Resi ‘22, Cal ‘26.
Speech doc + make fun of me for using yahoo + postrounding virtually: arjunp.banerjee@yahoo.com
Pretty lay LD Career (Couple of state wins, NCFLs + NSDAs [T20]); circuit parli in college (I’d describe it “extemp policy without cards” ???); won NPTE college nats in 2023.

TLDR for all events: 
Table Raizer (what spellcheck autocorrected tabula rasa to).
It is more my job to adapt to your style than vice versa, especially because even though you’d probably want another judge, I’m the bozo in the back of the room. I’m fine with any speed, but please send a speech doc if you are above 350 wpm. I default to Tech > Truth and I layer T > K, but if you win any argument that this default is wrong on the flow I’ll evaluate however you want me to. Run whatever and win on the flow and I’ll vote – I don’t really care if you K out in pf or even world schools or give a stump speech in policy instead of spreading. Just win on the flow. I make decisions based on how you weigh the impacts on each layer of the flow. This means to win you should be impacting, weighing, and layering. Shocking, I know : )

I’ve been asked to do preferences. I think they’re not that meaningful, but here:LARP - 1
K (idc if you’re King out as aff or neg) - 2
Phil - 2
T - 3
Tricks - 4 (pls don’t make me vote off these, I will… but I’ll be sad and nerf speaks :( )
Friv T - 5


Sliders bc no one reads these anyways so this is a faster way to know me
Policy-----------------X----------------------------K
Tech-X----------------------------------------------Truth
Read no cards--------------------------------X---Read all the cards
Defaults to condo good –X—------------------------ Defaults to condo bad
Speed AND Clarity -X—----------------------------- slow
Impact turn -X—----------------------------------------- No impact turn
You should extend UQ, Link, Impacts —----X—------------------- I will extend for you
Defense is sticky —--------------------------X—--------- Defense is not sticky
Saying try or die to get out of lots of defense —------------------------X—- doing smarter weighing or collapsing to something different
Collapsing —---X----—----------------------------------- Not collapsing
Your weird Deluze —----X—----------------------------- Pls no Deluze
Defaults to Spirit of Interp —-------------------------X—- Defaults to Text of Interp
Default to RVIs —-X—----------------------------------- Defaults to No RVIs
Counterplans with good Competition (read a net benefit, etc) -X—------------------------ No CPs ever
Friv T -----------------------------------------------X -- Pls just debate reality

Things I like (ballot related)


Quality > Quantity. 1 good off is better than 5 bad off. 5 good off at a fast speed might be ideal though...

When you weigh, you pick one weighing mechanism, tell me why it's the best, and then win it. Probability, magnitude, scope, etc. aren't infinity stones. You don't snap your opponents out of existence by winning all of them.



IMPACT YOUR ARGS. You tell me WHY you are winning. You should collapse to a few arguments, implicate them, and then tell me why they matter more than whatever offense your opponent has. Please do all three. Nothing irks me more "We're winning everything!" (bc ur not).


Make a cool new arg I've never heard. Especially if it's an impact turn.


You actually clash… not just random proximal defense absent any weighing.


You do something clever in cross AND THEN you bring it up in the next speech. If it’s not brought up… it didn’t happen :(your judges suffer from short term memory loss when it comes to cross)


You don’t miscut evidence. Autoloss. Evidence Ethics is serious. Do the whole stake your round on it thing, 20 L, round ends immediately, you know the drill.


Please flesh out your links. 1 Strong Link >>>> 2000 blippy links (see #1!)


I can understand you! Make your spreading clear.


You don't read meaningless ROBs for performative K's - ie: "our poetic advocacy already smashed the debate space so just vote for us for fun." This is not telling me where to vote :( No lazy alts + ROBS! Foucault and Baudrillard would be sad, don't misuse ur k...


You read the impact turn -- the more daring, the higher the speaks.




Get ur speaker points by …


Impact turn (auto 30)

Run 30 speaks theory (BUT the winning team on this layer gets auto 30, and the losing team gets auto 28.9)

Running Buddhism (auto 30)


No paraphrasing (auto 29 at a minumum)


Say “junebug”, “flapdoodle”, or “adage” (but pronounce it incorrectly (+1)


Disclose (+1)


Be good (auto 30)


Arjun FAQs so if i ever am forced to judge a speech event you know know what to talk about instead of giving your HI or whatever:


I am from maryland an, no, i do not like crabs


I was NSDA student of the year in 2022 which means very little about my debate ability


I debate parli in college. I’ve ran everything from 5G K affs to tropicality to beedev to tricks to climate change good (its not)...



I will disclose even if prohibited by a tournament if both debaters agree to hear my RFD. I’m chill with postrounding, it's good for education and makes me a better judge and y'all better debaters.