MatAda

=__**2ac Politics Drill - July 12**__= Comments by Peyton

Great speed and volume, you have a very mature/comfortable style - it sounds great Work on endurance – you slow near end Start slower and speed up in order to help judges flow you more easily. Careful about double turn- see Anshuman comments Try to take up more than you think you'll have time to read - you want to use all of your speech time.

=__2NC Politics Drill - July 15__= Comments by Peyton - Good speed and style again - Good effort to concede the double turn... - you don't need to make Uniqueness/impact claims if you're conceding a double turn... the aff arguments create the new disad and you should explicitly concede each 2AC argument by author that makes the double turn, the Non Unique, Link turn and impact turn - then explain the new scenario and make impact calculus. (So now this calculus is about an ice age outweighing nuclear war/the case, instead of warming outweighs)

=__Practice Debate #1 - Aff (1A) vs. Mahnvee/Carol - July 20__=

Comments by Tate
1AC: --Very clear delivery of plan initially out of the 1AC. Great! --Very minor, but always make sure your 1AC is in order before you begin. --You have a very pleasant speaking style…we always want to work on getting faster and delivering a perfect 1AC, but you sound good for the first official reading of it! CX of 1AC: --Good to start immediately. You listed to the CX lecture!--Pretty good questions…no need to ask “Do you know about the Vietnam War?”. It is good to utilize historical examples, but that introductory question is probably not necessary. :) --Make sure to use your full time!  1AR:  --Please go in the order of the your roadmap. :) Topicality should always be first. --Good to extend that the non-uniques on Politics DA was dropped. Impact why that is important. Is that a complete take-out to the DA? --Extend your “we meet” on T. Oops…you just did, but you need to extend arguments in order of 2AC arguments. --Good to extend both your counter-interpretation and why it is better. --We need to signpost a bit clearer – utilize 2AC arguments/numbering/structure/numbers to guide your 1AR. --No need to repeat the entirety of 2AC tags. --Card your 1AR! --Don’t forget about your heg advantage. :)--Redo Goals: 1 – Put Topicality first. 2 – Impact why the dropped non-uniques are complete take-outs to the DA. 3 – Use 2AC structure to sign-post. 4 – Read a piece of evidence…my suggestion would be on the Resolve DA.

=__Practice Debate #2 - Neg (2N) vs. Lydia/Tanner - July 21__=

Comments by Helen Gomez
2NC: This speech could have been better. I think that you need to have more structure on each flow. When extending a DA, you should always start with DA outweighs and turns the case … [explain why]. Your explanation should be in terms of timeframe/ probability/ magnitude. You also need to do more work on the flow. Your flows were not developed and were missed many arguments. You need to make sure to flow better and debate line by line. You have conceded many arguments at the bottom of the debate – this a flowing problem When the 2AC completely concedes an arguments, you need to do a bit more of explanation on why you win. In the 2AC, you just extended the card and tag – explanation necessary. 2NR: This speech was rhetorically powerful but you needed to do more evidence comparison and analysis. Once you decide to extend one DA, you should start explaining why the impact outweighs and turns the case. You should make sure to do this comparison in the line by line. Explain the link v. link turns and the impact v. impact turns. Also, make sure to answer all the 1ar analysis. On case, start with an overview of the impact turns. Pretend that the impact turns are independent DAs and do impact calculus for each of them. Make sure to extend warrants If you are not going for a DA, make sure to kick it. 2N flows = needs work/ many missed args

=__Back to Basics Drill - Negotiate with the Taliban CP Extension - July 28__=

Comments by Tate
-What? We prepared a speech with no evidence. That is a frowny face. :( -Correct answer to the Perm: Do Both. :) --Group like answers (the first two answers were functionally the same). --Make sure to answer the "CP links to the DA" correctly - the argument is that the CP does not save money...hence, it does not fund the ABL. --The one piece of evidence you did read was structured correctly off of the correct 2AC answer and was responsive. Nice job :).

=__Practice Debate #7 - Aff (1A) vs. Elizabeth/Tajin - July 28__=

Comments by Jeffrey Xu
Extend the most important arguments in the 1AR first, such as the impact turn to START. I like that you recognized that you didn't have to spend very much time on the CP; your time allocation there was good.