Goodman,+Ben

6/26/12 Blaize and Ben: I was really impressed with both of you in this round; you were nice, approachable, and likable without having to be overly aggressive--stick with that approach. You were making smart arguments and making good cross applications between flows and were receptive to help and advice. Commendable. There is no need to reexplain the mechanics of what the aff does in your 2ac/2ar. Overviews should serve a purpose--they should always be couched in comparison to the neg's arguments. Your 2ar was mostly defensive--frame everything around case outweighs and the link turn on the K. It will provide you much more offense.

6/28
- good job of line-by-line on the econ advantage – you placed cards where they needed to be - you do a good job of explaining the function of evidence in the 2AC. In this debate, that is a good thing, and adds clarity to your speech. You just need to be aware in other debates where you may be more spread out that sometimes that is a job for the 1AR. In other instances this makes the block harder [for example on the permutation do the cp – you provide a good level analysis that ups the threshold for what the 2NC has to answer] - make sure you deal with federalism - you can make your 2AC better with analytic indicts of their evidence.

6/29--Lillie/Cupcake Aff v. Ben/Blaize Neg--Baxter

Ben—is that the most efficient kick of the disad? What was the rest of the 2ac?—efficieny of the racism card on the cp could be better—don’t get caught up a couple times, flow should prolly be higher up,

7/2/12
 *  Good differentiation
 *  Good job using different tones during card, emphasizing, etc.
 *  Look at judge during cross x, be less condescending/sarcastic
 *  Good case extention, but apply your stuff to the case more instead of takling about impacts in gerneal
 *  These cap cards on case link to CP and the squo, no real reason to read it
 *  Don’t say "probably"
 *  Read turns case cards on the DA and get to it with more time
 *  You can reference your cards without finding and quoting them
 *  Let your partner give the 2ar