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Advice for next year:

• Keep good posture.
• Have exact information, not "maybe this will happen?"
  
• Speak very clearly, don't mumble.
  
• Have facts to rebut.
• Brainstorm wierd arguements and practice rebutting them.
• Speak with exspression.
  
• Make sure to speak slowly.
• Make eye contact with the judge and your opponents!
• Do not say rebuttal! It is incorrect grammer!
• Be a strong speaker!
• Wikipedia is not a reliable source! Anyone can change it and that means that there can be a bunch of stupid people typing in the wrong evidence. It is not evidence! Do not use it at all!!!!!!!!!
• Make sure you look professional!
• Have good sportsmanship! A Madison team lost because there were very rude to a Lincoln team.
• Rebut with evidence! It is too easy to rebut!
• Use bias!
• Have pre-prepared arguements!
• Sample space is Affirmitive or Negative.
• Bias is surveys and questions
• Make sure you've got evidence in both rebbutals and opening speeches.
• Make sure that your opening speech is close to 5 minutes long!
• Be very convincing.
• 2nd speaker needs to support 1st speaker's case.
• Be very organized.
• Never let anything drop!
• Put emotion into your speech.
• Use all of your speech time!
• Make sure your partner has sheets to say.
• PRACTICE REBUTING!!!!!!!
• Do not talk to each other during arguements!
• If you say that there are other solutions, say what they are. Offer a solution or say that there is no problem. ( NEG)
• Affirmitive can point out if Negative doesn't give another solution.
  
• Really clearly, have your negative sheets seperate from your affirmitive sheets.
  
• Color code the sheets. So that you do not accidentally mix up your affirmitive sheets with your negative sheets.
  
• Make sure you say why your rebuttals are more important than your opponents.
• Keep bringing up arguements.
• Make sure you bring new information up.
• Be relaxed.
• Use hand gestures.
• Don't beat yourself up if you stumble over words.
  
• You cannot talk to yourself exept in downtime.
• Do not rip sheets out of your binder.
• Listen to the other team!!!!
• Should parents come to the debate? When Zoe's dad walked in she got nervous and kind of lost it.
• Believe in yourself. Do not say " I know I'm not going to win"
  
• REBUT! REBUT! REBUT! REBUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Do not use opinions!!!!!!!!!!!
• Don't say "we're winning" without any reasons!
• Make sure you have more than 1 source for an arguement.
• Shake hands!!!!
• Do not mumble, be strong and clear!
• Evidence that it doesn't work not that it wouldn't work.
  

USE THIS FOR NEXT YEAR!!!!!!

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