Please click on the link below to sign up as a judge:
Saturday, 2/1/2025 @OSDA Districts at Vermillion High School
Fri, 2/7-Sat, 2/8 @Three Rivers Tournament in Pittsburg, PA
Fri, 2/14-Sat, 2/15 NSDA District Tournament at St. Ignatious School
Cleveland District Training Videos
In the Cleveland District, it is customary to offer judge trainings at the start of each tournament. Last year, the district committee assembled a series of videos with instructions on how to judge specific events as well as a video about completing online ballots. There is also a video there about judging events at on-line tournaments, but we are hoping you won't need that and that we will stay in person throughout the 2022-23 season. Click on the link that follows here for access to all of these videos.
Hawken Speech and Debate is also a member of the Ohio Speech and Debate Association (OSDA), the organization that governs all speech and debate competition throughout the state. Judging materials and guidelines can be found at the link below. Please note the specific "Judging Manual" for Speech, Debate, and Congress.
Finally, Hawken Speech and Debate belong to the National Speech and Debate Association. More training materials and sample recordings of events can be found on their sight. Click on the link below for access to these excellent training materials.
Please feel free to contact our coaching staff with any remaining questions you have after reviewing these training materials (coach info can be found above).
AND A LITTLE MORE FROM YOUR COACHES
Instructions for judging a round, from walking in the door of the room you are judging in to thanking the students at the end of the round. You can print the document and bring it with you into the round! Just click on this link:
And, for all things Debate, like terminology and different types of Debate, you can use this link: