In varsity policy and LD judges must have substantial experience, either competing, judging the event at invitationals, or both, and thus must be appropriate to judge a national circuit style of debate. This means that the judge should either be an active coach of varsity level competitors in the debate event they will be judging, or should have competed somewhat recently at a high varsity level at major invitationals. Every varsity policy and varsity LD judge is required to post a complete and accurate paradigm on the Judge Philosophies Wiki (
http://judgephilosophies.wikispaces.com) in advance of the tournament. If you don't have a valid philosophy posted in time, we won't be able to hire you, no matter how qualified you may otherwise may be, due to the problems that this causes for teams when completing preference sheets.