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Vassar
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Real name: Matt Vassar
Location: Stanford, California
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Madgenius
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On that point!
Posts: 3
Real name: Abram Rose
Location: St. Louis, MO
School: Washington University |
Basically I'm a tabula rasa judge. I have no preconceived notions on which procedurals are legit or illegit. T, RVI, Aspec, Vagueness, do what you will, but be sure to justify my ballot. Saying the other person isn't topical isn't enough for me to pick you up on T; you have to argue why I should vote against non-topical cases.
Also, PLEASE weigh arguments. I'm not talking about bland, unsupported assertions of "we outweigh", but actual weighing mechanisms explaining why your impacts are more important. Chances are, you aren't going to win everything in the round, so make it easy for me to make my decision by explaining why the arguements you won win you the round.
On kritiks, be very, very careful, especially in the framework. Don't ask me to use my ballot to intervene and take a stand against X, because I'm not going to take a real world stand based upon a flow of an online high school parli round. This isn't saying that all kritiks are bad, it just means you have to be careful with your framework.
If you have any other questions, PM me.
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DarthYoshi
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On that point!
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No judge is truly tabula rasa, but hey, we try. My paradigm is very similar to Abram's in that I have no biases against most forms of argumentation--T, K, CP, disads, perms, RVIs, all of it is all cool by me. I default to a net-benefits policymaker paradigm, although I am totally fine with being placed elsewhere.
My high school debate background is entirely in policy debate, and it is my personal belief that policy cases offer the cleanest and fairest form of parli debate and can fit almost any resolution. Value/fact rounds (or anything where the weighing mechanism is "prepondrance of evidence") often beg for judge intervention, which I would like to avoid like the clap here.
On a few more specific issues...
Topicality/Res analysis: Run it if you feel like it, but proving your opponent untopical means jack squat to me. You have to demonstrate abuse if you want me to vote on T.
Counterplans: Must be competitive, either through mutual exclusivity or net benefits (read: must beat the perm). I have no preconceived biases against topical/conditional/delay counterplans.
Generic disads: Fine if you can tell a nice link story.
Kritiks: If you want me to vote for your K, give me an alternative or a voter. And unlike Abram, I dig the "use your ballot as a tool" argument, even here.
And, as always, the usual paradigm cliche: weigh impacts! (oh, and have fun and all that other good stuff...  ) Any questions, PM me.
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Idle
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On that point!
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Run whatever you want. Be sure to "flesh out" positions and not blip or simply give me taglines. I like to hear underviews and over views, for I think it makes it a million times easier to understand cases being run, especially on an online debate.
If there are Pre Fiat arguements in the round please let me know they're pre-fiat. That goes with every arguement run let me know where to put everything why Topicality is more important than case argumentation and so on. Pretty straight up paradigm here, if there are any specifics feel free to address them before any round of yours that I judge.
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