Re: Debaters as judges

[Earl Croasmun <croasmun@luna.cas.usf.edu>]

On 6 Dec 1995, Carson Brackney wrote:

> 1.  The wrong debaters end up judging?
> If I am going to have active debaters judge my teams, I would want the best
> active debaters around in the round.  Unfortunately, if you use
> student-involved panels in outrounds, it means that you are using students who
> are NOT in outrounds to judge.  In other words, teams that couldn't make it
> out of prelims (or early outs) are judging.

Something for tournament directors to think about: how about filling out 
JUNIOR or NOVICE panels with one VARSITY debater who has been eliminated?

The debater-judge would have to be selected from among volunteers, of 
course, and there would probably have to be some criterion (or tab room 
discretion) as to who gets picked.  But it would add a debater's 
perspective to the junior panel, it would get more mileage out of the 
available judging pool, and it could be very educational for the 
debater-judge to have to shift viewpoints and see a round from the 
judge's seat.

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References:

• Re: Debaters as judges
• From: "Carson Brackney" <Carson_Brackney.ESC@ELLIOTT.ES.TWSU.EDU>

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