Debate+Comments---Joel

Round 1 - Miles
__1N Comments__ 1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: - A little unclear on some case cards - Need to start out slower on politics overview---going too fast on straight analytics

2) Recommended Drills: Pen drill for 5 minutes going as fast as you can while being really clear. Then start reading conversational speed and slowly slow up till you're going at a smooth rate that's fast, but you shouldn't be huffing/puffing/breathing crazy/etc. Basically be speaking normally but an accelerated rate

3) Assess use of evidence in constructive and rebuttal: quantity, quality, and comparison: - Great impact calc / turns case work --- just too much of it - Really solid on answering the econ link turn - good comparison b/w why independents outweighed / the link outweighed the turn Need to be better on the Florida link turn - have to make a more concerted effort to at least put some warrants on the flow like other swing states matter more etc

4) Strategic Choice and Execution of Block/1NR: This is also a re-do suggestion, but you need to spend a tiny bit less time on turns case - it kind of meant you didn't answer their impact D at the bottom as much as you should've Tiny bit too top heavy

5) Rebuttal Re-do suggestions: Answer their impact D with more warrants - can't just assert that Iran is irrational b/c that takes out your impact Tiny bit slower on the overview - can't go full speed on analytics

Round 3---Comments by Linda Pei
Aff vs Kaycee & Olivia

__2A Comments __ 1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: You really need to work on clarity, and emphasize the taglines and breaks between the cards.

2) Recommended Drills: You should do over-enunciation drills and pen drills – prioritize pronouncing every word clearly over speed, and only try to talk faster once you have reached a good clarity level.

3) 2AC—technical skill and coverage for case and off-case arguments: - I thought the 2AC was good coverage-wise – you spent the right amount of time on each flow, covered each position adequately, and had good theory arguments and offense. - Make sure to do embedded clash on case – don’t do “they say, we say,” because it is inefficient. - On case, make sure to also do more explanation. For example, in response to the housing market being high now, you simply said, “the housing market is weak now, economic collapse is inevitable so the housing market is weak, they haven’t recovered yet.” But your response did not contain any warrants. You could have cited specific statistics from your card.

4) Assess use of evidence in constructive and rebuttal: quantity, quality, and comparison: - Make sure to do more politics evidence comparison.

5) Strategic Choice and Execution of 2AC/2AR: - On the intrinsicness argument, you need to invest more time in that if you want to go for it. I’m not really sure how to evaluate it because you only say “extend this” in the 2AR and don’t explain why that makes the politics disadvantage go away. I also think it needs to be set up better in the 2AC, perhaps by adding another standard or making an instrincness argument on the politics disadvantage. - You definitely need more cohesion and consistency between the affirmative speeches. For example, many of the arguments you went for in the 2AR were not arguments that were emphasized in the 1AR, and some of them were completely new. You need to coordinate with your partner more.

5) Rebuttal Re-do suggestions: - Give your re-do with the above suggestions.

**Round 5---Comments by Alex Miles**
Aff v. Andrew/Jon Yang __2A Comments__ 1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: Slow down on analytics - you can't read 3 paragraphs of states no solve at top speed 2) Recommended Drills: 3) 2AC—technical skill and coverage for case and off-case arguments: You were really inefficient on the case --- you said "only takes 10 years" numerous times instead of answering some of their Keynes args and also said "first of all" w/o a "2nd of all" quite a few times --- those may just be mental compensations for trying to go to fast --- slow down so you can collect your thoughts 4) Assess use of evidence in constructive and rebuttal: quantity, quality, and comparison: Need way more in depth analysis on the econ page in the 2ar --- you assert a lot of claims repeatedly but without flushing out the warrants. You need to make sure you answer their warrants specifically - for example, you dropped that consumer spending now solves the multiplier effect w/o linking to Keynes bad --- stuff like that are bombs that good 2Ns will drop on the case that you need to be sure your going through with a fine tooth comb 5) Strategic Choice and Execution of 2AC/2AR: Need less time on case in the 2ac --- being more efficient would help 5) Rebuttal Re-do suggestions: Really focus on flushing out every argument you have and extending the warrants. Explain how even if they win Keynes, they didn't spend enough time on your long term internals so it's still try or die

Round 6---Comments by Zane Waxman
Neg vs Andrew & Jon

1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: Fast and clear. Needs more enunciation This was a very good 1nr. Got good coverage of the oil advantage and also did a good job on the elections DA. Good argument diversity on politics. Should have made a bigger deal about timeframe as an impact framing device. Could have read some cards on turns case arguments, if you have them.

Redo was good---very good, extensive use of the warrants within your evidence, not just tagline extensions. Good empirical and analytic arguments against the case.

Round 7---Comments by Robel Worku
Aff vs AV Clara-Rebecca

1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: 2) Recommended Drills: 3) 2AC—technical skill and coverage for case and off-case arguments: almost goofed on the equity cp - just a checklist of answers you can make to any process cp a) theory - cp's that do the aff are bad. b) permutation - maybe even define should and/or resolved bc you KNOW they're gonna go for the immediacy/certainty competition arguments 4) Assess use of evidence in constructive and rebuttal: quantity, quality, and comparison: 5) Strategic Choice and Execution of 2AC/2AR: I thought you were pretty good on the theory arguments on the process counterplan in the 2ar and it was ultimately the right decision. I thought cross-applying the capitalism ensures freedom argument to answer the internal net benefit was cool – just do it in the 1ar I think. Your examples related to why the counterplan is infinitely regressive to be more specific to their counter-interpretation. They’re not as ‘bad’ as you make them out to be – just account for their interpretation of a legitimate counterplan.

Round 8---Comments by Connor O'Brien
Neg vs GR Naveena-Shireen

1N Comments 1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: Generally fine. 2) Recommended Drills: Read 10 min or more of cards every day to improve speed and endurance. 3) Assess use of evidence in constructive and rebuttal: quantity, quality, and comparison: Not sure these “army corps fails” cards mean the states solve – if you’re devolving the army corps then the same people would screw up the CP. You probably can’t read a cap link that says New Deal style policies are capitalist against an aff that gets rid of dams... Biodiversity defense would help you in the 1NC. 4) Strategic Choice and Execution of Block/1NR: You might want to consider picking one of your impacts and doing more comprehensive impact calc rather than keeping both alive. These link uniqueness args are one of the aff’s best tricks – make sure you’re prepared to answer them effectively with args like issue specific uq first, explanations of why the aff’s dams are different, etc – your goal should be to raise the threshold for the 1AR extending these and give the 2NR more to work with. Similarly, your answer to the transportation bill thumper is good, but would be devastating if you had a couple other equally good answers to make quickly along with it. 5) Rebuttal Re-do suggestions: Look to make as many diverse, strong answers to each 2AC argument as possible – that helps you protect the 2NR/stop the 1AR from going all in on one arg.

Round 9---Comments by John Warden
Neg vs AV Cole-Jordan

1N Comments • Incorporate more of the cross-x stuff into your case args • Make your case blocks longer – no reason you should need to add during the speech • Need better answer to the infrastructure in the world of the alternative question • Need better evidence for DA impact calc

Round 10---Comments by Phil Holsted
Aff vs AV Kevin-Tim

2A Comments 1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: fasten analytics 2) Recommended Drills: 20 min of speaking drills a day 3) 2AC—technical skill and coverage for case and off-case arguments: go in the order you gave before the speech addons maybe kick out of some internal links to econ focus on politics deficit spending inev CP would be horrible if we cant defend oil interest with things like uprising in syria threating to spill over add in all the other planks of the CP to your 50 state fiat args more solvency deficits or offense on the CP use the house as impacts to theory make extinction o/w claim on coercion U on politics is link turn material 4) Assess use of evidence in constructive and rebuttal: quantity, quality, and comparison: You need to not only give reasons why your evidence is good by also why their evidence is bad 5) Strategic Choice and Execution of 2AC/2AR: dont spend so much time answering dispo - answer intrinsicness "conceded concession" go for reject the team not just reject the argument its good that you go through the steps of prolif make the arg that romney doesnt even take office until 2013 give a reason or cite a card why the econ would collpase in the coming months make try or die args -> why econ down now the args made in the last 15 seconds are just a bunch of blippy extensions -> dont really get you anywhere why not heg checks war from proliferation?