🗳️ The Ballot · only humans can score

Score the Debate

A real judging ballot — the human kind. Score the round, name the winner, write the reason, and give both debaters honest feedback: what they did well, and what to work on next. Built on the standard MIFA/NSDA debate ballot and the McKendry format. Everything stays on your device — nothing is uploaded. You copy, print, or email the ballot to the debaters yourself. The machine can't fill this out; only a human can.

The round
The debaters & the scoring

Score each 1–5  ·  1 needs work · 2 developing · 3 solid · 4 strong · 5 exceptional

The decision

Your ballot is one vote on the jury. The McKendry Debate is 1v1, decided by the jury — ties broken by the curator.

This is the practice ballot — open to anyone, on your device, nothing uploaded. The official league vote requires registration (one human, one vote — known, not anonymous), so the count can't be stuffed. The game is free and anonymous; to judge one, you sign in.

Feedback — both debaters get scored

The whole point: the loser hears what they did right; the winner hears what to sharpen. No one leaves with nothing. Losing here is fine — it teaches grace; the feedback is how you come back better.

Honest about the source. This ballot is built on the standard interscholastic debate ballot — the form MIFA and the NSDA use (decision, reason for decision, clash/evidence/delivery, speaker scoring) — combined with the McKendry format and one house rule: feedback for both debaters, always. It is not a verbatim copy of any one official ballot, and it keeps nothing — the form lives only in your browser until you copy, print, or email it. Only humans can score; this is the page where they do.