Elliott,+Klayton

toc =6/28/2011= Good work in the 2AR with impact analysis. You have to do this to win debates, and I was glad to see you do it. Although there was not much to answer in the 2AC, I would spend more time on the DA and less reading new case cards, as your case has been conceded as of the 1NC. Yes there may be some new 2NC case attacks, but your aff has good cards that have built in answers, and if you need to read more cards there is always the 1AR. Perhaps read their evidence closely and tell me why it's not as good as yours. You also did a good job leveraging your aff against the alternative. You could have even spent more time on the Liss evidence in the 2AR, as there was so much time spent on it in the 1AR.

Tim

=6/29/2011= 1N: Klayton

-You’re REALLY fast and pretty clear but you should make your tags more clear so I know what is a tag and what is card text (seems like this was only a problem with the first tag) -Remember what I said about saying the 1NC order: Off-case first (you don’t have to tell us what off case you are doing) and put case on the bottom and remember to tell me what advantages you are going on- Tell me when you are moving to a different flow please  -That was a good cross-x- especially pressing them on their impact cards -Make sure that you give me a correct order for the 1NR -Good job making the changes after I told the 2NC how he could improve! -Good Impact analysis/comparison

General Comments:

-NEG: I would recommend reading less off case and reading more on case- you both are fast so reading more on case and one less DA would be really hard for a 2A to answer. Also don’t take prep as a 1N you have the entire cross x and 2NC to prep! MAKE SURE TO KICK THE other DA- you just have to extend a piece of defense to kick it! DO NOT DOUBLE COVER. MAKE SURE YOU GUYS ARE FLOWING THE 1AR

=6/30/2011=


 * Rather than just extending the 1AC arguments, you should focus on answering the 1nc’s case arguments. You can use the same evidence, but go through the arguments in 1NC order and explain why they are wrong.
 * Remember that the 2AC is a time pressured speech, you should only make the arguments that you need to make and only make them once (repetition is unnecessary.) You’re clearly pretty fast and pretty efficient. A better way to use that efficiency and speed is to add in analytical arguments (case outweighs, logical probs with the da etc) as well as to make sure you have some offensive args on each of the disads.
 * Even after only a couple debates, you obviously have a strong grasp of what your affirmative does. Most of the changes I would suggest in the 2ar are just structural changes—start the debate out with a clear picture of what it means to vote affirmative, what does the world look like. This is where you do the meta-level debate that allows your micro level arguments (individual claims) to fill in the big picture.

= = = 7/1/2011 =

You have good impact analysis, but you need to do the line-by-line; answer each of their arguments one by one. You and your partner need to be sure not to double cover. That means, your partner should take one or two disads in the 2NC, and you should take one or two disads in the 1NR, and you guys don’t talk about the other persons disads. This is much more efficient and will allow you to make more arguments on each flow. You have naturally good argumentative skills, you just need to improve your basic technical debate skills – practice line by line debate.

=7/3/2011=

- Good pace - Say where on case you are going - You should avoid overexplaining your cards in the 1NC – that can happen later in the debate - Work on the phrasing of your analytics – you want to be efficient with them, and have them in a flowable fashion - You went through and re-explained several of your cards, you should just use that time to make more arguments - Use all your time, you could’ve read more cards - Make sure you’re prepping throughout the 2NC – you should never use 1NR prep, and judges hold the 1NR to a higher standard, because you have so much time - “like we said in our card” – don’t start your argument like that – make your argument, and then say who the author is – its more efficient and easier to flow

=7/11/11=

Try to do all your prep work during the 2nc and CX–it is at least 11 mins PLUS 2nc prep, so plenty of time to prepare a speech. If you find yourself still needing preptime for the 1nr, you need to change the way you prep speeches (don’t write them out word for word, etc). Have an overview at the beginning of the 1nr on the positions you’re taking. I think you should take either budget or china and really go indepth into one of them. You should be talking about your opponents evidence and be making specific comparisons between their cards and yours.

=7/11/2011= 1A – Klayton • Push yourself to go faster in the 1AC. I know you can go much faster, but you won’t be able to until you force yourself to keep getting a little bit faster each time you read this speech. • You’re not entirely incorrect in your answers about the economy and government investment in SPS, but you should focus on how energy prices rising kill the economy, and stabilizing them will fix systemic shocks that cause economic collapse. • Remember that on theory arguments, you need to focus on making impact arguments. Since everything comes down to fairness and education, you can say their value to life args are irrelevant, but you need to frame the reason why in terms of debate theory. • Good job pointing out the contradiction of the neg team reading evidence while simultaneously indicting teams who read evidence. • Good job being efficient in your speech and getting through the wide and somewhat ridiculous variety of args in the neg block. The next steps are to (a) extrapolate contradictions between their args and impact these contradictions (b) better warrant out your arguments, and (c) read more evidence on essential points that you need to win the debate.

=7/13/2011=

--work a bit on your efficiency, say precisely what it is that you want to argue, one time all the way through (claim, warrant, impact) then move on—you can make several more arguments very quickly this way --learn this phrase for the 1ar—“extend the 2ac XXXX” you should use it very very often, phrase everything you do in this speech as the extention of a 2ac argument --you have to extend a counterinterpretation on topicality, it’s the equivalent of offense on a disad, without it its really hard for you to stay competitive in the debate, not impossible, but difficulty --make sure your extention of framework has both levels of impact argument—the reason why it is bad for debate and the reason s it is bad for politics etc

=7/14/11=

You are really repetitive in the beginning of your speech. I think you should work on cutting out about half of what you say and really narrow in on your arguments–why is their claim ridiculous? why are aliens unlikely? I think your argument about conquering is really smart, you should maybe read cards for it. Talk about how it impacts the affirmative advantage. You should have an overview on the counter plan explaining why it solves the affirmative and how they have messed up the counterplan flow. Perms are not super abusive and do not take away your whole argument, just explain why it links. Make sure not to double cover what your partner already took. You get a lot stronger as you move on in the speech, the type of analysis on evidence and impacts you are doing at the end is what you should be doing the whole time.