Smith,+Brennan

toc =6/28/2011=

=6/29/2011=
 * If Zach can handle the CX questions of the 1AC (he can), there is no reason to talk over him
 * CX of 1NC checklist
 * What are the theory voters (if any)?
 * What are the T violation(s)
 * What does the CP do
 * What is the STATUS of the counterplan
 * Need to speak from a higher podium—are talking down into your laptop and into your screen
 * Need a plan for how you might use extra time during your speech
 * Did a good job of dealing with the case debate
 * Appropriately diagnosed and answered the CP
 * Good instincts in CX—attacked the 2NC at the right places
 * Should flip the 2AR order—case, cp, da
 * Is there a scenario in which you could win if they won that the perm didn’t takeout the CP?
 * Need to extend cards by tag and cite (case impacts, nasa key ev)
 * When you’re done, you’re done

=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.

= 7/7/2011 =

Bren: YAY YAY YAY YAY I am so glad you read the cap k! Extremely strategic against this aff. However, you also read a card that says cap causes extinction, which you don’t need to do because the affirmative team read those cards. Good job reading the mezaros card that resistance to cap must be removed from the government. You are a pretty speedy reader, which is great, but you could also improve on clarity. You had extra time – you should have spent this on reading link cards for the cap k. Because you both claim to solve capitalism, whoever solves it //better// is going to win – if you win that SBSP links to capitalism, it makes it harder for them to win that they get rid of capitalism.

Write out the CP text before the round.

NOOO why did you read the kerpen card?? It says that economic collapse causes extinction, so iit’s a disad to the alt as well as to the aff! Instead of conceding the debt ceiling budget and reading an impact for it, you should have read //aff// answers to the debt ceiling (link turns, no link cards, non uniques) – if you win that the aff won’t prevent the debt ceiling from passing, it means you are winning that the aff can’t collapse capitlism, which means your K solves better.

Your CX of the 2AC was very good.

Never give away what arguments you will be taking in the 1NR – it makes it harder for the 1AR to prep and predict the debate.

On the china DA, you do a great job extending the disad and giving a warranted answer why they shouldn’t be able to make new answers on it, but DON’T READ NEW CARDS ON THE DISAD. You are correct that they dropped the disad in the 2AC, and so they should not be able to make new answers, but if you read //new// cards, they are allowed to answer the //new// cards, which can result in them answering the disad.

=7/13/11=

-	If your card has multiple warrants (ground doesn’t solve, mobility, range, etc), you need to be sure to differentiate and have a small pause between the warrants so I can flow each of them -	Make sure you’re answering all their case arguments – you can probably do the 2ac on case more efficiently/cover more effectively by just extending 1AC arguments against their args – for example, they don’t make a “weaponization not inevitable” argument in the 1nc, you should use that to undercut their offense -	Talk in terms of external impacts