Wu,+William

toc =6/28/2011= 1AC: William - Try to sound more motivated in your speech even if it is just reading a 1AC – notice I say motivated versus enthused – I don’t mean to say that you should sound like you’re telling a story but your interest in what you’re saying does

Cross-x: William – You seemed timid in answering questions

1AR: William - Make sure to give a road map. - Develop more offensive explanations of your argument. - Good job explaining probability questions and comparing them.

=6/29/2011= 1NC-Will Try and make sure the 1NC is ready to go before the end of the 1ac cross-x. It took you and Ray a few minutes to get your order together and this is time another judge might take out of your prep time. Don’t bother mentioning the specific names of your off-case scenerios when giving your “roadmap”. Simply say “3 off”. This way teams theoretically can’t prepare ahead of time for the arguments you are going to run. While you’re definitely a very clear speaker (which is most important!), your voice is a little monotone. Try to vary your voice by using greater inflection/excitement/stress/maybe even volume when you’re talking about your devastating impacts for your DA’s and Kritik.

1NR-Will Try not to take prep time for your 1NR. It’s totally understandable if your partner needs you to finish up an offcase position. However, you should use prep immediately after the 2NC BEFORE the cross-x to communicate what additional arguments you need to answer. Then you have 3 minutes of built in prep time while your partner answers cross-x questions for the 2NC.

When you stand up for your 1NR, make sure you know what order you are address your offcase positions. It’s not necessary to go to flows that the 2NC already covered. You’re best off using this speech to focus on your Debris DA. J Good job pointing out how the 1AC solvency cannot access your Debris DA impact. If you are switching from Debris to the Budget DA make sure to clearly flag this argument switch. Bring up more evidence in case you run out of analytical arguments and answers to make. Its always good to read more uniqueness and link arguments to cement a DA win and you always want to use all your speech time.

=6/30/2011=

Read like you are interested. Your 1AC could be highlighted a bit more so that you can read all of the evidence that is there. Way to stand your ground in CX. You seem to understand your aff well. In the 1AR, make sure you are using your whole aff (ie. the mining advantage) to leverage against offcase positions. If you are going to make a morality claim it has to be in connection with one of your impacts so that you can compare impacts in the round. Focus on line by line debate, evidentiary comparison, and impact calculus.

Tim

= 7/5/2011 =

Will you did great! I think you could work on being more aggressive and passionate. Try and push a little in CX. Also you need to read a perm. Perms are awesome and great and key to winning aff debates on counterplans. Great catch on the uniqueness debate on the China relations DA. You are at the point where you can do pretty good line by line and extend arguments just go the extra mile and say the why. Why is the fact that they dropped your uniqueness argument important to the debate. But I think you did a great job and will continue to get better!