Judge Philosophies
Alex Lee - NOF
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Alexander Maier - ModernBrain
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Alexandra Smith - NOF
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Andrew Chen - GSA
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Anindita Bhattacharya - Stratford Milpitas
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Antonina Clementi - ModernBrain
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Anusha Neupane - ModernBrain
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Ashwinya Rao - GSA
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Chelina Rhee - NOF
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Chesley Dohl - Nova 42
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Chrishma Karkada - GSA
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Cunshun Huang - Raynor
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D'Angelo Sanchez-Johnson - ModernBrain
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Deepa Punjabi - Raynor
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Elizabeth Chavez - Kudos Leadership
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Emi Kim - NOF
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HOZEFA SHIYAJI - GSA
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Hema Erva - GSA
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Israel Beltran - NOF
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Janiel Victorino - QDLearning
My Competitive Career consists of 4 years in the collegiate Circuit; Saddleback College (2015-17), and CSUF (2017-19). I have been a speech and debate judge for the MS/HS circuit since 2017, and for the Collegiate Circuit since 2019. if you need clarification on a ballot, please send an email to [ jvictorino0.forensicsjudge@gmail.com ]
Ballot Style:
Where possible I add timestamps to help students pinpoint exact moments in their speech that address the issue as noted by comment. I have made it a personal philosophy to try never have less than 5 sentences on any ballot.
if I am unable to comment on evidence organization or speech writing due to speed, I tend to focus on minute analysis of nonverbal decisions.
Debate Philosophy: I can comfortably judge parli, LD, PF, SPAR & Congress, but it is not part of my competitive background. I don't have experience with policy debate as of this writing.
I LOVE it when students are able to be fully themselves and have fun in a round. I value organization uniqueness and clash during rounds. Regardless of your evidence quantity, I love it when students are able to have versatile/creative arguments but clear and concise writing. Please signpost. I am looking for how competitors set up all provided evidence in round AND Questioning to counter rebuttals (which means my biggest thing is how evidence is arranged to construct unique arguments), although I also appreciate the occasional framework discussion. I appreciate having round evidence forwarded to me via email, but since I have been in the debate world less than my speech career, I am a flow judge and RFDs will be made purely from in-round proceedings. While I consider initiative and prominence as important (especially in congress) I also do my best to recognize reasons why certain students are not as prominent in round.
I can speed read a little, but I would exercise caution especially during online tournaments. I mentioned earlier that I timestamp comments where possible, but I would sincerely appreciate if students could self time so I can focus on ballots. Professionalism is important to me, but not to the point where a student is quiet, if you have to say something offensive, please keep it within the confines of debate evidence. I like high-energy rounds, whether via morale building or aggressive pacing, but its not the end of the world if the round has calmer proceedings :)
Clarity > Speed.
Jay Villanueva - NOF
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Jesun Manuel - Stratford Milpitas
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Jovanka Ciric Vujkovic - Raynor
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Jun Yu - Raynor
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Kaitlyn Huang - Kudos Leadership
Kelly Barber - Regent Legacy
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Kevin Kunes - Regent Legacy
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Kino Farr - Kudos Leadership
Hello! Some background on me: My name is Kino Farr, and I am a UC Berkeley student majoring in Rhetoric. I did speech & debate for 6 years before transferring to university, so I'm an experienced judge, don't worry.
Onto my paradigm:
Keep the debate theory out of this - I know how it works, but I focus on points and flow.
Enjoy yourself - I want to see that you're having a good time, otherwise, it's no fun for anybody. I want everybody to have a good time, so just take a deep breath and relax your shoulders before you speak. It'll be okay and you'll do great.
I think that's it? Cool
Liang Guo - Velasquez Academy
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Maha Quadri - Kudos Leadership
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Manisha Agrawal - Stratford Milpitas
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Mason Stackman - Kudos Leadership
Megan Thompson - ModernBrain
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Mehul Jain - GSA
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Michael Liljenstam - Raynor
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Michael Eberle - Kudos Leadership
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Neil Banerji - Regent Legacy
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Prachi Rajput - NOF
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Praveen Kakade - Raynor
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Randi Hoffman - Nova 42
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Rohit Mittal - Raynor
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Ryan Yoo - NOF
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Sonali Vagholikar - GSA
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Sreekanth Setty - GSA
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Srikanth Muttumu - Stratford Milpitas
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Stephanie Broussard - ModernBrain
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Tai Du - NOF
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Tanishq Bhatnagar - Stratford FrOs
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Tulsi Vaswani - ModernBrain
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Vaishali Jambhekar - Raynor
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Vijendar Bozza - Raynor
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Xiongfei Shen - Stratford FrOs
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Yardley Rosas - NOF
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