WareJoncas,+Zachary

toc =6/28/2011=

=6/29/2011=
 * Speeed is good, but you should try to enunciate a bit more. Good energy while speaking—proper volume, relatively easy to follow
 * You need to work on calming your body while speaking—you move your hands around a lot, fidget with your hair, and sway back and forth. Try reading with your hands loosely gripping your podium, and try to keep your feet steady
 * Speak from a higher podium (about a foot higher)—you are speaking down into the chair, which makes it more difficult to understand you.
 * Had 30 seconds left in 1AC
 * You should listen to your partner about the 1AR order—if you win the case, you probably win, since you outweigh the DA—CP should be higher in the order
 * If you are going to flow on your computer, need to practice switching between flows while speaking
 * Arguments on CP are the correct ones—probably overexplain the perm a bit, tho
 * Need to practice increasing your analytic speed—“read and explain” drill is effective
 * Should incorporate more comparative impact calculus—how does one compare the differences in magnitude, and how does this interact with the timeframe difference (your case impact is bigger and slower than the DA impact—who wins?)

=6/30/2011=
 * I noticed you slowed down on the theory arguments. You should ask you coach what the social standard is (I have been out of the activity for a while), but I liked that. Theory arguments are usually a little short and it is easy to miss some because of that. Slowing down a bit helped me keep track
 * You mention a few cards from the 1NC, but I'm not sure I know which ones they are. Try to cite them by author (“the Zizek 99 evidence”) because that is how many people flow cards, so it will be easier to follow you.
 * Like the coverage of the overview, good setup for the speech
 * Although the blocks are good to have in the 2NR, be careful because they might distract you from specifc versions of arguments that are slightly different than your blocks are designed for

= 7/7/2011 =

Zach: 2nc: Woooooo you are super fast and still clear! Way to go! Good job reading more cap links, and good job relating the case cards you read to their inability to collapse capitalism – this was the only way to make these arguments useful. Overall, great arguments in the 2nc. A few times, you extended a card by rereading a tag – don’t do this. You need to re-explain the card yourself. Also, you really don’t need to read more impact cards on capitalism, since both teams have conceded that capitalism causes extinction.

You should be prepping during 1AR prep! If you know what you are going to go for, you should be prepping that – if you don’t know, pick one strategy and just write an overview. At least there is a chance it will come in useful – if you do nothing, there is a 0% chance it will be useful.

2NR: Good job with impact analysis and extending your arguments, but you dropped their ONE answer! On the cap flow, Jevans makes the argument that defaulting on our debt will make us pay our debt to China and it will improve our relations with them. Even if this argument is dumb, you have to answer it.

Overall, your strategy has some serious issues. For example, what would have done if the 1AR had amazing answers to the cap k, and extended the no value to life argument? You would have been unable to go for the disad because people would not have a value to their life in a world with capitalism.

=7/13/11=

-	Clarity is better – it got better as the speech went on, I know it’s just a practice debate, but for any debate that matter at all – you should warm up -	Ideally, you want to not have that big of a speed different between your tags and your card text, working on being able to speak more rapidly on tags without sacrificing clarity will help -	Uniqueness questions on the Aff -	Good job on the perm links, but why do you say “perm is normal means” -	Youre hedging so much on this “don’t use nasa budget”, you need to refer to ev -	At least say “more evidence” as a tag