Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Mini rounds phase II continued

Before mini-rounds, expain how the "negative block" works and what the affirmative can do in their second speech to make this difficult for the neg.

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  3. okay... idk where to post this but SADIE: im going to explain the immigrants DA the obama DA and the solvency turn, also im gonna answer your arguement talking about FDR... and give impact anyalsis if anything more comes up ill let you know

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  6. okay.. thanks dylan. so do i start working on the other stuff now??

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  9. got it even though I'm sorta not in policy right now....

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  10. okay, the point of the block, is to spread out the affermitive team. the neg has 13 min. to throw alot of arguments out and apply off/def on the any argument befor that. so basicly used to put pressure on the 1AR.

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  11. the negative block i believe is after the 2ac and they just basically go and block or say why what the oponent said is flawed and then they just come back up bringing up the points that were unreffuted??? or however you say it in policy... and i think thats it i really dont know much more.... ?
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  12. negative block- isn't this when when the neg those out there arugments and try to get others in there. what the affermitive will do is try to block them or show that they are all crap and ect.

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  13. a negblock is[what i think] the neg giving the 13 min of straight answers and extensions on affirmative arguments and their own arguments

    what can the 2AC do? put a bunch of agruements out as fast as they can.

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  14. the block is used to make whoevers debating the 1AR, a living hell to cover... its going to be 13mins to spread as much crap on the affirmative as possible... the 2AC can try to allievate this by not just answering the 1NC but also put more arguements/offense in the speech so the block has to spend more time answering the 2AC instead of spreading the 1ar

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  15. Assuming I understand what you want me to say here....

    The neg is supposed to try and set up arguments against the affs first speech. And the aff can present a whole lot of answers to the negs arguments with arguments of their own.

    again not real sure of what to say.

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  16. im going out on a wim here....

    the neg. blk is when the CON rebut the aff. speeches and answer there arguments.

    thats as far as my brain goes...

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  17. The neg block is the negatives strongest time. You have thirteen minutes to get a lot of offensive positions out there. You should split it up with your partner. Usually on the novice level you should have the 2NC take two to three disads. Then the 1NR takes a topicality and any on case arguments. When doing this, it isn't all offense. You must also refute what the 2AC said against the specific position that you are taking in your speech. The 2AC is very important. It has to get as much stuff out there so that the negative block isn't like a walk in the park easy. First the 2AC should attack topicality if there was one. then you should read some evidence against any disads and make analyticals as you go. Try to save a minute or two to rebuild up your case if they have attacked it's solvency or your advantages and if you have time, add some extra defense in there just to be safe. But pretty much, just get offense out there as fast and clear as you can and then add defense and you should be ok.

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  18. The Negative block works like this:
    The 2NC takes the primary 1NC arguments the ones that they think will be round winners, and they extend and answer the 2ac arguments, and then they take those arguments and expand them like its no tomorow.
    The 1NR then takes the secondary arguments and explodes them like a nuclear bomb,

    The 2AC can make the negs job extremely hard, by being faster than the block, by putting as many coherent and responsive arguments on the flows to reverse the roles of the negative and make them quiver in fear, the 2AC should also set up a prompt for the 1AR to be able to come out of the gates blazing, examples of this: organize flow, make arguments sound really important, set up cross-x to support your side, etc., etc.

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  19. ok, the negative block is the time to answer the affirmatives arguements from the 2AC AND to spread the aff for the 1AR. you do this by attacking the argument you think the aff undercovered or mishandled, and by punching any offense in the face, so the best thing the aff can pull through in the 1AR is defense. Take the arguement you plan on going for in the 2NC, then leave your partner to spread T or something in the 1NC.

    For the aff to make this difficult on the neg, put out as much offense as you can. this will make them go back and answer every arguement you have. little 5 second analyts work here too, like 'no links' on K's and quick perms, even without perm solvency. this will force the other team to go back and explain what they are saying in depth to answer a 5 sec arguement, or have them read like 12 perm answers, ingnoring a lot of other arguments.

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