Judge Philosophies
Aayush Bajpai - Emerson College
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Agastya Govind - UIUC
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Amie Clarke - GCU
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August Fowle - Emerson College
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Braelyn Spitler - Emerson College
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Camille Dolce - UIUC
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I'm a junior at UIUC and the debate chair of Illini Global Forensics and am judging IPDA this tournament. My background is in NPDA and LD. While I consider myself a more technical debater, I don't think that a lot of those techniques should be used in IPDA.
In regards to delivery, I think as long as you aren't spreading or being condescending/offensive/racist/sexist/etc you'll be fine with me. The content and analysis in your speeches matters a lot more to me than how expressive and persuasive of a speaker you may be.
PLEASE have clash. The round is very boring without it and hard to judge. If your opponent isn't responding to your responses/refutations and you point that out, that matters a lot more to me than whoever has the better delivery. I want to be judging based on who comes in with the better arguments and responses to arguments.
I'm okay with theory/topicality arguments in IPDA but they need to have a much stronger and obvious warrant/justification than what is typical in other debate events. I think it's possible to run T w/o jargon and more technical terminology, it just only works when the warrant for it is a lot more obvious.
Christopher O'Brien - UIUC
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Deion Hawkins - Emerson College
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Ethan White - GCU
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George Rogers - UIUC
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Greg Gorham - GCU
Griffin Descant - UIUC
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Hephzibah Blessing - UIUC
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Jack Degnan - Emerson College
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Jacob Blumenthal - Emerson College
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Jason Edgar - Morton College
Make Logical, Rational Arguments and Speak with Conviction. Oh, and you can't spell debate with T.
Jenna Dewji - Emerson College
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Kara Kozinski - Mizzou
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Sara Hathaway - Emerson College
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Saurav Meena - UIUC
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Tommy James - UIUC
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