Roberts,+Cayla

Round 2—Aff: Isha/Claire v. Neg: Cayla/Aya Judge: Baxter

Cayla—stand up straight while you read the 1NC, use a chair instead of the podium if its not tall enough for you—you probably want to start the 1NC with your off case positions before you answer their advantages—don’t slow down/trail off at the end of your evidence, stay strong the whole way through, you sound really good on the tags and at the beginning—good job in most of the 1nr, now try to go a little bit further with most of the evidence, extend it by saying things like “extend our blank evidence, it makes this claim and here is why that is true”—consider setting up your 2nr for some easy decisions ;and executions, do impact comparisons, talk about why they don’t get to make certain arguments, etc. so that her job is less stressful, especially when you have some extra time

6/28/12 1ac - Ran out of time on the energy advantage. The Harris card on the econ advantage is too long (takes over a minute to read). Trim it and use the time to get the energy advantage out cx of 1ac-I don’t know where the line of questions about the source of imported oil is going. The premise of the question is wrong anyway. 2ac - you read extensions to two advantages not covered by 1nc. you could spend more time on the issues raised in 1nc. you also had four minutes left. all your responses to 1nc arguments were good--you should just have more of them. after prompting by your partner, you read the pretty good “states are racist” card. You should probably call this a disad to the counterplan. No perms read to the cp--you should have at least one to test its competetiveness. cx of 2ac - “could you explain that card” doesn’t get you anywhere. You have a habit of asking that question and THEN asking a good substantive one that takes a shot at the card. Skip the “can you explain” intro and go for the substantive question. 1ar - on elections. Yay! an evidence comparison--“our evidence is a little newer”. Now say it HARD.

6/29/12 CX- cayla, you ask the same question over and over again- not sure where you were going with this? good job with continual questioning/using all your time! 2NC- try not to use so much prep before the block! you'll be needing that for your 2NR, at least give yourself two minutes. remember, aya has the whole 2NC + cross-ex to prep for the 1NR. good speaking voice, fast and clear. try to differentiate speed/tone between evidence and tags on the ptx flow, try extending your cards instead of reading more of the same. you're not really interacting with their arguments here, you didn't read any uniqueness, this is a big problem, they aren't questioning your impact or your spending cards, their question the premise of your DA- read those cards, and that's all- wasting time with more impacts, etc. be confident mama! you're smart, you know your stuff. use all your speech time, you can do it! CX- cayla, good work knowing what your evidence is saying! don't be afraid to assert yourself 2NR- cards on racism aren't really applicable to postdating...you'd have to give me a REALLY good reason. you are ignoring the perm and theory ;_; EXTEND YOUR EVIDENCE. you are just restating arguments...tell me why you win, show me why you win! be CONFIDENT! do a little impact weighing- timeframe, magnitude, probability you don't have to go for all your off in the 2NR, in fact...you shouldn't. your best bet here was elections or budget. kicking the cp would have been good because they have offense with the perm. you had some good stuff on the energy advantage, you should have pulled that through try doing an overview before your speech, tell me why you win, convince me :) YOU ARE SMART, CAPABLE, AND A WINNER- i know it, and so should you! (or at least convince me that you know it, even if you don't quite believe it yet ^_^ confidence is SO key)

7/01/12



7/2/12 2N: good questions in cross x, but make sure to take them somewhere (ask follow up questions) and respectfully cut off your opponent as to not allow them more speech time 1N: make sure to put case on the bottom--all of your offense is in the off case positions. good job in cross x staying calm and answering questions directly 2N: don't walk over your partner in cross x; "open cross x" allows you to help your partner when shes in a pinch; talking over her when she has answers isn't really necessary. 2A: you obviously have a lot of common knowledge you want to weave into your cross x questions, but try not to be so abrasive. keep your questions and answers short, direct, and make sure they serve a purpose other than trying to make the other team look dumb. Good time allocation in your 2ac--make sure your transitions between arguments is clear so you're easier to flow. You need to make sure to perm the CP. 2N/2A: very good extension of dropped args, 1NC evidence, but you need to start impact comparisons, solvency mechanism comparisons in the 2NC--it will make your 2NR easier. Also, there was no reason for you to take every flow in the 2NC--don't be afraid to split the block; it will allow you to make more args, read more cards, while also not spreading yourself out. 2A: good 2ar analytics and empirical examples, but a lot of them were new or at least not tied to evidence/args from previous aff speeches.making sure to always flow and following a more line by line structure will help these examples become more useful in a debate sense to you in the future 1N: need more organization in the 1nr--was very unclear which args applied to which positions 2N: don't feed your partner their whole speech; a few prompts are totally cool, but it just hurts the overall flow of their speech, their organization and will probably lead to lower speaker points. 1A: good analytics in a lot of places in your 1AR, but a lot of these arguments are new and not backed up by evidence or contextualized in terms of warrants from the 2AC