Somasundaram,+Manoj

toc =6/28/2011= Cut down on highlighting Learn to cut-off the person you are cross-exing when they start rambling

Recognize what to talk about in the 1AR... You have such little time. -Extend the pieces of ev you need to win the round. Setup the 2AR

1000 Megatons ev (get this)

=6/29/2011= 2N – Manoj • Your questions in cross-x are good, but they aren’t focused. You should always ask questions toward a certain goal (trapping your opponent, getting links, setting up your strategies). • Good job extending your arguments in the 2NC, but the next step is to impact your arguments. Why does this argument matter? How does it interact with their case arguments? The more clash you create between your arguments and theirs, the more opportunity you have to mitigate or even eliminate their arguments. • Good work pointing out the flaws and lack of warrants in the evidence that they read on case. This is a really good example of a detailed and warranted case extension. • Good job extending the DA, but adding an overview to the top would really help organizing it. Focus on making specific line-by-line responses to each of the arguments that they present. • Good job kicking out of the weaponization DA at the top of the 2NR. Quick and effective, eliminating all of their offense on the flow. • The 1AR put almost the exclusive focus of the debate on the K on the permutation. You HAVE to win this argument in order to win the debate. Focus on making all of your link arguments here in order to effectively answer this arg. • You need to win all of the levels of the K in order to win the debate on it. Make sure the judge knows why the K links to the aff, why the impact of the K outweighs and turns the aff, and why the alternative solves the impacts to the K. Only by winning these arguments can you effectively leverage these arguments against their case. • Good job making prioritization arguments (Capitalism first). You need to make sure you have identified exactly why the impact of your argument precedes the impact to their aff.

-Talon

= 6/30/2011 = Round 3 2N - Manoj Cross-X - You're super confident in cross-x which is awesome to setting a good tone for the rest of the debate. The problem is that you're baiting the questions way too hard. Instead of saying something like "doesn't your plan cost a lot of money?" and setting yourself up for the link debate on the dis-ad, ask a question about implementation and work up to talking about the funding. That way you are more covert about what you are trying to accomplish. Otherwise you might as well ask, "so do you link to the dis-ad I want to run or what?" Speaking/sign-posting - When you started your 2NC on case you literally said the author and then started to talk about a super detailed warrants within both of the cards. This is awesome. Continue this into the debate by explaining how these clashing warrants translate into arguments and offense in the debate round. Until you are more "macro" with your explanations, I have no way to translate your arguments into why these justify you winning the round.

= 7/1/2011 = You are a good speaker, but you need to improve your line-by-line skills. You were not answering arguments in the right order, and you ignored some arguments while answering some arguments that did not exist. I think you probably need to practice flowing.

Also, the negative team did not extend the weaponization DA, which means you don’t need to talk about it at all – you don’t even need to point out that they dropped it.

=7/3/2011=

You have some speed. Work on taking out “um” and being smoother. Reading ahead helps this. Good questions in CX. Don’t let him overwhelm you with answers- it’s your CX. Don’t just go line by line in the 1AR- follow 2AC structure. You need this skill. Prep out stock 2AC answers and 1AR blocks. Good case extension though.

Tim