Judges,
Thank you so much for volunteering to give the Juniors/Junior Varsity, ages 6-12, and Senior Varsity, ages 12-18, from across the US your feedback on their speeches and debates! They value the content you provide for them on their ballots, studying them to strengthen and improve their presentations!
The SV event guidelines are much more stringent than those for judging our JV/Junior students. We want our JV/Junior students to enjoy the process of making their speech presentations before strangers as they grow in confidence, overcoming any fear of public speaking so they mature to be accomplished speakers.
At the Ambassador Tournament, we will provide on-site training / orientation appropriate for both our SV and our JV/Junior events.
Here is specific information for our Senior Varsity Judges. Look these over to familiarize yourself with the Senior Varsity events sponsored by Stoa, our National Speech and Debate League. This information will also be shared with you in our Speech and Debate Judge Orientation.
Stoa Speech Events Overview:
2023-2024 Speech Categories
The Speech Orientation Power Point Slides:
Speech Judge Orientation
The Debate Orientation PowerPoint Slides:
The Lincoln Douglas, Team Policy & Parli Debate PDF formatted Orientation Slides are available for you at the links below. Click on them and your computer will download the slides for you to scroll through.
Lincoln-Douglas Value Debate Orientation
Team Policy Debate Judge Orientation
Parli Debate Judge Orientation
Thank you again for judging and contributing to the lives of these great young people! We couldn't have a tournament without you, and certainly not a fair and smoothly running one!