Ahmed,+Yassin

Round 5—7/1/2012—Dua/Yassin Aff v. Soniya/Chetana Neg (Judge: Baxter)

Yassin—use the phrase “extend the 2AC___” (perm for instance) and then extending the argument, warranting it, impacting it, etc.—be more efficient in terms of your wording, try to drop the alrights and the other meta-wordings, just say the things that you want to say about the arugmetns you are making, move slower if you need to and think about it like any other actual speech—kick out should be efficient and make sure that you are getting out of any offense they have there—impacting racism is a good idea, make sure you do use your evidence, but also talk about the impacts that are outside of that situation, describe them, good job giving examples etc.—obama will win is not a link turn, a link turn says that the plan will stop the disad from happening, you need to win that Romney will win to affect their disad—

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    7/9--Aff v. Bren/Zach--Baxter   Yassin—watch time allocation in the 2Ac, don’t forget about ur 1AC evidence, especially on the case debate—why is this counterinterpretation relevant?—if they don’t extend anything besides t you don’t need to answer anything besides t—you would at best spend 5 seconds to say “don’t win t vote aff”