Tournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Salazar, Davd
Standards:
1~ Level Playing Field – big schools can go around and collect flows but independents are left in the dark so round reports are key for them to prep- they give you an idea of overall what layers debaters like going for so you can best prepare your strategy against them. Accessibility first and independent voter – it's an impact multiplier.
2~ Strategy Education – round reports help novices understand the context in which positions are read by good debaters and help with brainstorming potential 1NCs vs affs – helps compensate for kids who can't afford coaches to prep out affs.
Zhang 1/22 Peter Zhang, 1-22-2021, "Disclosure in Numbers by Peter Zhang," Briefly, https://www.vbriefly.com/2021/01/22/disclosure-in-numbers-by-peter-zhang/?fbclid=IwAR0q5uCO74vLhYipH8QEO0PrLhY7CiIOwlEJUWEmnIVdqCmlM-jC4A-8rk0 LEX JB
I scraped the wikis (during off-hours) of every season starting 2014
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open source has grown consistently since 2016 and now is at almost 90.
Data collection outweighs on norming – a) allows us to be accurate with our findings to see which norms are good and which norms are aren't b) data collection allows us to see if norming is working – means it comes lexically prior to any shells read in this round
~6~ Fairness is a voter because debate is a game governed by rules and you can't tell who actually won if the layer was skewed.