Amato+Bauer,+Rosalia

toc =6/29/2011= Rosie: - Try to fill up your cross-x time. Set up questions for the link to your trade-off disad. - FLOW FLOW FLOW – you prolly won’t get the 1NC evidence until it’s too late to catch up on flowing it because the other team needs it to prep the 2AC. - In the 2NC you need to make sure to answer each of the arguments in the 2AC (which is why flowing is important) and not just read random extension evidence the whole speech. - You should not have your partner double cover. - Pick an argument to go for and explain it, answer the aff arguments, and compare the neg impact to the aff impact.

=6/30/2011=


 * Start the 2NC on each of the disads with a brief overview, where you maybe explain what the disad is, why its good, talk about the impacts, etc. Then move on to respond to each of their arguments specifically. You are reading the precisely right evidence, but read it to respond to each of the specific arguments that the 2AC makes. Specifically, integrate your evidence among the responses to their specific arguments that you make afterwards.
 * Great job in cross-x also, btw, both asking your own questions and encouraging your partner to keep going.
 * Your 2nr makes it very clear that you already have a strong grasp of what your arguments are, but you need to do more responding to specific arguments made by the 1ar. I have a clear and soldid position of the story on both ur disads, but you could do a little bit more work on impact calculation for me (why are yours faster, better, bigger).

=7/3/2011=

- Keep a sheet of paper on the side with questions you want to ask so you don’t run out of them - Make your argument before you say the author – the argument is more important, and what you say first is often all that the judge will get on the flow - Try and be organized/have all your stuff up with you so you can be as efficient as possible - Make sure you aren’t re-reading cards that were in the 1NC - Avoid the “this is saying” – you want your tag line to do all the explanation you need - Try and use all your time – read more cards on the disad, make impact analysis, - You only need to go for 1 disadvantage, there’s no need to win the round twice – spend more time on the one disad and make sure you’re really winning it cleanly - Impact analysis! - 2NR is the time to explain why you win, you should try and crystalize that

=7/6/2011=

If you are not going to flow warrants, then get evidence and write arguments during the text of cards. This is precious time you can’t afford to ignore in a debate. You should do case first in this debate. Actually in most debates. Remember what we talked about today in lab. Loud! Confident! Persuasive! Before you read any more new cards on case, explain the warrants in your 1AC cards. You need offense on weaponization- the no link probably won’t get you there. You need a way to get out of this weaponization DA. Use heg, use your debris answers, use anything. Moral obligation is new, but nice try. You are isolating the wrong impact as important- debris is junk. Don’t talk about it after you make your case solves impact argument. Don’t answer arguments that aren’t in the 2NR- poverty etc. The 2AR is about argumentative choice- narrow down which answers will win you the debate and focus on them. This is something you should think about before you go into a debate, and this is why block writing helps a lot. I suggest making some blocks before the tournament.

Tim