Rochelle+vs.+Lilead+-+Eric+Short

You don’t want to have your 1ac stapled together—should you need to find pages or get to other ones at some point during the 1ac, you want to be able to just set one sheet down (this happens when you want to read the stability adv, for example). Also, the other team should have the opportunity to read the evidence after you have. You have a great speaking voice [loud enough, you emphasize important words, etc] but I think you can go faster and still be persuasive. Keep working at speed drills on pushing yourself to become faster every day Be sure to number your advantages as well—so for example, instead of saying Advantage: Credibility, you want to say Advantage 1: Credibility, Adv 2: ILaw, etc—and, I think with some of the cards, you didn’t read a card, just the tag—be sure to read all the cards to make a complete advantage 1AR—you want to take prep, even if just a little, to make sure you and your partner are on the same page. You also want to work on an extention structure for the 1ar—pick 2ac arguments, extend them, and then answer the arguments the negative made against each one. That will make it easy to flow, and also an easy check to see if you have answered everything important. The examples you give are good, but in themselves, they don’t extend the arguments. Also, you want to have your flows with you in a single place, cause the pacing will lose you a few moments during your speech
 * Royce**

good job going back to 1AC cards! Great knowledge of 1ac, and also proving that you don’t always need new cards. Be sure not to overexplain the 2ac arguments—make the arguments, but let the 1ar develop them if necessary. And, don’t get too flustered in cross-ex even if you don’t know the answer to questions; you have enough knowledge to explain your arguments in the context of their questions 2AR—you want to put the round together—you have good impact comparisons, but think about how they all interact, and why you should win if you win these arguments. Also, remember what offense you have in the debate—even though it is possible to win debates without offense, it is much easier to win with offense rather than banking on defense. For instance, in thinking about time spent in the 2AR, you spend 1 minute on the K, 1 minute on the DA, and 3 minutes on the case—you probably want to switch that up some
 * Michelle**

you want to prep during the 2ac cross-ex—otherwise you are giving away free prep. You are making really good arguments on each position, but be sure to do each line-by-line. That means take each distinct argument the 2ac made and answer it explicitly. You want to be able to speak for 8 minutes without recapping/underviews—LBL will help with that—also, you don’t want to mention capitalism—that is Mairead’s only 1NR argument. 2NR—you don’t have to announce in your roadmap that you are kicking the China DA, but you do need to concede arguments the 1ar made in order to make the DA “go away”—you don’t want them to be able to use it as offense in the 2AR. You also want to think about 1 strategy for the 2NR—typically either K/case, DA/case, CP/DA, etc. In this one, you have K/DA/case
 * Lily**

Good 1NC strategy—well thought through, easily understandable, and articulated in your speech. Don’t need to explain cap argument in the 1NC—use that for the block when you extend it 1NR—good impact claims (biggest impact, only defense, etc)—talk through why that means the judge should prefer that to the Aff impacts. Some interaction with aff comes later—the connection between cap and poverty the aff wants to solve. Overall, pretty good LBL argumentation.
 * Mairead**