Liu,+Jevons

__ **Round 1-- Duaons (aff) v. Nafisa (neg)--Judge: Meghna** __

1A:
 * Jevons Liu **

Jevons—You get to the equity advantage with 24 seconds and not enough time to read the advantage. Instead of trying to read the entire advantage, add another card to the 1AC to fill up that time. Use cross-ex strategically and avoid questions that have no strategic value to upcoming speeches. In the 1AR, try to pick and choose arguments you want to go for rather than extending everything. Good line by line but avoid answering arguments with questions. Also somehow try to recover from the dropped da somehow in the 1AR. Try not to speak into your evidence; it sometimes is hard to understand your speech.

6/27 Edstrom rd 2

jevons 1n- don’t forget to give a roadmap. good 1NC strategy, especially solid case arguments. people DO want cars! I know I do. you are asking questions about the right evidence, but I think you are giving them too much leeway on some of this evidence. this states->racism card for example…not very good. you should try and tie some of your arguments to your evidence. also, you could signpost more. when you say there is a high chance of nuclear war, I’m not clear on why. this is your chance to elaborate and really lay it on! your explanation of the elections is good, but I want to hear your impacts more, and more importantly, impact calculus. try not to jump flows!

6/28/12 1nc - Decent delivery. A little problem moving from the CP to solvency. Make the transition to a new argument a bit clearer cx of 1nc - Used at least a minute asking about a small solvency argument--americans like their cars. This probably won’t get you anywhere later in the round. You could probably spend your limited cx time better elsewhere. 2nc/1nr (bloc): 2nc gives me four new cards on the states cp and then re-reads all of 1nc. This is not necessary. In addition, the new cards are not applied to any arguments in round. cx of 2nc - question of “how is states better” when asked of 2nc running a states cp is just an invitation for her to restate the solvency. you need to find a little problem with cp solvency or competetiveness and gnaw on it. essentially, you want to get one little thing that plan does better than cp so 1ar can use that. 1nr - on elections, you are trying to do an evidence comparison. to do this, you need to tell me _why_ the aff card is worse than yours and why yours is better. all you did here is tell me what your card said. Compare! You have a speech tic--“this card is basically saying”. Break it Too much time? Don’t just repeat 2nc federalism args. Go to solvency instead. 2nr - you get a bit confused on how the politics da works. i sort of tricked you into going for it in 2nr, so i can understand you not being as prepared as you would be, but you should have at least a basic understanding of all your arguments.

ROUND IV Doauns (Aff) v. Coleton (Neg) Judge: Weber (weberdebate@gmail.com with questions)

__Word Bank (look ‘em up)__ Precipice Subsidizes Institutional Anomalous Exorable Medvedev Volatility Metropolitan (not metropolan) Demystification

1AC: Excellent volume, clarity, and speed. Keep reading through your cards to be sure you understand any unfamiliar words and you’ll be on the ball. This will come with time, but make sure you talk through all the specifics of your case--including what causes what and why your plan is key to your advantages—before the round.

CX of 1NC: Good work keeping your questions direct, but don’t let Klayton run away with his explanations. There’s nothing wrong with politely cutting him off. Don’t let her turn your CX with questions of her own.

1AR: Be sure to work on your flow. The more detailed and organized your flow, the easier it is to prep 1ARs. To address things that you dropped, quickly explain why the argument doesn’t matter and the neg gets no offense and then move on. No use drawing more attention to 2AC drops than you have to. The next thing I want you to work on in 1AR is using the evidence you and your partner read to support the arguments you’re making. You’re doing a great job on your analytics but you need to show where these arguments were made in your evidence and how those warrants are preferable to your opponents’.

7/1/12


 * 1NC CX (Jevons) **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">- **jevons! Learn what condo/dispo are for counterplans. In pre-round prep, try and learn the reasoning behind your terminal impacts so that when Ben asks “why does federalism prevent war,” you can reply with something more substantial than “I don’t know.”**


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1NR (Jevons) - good job indicting the asteroid turn on elections. Focus on that heavily - it's his ONLY 2AC answer. Compare the conceded prolif bad impact to the asteroid arg **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Really good reading - you're got a clear speaking style that makes it clear for me to understand everything you are saying. You need to walk into the 2AC with a strategy. I don't really have a sense that you have a clear plan of attack, and it almost seems as if you are just trying to hit on items that randomly come up on the flow. Having a clear strat is crucial to maximizing the efficacy with which you are able to cover the arguments in the round. Organization is absolutely criticall too. You recognized about 15 seconds into reading one of your cards on the environment advantage that you were reading a completely random card that didn't fit and rushed to find the correct one...but having a more organized and systematized way of which you handle refutation can prevent timesucking issues like this from happening. Make sure you understand the arguments that you are making. When you read a block to perm the Cap K, you better be able to explain yourself when your opponent asks you to simply clarify it in your own words. Finally, make sure you are properly extending items from the 1AC. It's not good enough to say that "my opponent dropped my equity advantage" and them move on. I need to hear you extending the appropriate evidence and re-explaining the warrant behind the argument, and IMPACTING so I know why this is one of the most important things I need to evaluate in making my decision.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">7/2/12 **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">**7/5/12** <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Your argumention in the 2NC is exceptionally defensive. Make sure you are trying to generate some offense that you can go for in the rebuttals. It’s great that you are signposting, but you are doing way too much “free advertising”. You need to do some major card cutting. For instance, your Dollar DA block is MASSIVE and I’m getting lots of stuff that is interesting but not at all important to the round.