Last changed on
Wed October 30, 2019 at 1:07 PM EDT
Background:
Competed in Public Forum on the national circuit level for two years (Junior/Senior).
Speeches:
-Please extend extend extend arguments, evidence, and rebuttals. It helps to strengthen your points in your summaries and persuade me more.
-I appreciate clear impacts with comparative weighing between your arguments and your opponents on the most important issues in the round.
-You can go fairly quickly in terms of speed, but spreading may hurt you as I will not be able to flow accurately.
Evidence:
-I may call for a card if the meaning of the evidence seemed to have change throughout the round
-I may also call for a card if there has not been a clear, persuading interpretation of the evidence by either team.
-A name, year and if possible a very brief qualification of the author (simply the
name of the site, institution, etc) for each card will give more credibility to your arguments.
Final thoughts:
-Please be civil. We aren’t fighting to the death.
-A clever and subtle Office reference/analogy is appreciated:)
