Friesen-Johnson,+Abby

--Abby was redoing a 1AR - the judge told her that there was a 1AR extension that took out her economy advantage (a 2aC answer on spending) - the 1AR did not extend that. She developed more time to Privatization CP and Elections. --I think it was fine to kick an advantage if you feel that you could win the round without that advantage. You never want to kick an advantage just because it is the "easy way out". It should be the best strategic option. --I think it is good to talk about the hegemony advantage. Did the Negative have any arguments on this advantage? If so, we need to do better line-by-line. If not, we need to talk more about the story of the advantage. You don't need to extend every card independently. --Good to talk about qualifications of your authors (Eno Center) - that was very well-developed and articulated. --For every future 1AR, I want you to card the 1AR in two places - pick two places in the round that will be strategic places in the last two debates and read a card in each spot. --Are we going in order of 2AC arguments? On Elections, you answered impacts first - was that high up in the 2AC order?
 * __Rebuttal Redo from Practice Debate #5 - 1AR - 07/23/2012 - Comments by Tara__ **

1) Speed/clarity issues with constructive or rebuttal: Clarity is good, speed could be better. You should vary your tone between tags and card texts to help the judge distinguish them. 2) Recommended Drills: Practice reading cards for 10 min+ to improve speed and endurance. 3) 2NC—technical skill and coverage for case and off-case arguments: Case is good for the most part – technical coverage on elections needs to improve. You concede key 2AC arguments – most importantly “no impact to warming.” Careful flowing and line-by-line would solve this problem. 4) Assess use of evidence in constructive and rebuttal: quantity, quality, and comparison: Swap out some of the evidence on case for extension and analysis of 1nc cards – reading lots of new cards and not extending the old ones defeats the purpose of 1nc case arguments. 5) Strategic Choice and Execution of 2NR: The phrase “necessary but not sufficient” is a good way to characterize the style of solvency argument you’re advancing – HSR may be key to solve the economy but still not enough on its own. Put your offense on top – it was unclear for much of the speech how you intended to win, since you started with case defense and only reached the elections disad later. You should go for federalism – dropped wwarming defense pretty much means elections is no longer viable. 5) Rebuttal Re-do suggestions: Go for federalism, with an impact overview on top explaining how it outweighs the case. Extend some of the dropped warrants from the 2nc economy debate, in addition to the solvency arg discussed above. Thoughts about prep time use: Block division should be decided either immediately before or immediately after 2AC cross-x – this isn’t something you should still be discussing minutes into 2NC prep. The fact that the entire block was in one doc makes me suspect one of you prepped everything – this is inefficient and a waste of the 1NR’s free 11 minutes of prep. The 1A can use 2NC prep to prepare stuff you’re likely to need for the 1AR – in this debate this could include ensuring you know your specific fed key warrants and/or pulling additional elections uq cards. When it is your turn to speak you need to be ready – 2 specific situations – 1. You must know your order __before__ you stand up to give your speech – fumbling through your flows right before the speech looks unprofessional and is unlikely to result in a strategic order. 2. You should be prepared to start cx almost immediately after the constructive ends – this means at a minimum you have a timer and some questions prepared – some delay is OK but a long delay looks bad and makes it hard to build any momentum in CX.
 * __Practice Debate #2 - Neg. vs. Ari/Sehee - 07/13/2012 - Comments by Connor__ **
 * __2N Comments__**
 * __Additional Comments about the Debate:__**

--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. -- Good comparison—uniqueness --HSR v. Obama comparison—you just jumped around--Public Opinion poll is randomly stuck in there--Went from Uniqueness, to Internal Link to Link really randomly. --Fiat probs means they get this time --The Econ arg you want to do on the case --Connect more with the judge --PC key card isn’t really needed for an eletions DA… --Prolif is a sort of questionable thing to read new in the 2nc—really easy to impact turn—especially without a great defense of it --CTBT similarly…that’s the same impact perhaps? --1:10 left—you want to do a bunch of stuff with this.
 * __Elections Negative Block Extension Speech - 07/10/2012 - Comments by Nate__ **

--You positioned yourself very well in the sense that the laptop did not cover your face. --I am glad that you included analyticals, but they were very lengthy and I don't think you are getting much traction (#1) --Even though you are a 1AR, we need to work on better signposting. As you were speaking, I felt that I could flow your speech in paragraph or essay form. You want each argument, both cards and analyticals, to be distinct arguments - visualize each argument in their own separate file folder. They should be numbered separately. --Good volume and clarity. I would like to see us work on our speed a little. --You chose correct cards to effectively answer the DA (i.e. you did not include any of the "klunkers").
 * __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.