McClun,+Conor

toc =6/28/2011=

=6/29/2011= Conor: - Good cross-x! It was good the way you tried to trick them into thinking the aff solved the disad. - You gave a really good rebuttal attempting to maintain some organization to the debate. - Also good job giving impact calculus. - Work on flowing!!

= 6/30/2011 = Conor:

Don’t take preptime for the 1NC, ever. Especially in this debate, you knew what the aff was DAYS in advance – there is no excuse for taking prep. You should be able to get everything ready during the 1AC.

You definitely need to work on speed drills.

Great CX! Very strong first question about card qualifications, and good job moving on when the CX started to get out of hand. Look at the judge during CX.

Don’t double cover! Pick SOME of the flows for you to take in the block, and leave other flows for your partner to take in the block. Talk about this with your partner during prep for the 2NC.

Stop hating on yourself! You are clearly smart and are making good arguments – have some self confidence!

7/5/2011
You were AWESOME!! On the Chica relations DA you can't concede the uniqueness. Relations with China need to be good in order for the Aff to trigger the link. OR else the Neg can say ok relations bad the impact should have already happened BLAMMY! Also to win a Counter Plan you need to have a netbenefit for the Counterplan or else I wil just vote for the plan. I think you did a great job and you are super funny and passionate about debate but you need to take the rounds more seriously and you will do a lot better!!! You are going to be great!

= 7/7/2011  =

Conor: 1AC: In some ways, this 1AC was strategic. I liked that you read a card that says that economic collapse does not cause war – that is a good pre-emptive card. However, you need to be careful of the Cap K as an answer to this – someone could easily win that the kritik solves the collapse of capitalism better, because there are a lot of cards that you can’t defeat capitalism using the sustem.

CX of the 1AC: You should try to let Jevans answer some questions, because he didn’t answer a single one.

CX of the 1NC: Even though Jevans should be doing this CX, if you are going to be doing it you should be looking at the judge.

2AC: You don’t need such a long overview – it’s pretty clear that you are using the debt ceiling DA as a way to win that you collapse capitalism, so you don’t need to explain this a billion times. Also, don’t read more evidence in the 2AC that says the plan is unpopular – these arguments were conceded in the 1NC, which means you don’t need to read any more. You also don’t need to explain their CP before you start answering it – also, you don’t need to read any cards to answer this cp! Just argue that it doesn’t solve the case – if the private sector does this instead of the government, the government won’t get blamed for the plan and be unable to pass the debt ceiling, and so the plan won’t collapse the economy. Also, don’t summarize cards right after you read them – if the judge flowed it, the judge understood it, so you don’t need to explain it any more. Time allocation issues were a problem – you didn’t get to the china disad. You should stop summarizing your arguments excessively.

2AR: Good job trying to make arguments with the few things you had available. **However, you can always rely on your AFF! You should have done WAY more impact analysis and done this first. If you don’t have answers to a disad, you can still win by outweighing with****your aff – win that capitalism is worse than nuclear war or global warming.**