I debated for Moorpark College for 3 years. Iâm gonna give you a TL:DR for the sake of prep time/pre-round strategizing, I want my personal opinions to come into play as little as possible in the debate round. I want the debate to be about what the debaters tell me it should be about, be it the topic or something totally unrelated. I am fairly familiar with theory, policy, and critical debate. I donât have a strong preference for any one of the three, all I want you to do is not be lazy and expect me to backfill warrants from my personal knowledge of arguments for you. If you donât say it, it doesnât end up on my flow, and thus it doesnât get evaluated. There arenât really any arguments I wonât listen to, and I will give the best feedback I have the ability to give after each round.
For out of round thinking or pre tournament pref sheets here are a few of the major things I think are important about my judging philosophy and history as a debater
â?¢I hate lazy debate; I spent a lot of time doing research and learning specific contextualized warrants for most of the arguments I read. It will benefit you and your speaks to be as specific as possible when it comes to your warrants.
â?¢I did read the K a lot during my time as a debater but that doesnât mean I donât also deeply enjoy a good topical debate
â?¢I did read arguments tethered to my identity occasionally; if you want to read these sorts of arguments I am sympathetic to them, but I believe you should be ready to answer the framework debate well.
â?¢As far as framework and theory arguments go, I am open to listening to any theory argument in round with the exception of Spec args, I honestly feel like a POI is enough of a check back for a spec arg. I have yet to meet a spec arg that was justified much beyond a time suck. If youâre In front of me, I give these arguments little credence so you should respond accordingly.
â?¢As far as the actual voting issue of theory, I by default assume they are all Apriori, as theory is a meta discussion about debate and therefore comes as a prior question to whatever K/CP/DA is being read. When it comes to evaluating the impacts of theory, please please please do not be lazy and just say that fairness and/or education is the voter without justification. These are nebulous terms that could mean a thousand things, if you want to make me really happy as a judge please read more specific voters with a solid justification for them. This way I have a more concrete idea of what you mean instead of me having to insert my own ideas about fairness or education into the debate space.
â?¢As far as policy debates go, I default net bens, and will tend to prefer probable impacts over big impacts. That being said, I am a sucker for a good nuke war or resource wars scenario. My favorite policy debates were always econ debates because of the technical nuance.
â?¢Go as fast as you want, just make sure if your opponent calls clear or slow you listen because if they read theory or a K because you didnât slow down or speak more clearly I will most likely vote you down.
Nick Baskins - Hired Judges
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Skyler Gregory - Hired Judges
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Stefanie Gilberti - Hired Judges
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Steve Mahoney - Hired Judges
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Taylor Farris - Hired Judges
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