2025 Harvard-Westlake RR HS Policy Round 1: Loyola RV vs Peninsula SU

Jan 17, 20250.3k

DECISION: NEG (2-0) JUDGES: Ana Bittner and Taylor Tsan The 1AC was 6 minutes of Heg Good. The rest was a polite, yet at times poignant, discussion among gentlemen about the merits and/or existence of imperialism

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Judges:Flow judge

Flow judgeA technical, experienced circuit judge who votes on the flow: dropped arguments are true, extensions need warrants, and weighing decides close rounds.Lay judgeA parent or community judge with no debate background who votes for the clearer, more persuasive side and discounts jargon, speed and technical drops.PolicymakerA judge who compares the world of the plan to the status quo or a competitive alternative and votes on net benefits and comparative risk.Critique-friendlyA judge open to framework, critiques and performance, who weighs the debaters' representations and the role of the ballot before the policy consequences.Theory-firstA judge who resolves procedurals first under competing interpretations and rewards clean shell execution; theory needs no proven abuse.TraditionalA traditional judge who wants a clear value and criterion (or clear weighing in PF) and clash on the resolution, and is skeptical of plans, spreading and tricks.

What else could the 1AC have done? Claude drafts 3 alternative responses and predicts how a flow judge would vote after each, next to the speech as it was given.

Flow judge: A technical, experienced circuit judge who votes on the flow: dropped arguments are true, extensions need warrants, and weighing decides close rounds.

Simulated responses and ballots are Claude's predictions from a rough transcript, not real results. Each run is a new AI request.

2025 Harvard-Westlake RR HS Policy Round 1: Loyola RV vs Peninsula SU

Jan 17, 20250.3k

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Play to where each speech begins and press Mark start, or let Detect speeches find them all — the timeline, the playing marker and each speech's captions follow.

Judges:Flow judge

What else could the 1AC have done? Claude drafts 3 alternative responses and predicts how a flow judge would vote after each, next to the speech as it was given.

Flow judge: A technical, experienced circuit judge who votes on the flow: dropped arguments are true, extensions need warrants, and weighing decides close rounds.

Simulated responses and ballots are Claude's predictions from a rough transcript, not real results. Each run is a new AI request.


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