Yesha

Round 1
Judge: Arnett Speaker Position: 1N Comments:

1NC

Narrow distinction between tags and card. Good pace on reading cards. Don't need to slow down as much with the Tags as long as you are clear. Find some words/phrases in evidence to emphasize.

Spending and Freight DA-don't need to read an economy impact since the aff already claimed. Put these two arguments on their economy advantage to minimize having the same debate in multiple places.

CP-you read a avoids politics card without reading a politics DA

1NR

Framework for extending case arguments. e.g. 1NC HSR fails Do a redo in 4 and read more cards Freight---explain argument before you jump into 2AC Spending DA-more time on turns

Redo

Great! Uniqueness-Extend U from spending 1NC first say 1NC 3 (not number 3) good emphasis within the cards don't type out everything for redos---use flow like in a speech

Round 3 - July 17

 * Judge: Linda**
 * Speaker Position: 1N**

- Don’t talk into your computer screen. Tilt the computer screen slightly away from you, and don’t put it directly in between you and the judge. - All of you need to work on clarity! Remember, speed doesn’t matter if the judge can’t understand you. Prioritize volume and enunciation over rushing through cards sloppily. - Both teams have major problems with organization in the rebuttals – in the 2NR and the 2AR, you need to highlight the key issues and impact calculus on the top, and then address issues in a neat fashion. - Both teams have the tendency to get bogged down into minutia, and most clash is simply “yes” and “no” back and forth. When you answer an argument, you should not just repeat what your partner said, but make distinctions and new warrants, and compare evidence in order to get ahead. Otherwise you are just staying on the same level, and the judge does not know how to evaluate these competing claims.
 * __General Comments __**


 * __1N Comments __**
 * 1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: **You have good speed, but you need to work on volume. You also should work on stamina because you seem to get tired and less clear towards the end of your speeches.


 * 2) Recommended Drills: **Practice giving speed drills at a loud volume, and you should also do drills for an extended amount of time to build up your stamina.

- You should have read more 1NC impact defense cards, particularly against the hegemony advantage. You should also diversify your arguments more – for example, instead of reading two cards that talk about how roads are improving, just read one (the negative block can easily read another one when there is more time), and use the time you’ve saved to make another argument.
 * 3) Assess use of evidence in constructive and rebuttal: quantity, quality, and comparison: **

– Don’t drop 50 state fiat! – Good job on the line-by-line otherwise. – In general, you need to do much more evidence comparison, particularly since you have the 1NR and thus the most prep time (aside from the 1AC I suppose). This is especially important on areas of the case debate that tend to get muddled, because then you can use evidence comparison to make important distinctions that will put you ahead on the debate and make it hard for the affirmative team to catch up. – Good overview in the 1NR on the states counterplan, but you need to do more work in terms of explaining the specific warrants of why states solves the case, and why the permutation doesn’t solve. Aside from the “oversight and accountability” argument, I think you need more diverse warrants and disadvantages to the plan/permutation.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">4) Strategic Choice and Execution of Block/1NR: **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">– Re-do your 1NR with the above suggestions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">5) Rebuttal Re-do suggestions: **

Round 3 - July 18

 * __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">2N Comments __**


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Good clarity and speed, but you can also be louder.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">2) Recommended Drills: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Work on volume and emphasis when practicing speaking. Also make sure that you are not sacrificing clarity for the sake of speed – improve both at the same time.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">3) 2NC—technical skill and coverage for case and off-case arguments: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Politics impact add-ons – I would advise against reading these add-ons.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">First, they have already conceded your impacts. They didn’t read impact defense because they are going for the link turn on politics, so reading more impacts won’t get you ahead in the debate at all.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Second, they are very easily turn-able by the 1AR, particularly proliferation impacts. While I realize that this might be strategic in a camp round because I don’t think the affirmative has answers to these add-ons, you should strive to mimic what you would do during the regular season, and in a real debate, the affirmative could easily turn these impacts.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Finally, you could have used the extra time to finish the states counterplan.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Impact calculus – You should get more creative and specific with your impact calculus, instead of just generic claims about magnitude and massive war. For example, you can talk about how an Iran war would polarize world trade and prevent interaction between allies of Iran and enemies of Iran.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">You can also make a link turns the case argument, because if Romney won, he would certainly cut funding on infrastructure and cut down on trade.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Politics line-by-line – It’s always good to read a lot of cards on politics, but you also need to make arguments comparing evidence, and pulling out specific warrants from your cards. This is especially important in this debate, because the key issue is the link debate.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">4) Assess use of evidence in constructive and rebuttal: quantity, quality, and comparison: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">You need to do more evidence comparison on the politics debate!


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">5) Strategic Choice and Execution of 2NC/2NR: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Your impact calculus is good, but a little bit too excessive (it was about a minute and a half to two minutes of the 2NR). While impact calculus is important, it is not as important in this debate, because the affirmative team is going for a link turn.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Link debate – you need to spend more time on the link debate comparing evidence and warrants, and explaining how your link outweighs your link turns. I think you do a good job of describing the deficit spending link, but you also need to explain why that is more important than their business confidence and jobs link turns.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Make sure to get to case in the 2NR.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">5) Rebuttal Re-do suggestions: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Give your re-do with the above suggestions.

Round 9
Andrea judging aff v. Shamita and Joseph

__2ac__ Thought your 2ac block to cap was good- you have a nice variety of offense and defense and arguments about every component Should read a card that cap doesn’t cause climate and that cap solves the environment- you can find these in the dedev... Could be tighter on the case- for example- should more directly answer the Zizek arg about terrorism

__2ar__ Thought the part on alt fails and Gibson graham was verygood Either spend less time on Fwork or do more impacting- why is its purpose in this debate? Spend more time on the LBL of the 2nr ov, since that is where most of the negative arguments are


 * Round 11**
 * Judge: Arnett**
 * Aff vs Alisa and Nathan**


 * 1AR**

-Need to find a spot on dedev or Elections to read evidence -Need to start doing impact calc e.g. on the case, dedevelopment, elections -States. Too much jumping around. Extend conditionality. Dig in on solvency deficit arguments. -Elections. Answer impact arguments at the top. More on link turns