Farah,+Asha

Practice Round #1

The real secret to cross ex is confidence. You remember the demo debate? Blaize was really pretty full of it. But he SOUNDED good, and SOUNDED like he knew what he was talking about. You have good questions and input! Your next step is to adjust your tone and nonverbal cues to show that. You had good confidence when asking questions, not so much when answering.

When it comes to speaking skills, you really don’t need to worry about speed- you’re very clear and fast enough. debates are won by strategy and argumentation, not speed (no matter how it may look). some pen drills might help with clarity. remember to SAY your evidence without READING your evidence

The real issue with the neg in this debate was strategy. Not getting to case in the 1NC was not beneficial to you at all, and I think that is what killed you the rest of the debate. There were also no real impacts (I know you just mistook the internal link for the impact, that's okay. It's the first day of camp :))

You're a good debater, don't think otherwise. Some work on strategy and some more practice will do you really well, but that is what camp is for :)


 * __Practice Round 5, 6/27:__**

1NC: Good order speech and clarity. I think you could get a little louder and maybe move the chair so I can see you while you are speaking. I think you could have organized case a little more clearly, but seriously good speech!

CX: Good job in cross-ex, you can bullshit a little more I think, and be really clear on what your cap impacts are you want to make them seem big and also make them complicate the case. This can start in cross-ex. Good answers in 2NC answers using their subsidy evidence to support capitalism.

2NC: Good explanations on capitalism, I think you can really get good at this argument. After you get your cards highlighted down that will make your 2NC's quite good I think. You are doing good analytic arguments on capitalism. Maybe write out some blocks for this that aren't just cards. Once your cards are shorter I think it will make it easier for you to get to case.

1NR: Really great T explanation in the 1NR that we talked about.

2NR: Good overview on capitalism, let's work on writing this into an overview. I think if we break down the capitalism debate you could definitely get really good at this. You should hold your speech on the chair so that you can read it straight off and not down so I can hear you better.