Cretsinger,+Benjamin

ROUND I (6/26) Matt Sauce (Aff) v. Jorisharsharysha (Neg) Judge: Bryan Weber (weberdebate@gmail.com if you have any questions) 1AC: Work on your breathing as you read. By forcing your voice, you’re running out of breath by about minute 5 and are struggling to maintain volume and speed. Yeah, it’s the first round of the year and you don’t have everything timed out, but it’s something to consider. Good job in CX. CX of 1NC: Good questions and citation of evidence when looking for warrants. Yes, you want to know the CP status first. Good work. 1AR: Good roadmap but always be sure to put your clash at the top, regardless of how compact the round is. Not covering in the 1AC is doom. Excellent extensions and preemption of 2NR answers. Strat skew can’t be the terminal impact of everything, though. Try to end each argument on policy terminal impacts in a policy round. Incorporate impact calc, especially timeframe, inside the spending argument. Your recoup argument is begging to circumvent depression → extinction timeframe. Plug it in!

6/27/12 On the whole, both teams need to work on clashing with other teams positions. Both teams spent time talking about their points without comparing it to the other teams. This is an important skill, esp. in rebuttals. Both teams need to utilize all their time and realize the potential of their args. Highlight evidence before rounds, not during. 1NC – Start slower and build up. That way you ‘ll be clearer and won’t stumble as much. The judge can adapt to your cadence. Read an impact to politics, otherwise an impact turn is going to be a problem. A good way to divide up your time is 1:30 – 2 mins for a K, 1 for a Disad, 1 for a CP, try to leave 4-5 minutes for case. (Obvi, this varies depending on the round, but it’s a decent general rule) 2NC – I understand that the 2AC was not the most intimidating on the K, but you need to cover your based more thoroughly. Read more cards and provide more analysis at a warrant level. It is really important to read lots of solvency cards if you are going to read the Kovel card. If you don’t actually solve 100% of cap. Kovel works against you b/c cap would just come back and you don’t solve the root cause. I think you really underestimate the value of the Gibson-Grahm evidence and focus on the Montly Review card when its relatively small potatoes. GG says that by framing capitalism as everywhere and the cause of everything we make it indestructible. Essentially, this argument at a minimum functions to take out the alt solvency, which is allows the aff to use the Kovel card against you. Blocks are labeled “2NC” for a reason. 2NR – Going for the K made sense given how the round end up, but in a closer round where they are able to capitalize on some of the tensions on the K, the States CP w/Fism is a better bet. They don’t have any argument on the Fism DA, so all you have to win is that state action is sufficient to solve, or at least has a good chance at solving, the aff. If you do that, the dropped Fism da is a no-brainer. I thought you were behind on whether not the states could solve racism, but you should point out the 1AC did not read an impact to it, so its kind of irrelevant and GW probably comes first.

7/1/12 1AC (Ben) - **1AC - 1ac cards lack focus - focus on establishing links to your advantages. I listened closely for claims explaining how transit helps competitiveness/heg or global warming and I didn't hear much at all. focus on warrants, too, rather than conclusions when you highlight cards **
 * 1NC CX (Ben) - good job indicting the neg's impacts and internals - half the battle is always swatting down your opponent's crummy arguments while making sure yours slip by unnoticed. **
 * 2AC (Ben) - extend warrants when you extend cards - not just "THIS CARD EXPLAINS THIS" – twice you say “extend (author date) – it answers their argument.” You’re most of the way there – you’re doing line by line, you’re extending specific cards, but now extend the reasoning. Don't underview yourself - I understand what your spending non-U ev means. diversify answers dude – on elections you want to give a 2ar with one CTBT prohibits asteroid deflection card? weighing prolif bad v. "CTBT prevents asteroid deflection" is not a good balance. you left 130 of extra time in the 2ac – you only read 1 card on states, 2 on spending, 1 on elections. **
 * 2NC CX (Ben) - don't ask questions like "YOU DIDN'T READ ANYTHING AGAINST THIS, DID YOU?" they have a 1nr coming and you just tipped them off. **
 * 1AR (Ben) – with such a limited flow you have time to be extending more than you do. you don’t extend the perms on states, for example. **
 * 2AR (Ben) – when you’re not under pressure try to develop a smoother delivery style. You’re hopping from leg to leg, bouncing around, and gasping like you’re talking a lot more quickly – you’re just not under that much pressure here. Also – your 2AR can’t shift to a link turn after making 1 2AC answer against elections which was an impact turn.. **

Rd 8 Neg vs. Samone

The standards in the T shell are too generic; they need to be made specific to the interpretation. No need to be so clippy in the CX. Your explanation of your evidence in the 1NR is excellent.