Godavarti,+Siddharth

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.

Siddharth - 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!

Siddharth (1AC)—At the top of the 1AC, you should make sure that you say “contention one is inherency”, just so your judge and opponents know where you’re at. Just makes sure everyone is on the same page from the get-go. I like how clear and deliberate you are, and that’s important. Also make sure you are making it clear that you are moving between tags and evidence. It wasn’t a huge problem, but you want to make sure that you are expressing the difference so that judges know what to flow! You skipped the impact because you didn’t think you had time on manufacturing. I understand that you wanna get to your solvency, but make sure you time your 1ac so that this isn’t a problem! You don’t want to read an advantage w/o an impact! Speed isn’t everything, but you want to try going faster so that you can get through a lot in the 1AC. However, don’t let your speed trade-off for clarity. Make sure you keep up the speed drills, because they really help more than you know!

Siddharth (1AR)—Thanks for changing your order, like I said, case before offcase is very important. Also, you reread a piece of evidence. If a piece of evidence was already read, you do not have to read it again. Instead, you can just extend it so that you save time. Also, you read a lot of evidence for the 1ar that im not sure was necessary. I think you could just extend other things and come up with smart analytics in context of their arguments. You had pretty good efficiency and I think that it could’ve been even better if you just made sure that you sticked by line by line and answered all their arguments. This was a good speech, and I think that you were making some good arguments!

Round 5 (L.Smith) Good analysis on t Decent line-byline Less cards – extend what you/your partner has read in previous speeches.