Baggenstoss,+Alayna

Round 1 judge: Thorn Chen

Alayna - Good delivery for 1AC. In order to speed up, you should eliminate the gaps between sentences. Shift emphasis to single words and phrases instead of entire sentences. 1AR extensions should be more clearly organized according to the order of issues -- you jump between arguments a lot. Talk more about your AFF and its advantages, and extend 2AC cards. Very good showing for your first debate!

Kaaha - Good 2ar. Make sure you discuss the impacts of your case. Your card extensions should be woven into the story of your advantages. Don't reread the tags of your cards.

Siddarth - Good clean 1nc, you should put more offense into it. 2nc and 1Nr should split the block. Base case extensions on 1NC arguments.

Gabriela - Good analysis on some of your case arguments re: the cost of subsidies. Go for offense in the 2NR. In the 2NC give a summary of your arguments, answer their arguments, then read your new cards. Make sure you always give the order before your speech.

Everyone should flow separate issues on separate sheets of paper.

-- Judge: thorn

7/1: Alayna—face the judge during CX. 2nc—start your 2nc with an overview. You need more offensive arguments on case. 2nr—they don’t claim a US China war, so your defensive argument doesn’t get you anywhere. You need to be sure to extend offense—case defense works well in conjunction with offcase offense, but not as well by itself. You should have an overview at the top of the 2nr.

RFD: This debate had a lot of missed opportunities. When the 2AC drops both of your disads and only reads one card on the cap K, the neg strat should have changed to adjuct for what happened. The 2NC should have taken one DA and case, and the 1NR should have spent 5 minutes on the other DA. Instead what happened is that the 2NC extended both the disads and case, which did not allow time for much indepth analysis. The 1NR gave a very good explaination of cap and why each of the advantages link, as well as why cap is the root cause of their impacts. However, there was no explination of the alt, and you didn't respond to the sustainability debate. This allowed the 1AR to spend a lot of time on sustainability, and wins that their impacts happen before cap could ever collapse. It was a close debate that could have gon either way, but the lack of 2NR cap analysis and the 2AR's extention on cap sustainable means I vote aff. Great debate!
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