Fields,+Josheynah

ROUND I (6/26) Matt Sauce (Aff) v. Jorisharsharysha (Neg) Judge: Weber (weberdebate@gmail.com for questions)

CX of 1AC: Be confident. If you believe you’re in charge of cross-examination, the rest of the room will, too. Also, try to keep the opposing team from dominating the CX. Feel free to cut them off if you think they’re getting too much air time.

2NC: Excellent use of prep time to work on “splitting the block.” Remember, you and your partner should always divide the arguments during the negative “block” so your opponents have as many things to answer as possible. If you say the same things during both speeches, they won’t even have to listen to the second speech and can start prepping. That would be bad. By this point in the round, you want to begin with what’s known as “comparative analysis,” where you compare their arguments with your own and show why your arguments are superior. This process consists of three parts: 1. Summarize your opponent’s arguments. This sounds something like, “They say…” or “My opponent’s argue…” 2. Explain what your evidence (from an earlier speech or new to the 2NC) says and how it contradicts theirs. This sounds like, “But according to Ealy in ’12…” or “However, our Mead ’09 evidence shows that…” 3. Analyze why your evidence is superior. Something like, “This answers our opponent’s claim that...and shows why in fact, the opposite is true.” Great work referencing your evidence in c-x. Make sure it’s responding to the question though.

2NR: Awesome job with the comparative analysis—you used timeframe and magnitude arguments on states that were very persuasive. Keep doing this. Also, in just this one short round, you’ve gotten much better at summarizing, or “crystalizing” arguments into meaningful points of analysis. Good job extending and using your evidence to support your claims.

7/1/12

1AC c-x: Joshenah Fields

-Decent questions

-Decent organization


 * especially liked the challenge on the equity advantage (asked for data on other cities besides Minneapolis)

-Excellent job getting the groundwork set, such as talking about how oil is largest contributing factor to global warming


 * makes debate cleaner as it progresses

2NC: Joshenah Jones

-Needs to work on speed

-Sharisha needs to stop talking as much during this speech

-Need to tell me when you're moving on to the DA

2NR: Joshenah Jones

-Very superficial over views

-Basically just touching up on the off case issues

-No impact caluculus, and it's really short

-Went for everything, which was bad, but she still finished short.