Kana+vs.+Saaton+-+Eshort

Sara(1nc) - you have a habit of saying "uh" and "um" a lot during your speeches. One thing to do to avoid that would be to engage in some start/stop debates. Redo your 1NR, and stop yourself every time you say uh. Start over. Etc.

Klayton - Your coverage is great but your speech is really messy. You're jumping all over the flow. Take command, you're the 2nc - keep similar debates answered together, i.e. on the china flow you go between links/ux all over the place. (I'm probably overreacting, but still) One of the best strategic components of a 2NC is reordering the flow in a way that forces the 1AR's strategic drops to be even more obvious for your 2NR prep.

Also - your uniqueness arg on US isn't engaging latin america isn't true in the cases of the other 2 topic countries, although engagement differs for each. make sure to contextualize your generic args with cuba/embargo.

Sara(1nr) - Try to view the cap debate slightly differently...

-links -sustainability -impacts -alt

and organize your floor around these 4 questions. You have a similar organization problem to klayton, and this should help keep things in check.

Kate - You need to pick and choose your 1AR extensions a bit more carefully - your speech was lopsided defensively, and it didn't seem like there were a lot of offensive reasons to vote aff after the 1ar. one big place to look would be your case flows, you concede a lot of reasons why normalizing relations won't solve human rights, but you extend the impact framing (body count vs. ethics) if you're able to win the solvency for this advantage

Dana - there wasn't a whole lot you could do to pull this round out as a win in the 2ar, but one way to start going about that would be to reframe the debate at the top of the 2ar: what a world looks like with aff plan, what a world looks like wit hthe status quo, etc. While you're losign the case debate, this doesn't mean you're not able to reframe the impacts and try going all in on i-law and stability. There's a decent chance that us-sino relations are resilient enough to overcome.