Ayana,+Gebriela

Round 1

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.

__**Round 2: Blaize DePass:**__ Siddharth/Gebriela vs Sebastian/Clara

Everyone: You all gotta work on prep usage!!! Ya’ll are using prep before cx!!! This is very bad practice if you aren’t having a conversation w/ your partner about your next speech! Also, you should all work on organization so that the round makes sense to everybody in it! Also, cx questions are very important. You want them to be conceding links and clarifying stuff you aren’t sure about. But you should always be asking question! Never give up cx time especially when you are confused about something that is happening! Also you gotta flow!!! Not flowing is never an option. A majority of the confusion that was present in this round was likely the lack of an organized flow. Make sure to work on this so that you can be organized and judges can follow along with what you’re saying. Everybody should also be doing impact comparison and talking about their impacts in context of the other teams. All of these are things that you can definitely work on during skill sessions!

Gebriela (2AC)—Thank you for changing your order, and making sure that everything you needed to be answered was in the speech. I think that it’s good that you take this to heart and use it in different debates so you know what to put priority on over other things. I also think you gotta work a little on efficiency and make sure you don’t spend too much time on case. You want to answer their arguments, but you want to make sure you don’t just drop some important arguments. You get to the two offcase with three minutes left, and this could be problematic if they decided to read more offcase. It’s important to get to all the offcase, which is why I think you would also benefit from some speaking drills, so that you can go quicker and make more arguments. You are also really clear! Also, you should make sure you note when you change flows so that the judge knows when to also change flows.

Gebriela (2AR)—Im glad you heeded my adice about order, but it’s still very important that you answer every argument that they bring up. The clarity is good just like it was in the last speech, and I think that you have good voice variation. I think you could benefit from organizational practice, so that you know where you are at all times of the debate. I also am happy that you bring up impact comparison! I think that it should be brought a little further, and some more comparing should be done, but this was the first time it was done at all during the debate! I think that you should work on line by line a bit, and answer their arguments that are the most important. You should talk with your partner before your speech and identify the arguments which you think are the best and go for those in this speech, because this is the speech that will really bring it home for the affirmative. You’re persuasive, just be a little more confident and that will go a long way!

Round 5 (l.smith)

Label your transitions in the 1NC

Don’t go back and recover a flow in your speech.

Don’t use prep before the 1NR. You want to save that for your partner's 2NR.