Robinson,+Dai'Quan+T.

toc =6/28/2011= Look at the judge during CX. Ask more powerful questions, not “Why should we spend money if an asteroid has such a low chance of hitting earth?” This gives Ayan a chance to continue explaining why asteroids are so dangerous.

You need to flow during the 2AC. You will be giving the 2NC, which means if you aren’t flowing her arguments, you need to be writing your own.

Good 2NC. You had a good answer to the perm, especially. I think you could be a very good K debater. You do need to try and be more organized – you repeated yourself a lot, and you had extra time. You could have answered the perm just once, and then read more impact cards for capitalism, or extend one of the disads. You also definitely needed to explain the impacts of the capitalism K more – you do a good job explaining the links, but you still havn’t really explained why capitalism is bad by the end of the 2NC. Also, don’t swear – a lot of judges in Minnesota are very conservative and will think it’s bad.

You should have extended the scare tactics card more! You could have argued that elites have made asteroids seem like a much bigger problem than it actually is in order to justify expansion into space, which takes out their entire aff.

=6/29/2011= - Clarity is good – try and push yourself in speed drills - You have a habit of when you stumble over words, going back and fixing them/repeating words you’ve already said. Unless it is on a tag/SUPER important argument, you should just keep going, it will make you more efficient. This is mostly true of card text. - Try and avoid bending over when you read, you should set the podium up high enough that you can stand straight, so your airway is at its best - First question in cross-x when there is a K or CP (even though they didn’t get to the alt) should be about the status, good cross-x though - Don’t editorialize with things like “their answers to case are sad” or “this is a horrible disad”, it sounds a bit mean, and it would be more efficient to just say why the arguments aren’t good - Good analysis on the case, make sure you’re keeping up when flowing so you don’t miss case arguments - In the 1AR (especially on offcase positions), you don’t want to try and line-by-line the debate, extend your arguments based on the 2AC order – it’s more organized - Work on organization – you should have your flow in front of you (or maybe the 2ac as well) so you can just extend arguments.

= 7/3/2011 =

Milkie Luke - Make sure to not change the tone and pitch of your voice when you’re reading the texts of the card – you sound a bit like an auctioneer right now. - Good job distinguishing tags and the plan text though you probably do not need to slow down as much as you are right now. Daiquann - Try not to get so heated in cross-x: it is not increasing the credibility of your line of questioning and hurts your ethos – it’s good to be aggressive but not belligerent.

Sienna - Great speaking voice. You sound good so work on building speed.

Daiquann - Try to help Sienna answer questions but don’t take over your partners cross-x. - Also, you should not plan to read the rest of a procedural in the 1NC, in the 2NC. If you really wanted it as part of your strat, you should make sure to time your partner’s speech so that you can direct her when to switch flows with enough time to complete the argument.

Lee - Great job on analytics. - Your blocks are well written, but try to build in more offense. - You can always read more case cards to answer 1NC arguments and 2AC add-ons when you have extra time but don’t have any more cards to read on offcase arguments.

DAIQUANN! MILKIE LUKE! BOOO! Stop taking over the cross-x’s!!! - Sienna you are doing fine asking questions, just ask more! Lee you also are doing fine answering questions so be more assertive.

Daiquann - Organization!!! Flowing seems to be going pretty well for you but you want to make sure you are ready and have everything you need when you stand up to speak. - You should subdivide your arguments into sections (i.e. “link debate”, “perm debate”, etc.). - Make sure to answer every argument and always be making specific K links to the aff (cards AND analytics). - More permutation answers!!! Danger zone!

Sienna - Good speech but I want to see more of your own ideas! It’s good to have blocks but it also is bad for your aesthetics when it appears you are only reading blocks. - Don’t be afraid to speak up for yourself over Daiquann!

Milkie Luke! - Good speech: work on focusing on offensive arguments. - Great job on the perms and intrinsicness argument on the disad. - The “counter-perm” is really a floating PICs argument and that’s why you should also always make this a theory argument in the 2NC.
 * You should make intrinsicness a theoretical argument.

Daiquann - Woahhhh! Devolution! Need organization!! Think strategy – what is the 2AR going to try to go for? What can lose you the debate? What can win you the debate? - You really need to take the permutations seriously! They’re high risk arguments. - The weakest part of a K is always the alt so make sure to explain how it will result in the aff impacts etc. - The threat construction arg. is good to eliminate the degree of the impacts.

Lee - You are planting in the right place but make sure to answer the rest of the 2NR. - Explain your aff advantages, weigh their impacts versus the K, and explain them as net benefits to your pick of permutation. - Answer the threat con argument and all of the case defense. - Go for your alternative answers too.

=7/6/2011= 2N – Dai’Quan •Slow down a little bit at the beginning of the speech. You’re mostly getting caught up in your words because you haven’t figured out precisely what the argument is on your flow. If you build into the argument slower at the beginning it will actually end up being more efficient. •Work on over-emphasis when you’re doing speed drills. Your speaking seems slightly stilted only because you are overemphasizing words at strange points as a result of your breathing patterns, which is an easy thing to fix. •Good job extending the warrants in your impact evidence and comparing them to their impacts. You’re doing as good a job of this short-form comparison in the block as anyone I’ve seen debating at the MDAW this year. •You should better distinguish the arguments that you’re making on the theory argument. I would overemphasize argument transition with either a very short break or a volume shift. You get better at building in a slight pause as you continue reading the block. •ALWAYS always always bring up more cards than you can read. If you have too many cards, you just won’t get to read some, and it’s much easier to skip through them. Finding cards, on the other hand, wastes a bunch of time and means you generally will not be making arguments for a component of your speech. •I know you’re going off the skin of your teeth in extending the solvency cards by the tag line, but focus on digging up the warrants in your evidence and explaining why their evidence and arguments don’t answer those warrants. •You will usually not be able to take your partner’s evidence, so you need to make sure you’re flowing more efficiently during the 1NR. •With as much time as they put on the condo flow in the 1AR, you should not place it on the bottom. It should be the top of the substance of the actual debate, or else you risk a 5 minute conditionality bomb after you accidentally undercover the argument. •Your 2NR seems scattered. This could largely be fixed by leading off the substance of your speech with an overview that explains what arguments you are extending, why they outweigh/solve/do whatever to the aff, and then move on to the line-by-line arguments. As it stands, the speech is a lot of arguments, but seems to lack a general thesis. •Don’t worry about the speech as you’re in the middle of it. All you can do is to keep pressing forward. Every second you take being concerned about not getting through all the args is time that you will not be spending making arguments. •You do a good job framing and contextualizing your argument at a small scale and local level, but you need to also have a macro-, big picture vision of the debate and how arguments connect and interact. This will come with time, but keep focusing on it and practicing it. •Yeah, WAY too little time on conditionality. Gives you a five minute conditionality bomb.

=7/7/2011=

Daiquann—you’re clear as day, but you need to focus on not jumping back a word or getting caught up on something that you are sticking on, focus your speaking drillz on just forcing ur way thru those words, don’t go back, just keep going—why are you grouping the arguments on case?—1AR certainly should have answered or at least explained the reason that the case does not actually get In trouble with militarization inevitable—you extend a good number of arguments, and your structure is pretty good, but u can make urself more flowable by doing the speaking drillz and by forcing yourself into a tagline-warrant,tagline warrant, extension structure