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What to Expect When Judging a Case Competition

To help train students to "elevate business as a force for good in a rapidly changing world,” Leeds offers several extracurricular ethics competitions. To facilitate such competitions, we recruit volunteers from both our faculty and the Front Range business community. Most judges love the experience, and students regularly characterize these learning opportunities as highly impactful.

Here are two ways you can contribute as a judge:

March Debate Madness—An individual head-to-head, single elimination business ethics tournament run each Spring in late February and early March; open to both grad and undergrad students at CU. The tournament is a series of fast-paced, no-prep debates lasting 20 minutes each. The competition follows a modified Lincoln-Douglas format: each student delivers an opening argument, main case, cross-examination, and a closing statement. Judges typically evaluate 3-6 rounds per evening while keeping time, scoring each performance using a rubric, providing brief feedback to each debater, and declaring a winner. Finalists win cash awards.

Business Ethics Case Competition (BECC)—A team business ethics case competition run each Fall in late October/early November; open to both grad and undergrad students at CU. Teams of four students develop and deliver a proposal for resolving a complex business ethics challenge. Pairs of judges evaluate team’s performance across a preliminary and final round. Judges typically evaluate 4-6 teams per evening while keeping time, scoring each team using a rubric, and providing brief feedback to each team. Finalists win cash awards.

If you would like to join us as a judge, please fill out and you will be contacted.