Johnson,+Michael

Experience: I was a policy debater for 4 years in high school. I debated two years for FSCC and two years for MoSo. I have been the assistant debate/forensics coach at Fort Scott High School for 5 years.

I will listen to just about any kind of arguments as long as they are justified. I will get in to more details in specifics. The debate round is about you guys not me do what you like.

T and procedurals- I like these arguments but just because I say that doesn't mean you have to run them to win a round as the negative. I like the debate on procedurals to be fleshed out from top to bottom and explained why these positions are voters in the round. Procedurals for me are evaluated just like disads, by that I mean that I will look to the violation/interpretation as a link argument. Extra T and Effects T are IVIs for me you don't need to win the entire T to win Xtra/FX T. Xtra T and FX T still need standards and voters to be won in order to win them though. I will vote on potential abuse as long as it is explained what ground is lost. I like in round abuse but I realize the neg only has two speeches. T is not a timesuck it is a test. Aff you don't have to win all of your advs the neg doesn't have to go for all of their arguments in the NR.

CPs- I only have one thing to evaluate in NFA on CPs and thats the neg has to win (its not topical). If it passes that I look to the NB to see if the CP is competitive. I like theory as well as disads and solvency arguments to CPs. The way I evaluate how I vote on a CP is how the round proceeds. CPs like Affs have the burden of solvency which I believe is the negatives job to prove. About any type of NB is acceptable to me on CPs. The perm debate is very important. Affs tell me if you are advocating the perm or not. CPs are conditional unless you specify differently in the NC.

Disads- I like almost every disad I have ever heard. Please don't be affraid to run terminal MPX in front of me. The link debate is important to me and I accept generic links as long as you explain logically as the negative how it links to the 1AC. Please update the Uniqueness :) Affs if you don't have evidence against a DA do be afraid of still making offense by giving me logical turns or no internal link arguments.

Kritiks- I never was a K debater but I have voted for them and against them. I think it is hard to flesh out a K in the time allowed in a NFA LD round. YOU HAVE TO WIN THE ALT AND THE FRAMEWORK!!

On Case- I like offense and defense on the solvency and advantages. I have never voted on I-bombs, you would literally have to have a piece of evidence that says plan passed for me to vote on Inh. Affs I will vote on abuse arguments with abusive plan spikes, fiat doesn't get you out of the politcs DA... Neg turns are your best friends :) Evidence: I am all about Quality over Quant. I will evaluate only evidence read in the round. Time allocation is a very important thing in NFA LD don't get to an important issue and start reading a card and miss the warrant in the evidence that is devastating. Speed I have no problems and if I do I will let you know. I don't like RVI's. Please do impact calc for me it makes my job a lot easier. Sign post and number your arguments please tell me where to flow your args. Feel free to ask me to read evidence in the round if you think it is important, I will read it. Feel free to ask me any other questions that are unclear to you. I would rather you ask then not know. Plus I am sure I am leaving something out. I don't care for full cites I think there are more important things to debate about. Give me an underview and an overview please. Tell me why you are winning. The more work you do the less i have to do, it makes your job a lot easier to tell me why your are winning rather than just relying on me to clean up a sloppy round.

I tend to default policy maker but feel free to put me in another paradigm I welcome it. Most importantly have fun please it makes it more enjoyable to watch I can only take so much crabby behavior before I get crabby too, and I don't like to be crabby, life is too much fun.