The Yale tournament seeks each year to hire as many qualified judges as possible, in all areas (Debate, Speech, and Congress). If you have experience in forensics and are qualified in one of these areas, Yale may wish to hire you to judge for us.If you judge for the full weekend, we will house you in New Haven. For both full weekend and one-day judges, we will pay you the tournament rate for a hired judge for your services, as well as compensating you for reasonable travel expenses.

Sunday only judges in Speech are especially welcome. Debate hired judges must be available for the double-octos round on Saturday night. Speech hired judges must be avaiable for all elim rounds on Sunday

Hired judges are required to be available for every round in the period they are hired; ordinarily this means you must be available for the entire tournament day. The Tournament is unlikely to need judges for only a portion of a given day.

Yale welcomes recent former competitors, coaches not attending the tournament, and anyone else with experience in forensics.

If you would like to find out more information about judging the Yale tournament, please sign up by emailing us at yale at tabroom.com.