Krepela,+Kyle

1a kyle-right away- you are reading into your paper. you seem like you are fairly quick and capable when it comes to spreading, but you need to be louder and project towards the judge. don’t read block headers. this is a decent answer to funding questions, but you should have a more solid and prepared answer. people will ask this a lot. the start of the 1AR is excellent. I’m glad you took some of your prep time to work on delivering some persuasive indicts of the alternative.

2a anton- I think if you slow down a bit, you will sound more persuasive. also, you could likely highlight more and be able to read more cards. you have selected good evidence for this 2AC, with appropriate answers and non contradicting strategies- you even scratched the impact turn to avoid a dreaded double turn! I would like to hear more analytics in your 2AC to hear how you are processing these arguments. put your own spin on debate! I gotta say, you did an excellent job of bringing together the issues of the debate in your 2AR. talking about your case, discussing key defensive arguments etc. Make sure that you are connecting your 2AR to the 1AR.

1n eli- the 1N strategy is fine, but make sure that you have a good amount of time to read your case arguments. they will help you win whether you go for DA or the K. good knowledge of the politics DA. you made me so happy when you had a 1NR full of analytic arguments- way to think through the debate. in the future, more cards should be incorporated, but I can tell you are thinking about the arguments.

2n matt- if the person you are cross examining starts asking questions of you, you should definitely say “I’ll ask the questions, thanks.” you have a well-scripted speech, but I feel as though I have not one word that is your own on my flow. I encourage you to think about some of these arguments and how they are being presented instead of merely reading another stack of cards in the 2NC. excellent answers in cross x- it’s best not to give them any chance to win a permutation.

ROUND II (6/27) Ellalen (Aff) v. Antyle (Neg) Judge: Weber/Bratvold (weberdebate@gmail.com with questions)

1NC: Clear reading but work on your transitions; it’s difficult to tell when you’re moving to a new argument or card. You can emphasize your transitions by changing your speed, varying your pitch, numbering your arguments, signposting, or whatever else you decide to do, but do something (you do this on the DA: “LINK!”—continue this throughout). Did you read a link on the CTBT DA? Be sure to read all the parts of a DA: uniqueness, link, impact.

CX of 2AC: Good job controlling your CX by stopping your opponent from rambling on, but work on focusing your questions a bit. By asking open-ended questions like, “What was your argument on…” you are encouraging them to ramble. Ask yes/no and direct questions instead.

1NR: Try not to take prep time during the block. The job of the block is to make the 1AR as difficult as possible (since the neg has 13 minutes of arguments and the aff only has 5 to respond) and when you take prep here you give them free prep time. On the speech, good framing of the spending argument and excellent impact calc on timeframe. You can make these even more persuasive by cross-applying specific evidence from earlier to warrant your claims. Careful with your language...you never know what a judge will do to your speaker points.

Round 3 (6/28) Neg 1N

- Please don’t be rude while we are waiting for another person to come- you should not be watching South Park and playing games – you should be prepping for your round - Make sure you put your offcase first and then case - Make sure you are giving me a road map - You should also be reading more evidence - good job explaining your evidence but you need to answer their arguments - you can write out your speech- make sure you are extending cards while trying to tell the story of your off case not just using personal examples from your life - EXTEND IMPACTS

6/29/12

1ac—you speak with almost no enthusiasm—you want to vary your voice both so its easy to understand, but also so you sound like someone who wants to listen

1a cx 1n—you spend most of the time asking questions about the ptx da, which has no impact as of the 1nc. Your partner shouldn’t need to answer it, so think about the case args and the capitalism args instead

1ar

Great job finally realizing no impact had been read!

Very strategic concessions to get out of the cap K

When conceding an advantage, remember you have to concede some of their arguments to make it go away

Even though a strategic 1ar, think about filling the other 3 minutes of your speech

Make sure to have a timer


 * 7/5/12**

Pretty good coverage throughout the 1AR. You need to be a bit deeper when you are exploring some of the issues, though. Two major instances: (1) on T, you tell me that ‘we have different interpretations’, but you never tell me why the affirmative’s interpretation of “transportation infrastructure” is more correct. (2) When running a theory argument where you are claiming abuse, you need to do more than 10 seconds of explaining why. If I’m going to pull the trigger on a fairness voter, I need to see a lot more substance than what you’re given. A theory violation voter is an all-or-nothing proposition; unless you are clearly winning it, you’re going to get nothing from it. Outside of this, I don't think I would even vote on what you're arguing here. It's definitely not in-round abuse to read off a new disad in the 2NC. A constructive is supposed to build up a position. If a new disad appears in the rebuttal we'v got an issue, but I don't think a fairness voter on these grounds makes much sense here.