Landy,+Max

Practice Debate 6/24

1NC: Good speed in the 1NC, I think you could work a little more on clarity. This can work well if you just slow down a little and work your way up to speed. Try to remember to get case in your 1NC's from now on!

CX: Good job spinning answers in cross-ex. Try not to spend cross-ex time gathering what cards she read, it's best if you can do that during her speech.

1NR: Try not to take prep before the 1NR. I think you should start the 1NR with an overview, that would be a little less confusing and help frame the debate. You do good analysis I would consider writing those into blocks which will make prepping the 1NR faster. Try to stay away from underviews and write them into blocks instead. The poverty analysis is smart. The climate change shift argument doesn't make as much sense, the idea of different ecosystems maybe makes sense but climate change is a GLOBAL issue which makes the shift argument seem a little silly.


 * Round 5: Blaize DePass:** Max vs Nisarg/Aasim

Max (1AC)—A little voice variance would help during the 1AC so it’s easier to follow. You don’t have to be passionate necessarily, but sounding bored can be bad for your speaks. It also makes you *seem* less clear and slower than you are, which is also bad for your speaks in front of a lot of judges. I also think that you should let me know that you’re changing flows, as that can be problematic for you if I don’t know. Besides that the 1AC was fine. #Protip: Since you have some leftover time you might want to add some more cards in the 1AC to prevent you from doing more work in the 2AC.

Max (2AC)—Your order change was necessary, and I think that it helped your speech a lot. I like the way you dealt w/ the disad and the cap k. This was strategic and a good idea, at least it seems so as of the 2AC. I think you should work on line by line a little but besides that this was a good speech. Your speaking improved as well. I think that it is a lot easier to speak well when you aren't bent over like you were, and using a stand or a chair. But this was definitely and improvement from the 1AC.