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Debate Ballots: January 2009

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Friday, January 30, 2009. Emory HS: Round 5: Mountain Brook v. Whitney Young. I’m not left to my own devices, however. The affirmative has all of the individual arguments in play to weave a compelling risk analysis story, but must put them together for me. On the micro level:. If I assign the affirmative full weight of this argument, the gap in risk analysis is probably irrelevant (although I’d still pause, because there’s no subline on why EU rejection might compromise the internal net benef...1 The aff...

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Debate Ballots: December 2008

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Wednesday, December 3, 2008. East Lansing FL v. Stratford FM, Round 7 GBN. Your vocal pattern follows a very predictable pattern that's both determinate and completely divorced from every meaning. I'd call it an "intonation template" or, perhaps more accurately, a Procrustean bed. Abandon that template. Intonation conveys meaning, whereas a robotic template's entirely self-referential. Debate, ideally, is just like normal speech intonation-wise, albeit exaggerated and much much faster. But not a premise.

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Debate Ballots: Cap Classic Round Five

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Saturday, July 18, 2009. Cap Classic Round Five. 1AC: Good speed and clarity. 1AC CX: “How do you gain any solvency whatsoever” seems to use needless and melodramatic intensifiers. Reardon is a she. I think your error is an especially embarrassing gaffe under the circumstances. Directly asking “how do states capture the net benefit” is not a productive question. It really just allows the aff to get additional speech time. 1NC: Start slower for about 10 seconds to let the judge get used to your voice.

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Debate Ballots: Cap Classic Round Four

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Friday, July 17, 2009. Cap Classic Round Four. Overall: this was a very good round. I think it was the best round I've seen thus far at the camp. Hopefully that represents improvement instead of a statistical quirk. I think that you can bring up your speed a good deal. You should use the spreeder or just read a lot to bring your speed up about 50 words/minute. You have a naturally very clear voice, so you have the ability to be crystal clear and blindingly fast with just a little bit of work. This framew...

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Debate Ballots: July 2009

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Monday, July 20, 2009. Cap Classic Round Seven. 1AC: Very clear and fast. I’m not sure that this text actually avoids the family cap. You say that it should be based solely on family size, but you don’t dictate the mechanics of those family-based requirements. 1AC CX: Argue don’t ask. The best CX makes about 4-5 good arguments, and really establishes their credibility. 1NC: I’m glad that you updated your politics shell! It’s a decent card as well. However, it would be better to have predictions...It&#821...

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Debate Ballots: February 2009

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Sunday, February 1, 2009. Emory HS: Round 3: CR Wash Aff v. Gulliver Prep Neg. Round 3: Cedar Rapids Washington v. Gulliver Prep. CRWashington’s ahead on risk analysis. The 2NR neglects any comparison between the case and the disad at his peril. He escapes peril in this case, however, because there’s simply no appreciable solvency deficit to the feed-in tariff counterplan. Good round overall. The crucial big-picture decisions come from the 2NR, when he intelligently elects to use the permutation to k...

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Debate Ballots: Georgetown Debate Seminar Practice Round Eight

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Saturday, June 27, 2009. Georgetown Debate Seminar Practice Round Eight. 1a: Secret Agent 2a: Jesslyn Mitchell 1N: McKenzie 2N: Madhu. I’ll take this one backwards. I thought this was great for an early round, and I think that some of the technical issues are easy to fix. You’re working hard on impact comparison and evidence comparison and big picture issues, and that’s conceptually tougher, so filling in some technical aspects should be a relatively easy fix! Also, I don't think you ever really say that...

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Debate Ballots: August 2009

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Sunday, August 16, 2009. Looking down the barrel of another season, I thought I'd issue a brief request to all three followers of this blog before the ballot storm begins. What's the best music for long debate driving trips? Good samples of what I'm looking for here might be REM's "It's the End of the World as We Know It" or Willie Nelson's "On The Road Again.". I'm categorically excluding songs that are. 2 pump up music (I'm well into my 30s, I don't care about your hot summer jam).

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Debate Ballots: Georgetown Debate Seminar Practice Round Six

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Saturday, June 27, 2009. Georgetown Debate Seminar Practice Round Six. 1a: Thibeau 2a: Day vs. 1N: Arjun 2N: N00BSLAYER WAXMAN. 1ac: Very clear and fast. I think you could improve your articulation slightly by bearing down harder on consonants in the text of the evidence. I don’t see this as a huge deal, though, as the cards are certainly clear enough and the tags are crystal. Eg we may rebound,. But current growth will be inflationary which is a disaster,. Double dip = depression). You need to refer to ...

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Debate Ballots: Cap Classic Round Seven

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Monday, July 20, 2009. Cap Classic Round Seven. 1AC: Very clear and fast. I’m not sure that this text actually avoids the family cap. You say that it should be based solely on family size, but you don’t dictate the mechanics of those family-based requirements. 1AC CX: Argue don’t ask. The best CX makes about 4-5 good arguments, and really establishes their credibility. 1NC: I’m glad that you updated your politics shell! It’s a decent card as well. However, it would be better to have predictions...It&#821...