League Policies
Two most important components to completing a speech ballot.
- Ranking competitors from first to last
- Typing written feedback comments
You have the flexibility to rank the students according to whatever you feel is most important and/or compelling. Our ballot system will suggest ranks based on equal weighting of the category scores you enter in the ballot rubric or allow you to rank the students first and then enter scores in the rubric. Please note that ranking determines overall placings in the tournament, not the rubric category scores.
Students truly appreciate any notes you are willing to offer regarding how what you appreciated and what they could improve. We cannot overstate the value of your kind encouragement and constructive feedback.
Other things to know about completing speech ballots.
- Competitors will announce their speech times, and you will need to record the time and mark the Timer Issue box if instructed to do so by the Head Judge.
- If your ballots have a checkbox to indicate that a student used a script, you will want to check it if they used one.
- At the end of the round, you will want to confirm your ranking (placings) for students.
- Submitted rankings are final, and the rankings (not category scores) determine placing in the tournament.
- Our competitors will receive your feedback on their ballots at the end of the tournament.
Our ballots are fairly intuitive, but if you would like to see the full process for completing a speech ballot, you are welcome to look at ballot samples for any event or watch our video demo.