I run an NSDA District, Citron Online www.citrononline.org, for students that can't compete in the Sabbath. As part of the district we run 20+ tournaments per year online and open to entire country. I am curious about your experience as a debater and judging. Particularly I would like to understand how often as a debater you felt you had a) biased judges to extent that they could not flow all arguments and b) situations like you describe of opponents doing OPPO research outside the round. We are setting guidelines for our district and want to make sure we include only open minded judges and put in rules that prevent such behavior.
Oppo research was pretty rare--only happened once to me, though I think it happens more in college. Judges explicitly being unwilling to vote for particular arguments is rare, but having a broadly biased way in which they view the world is much more common (see here for more explanation https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-structure-of-social-justice-revolutions)
I run an NSDA District, Citron Online www.citrononline.org, for students that can't compete in the Sabbath. As part of the district we run 20+ tournaments per year online and open to entire country. I am curious about your experience as a debater and judging. Particularly I would like to understand how often as a debater you felt you had a) biased judges to extent that they could not flow all arguments and b) situations like you describe of opponents doing OPPO research outside the round. We are setting guidelines for our district and want to make sure we include only open minded judges and put in rules that prevent such behavior.
Oppo research was pretty rare--only happened once to me, though I think it happens more in college. Judges explicitly being unwilling to vote for particular arguments is rare, but having a broadly biased way in which they view the world is much more common (see here for more explanation https://benthams.substack.com/p/the-structure-of-social-justice-revolutions)