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=__2AC Politics Drill - July 12th__=

Comments by Tate
- Good volume and clarity. - We will want to work on getting your speed going. We need to work on “scanning the information” – your eyes should always be a few words ahead of what you are speaking. - It was great to have a speech chock full of evidence. Make sure that you diversify your arguments. You read A LOT of uniqueness cards…many with the same warrant. Read a couple of uniqueness cards but make sure they are giving different reasons why energy bill won’t pass. - Make sure to either (a) number your arguments or (b) separate arguments with words like “And” or “Next” - It is great to have analytical arguments in the 2AC – any time you make an impact analytical, contextualize that argument in comparison to your Aff. - Answer the DA as one whole “story” – when answering an off-case position, don’t answer evidence piece by piece. - Use the 1NC organization structure to organize your arguments – put uniqueness arguments before your impact arguments. - Try to work in some offense!

=__2nc Politics Drill - July 14th__= Comments by Matt - try to number when doing the line-by-line- more efficient impact calculus - try to reduce the number of words used- be sure to answer all the arguments - good card choices - shorten the tags

=__Mini-Debate #1 - Neg (1N) vs. Ben/Nick - July 16__=

Comments by Helen Gomez
The 1NC was clear. I would invest in speaking drills to get through the blocks a bit faster. You also need to make sure to finish the shell (including both the link and impact). 1NR This speech was good and clear. You dont need to extend the 1NC link cards because the 2AC straight impact turned. When you are dealing with an impact turn debate, you need to do a lot of ev comparison. Read the aff impact turns, point out the weaknesses, emphasis the strengths of your cards, and read more ev. In these debates, speed is essential. Your goal is to read a lot of diverse impacts, making it impossible for the aff to answer all of them.

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

Comments by Jeffrey Xu
Good on pointing out neg concessions. However, try to organize the 1AR better. Do more of a line by line and signpost where you are on the flow. Make sure you have a strategy for how you're going to win the debate. For example, you probably want to spend more time on the impact turns to ABL since that's where a lot of your offense is. Cut down the explanations a bit in the 1AR. They don't need to be quite as long.

=__Practice Debate #5 - Aff (1A) vs. Carol/Mahnvee - July 27__=

Comments by Helen Gomez
1AC: The 1AC was extremely clear. However, you should do speaking drills that make you faster. In debate, speed is a powerful tool. Try to push yourself as much as you can without losing your clarity. Try to emphasize certain words in the tag. As your speech is now, it is difficult to distinguish the tag from the rest of the card. In cross-x, you need to always keep your eyes on the judge and refer to your evidence more frequently. Use the warrant to help you answer questions. 1AR: Good speech! You listened to my comments and applied them. However, the impact calculus should have been on the DA. You should not make comparisons between neg and aff impacts on the case. The analysis should go in the beginning of the DA. Make more ev comparisons (qualification and warrants). DA You should pick certain args to go for and extend them well. Begin with the impact on top and make all of the comparisons there. You should also make sure to get to the uniqueness debate

=__Practice Debate #6 - Neg (2N) vs. Ben/Arjun - July 28__=

Comments by Tate
-Pretty good CX of 1AC. I am glad that you started the CX immediately. Remember to try to make eye contact with the judge in order to establish that “connection”. Solid line of questioning. -I liked your overview at the top of the START DA. Very good, specific evidence on the impact calculus. -I can’t overstate enough the importance of line-by-line debating. While you are prepping for the 2NC, you first need to make sure you have a good flow of the 2AC answers and you need to read 2AC evidence. When you are getting your arguments together, answer each and every 2AC argument in order. It is important that you sign-post off 2AC arguments in your speech. When I stopped you and had you rework this, you did get there. :) Thanks for working through this. We have to continue to work on this! --Good to read impact extensions on START. It may have been overkill since the Aff is not contesting the impacts. You probably would have been helped by reading more on the link or more on the CP. --It is good to extend cards by cite from the 1NC shell but don’t do it all at once at the bottom. When you are answering 2AC uniqueness answers, extend the 1NC uniqueness at that part of the flow and then read your new evidence. When you are answering 2AC link answers, extend the 1NC link evidence at that part of the flow and then read your new evidence. --On the CP, I did not stop you here. We were doing better on the line-by-line than we initially were on the DA but we still have to signpost off of *every* 2AC answer. --I am glad that we answered “Perm: Do Both” but we did not answer it correctly. The correct answer is that the Permutation links to the DA. You answered it with an Aff answer that the Taliban won’t negotiate while we are fighting them…that is the Aff answer. --2NR: I think it is fine to go for Topicality, but if you do, only go for Topicality. --We did not start this speech by debating off the flow :( We don’t debate off cards or what we have just typed up. Your flow is your first line of defense. --You need an overview – state what is your interpretation, why the Aff violates, and how the judge should weigh the interpretations..do this briefly and then go on the line-by-line IN ORDER of 2AC arguments that are still in play. --Good to have a case list in the 2NR…probably needed to be earlier in the debate, however. --What is the key impact that the judge should filter the debate through? You have to stress limits as the key impact.

=__Practice Debate #7 - Aff (2A) vs. George/Clark (Interlab) - July 29__=

Comments by Caitlin Bruce
1ac- anjali be louder and deliniate bw words more 1ar: you need to get to the disads with more time don’t group politic and your terrorism advantage shorten terrorism impact calc it was like a minute long on the cp be more efficient and recognize dropped args no offense on terorr (disad?)