Cross,+Sebastian

__**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!

Sebastian (1NC)—Prep time before the 1nc usually isn’t the greatest idea, but I’m happy to see that you took time to talk to your partner so that you both were on the same page before the speech! Also thank you for taking my advice about the order! This is important so that you can have offense! Also, make sure you have some inflection. You don’t want to be too monotonous otherwise it’s easier for judges to not pay attention! Some speaking drills will help with this! You might also want to work on speaking drills because it’s VERY important you get through as much as you can in the 1NC so that you have as much offense as possible versus the aff! It’s also important to signpost if you change your order so that the judge knows where you’re going on the flows. You want to make sure that the judge is flowing what you’re saying where you want it!

Sebastian (1NR)—You gotta be prepping during the 2NC, so that you have something to say. You two as a team gotta work on block strategy so that you two both have something to say and don’t double-cover the same positions. Double covering isn’t a good idea, because it makes it look really unorganized to the judge. You can split these arguments, and you both can be keeping the stuff organized. She read cards and you did analysis. It would make more sense if you each did a little bit of both.

Round 5 (L.Smith) Put T on the top on the 2AC. Do a better job extending arguments from the previous speeches and responding to arguments. You spend way to much time on the T-its question. Its not worth 6+ mins of CX.

Round ? (L.SMith) Be Sassier in cross-x. Don't say the CP is conditional and that you will be going for it. Impact calc is magnitude, timeframe, probability.