Charlie Tierney
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Background
I just concluded my second season on the UC Davis parliamentary debate team. During my time at UC Davis I have begun judging high school debate tournaments. Prior to that I spent 3 years doing parli at El Dorado HS.
Approach to judging
I try to come into the rounds as a blank slate. It is your job as debaters to tell me what matters within the context of the round. I will do my best to avoid any form of intervention and will instead vote solely based on my flow. Tell me how to weigh the round and why you are winning under your criteria. If you do not weigh your arguments against your opponents arguments in the round it puts me in an awkward position where I am forced to intervene at some level. If neither team weighs their arguments I will try to use what i see as the most intuitive weighing method for the round (for example, magnitude multiplied by probability) so as to decrease my intervention.
Argument preferences
I will hear any argument. It is your responsibility to tell me why and how your arguments functions in the round. If you don’t like a position the other team is running tell me why it is bad and why your alternative is better. If you run a procedural tell me where it functions in the round (a-priori or weighed against impacts?). Same goes for critical arguments, make sure to assign some framework to them so I understand how they function against other arguments in the round.
Presentation preferences
Your presentation will not effect who garners the ballot. As long as I can understand the words you are saying I will flow them. I will, however, award speaker points based on your usage of strategy, your presentation of compelling warranted arguments and the strength of your positions in round. I prefer slower well thought out arguments to blipped out speedy arguments (this is not to say I dislike speed, simply that I prefer quality arguments over a great quantity of inferior arguments). I am used to teams spreading and can flow teams that do spread. If I stop flowing you are going to fast. I have no preference on speed as long as the speeches are understandable, just make sure the things you are saying are important to the round.
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