League Policies
Review the Rules
Part of your responsibility when serving as a Head Judges is to review the rules for the speech event you will be judging before the round begins. We do not ask volunteer judges from the community to do this, so you may be the only judge in the room who is familiar with the event rules.
Report Potential Rule Violations
If you notice something that seems to be a rule violation, please make a private note (not to be shared with other judges) and bring the issue to the attention of the Compliance Team at the end of the round. This may feel uncomfortable, but as a tournament community, we rely on parents in the Head Judge role to play this part in maintaining fair standards of competition. The longer a rule problem goes without being addressed, the more difficult it becomes for a competitor to correct and the more it undermines the integrity of competition.