Palmer,+Grace

ROUND VI Santana (A) v. Gracetta (N) Judge: Weber (weberdebate@gmail.com for questions)

CX of 1AC: Good job forcing your opponent to show warrants for her claims (and setting up your 1NC), but don't let her run away with your CX. Feel free to politely cut her off if the answers turn into a second speech. Also, work on hiding the intent of your questions a bit more--don't telegraph to your opponents what you're running. Ask questions specific to their evidence and as they answer, sneak in your setups. Yes/no, "...right?" and other closed-ended questions will help you do this, too.

2NC: You're really starting to get how to do warrant analysis ("fed checks ethnic conflict," "fed's modeled," etc.) but I want you to go into more depth. HOW does the federal balance check these things? Good job working in your brink analysis. Excellent work covering states/fed net benefits scenario--this year I want you to practice extending specific evidence and warrants across when you do this, though. Also, awesome job on comparative analysis; your "they said...but our evidence shows" comparisons are very polished. Yep--organization (work on your flow--and then go line-by-line--to help keep things in order).

2NR: Interesting kick and strategic choice here on elections; why are you keeping the CP? Dropping the perms in 1AR is pretty tough to win back. I probably would have ordered this spending, fed, impact calc and go deep on each. Did your flow improve since the last speech? Your by-line has gotten much better. I like your 2NR style--you get the point of this speech and do a great job with overviews and analytics. Make sure your extending more evidence and warrants across, though.

tourney rd 1 Edstrom

1a grace- need to highlight the first card. good 1AC structure. still not sure what the “knowledge economy” is. sounds awful. don’t ask about an alt they didn’t read- you can probably use that against them in the 2AC. too much time spent answering defense. repetitive- you have to cover! move on move on move on move on. not a lot of offense or impact argumentation in the 1AR, although you do get to your DA to the alt at the end of your speech. you are very capable at this and obviously understand argumentative structure. the next step should be learning how to present that efficiently. also, keep in mind that this tradeoff DA is not that good, and there are probably ways out of it in the 2AR if etta can spin ur econ advantage (even though there wasn’t a whole lot in the 1ar on this issue…we shall see).

7/06
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