Wang,+Clara

__**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!

Clara (2NC)—From the get-go, I can tell this 2nc is gonna be bogged down because you took every flow. You need to take some of the flows and also give some to Sebastian to read in the 1NR. Block strat is very important especially when you want to make it hard for the 1AR. You also want to make sure you always read your authors so that your judge and opponents know where your evidence is coming from. I also think working on organization would be really helpful so that you can know where you will be during your speech. You should also work on speed so that you can answer their arguments, and have more arguments so that you have some offense on top of your answers to their arguments. I don’t think you’re slow, but you could be speeding by teams with more speed as well as your clarity. Your clarity is on point, and you sound very good.

Clara (2NR)—Thank you for listening to my order advice, it’s important to accept constructive criticism. I think you could work on organization so that you answer all the arguments that the aff brings up. I think everyone is kinda confused at this point, but you hold it together for the 2AR. It’s important to not fall back during times of high stress. Also, it isn’t a good idea to read new evidence during the 2NR. This won’t be allowed by a lot of judges unless you are answering a totally new argument that came out of the 1AR. Otherwise, keep away from reading new evidence in the 2ar. This was a really good speech and I like your ethos!

Round 4: (Adriane Brown) Clara—You should start your own cx—it’s okay for your partner to pitch in, but you should start it out and ask the majority of the questions. 1nr—you should prep during the 2nc so that you don’t use it for the 1nr. Your explanations are really good—you seem to understand the case arguments really well. Extend your case cards specifically.

round ? (l.smith) Don't rely on you partner so much Good clarity and speed, work on varying your delivery. Look at judge when in cross x. You did a good job extending cards, now you need to work on doing from within a line-by-line framework. I think you are a really good speaker, but need to have a more technical approach. You overuse try or die. Just say you won your aff.


 * Round 7: Blaize DePass:** Andrew/Clara vs Tanner/CJ

Clara (2AC)--The 2AC was good in structure, but you should take a step further with the argumentation. You do a lot of tagline extending of evidence, but you should do some explanation in context. I think you want to be explicitly answering the claims made against you on case. Also i think you should be answering some of the cx questions. It's okay to tell him that you can answer the question!

Clara (2AR)--I think that you are making some good arguments, but at this point the debate is pretty messy. I think you want to work on argument structure and make sure you are making some impact comparison claims in the 2AR. I think that you should also work on time allocation as well so that you can get to all the arguments you need to. I think you should also work on clash a little more so that you answer all their arguments that you need to. It is difficult to condense it when the 2NR went for everything, but it is necessary because you want to be shooting their arguments down while making sure you have winning arguments.