Aggarwal,+Isha

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 Isha—good work reading the 1AC, you can be a little louder, but you have a decent level of confidence and speed for someone just starting out—give an order to start out the 1ar, what positions are you gonna go through so I can put my flows in order—explain the impacts and the arguments that they dropped, like on the racism advantage—the primary goal of the 1AR is the extension of the 2AC arguments—use the phrase “extend the 2AC ” as much as you can

Round 4-- 6/30

- Don’t take 1NC prep- you should already be ready and know what you want to run - In the order of the 1NC you don’t need to tell me your order of off-case… all you needed to say was one off-case you didn’t need to tell me it was budget, it can be a surprise J - Read more off-case, you have enough time! - Separate your tags from your cards by using transitions like NEXT or AND - Stand up by your opponent during cross-x don’t be behind her even it requires you to move to the front - GREAT 1NR!!!! You did a great job extending and explaining your evidence but I want you to do more work on explaining how this evidence means the aff doesn’t solve for their advantages- example of people will use their cars

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
 * 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.

7/06
Round 4 Camp Tournament