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ecause you think it'll make me happy, chances are you're not going to debate well and it's going to be a bad round. If you know you can win with a particular argument/style, don't worry about whether it'll make me happy. Good debates make me happy. DEBATE STYLE: I vastly prefer quality to quantity in argumentation. If you can provide either empirical examples or logical justifications for your arguments I will love you and probably vote for you. Nothing is more important to me than intelligent arguments. I think this activity is being abused by people who prefer to spread their opponents than make quality intelligent arguments. I'm not against speed by any means, but I will always value strong, logical arguments over a flood of shallow assertions. SPEED: I was never a speed debater, but rarely had any problem hitting the fastest folks in the activity. I'll tell you if you're too fast for me. Also, see my above point about quality of argumentation. I will vote on (and often agree with) intelligent speed critiques, but those seem to be rare. SPECIFIC POSITIONS: 1. On procedural / theory issues, I have almost no set views and am happy to let you debate it out about what should/shouldn't be allowed in a debate. I believe in rejecting the argument, not the team. 2. Meta issues: I like competitive equity best, but I don't think you need proven abuse and will vote on competing interps. Education will almost never be a voter for me. 3. Critiques: I see them as just another argument – pre/post fiat doesn't make sense to me. Generic critiques (of the state, of capitalism) are just fine, but I often find them shallow and easily answered. If your utopian critique lacks a solvency mechanism, that's a problem. I don't understand post-modernism, so Foucault and Derrida will be hard-pressed to get my ballot. 4. Crazy arguments: I love big-hitting positions that lead to nuclear war and extinction, but I expect you to do it well. Saying "caribou are key to biodiversity which prevents extinction" is not an argument. Give me internal links and fleshed-out scenarios that make sense, and you can be as crazy as you want. Real radical stuff (wipeout, spark) tend be poor arguments, but can be effective if people aren't prepared. 5. Alternative Discourse (performance, PMC critiques of fiat, etc): simply put I tend to not understand its role in debate. For that 142
eason alone I would advise against it. I see debate as a competitive activity in which the judges choose between two mutually exclusive options – if your nontrad advocacy doesn't give me something to vote for and your opponent something to argue against, I don't know how to weigh it and probably won't vote for it. 6. I love uniqueness debates.
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Amundsen, Allen Humboldt State Univ
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Anderson, Jared Los RIos Community
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alone is not going to help you win
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Baechtel, Mark Grinnell Clg Backgro
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the flow, but the way you make argu
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Bingham, Paul Western Washington Un
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I’m fine with critiques as long a
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Relative importance of on-case argu
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Brodak, Geoffrey California State U
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Bruce, Kathleen University of the P
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objecting to). This does not meant
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debate but i also think that "trad
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I am open to both critical and perf
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Speeches should be clear and you sh
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Presentation Preferences: presentat
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change. Opposition teams, if you ar
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Coulter, Michael Grove City College
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Cress, Justin Western Kentucky Univ
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personally am getting tired of hear
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C/P’s: Can be either mutually exc
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I have a policy and parliamentary d
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Openness to critical/performative s
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approaching argument in collegiate
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to the speed question is this: if y
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seems that at least mitigating the
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Dreher, Michael Bethel University B
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Drutman, Paul University of Puget S
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Depends on the round. I generally p
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Funkhouser, Eric University of Arka
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debate out. Openness to critical/pe
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Garner, Kevin Texas Tech University
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I am NOT tabula rasa. I'm a critica
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Grace, Jeremy Rice Univ. Background
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Relative importance of presentation
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Fiat for politics: I think that fia
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See below in “cautionary notes”
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speaker points are based on good ar
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Unique consideration: I am hearing
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I will do my best to vote where the
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not believe that there is any type
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depending on the argument. But if y
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I like straight up substantive on c
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Jensen, Kris Hired Critic backgroun
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hold critical positions to a very h
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Whitsitt, Travis The Colorado Colle
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the significance of the ballot so t
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