Dear Debate Community,
We recognize that running a program that consists of competitors attending different schools from across the United States presents significant logistic and competitive hurdles for tournament directors and our colleagues. The purpose of this webpage is to clearly articulate relevant Club Team policies.
We expect our coaches and students to maintain high standards of conduct at tournaments and respect their competitors and judges. Each student has full-text linked our Code of Conduct and Harassment/Bullying policies on their wiki entries. You can additionally access the full-text of our policy here and report incidents here.
All DebateDrills students will open-source disclose constructive positions and provide round reports after debates. Students may occasionally forget due to post-round logistics and human error (e.g. short turnaround time for next debate, flight to catch). If this happens, please email us at support@debatedrills.com and we will troubleshoot.
Pre-round, we will disclose the affirmative 30 minutes before the debate and ask our colleagues to do the same. If it is a new aff (meaning it has not been read by anyone on DebateDrills), we will say “new aff” and will not disclose any portion of the affirmative. You can read the full-text of our policy here.
When tournaments have an entourage rule, we will ensure all DebateDrills coaches are registered as an entourage for our top debater(s). Our students are required to avoid using their parents or other lay judges to fulfill judging requirements barring exceptional circumstances. You can read the full-text of our policy here.
As part of our commitment to transparency, we will err on the side of caution to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. This document contains the official DebateDrills MJP and conflict guidelines we require students to abide by at any given tournament. It also contains a roster of students on our team. While we will strive to check every single conflict to ensure that we are constantly leading the charge in best practices, it is possible we will occasionally make mistakes. If you have any concerns about who is judging our students at any time, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Warmly,
DebateDrills Leadership
support@debatedrills.com
“I think the real test should be this and the question is a simple one. Did you or persons with whom work closely have a direct and/or regular influence on or presence with the preparation, development, articulation, and presentation of arguments for this competitor for this tournament or tournaments within this competitive season… that they may use for this tournament? If the answer to that question is "yes," then you need to conflict yourself from judging those competitors. If you did not do those things, then there should be no conflict.”
- Dave Houston, April 22nd, 2018
In the spirit of this email sent before the 2018 Tournament of Champions:
Every DebateDrills student will be required to conflict an independent coach any DebateDrills teammate brings to any given tournament. By way of example, if Student A has Person X coaching them privately in addition to the DebateDrills Coaching Staff, every other student at the tournament must conflict Person X at said tournament. For further clarity, if DebateDrills Club Team Member Rex Evans (Santa Monica RE ’19) hires coach Cameron Baghai privately in addition to the DebateDrills Club Team Coaching staff, and, Rex decides to bring Cameron to Tournament Y, all other DebateDrills students at Tournament Y must conflict Cameron Baghai, regardless of any previous affiliation with Cameron.
If any DebateDrills student hires a judge at any given tournament solely to fulfill the tournament’s judging obligation requirement, other students attending said tournament may not conflict said judge given that the judge isn’t coaching the student in question. By way of example, if DebateDrills Club Team Student Tej Gedela (Enloe TG ’19) hires Tara Norris to fulfill a judging obligation at Tournament Z, no other DebateDrills student attending Tournament Z may conflict Tara Norris.
All previous DebateDrills Club Team Coaches will be conflicted from judging DebateDrills students’ until they no longer have a relationship to any student on this year’s roster. By way of example, if Paras Kumar worked on the Club Team from 2016-2018, Paras may only judge students affiliated with DebateDrills after there are no students on DebateDrills’ current roster from Paras’ tenure with DebateDrills.
All previous DebateDrills students who graduate from our Club Team and then judge on the national circuit will be conflicted from judging DebateDrills’ students they were teammates with.
Name
School Code
Jasmine Shao
Northwood JS
Aarkan Singhal
Homestead High School
Aayush Nitesh Gandhi
Dublin High AG
Abhinav Kasturi
Los Altos AK
Alyson Granchi
Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Amanda Yu
Stanford OHS AY
Amelie Calamia
Lake Washington AC
Amy Jia
Sage Hill AJ
Anjani Sharma
West Shore AS
Anya Pathak
Edgemont Junior-Senior AP
Arushi Dinker
Mission San Jose AD
Cayden Tan
Horace Mann School
Chloe Zhou
Germantown Academy CZ
Christian Jeng
Sonora CJ
Christopher Liu
Valley Christian CL
Claire Li
Hamilton High school- CL
Claire Sun
Memorial Claire Sun
Daisy Maxwell
Washington-Liberty DM
Daniel Baek
Phillips Academy Andover
Daniel Park
King DP
Daniel Zheng
Stuyvesant DZ
Ella Min
Amador Valley High School EM
Esha Verma
Saratoga EV
Ethan Wu
Mountain Lakes EW
Felicity Zhang
Concord Carlisle FZ
Hannah Luo
BASIS Chandler High School HL
Jason Jiang
La Salle JJ
Katherine Chen
Amador Valley High School KC
Keshav Rastogi
Monta Vista KR
Lasya Kurusetty
Arizona College Prep High School LK
Lavanya Mani
Clayton LM
Maxwell Mao
Millburn MM
Neel Kannambadi
Acton-Boxborough NK
Neil Kumar
Foothill High School
Nishanth Gaddam
Charlotte Latin NG
Salma Noor Gheith
Horace Greeley SM
Samuel Zhang
Coral Reef Senior High School SZ
Shane Masterson
Palisades Charter SM
Shiwen Huang
Lakeside SH
Sophia Dong
Lovejoy SD
Sophia Song
Germantown Academy
Sophie O'Brien
Hunter SO
Thrisha Sukesh
Trinity Valley School TS
Timothy Jiang
Brophy TJ
Vivian Wiemelt
Meadow Glen Academy
William Li
Bellevue High
Yiyi Sun
Brophy College Preparatory (Brophy YS)
Conflict Name
Ava Manaker
Viren Mehta
Andrew Gong
Aerin Engelstad
Adam Mimou
Jacob Smith
Nikki Raman
Lauren Chin
Arnav Garg
Nathan Liu
Elizabeth Su
Iris Chen
Alyssa Sawyer
Vishnu Nataraja
Aadit Walia
Max Perin
Tom Evnen
Ben Waldman
Christian Han
Advay Chandra
Jonathan Jeong
Pranav Kaginele
Parker Traxler
Sarah Li
Samantha McLoughlin
Tej Gedela
Bea Culligan
David Asafu-Adjaye
Jackson Hanna
Amrita Chakladar
Lucas Clarke
Raffi Piliero
Paras Kumar