Johnson,+Matt

toc 6/28/2011

2ac: should have taken more than 30 seconds if prep as you weren't prepared to respond to all of their arguments, at worst if your of stuff to say use your case to outweigh or read more aff cards. you should attack the link and uniqueness harder on the budget d/a. in general, you should have more offense in your speech, especially on the budget da. don't beat yourself up in front of the judge, even if you were bad, judges will think you are even worse if you do that. do your best to look confident.

2ar: your in a tough spot here and you do a good job with what you are given. in your position you should at least try to spin and sneak your 2ac arguments back into the debate and justify why its not new. otherwise you should spend most of your time explaining why your case is more important which you do.

in general: flowing is extremely important for the reason that you need to look at what your partner and your opponents said and base your speech off that. neg needs to center their speech around the aff's most threatening arguments. aff needs to base their rebuttals on the arguments made by your partner in his/her last speech. a lot of arguments were made and got lost later in the debate on both sides. make sure to be pulling all of your arguments through.

good job overall and not bad at all for your first camp debate

=7/7/2011=

Matt—don’t just fish for links in the cross-x, you need to be investigating actively the holes in the aff, instead of asking how politicians feel about it, ask “does the tech exist?” “then why hasn’t it been deployed?” “who is preventing it from being deployed etc.”—its not clear to me what argument you are extending or really what argument u r answering, give a brief overview or some context to the argumetns you are about to make, then address your evidence to specific cards—that’s not even to mention that in this debate the impact evidence is not really relvevant to the debris flow, since they didn’t really answer it—you also need more uniqueness evidence to deal with the 4 or so cards that come out of the 2ac—your coverage of cap is not really adequate either, im not sure I understand why the alternative competes with the aff, which is the crucial question for you in this debate—you need to talk about the specific relevant components of their permutations and really contrast those with the role and function of the alternative—you need an overview, a meta level explanation of what it means to vote aff or neg in this debate