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WHITMAN 37th
Annual Remy Wilcox High School
Speech Tournament Invitation
2009, 1.0e |
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JUDGING DETAILS INFORMATION |
CAN I COVER WITH JUDGES IN OTHER EVENTS?
HOW YOU CAN COVER YOUR JUDGING
HOW TO FIGURE YOUR JUDGING FEES
JUDGE CERTIFICATION—REQUIRED FOR ALL JUDGES
JUDGES MUST PICK UP AND COMPLETE BALLOTS ON-TIME
EACH
SCHOOL IS REQUIRED TO SUPPLY OR PAY FOR ENOUGH JUDGES TO COVER THEIR ENTRY.
- You need to bring 1 judge per
6 individual event or student congress slots (a student enters extemp and student congress—that is
2 slots).
- You need to bring 1 judge per
2 Policy, Public Forum, or Parli debate teams.
- You need to bring 1 judge per
4 LD entrants.
Yes, with
these conditions:
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A judge can judge LD to cover Policy
teams and vice versa.
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A judge can judge Parli
to cover Public Forum teams and vice versa.
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A judge cannot judge IEs/Student Congress to cover debate entries nor vice
versa.
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A judge cannot judge Parli or Public forum to cover for LD or Policy teams.
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A judge can judge Policy or LD to
cover for Parli or Public Forum teams.
- You
can hire judges from the tournament. See Entries-Fees
for more details.
- You may meet your requirement by hiring judges.
We continue to encourage coaches to judge and we expect that
the judges you provide will pick up their ballots—when they don’t, you will
be fined.
- NOTE: HS STUDENTS MAY NOT JUDGE due to problems we have had. The
only exception to this is if we have an emergency judge shortage and the
tournament director approves.
Debate
Judging Fees:
Each Debate
judge you bring covers 2 Policy-Parli-Public Forum
Teams or 4 LDers or combination thereof.
So, let’s say you have 3 policy teams and 5 LD debaters and
you bring 2 judges such as yourself and an assistant coach to judge debate.
Your 2 judges cover 2 policy teams and 4 LD debaters. That
means, you have 1 Policy team not covered ($100 fee) and 1 LD debater not
covered ($50 fee).
So, in this situation, your Debate judging fees are $150.
IE Judging
Fees:
Each IE
Judge you bring covers 6 individual event, student congress, or parliamentary
entries.
So, let’s say you have a student in Extemp
and Student Congress; another student in Dramatic Interp;
and another student in Impromptu, Dramatic Interp,
and Expos and a student in Parliamentary Debate.
You have a total of 7 IE Entries and you bring one judge
such as yourself to judge Individual Events.
One judge covers 6 IE Entries. So, you have one IE Slot not
covered ($10 fee).
So, in this situation, your IE judging fees are $10.
EACH JUDGE MUST JUDGE ALL
ROUNDS for the events they signup
for until awards on Saturday UNLESS YOU PAY FOR ROUNDS OFF.
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All IE- Judges must judge ALL IE Prelims and Finals.
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All Student Congress Judges must
judge the two regular sessions. Finals judges handled by tab staff.
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LD AND POLICY JUDGES: Judge ALL Prelims, Octas, and Quarters. Judge semis and finals only if they
have debaters still competing.
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PARLI AND PUBLIC FORUM JUDGES: Judge
ALL Prelims and Quarters. Judge semis and finals only if they have debaters
still competing.
All judges
in Policy Debate need to be able to flow competently.
All judges who
have judged at 5 or fewer tournaments—need to do Judge Training AND SHOULD
JUDGE NOVICE AND JUNIOR DIVISION ONLY.
Please
train and talk with your judges. Have them watch practice debates. Have them
fill out example ballots.
Please—the NUMBER ONE COMPLAINT WE GET IS ABOUT
JUDGES. HELP US MAKE THIS A GREAT TOURNAMENT.
JUDGING
CERTIFICATION
At our tournament, we take judging seriously. Students
and coaches have worked hard to prepare the best speeches and arguments and we
want judges to provide the best feedback possible. To that end, we have established
a judge certification process. Here is how it works:
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ALL NEW JUDGES (5 or fewer tournaments) MUST complete
the online training. This includes explanations of how to judge, rules and
descriptions of events, example ballots, and then a short video that you
actually judge and we provide feedback. It usually takes 30 minutes to complete
(more if you judge more than 1 event).
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ALL JUDGES are
expected to do the judge certification where you read about our tournament
rules—this usually takes 10 minutes.
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All judges are encouraged to submit a judging
philosophy for LD or Policy debate.
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Judges who wish to judge championship policy or LD are
required to:
1) submit a judging philosophy
2) have two years of experience (coaching debate or actual debating)
3) be either a) one year out from debating in high school or b) are debating in
college.
FOR ALL JUDGES: Click here to go to Judge
Certification
JUDGES MUST PICKUP BALLOTS AND BE
ON-TIME
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IF A JUDGE DOES NOT PICK UP AN IE BALLOT FOR A ROUND,
THAT SCHOOL WILL BE FINED $20.
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IF A JUDGE DOES NOT PICK UP AN LD OR POLICY BALLOT FOR
A ROUND, THAT SCHOOL WILL BE FINED $30.
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Judges may reveal decisions but they must turn in
their ballots ON-TIME. LATE BALLOTS WILL LEAD TO SCHOOLS BEING FINED $10 PER 15
MINUTES LATE.
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Judges whose ballots were late for reasons beyond
their control need to see Jim Hanson or the fines will be assessed.
JUDGE PREFERENCING IN CHAMP POLICY
AND LD
Each Champ division Policy debate team and LD debater
will be able to Preference Judges on the Champ Judge Certified List.
A Judge Preference Sheet will be sent to coaches by
Wednesday morning the week of the tournament; it needs to be returned by
Wednesday night to ensure it will take effect in round 1.
If, for
some reason, you receive a judge that you struck, immediately report it to the
ballot table and we will get it corrected.
View Policy Judge Philosophies
(Click the View on the left to read the full text of
their philosophy; Remember, there are multiple pages of entries)
(Click the View on the left to read the full text of
their philosophy; Remember, there are multiple pages of entries)