Anderson+Clarice,+Mary

6/26/12

1AC: Harris card is too long; not enough time to get to the energy advantage. CX of 1AC: What were you trying to get? Don’t be asking questions just to ask questions and fill time. 2NC: Habit of saying “basically” as a speech tic. 1NR: Falling back to the habit of addressing the other team, not the judge. NOTES (after reviewing flow) The round could use a T-Substantial argument to pin down the Aff. As the round presented, the Aff was able to get out of disads by emphasizing how small the plan was. A T-Substantial argument would set up an interesting dilemma that Neg could exploit in the block. With only the econ advantage in play for the aff, and only the budget DA in play for the neg, both teams were going for the same middle and terminal impacts--economic collapse and subsequent war. Therefore, the focus of the arguments should have been on the mechanics of the link and the internal link to the disad impacts and plan impacts. I told everyone to use plain paper rather than notebook paper for flowing

Round 2—Aff: Isha/Claire v. Neg: Cayla/Aya Judge: Baxter Claire—work on the fluency of your reading, focus hard on the backwards and “A” drills—also stand up straight and make sure your papers are close enough to your face that you don’t have to bed down and squint to make the out—read a text to your permutation—try to indicate when you move between arguments (and, next, 2, etc.)—when you get caught on a name just do your best and go on, its not gonna make a difference and you call more attention to the fact that it is confusing you when you struggle thu it—really good job sounding confident in your analytical arguments—same thing with the 2ar as the 2nr, make sure you paint a picture of what you want the world to look like, talk a lot about ur cae in comparison with their advocacy (alt in the case)

6/30 Round 4 - Don’t stand behind Sam during cross-x it makes it awkward for Sam to know who to look at while answering questions - Good job asking about the federal key warrants especially if you are running the 50 states cp - Flowing- flow the long way- no the short way - Don’t take 1NC prep- you should already be ready - Read more off-case, you have enough time! - You need to be able to explain the card to your opponent- don’t just let her push you around - You should put an overview on top of the budget DA - And the same goes for you when answering the 2AC arguments you need to refer to arguments as 2AC 1—They say…. 2AC 2- They say…. – don’t just read more cards - You should read at face level instead of being hunched over it makes it hard for you to read fast - You do a good job in your 2NR extending cards but I NEED TO HEAR warrants- why is the budget DA unique… I don’t know yet because you haven’t told me - You tell me that it outweighs the aff but you need to tell me how and why it outweighs, MAGNITUTDE, TIMEFRAME, and PROBABILTIY

7/1/12 Judge: Lucas Smith (lucaswbsmith@gmail.com) General Comments: Everybody in this round needs to work on a) flowing and b) clash. I never really felt like at any point anyone had a good flow of the round. Given how green you all are its o.k. But it is something you are going to have to work on. Clash was another problem. Perhaps this is a flowing problem, but its really important that you compare and weigh each argument. What does it matter if states have better local knowledge? Who cares about waste? Etc. AFF: I think its worth thinking about re-assessing what advantages you read in the 1AC. It seems the equality advantage is the most insulated from the states CP. Consider just reading the “solves the econ” cards as an internal link turn to the budget disad in the 2AC. OR, given what your 1AC was, read part of the equality adv as an add-on against the CP. Also, make sure you all the cards are highlighted and underlined before the round. Writing 2AC extensions for each card in the 1AC will be helpful. That way you can focus on comparing the arguments versus trying to figure out what your argument was . 7/2/12
 * note on highlighting: the point of highlighting is to read less than the underline. It defeats the purpose to just highlight the underlined parts of the card.

Speaking drills would be a major way to improve the coherence of your argumentation. Make sure you are reading all cards clearly, and are taking special care to provide correct pronunciations of all of the words you are using. Also, make sure you understand the substance behind the blocks you are reading. If you are negating and choose to run a capitalism K, you definitely need to be able to answer a cx question that is "What is capitalism". Take special care to make sure that the story you are building fits together and that you don't have any internal contradictions. The K you read tells us that we want an economic collapse, but then the blocks you are reading to the AFF's econ advantage says that spending on a mass transit system is wasteful and that is bad. Avoid turning yourself as issues like this are typically a round-decider. Finally, make sure to have your cards cut; reading the full text of the cards is wasting a lot of time and jumbling you up. Highlight only the critical elements of each card.

7/3/12 CX Questions—you ask most questions as two parts: does your Aff do X? How does it do this? If you already have the follow up ready, just begin with that—so, instead, ask how does transportation solve global warming? CX 2ac—you try to set up a timeframe argument here, but don’t argue with aff—just let them say their timeframe, and make the argument in the 2NC 1NC—Make sure to name each off case argument—don’t just begin with the tag of the uniqueness card When stumbling over a word/name, don’t spend lots of time trying to figure out how to pronounce it Lots of confidence when analyzing their evidence, but don’t let it take away too much time—you seem very excited, but you want to make as many arguments at first as possible, and then be more assertive about those arguments later I think just reading the DA and case arguments in this case is probably the right strategy—you want to make sure you have a diverse mix of offense and defense and force the aff to defend their advantages One tip when debating maverick—use cross-x time to prep—ask them questions you need to know first, and then let them talk about X while you are prepping 2NC Get in the habit of saying “2ac 1—NU—XYZ” “2AC 2—link turn—XYZ” etc. It makes you look like a better speaker, but also helps keep everyone’s flows much cleaner When extending the DA, remember that the aff also agrees that the economy is good—so rather than read more impact arguments, differentiate between the link—why is deficit spending more important than say increasing job numbers, competitiveness, etc—make it a debate about the internal links OK Great Job at end—going back to 1NC arguments, citing them by name, and extending the warrant to the piece of evidence, and even making an explicit comparison between economy internals—this is what you want to do throughout the debate 2NR Even though you began with “I suck at overviews” camp is the time to get better at them—see above about how to make an overview in this debate—crystallize the debate for the judge Don’t make go down, others don’t help You extend a bunch of cards, which you want to do, but explain its significance and don’t just reread the tag—ie, don’t extend every card, but only those important for your ability to win Focus the debate See above—your impact calculus is misplaced—if you both agree on the impact, it doesn’t make sense to talk about why your impact is faster, bigger, etc. think about why your internals to the economy are bigger

7/06
Round 4 Camp Tournament



7/10/12 Clarice: Good cross applications in your 2NC, they were easy to follow. You need to start impact calculus earlier in the debate, though. Because the aff is pretty far ahead on case, it is important to keep the elections disad at the forefront so you can leverage prolif against the econ and environment advantages of the aff. You did a good job making analytic arguments on the cp, but make sure to attach them to extensions of evidence from the 1NC.