WHITMAN 36^th Annual High School Speech Tournament

Invitation 2008, 1.0

Intro Letter	Lodging	Air Travel	Entries-Fees	Judging	Student Info & Certification
Driving to Whitman	Schedule	Policy-LD-PForum Info	IE-Parli-St. Cong. Info	Sweeps Info and Results	Judge Info & Certification

JUDGING

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, student congress, or parliamentary entries.
• You need to bring 1 judge per 2 Policy debate teams.
• You need to bring 1 judge per 4 LD entrants.
• You need to bring 1 judge per 2 Public Forum debate teams.
• A judge can judge LD to cover policy teams and vice versa. A judge cannot judge IEs to cover policy or LD entries nor vice versa.
• You can hire judges from the tournament. See the Entries-Fees for more details.

HOW DO I FIGURE MY JUDGING FEES

Debate Judging Fees:

Each Debate judge you bring covers 2 Policy Teams OR 1 Policy Team and 2 LD debaters OR 4 LD debaters OR 2 Public Forum Teams.

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.

• All IE-Parli-Student Congress Judges must judge ALL IE prelims and finals.
• All LD Judges must judge ALL LD prelims, LD octas, and LD quarters. LD judges judge semis and finals only if they have debaters still competing.
• All Policy Judges must judge ALL Policy prelims, LD round 2, Policy octas, and Policy quarters. Policy judges judge semis and finals only if they have debaters still competing.
• All Public Forum Judges must judge all Public Forum prelims AND the first elim of Public Forum. THAT MEANS PUBLIC FORUM JUDGES MUST STAY FOR THE FIRST ROUND AFTER AWARDS.

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:

• 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).
• ALL JUDGES are expected to do the judge certification where you read about our tournament rules—this usually takes 10 minutes.
• All judges are encouraged to submit a judging philosophy for LD or Policy debate.
• 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

• IF A JUDGE DOES NOT PICK UP AN IE BALLOT FOR A ROUND, THAT SCHOOL WILL BE FINED $20.
• IF A JUDGE DOES NOT PICK UP AN LD OR POLICY BALLOT FOR A ROUND, THAT SCHOOL WILL BE FINED $30.
• 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.
• 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.

ADDITIONAL JUDGING INFORMATION

• NOTE: WE NO LONGER PERMIT HS STUDENTS TO 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.
• 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.