Vaye,+Symone

Round 1--Samone (aff) v. Jarandrew (neg)--Judge: Baxter 1A: Symone—try to sound confident reading the 1AC, there isn’t a lot that you can do here, so put your effort into being bombastic and encouraging the judge to THINK that your arguments sound persuasive—make sure you give a clear order, I didn’t get a chance to fix that before you started, you are coming up with some smart arguments, but don’t phrase them as sort of questions or potential problems, make them into clear arguments with a definite form tag, warrant, impact on every one, the 1ar should be constantly using the phrase “Extend the 2AC ” so that the structure of the speech is very obvious for the judge

6.27 - Round 2 - SOX - (Puffles and Thor vs. (1NC) Symone, you don't need to take as much prep as you do throughout the round. You took prep both before the 1NC and in the block. I think that instead of being strategically necessary you are just not confident in your preparation. While flowing during the 1NC, take out your shells and arrange your evidence. This will prevent you from being flustered and out of order during your speech. Also, it will help you with your roadmap. Also, prep for your 1NR when Sam takes prep for the 2NC and while he is giving his speech. If you need help from him, do it before the 2NC so you don't give the 1AR free time to prep. Also, this prevents you from double covering the block. Like Baxter said, work on your confidence. First, set your evidence on something instead of holding it near your mouth. This way you are louder and improve your posture. Also, don't let Sam answer all of your cross-x questions. Finally, don't steal prep. Tell the judge when you need prep, tell the judge when you're done. Don't continue to prep if you tell the judge you are done with prep. It looks bad and could effect your speaker points.

Round 3 6/28/12 1ac: more volume, give clear transitions between observations and cards, great clarity, make sure you can finish the advantage Cx: 2a needs to prep, use up all the time, don’t be embarrassed to reference your cards to make your best answer 2ac: stop saying “like”, good extension of evidence, read your evidence to make sure you read it on the appropriate flows in the round, finishing the advantage is fine – bhttp://mdaw-2012.wikispaces.com/Vaye%2C+Symoneut you need to make sure you also answer the Das, perm the CP// //Cx: 2a – be specific to which cards you are referencing, keep your questions more concise so you can ask more// //2a – let your 1ar prepare and set up her own speech. She is more than capable of doing this without your help// //1ar: reference where you are cross-applying from, summarize the evidence you extend, very clear transition from flows, time allocation needs work// //2ar: organize your thoughts and what you want to say before your speech, watch your “ums”, try to avoid the long pauses, argue more against the argument instead of describing the argument as “bad”, explain why your answers/args are more plausible instead of simply telling me they are, compare your impacts//

//7/2// //rd 6// //Edstrom//

//1a symone-slow down on tags in the beginning of your speech. when you try to start really fast, it usually results in some jumbling of the words. say when you are reading the plan. a bit monotone, but clear and well-paced overall. when you are explaining your evidence, you should go more in-depth with warrants. I’m not sure these questions about cap get you anywhere- you might want to start talking about the link level first, and then ask about the alternative. might give you more leverage? make sure that you are extending arguments on the flow- just bringing cards up with you doesn’t really facilitate argument interaction in my opinion. you are doing the right things, but i’m not sure you are doing them because they make sense in the round or you are just doing things that you heard someone say one should do in the 1AR. a lot of the 1AR is very defensive- you pick good arguments to extend, the next step is giving me reasons to vote for you. thanks for moving on from this slavery discussion- I’m not sure how it was every important in the debate. you make quality of life arguments- why is this important!? why does it outweigh?!//

//ROUND VII// //Handerz (Aff) v. Samone (Neg)// //Judge: Weber (weberdebate@gmail.com with questions)// //__Word Bank (look ‘em up)__:// //Freudian// //CX of 1AC: You do a good job getting key information during CX (links, specifically), but I want you to start thinking more strategically about your line of questioning--what are you trying to get him to admit and how are you going to get him there without giving away your strategy? Work on closed-ended questions, too; you give him far too much time to make arguments in CX. Use yes/no and "...isn't it correct..." questions to keep him on task.// //2NC: Good job extending evidence but work on tying in their arguments to set up your comparative analysis (more "they say" language is a good place to start). Also, I think improving your flow would help a lot here--the line-by-line is a bit week and skips around more than it should. And don't worry about stepping on Sam's speech if you run out of 2NC arguments--he can prep more but you can't get your time back. For future reference, you want to prep the 2NC from the top of the flow down (in the block order) while he works from the bottom of the block flow up. This way if you run over into 1NR ground, he's still prepped to the bottom.// //2NR: Good job trying to preempt, but add this closer to the end of your arguments. You want to open with kicks, your framing of the debate (plus F/W), any by-line, and then preempting the 2AR, and finally crystallization/impact calc. Again, work on the specificity of your analysis--ex. Cook 06. You explain the impacts, but don't move beyond the claim level of analysis--do the additional work and explain why this occurs and why the aff causes it. This will definitely improve as the year moves on and you become more familiar with the evidence, but it's something to keep in mind as you research, practice, and compete. Good round.//

//Rd 8 AFF vs. Mattsas, judge Thorn// //Mass transit can be defined however the lit currently defines it, as a way to get a lot of people around. Busses trains.// //Got to work on time allocation in the 1AR. You’re spending way too much time on the cap K. Need to highlight down those cards. Should also talk about the// plan //in the context of the kritik. The perm is not to “speed up so to slow down” but to do plan and slow down. The perm is essentially a test of the link, and it forces the neg to articulate just// why// you advocate speed (which you don’t necessarily).

TOurnament Rd 1 You have good clarity when you’re spreading, especially since you slow down for the tags. However, your 1AC slowed down as you progressed so try to keep working on stamina so you can finish reading your advantages. Also, when you/your partner already conceded the link level of the debate it is important that you focus more on the impact level during your 1AR. Saying things like case outweighs and then explaining why your impacts are more important than the DA/CP/K is going to be necessary in a lot of rounds. Also, you need to work more on explaining the warrants of your cards and why they are better than the negative’s rather than just reading new cards. A lot of judges (myself included) would prefer a couple cards where you explain the warrants and give relevant reasons as to why the judge should prefer them over the other team’s than just burying the other team based on number of cards. This is especially important as you get 5 minutes to the negative’s 13 so the negative will pretty much always be able to read more cards than you.

7/10

- Start out 1AC slower. It was difficult to understand at first, good toward the end.

- Get to know your cards, so you can explain them more than just what the tag says. Interact your 2ac arguments with their responses.

- More efficiency in your card explanation. You’re wasting too many words. Practice by writing out your arguments, and limit yourself to a few words – for example, try writing an extension of your transition wars Rummel 04 card in 15 words – “Alt leads to transition wars – markets are tied to international stability”

- Answer cap collapse inevitable and extend your econ impacts. Do a small bit of impact calc to help me frame the debate.