Tweets for Today

[packbat]

• 07:37 Oh, final update: may have lost that first round. Word on the street is that our opponents in Round 2 had lost, too, so... #
• 10:30 Waiting for pairings for 4th. Sleepy - got home 1 a.m., to bed 2 a.m., and woke at 7. #
• 11:33 ...and we're first back to GA after round. Feeling good about my PM - don't think I won or anything, but spoke much better than yesterday. #
• 14:14 Lunch (fake Chinese!) as they work out who breaks. PMed again, the Hiroshima case, and *kicked butt*. Won't break into or watch finals, tho. #
• 14:26 On further consideration, may stay after all - as the varsity members are pointing out, watching the out-rounds is very educational. #
• 16:58 The Maryland/Fordham team got eliminated in quarters - we're still watching semis and finals. Got ballots back: embarrassingly, we went 0-4. #
• 18:20 Semis done. I came out of the round thinking the debate I saw stank, and then discovered that the other was actually worse. Ouch. #
• 18:43 Waiting for final. I have no confidence whatsoever that it will not blow bloody chunks, but for no other reason than "you should", I'm here. #
• 19:43 Dude, that was seriously awesome. Especially floor speeches! #

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Comments

[remix79.livejournal.com]

Bummer dude; 0-4. Oh well. :)

[remix79.livejournal.com]

And yes, final rounds rock!

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah! I was worried when I heard the debate topic, but the Leader of Opposition did a fantastic job, and it just went up from there. And then there were the three floor speeches before the rebuttals - one for Gov, one for Opp, and one for getting some more Chinese food from the front of the room (seriously, I have no idea what he was saying, I was just laughing along with everyone else as he stood there brazenly shovelling lo mein onto a plate...).

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, neither of us were experts at flowing or signposting - I was better than my partner, but that doesn't solve the problem. Practice, practice, practice...

(...and, amusingly, my partner was saying yesterday he'd like to videotape practice for postmortem analysis...)

[remix79.livejournal.com]

Yep. It works. Hearing myself really helps me. And flowing sucks! Geez, you have to write way too fast and you have to keep it organized. I don't know what the recommended NPDA flowing style/pattern is.

What inspired you to join debate? Or have you always done it?

[packbat.livejournal.com]

APDA - as far as I can tell, it's simply points and subpoints for the on-case side and the off-case side. Problem is keeping up while writing your own case for your next speech, of course.

Really, I joined because I thought it was a cool skill. Never did it before.