Pismarov,+Vivienne


 * __Practice Debate #5__**

-Very minor, but you need structure for the very first card in the 1AC - it's Observation 1. --We need to try to enunciate a bit more with tags - I wrote this 1AC and I had difficulty flowing the 1AC at times. We repeated back over words quite often. I would suggest reading the 1AC 2 or 3 times a day - your ultimate goal is that the 1AC should be delivered error-free. :) --Good volume and projection. --Some of the same clarity issues were occurring in the 1AR - even with our analyticals, we are repeating back over words quite often. I would like to see you through camp to have some 1AR blocks typed up for key 2Ac arguments that will likely --Is "no neg fiat" in the 2AC? This is too new of an argument...by reading the CP in the 1NC, they are fiating earlier in the debate. --You need to directly answer more on point some of the Privatization Solves cards. 2NC reads A LOT of these and you just extended one 2AC card to answer this wall. --For all future 1ARs, I want you to read 1-2 pieces of evidence. Find key nexus points in the debate (solvency deficits on the CP, uniqueness debates on Elections/Politics are both usually good places). You should think about it this way....the Neg just read 13 minutes worth of cards...is relying on 2AC cards and analyticals enough to beat that back?
 * __Practice Debate #4 - Aff vs. Sehee/Michael - Comments by Tara__**

__**Rebuttal Redo from Practice Debate #1 - 07/16/2012 - Comments by Tara**__ --Vivienne redid a 2NR for me that was an extension of Mobility K. Vivienne told me that her judge wanted her to have better framework impact analysis and do some work on the case extension. --Stopped and restarted her immediately to get clarity in line for the first ten cards. --Nice overview - I would like to hear a little bit less in the OV of debate lingo. Allow the judge to visualize the K and the Aff policy in regards to the K. The overview should not focus on what the Aff did not do in the debate (i.e. dropped arguments). Sell me your argument. --Vivienne did a pretty nice job on doing more on the framework debate. I would have liked to have heard more about the Schaeffer 2010 card. That card was extended but give me a sentence or two about specific warrants of that card. --I am not sure I understand at the end of speech what the alternative is. Remember winning an argument is just not answering back what the 2AC says but selling what your position does. Always articulate what the alternative is and then how it functions in the debate. --I would agree that you should go for case defense in this round but how does the case defense play in with your offense? You do a good job talking about why the Aff does not solve for oil and the dropped solvency mechanism cards. Go one more step and talk about how this contrasts with your impact claims - little risk of any advantage of the Aff means that you don't need to win much impact on the K.

1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: Clarity fine, could be faster 2) Recommended Drills: Practice reading at full speed for 10 minutes or more to improve endurance+speed. 3) 2NC—technical skill and coverage for case and off-case arguments: Use all your speech time! Coverage on the K was pretty good – I think you need to do more work explaining the link in the context of the railroads aff, since a lot of your cards are talking about highways and their drawbacks. They make a no link argument at the bottom of the 2AC that I don’t think you explicitly answer. Better line-by-line where you answer all args in order and make it clear what your answering would solve this problem. Recognizing the dropped solvency double bind was good – to make this even more effective you should briefly explain the warrants for the argument – why does going fast undermine solvency? Why is going slow too late to solve? 4) Assess use of evidence in constructive and rebuttal: quantity, quality, and comparison: Good use of cards to develop the K – you could use more evidence on case to fill the remaining time in the 2NC – either expand your solvency arguments or fight back on the economy advantage. 5) Strategic Choice and Execution of 2NC/2NR: They make the double turn worse with the new 1AR impact turns – you need to recognize this and concede it. This would be a much simpler+easier win than the K. I’m left sort of unclear about the impact to the K/what I should prioritize – at times you explain it as more of a systemic “loss of liberty” impact and at others as extinction. 5) Rebuttal Re-do suggestions: Concede the elections double turn rather than trying to kick the DA. Pick one K impact to focus on – either liberty or extinction – and then do impact calc based on that choice (either liberty o/w death, or extinction outweighs the aff). Eliminate these democracy arguments at the bottom of the K flow – they have little to do either with the K or the aff’s answers, __**Elections DA - Block Extension Speeches - 07/10/2012 - Comments by Tara**__ --Students were asked to create a five minute Negative block speech to extend an Obama Good Elections DA. Students were given the 1NC shell and a file of potential cards they could use for their extensions. They used their own 2ACs from the night before as the 2AC to answer when they gave the extension speech. --I am so glad that you had a local overview! I would like to see us structure that overview a bit more - use debate impact calculus lingo, like magnitude, timeframe, and probability. I also would recommend a short description of the "story" of the DA (2-3 sentences) at the top before launching into the impact discussion. --Avoid overviews which is just a pile of cards. The structure I mentioned above would have really helped. I do think the Obama key to economy should be read in the overview since it is a "DA turns case" argument. I think you should have moved the newly introduced CTBT impact scenario to later in the speech - further down on the flow. --Again, nice volume and presence. --We are doing a pretty good job signposting, but I always like the sophomores to be tighter until we get it exact. Reference the 2AC argument by number first and then the label. --Don't forget to discuss/extend the cards in the 1NC shell. Extend the card by cite and use that card to make comparisons to the 2AC answers.
 * __Practice Debate #1 - Neg vs Niti/Trisha - 07/11/2012 - Comments by Connor__**

--You have good speed but we want to work on your clarity. This is especially important for the very beginning of your speech. :) Start slowly out of the gates. I want clarity to be a primary goal for you in your first couple of debates - some of this just may be rust. --Although you are not a 2AC, this will apply to you as a 1AR as well - I would highlight some of these cards down even more. 2AC cards, and ESPECIALLY 1AR cards, are usually much shorter....especially uniqueness cards. --Good volume. --Good selection of cards/arguments to read to answer the DAs (did not include any of the "klunkers"). --Be a bit more choosy in your analyticals - a lot of these were pretty long and I am not sure you are getting much traction out of these (i.e. the indict to the card that Obama is key to solving warming). It took you a while to get through that analytical...always ask yourself how will this analytical play into how I am going to win the round?
 * __Elections DA 2AC Activity - 07/09/2012 - Comments by Tara__**
 * --**Students were given a 1NC Obama Good Elections DA shell and a file of potential cards they could choose from to create a 3 minute 2AC to the DA.