Thomas-Commins,+Daniel

toc =6/28/2011=

1nc: those disads really need to be highlighted down a lot, read offcase first then case arguments (unless your case arguments are truly devastating)

1nr: you speech on the budget da should be centered around the impact, as that is what the 2ac read answers to. there's no need to read extensive uniqueness and link extensions if the aff does not contest it. a quick 15-20 second overview/extension is good enough. the rest of the time should be spent winning your global warming impact

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

=6/29/2011=

Good job refuting the capitalism K, but you need to think about how your 2AC is organized. Some of your claims are asserted without warrants. How do I know your plan is so cheap? Why isn't mining a substantial problem for capitalism? I think writing some blocks might help. Don't continuously add new thoughts to your arguments, unless they are impactful on the round. You make very good analytic arguments, and blocks will help you say them more concisely. Also, remember to generate offense on every flow. This will help you in your 2AR. The 2AR was well structured, but don't talk about capitalism unless you are going for offense. Your case impacts are well explained, but remember to compare them to the DA.

Tim

=6/30/2011=

Good ups reading cards during the 1nc. Always put case first in the 2ac to make sure you get through it–if you lose case, you almost certainly lose the debate. If you are going to start off on the DA, begin with a reason the case outweighs the DA. Not only is this an important argument, but it sort of frames the round around the aff, which makes it sound like you’re winning. Good catch on the lack of cards on the cap k. I would still spend a little more time there making some defensive arguments or perhaps reading some preempts in case they try to make it a larger argument in the block. You sound really assertive and awesome in CX, so try to bulild some of that into your speeches more. I think you should go for the arguments in the 1ar on the K rather than making these new arguments about China etc. You later go for the perm–make sure to extend your evidence and your impact as the net benefit. You do a good job talking about the case impact later, do so in context of the kritik.