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My school runs the biggest tournament in the state, we are trying to make it flow heavy as possible for our Champ CX and Reg CX. The tourney is at Liberty North High School Liberty, MO 64068 Jan 16-17 Please thread this below if you can judge- needs to have previously graduated the year before. AND, WE HAVE THE BEST HOSPY ROOM IN THE WORLD. Jake West Judges Chair
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Name and location: Maddie Budny, Wisconsin Contact information: madelinebudny@gmail.com Tournaments available: Any during the month of december Summary of debate experience and education: 3 years middle school, 4 years high school, current freshman at U of Pittsburgh, 1 summer camp at SDI, 1 summer RA at SDI Willing to cut cards/research? (Y) Transportation needed? (Y) Housing needed? (Y)
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Last weekend I went to my 2nd tournament. (First novice tournament, I went to my first tournament open). My partner and I got 3rd place. We won our first four rounds easily, but the 5th round was a little more difficult. To add on to our arguments, I decided to run a conditional counterplan. I explained to the judge and opposing team how a counterplan worked as did my partner at the beginning of every one of our speeches. (Long explanation first speech, couple sentences every speech after). I thought we had it in the bag. Then I shook the affirmative team's hand and went to go shake the hand of the judge. He said to me "This was my first time judging and I really didn't know what was going on." At that point my heart sank. We ended up losing the round. He put two reason on the ballot. a) Because in their last rebuttal, the aff team said that our counterplan wasn't a legitimate counterplan because it was nontopical and because of an argument about China (which was a new argument that they brought up in their last rebuttal). I really enjoy kritiks and counterplans. I have been told numerous times by my debate coach to never run a kritik in a novice tournament. She also told me if I ran a counterplan I would have to explain it in a way that would make sense to the judge. Basically, my question is this: Is there anyway I can run a kritik or counterplan at a novice tournament that would make sense to a lay judge? (College judges are a little different). Also, would a judge find it offensive if I asked them their paradigm or if they liked kritiks/counterplans? I ask this question because one of our teams at that tournament because a judge felt insulted by them.