Judge Comments (Beacon Round 3 Brooklyn Tech v. Stuyvesant)
Speech by Speech comments
1AC-
Temur—you are very fast for an novice but sometimes your speed causes you to
stumble over words. Try to do some enunciation/pen drills! Also make sure you
keep track of where you are on your speech doc! You keep on losing your place
when you read your 1AC! However, I liked how your vocal inflection changes
every time you read a tag! Made it easy for me to flow.
1AC CX-
get to know your aff better! You couldn’t explain why not doing HSR collapses
US competitiveness! Please look over your aff and be sure you can explain why
congestion is bad and why competitiveness would collapse without HSR! Also, you
said you solved for warming, but none of these arguments were made in the 1AC!
1NC—read
the counterplan text first! Also, I don’t like the tag “extinction” it doesn’t
tell much and is very vague. Also, Temur, its your CX—don’t let your partner
dominate and ask ALL the questions!
1NC CX—Sophia—learn
to answer CX questions more thoroughly!
2AC—Good
coverage—however, try not to take almost 5 minutes of prep—if you have blocks
to arguments, it shouldn’t take you that long because there were only two off
case arguments and one argument on case. Also, you don’t have to explain a card
right after you read it! However, GREAT LINE BY LINE and good analysis on case!
2NC-good
explanation of the oil disad and I liked your 2NC overview on the Counterplan.
1NR- good job doing impact calculus comparing the warming impacts that the aff has and the sino us war that you guys are impacting!
1NR- good job doing impact calculus comparing the warming impacts that the aff has and the sino us war that you guys are impacting!
1AR-
2NR- don’t
read 50 state fiat good in the 2nr. if the argument wasn’t made earlier, I
wouldn’t vote on it. Also, they didn’t read 50 state fiat bad so you don’t have
to waste your time reading it. more analysis on how you link to your impact
should be done.
General Comments
AFF—Please look
over your aff and be sure you can explain why congestion is bad and why
competitiveness would collapse without HSR! Also, you said you solved for
warming, but none of these arguments were made in the 1AC!
NEG- you don’t
have to say words like “link”, “impact”… Don’t like the ‘extinction’ tag
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also, saying “US is the heg” doesn’t make sense;
say US is a hegemon
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the card you read in the 1NR that says there is
no short term economic stimulus effect is talking about the EIS CP—doesn’t
apply
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even if we don’t fight over oil, we will
probably be there—not reverse causual
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1NR-stop saying ‘nuke war and extinction
Speaker points
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Tina—28
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Harith—28.5
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Sophia 27.5
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Temur-27
