Parent Judges are critically important for a well-run, on-time tournament.
Requirements:
1) Each student will be required to have a parent judge available to judge for the entire tournament.
One person cannot serve as the parent judge for more than one student except:
+ A parent with multiple children competing
+ The parent of team policy debater can be the designated judge for his/her child's partner
+ If you need an exception to these requirements, then please email f5stoaclub@gmail.com.
2) Each parent, or their designee, will be responsible for judging up to 4 Speech rounds (Friday) and 5 debate rounds (Saturday).
+ Tab will assume that you will be there all day to judge. If this is not the case, please email f5stoaclub@gmail.com.
+ Please do not plan on leaving campus to pick up food. We may need you to judge.
+ Debate rounds will have only one judge with the exception of the Final rounds, which will hopefully have a minimum of 3 judges.
+ Speech rounds will have a minimum of two judges each, so we will need a lot of parent judges available.
3) Please Communicate Changes to your attendance or your student's attendance or your student's events as soon as possible by emailing f5stoaclub@gmail.com.
4) Before judging, parents or their designee should attend Debate and Speech training (required at least once during the 2024-2025 competition season).
+Speech training will be offered on Friday and Saturday mornings 45 minutes prior to each Speech Round.
+Training for Parli, LD and TP debate will be held on Friday and Saturday mornings 45 minutes prior to each Speech Round.
+ The debate training is only required if you have not yet been trained in debate during the 2024-2025 competition season.
+ All training will be held in either the Judge Training Room or the Judge Deliberation Room. Both rooms are in the Gym/Fellowship Hall Building.
- Parents, it is your responsibility to be trained as early in the day as possible for all types of debate (Parliamentary, Lincoln Douglas and Team Policy) regardless of your judging preferences. We will be giving separate debate training for Lincoln Douglas and Team Policy.
- If you are called on to judge and cannot fulfill the duty, due to lack of training or neglect, your student may be disqualified from the tournament.
- You will be given a good overview of the events and the judging process at the tournament during Judge Training.
- Click on the links below to view the training materials that we will use for our Speech and Debate events. Please feel free to read them and become familiar with them.
5) Judging conflicts
- If you have a close personal relationship/friendship with, are related to, or have coached a competitor, we ask that you do not judge that individual.
- Parents, please include the names of the following in the Notes Section when registering to judge:
+ Your children's TP debate partners
+ Students that you may be traveling with
+ Students that you have listened to or helped at club.
+ Alumni judges, please be sure not to judge anyone you have coached or who was a competitor during the time you competed.
6) Complete forms
- Parents should complete the Medical and Liability Waiver located on the left hand side of this tournament website and turn it in during check-in the morning of the tournament or email it to f5stoaclub@gmail.com by 8 PM on April 24th.