Madfles+vs+Meleh+-+EShort

Round 6, 7/1/13 Madfles v Meleh 1AC: Cuba, All Adv 1NC: Politics, CP, China DA, Case 2NR: Puffles (1AC): You have great speed and clarity (not sure why you asked about clarity before the debate!), but one thing you can work on is variations in your voice—use other indicators that you are changing cards, advs etc than slowing down. 2:45 left in the 1AC, which gives you some time to add more evidence to your advantages if you want 1NC CX—you are asking good questions, but don’t give away the entirety of your arguments here—set up arguments for Maddie to make, but don’t try to “win” during CX 1AR—good extensions of arguments without just saying they were dropped. Very strategic with picking and choosing, and impacting out those arguments instead of just extending all the arguments. Very good interactions between arguments to force the 2NR to unlink a bunch of those interactions to choose an argument for the 2NR Jaleh (2NC) Even if you don’t have an overview so to speak, you want to have an explanation of what the CP is, how it solves, etc. Especially with something as “shady” as a conditions CP, you want to be sure the judge understands exactly what the argument is—you have gotten better at LBL debating, but use your arguments to tell a coherent story—all of your arguments are contextualized within each of the arguments—so you don’t have to re-explain arguments about the China DA on each of the points they made—you end with 1:30 left—that is a lot of time to answer more fully many of their arguments 1AC CX—use questions to set up other questions ONLY when you can’t ask the 2nd question first. 2NR: mostly talked through before given (about 30 minutes of discussion about what to do in these instances) Remember, when you kick arguments, you have to concede the arguments the 1ar made in order to get out of it—just saying “we concede this DA” doesn’t really make it go away. Really good short term/long term distinction on politics—fit this into your overall link story Medha (1NC)—be sure to give labels to each of your arguments—so, you want to say first off is Politics/Immigration/etc instead of just starting with the tag of the uniqueness card. Start out at 70-80% speed and work your way up to full speed—this ensures you can maintain your speed throughout the speech, and will prevent you from stumbling in those first few seconds 1NR: Good extensions, but see about with Jaleh about doing LBL argumentation—you have great arguments, but many of them get lost in the rest of the debate

Maddie (2AC) Good strategic order—you’ve incorporated suggestions from previous redos! (great incorporation of Tucker date indict)—you start out with a good extension rhythm, see if you can keep that throughout. Over 6 minutes for the 3 off case positions is typically good, but since the 1NC only read like 3-4 total cards on case, you could probably answer them all in 1 minute, especially if you aren’t reading new cards—not sure you need a V2L arg on the China DA—you have 2:30 left in this speech. There are always more arguments you can make in a debate like this 2AR: same as 2NR (talked through before and after about strategy)