If your claim is that a piece of evidence runs counter to the conclusion of the author, please read the conclusion in your speech Present arguments in a fashion in which they are understandable and intelligible. Most debates are too fast and unfocused, and many of you are incomprehensible. I enjoy fast debates when there is clarity and explanation but I detest speed when its serves to impede adequate explanation. Allow all participants an opportunity to hear evidence, arguments, and the implications of arguments. If this were an exercise in who produced the better briefs, then perhaps we could save our schools'plenty of money and conduct our debates by fax.
Debaters establish the criteria for evaluation of arguments.
Intervention is something I wish to avoid but often becomes necessary because debaters have not established a foundation for the evaluation of their arguments. Most 2AC answers could not be repeated by the judges in any cogent fashion to answer most violations. I view the topic as an organic whole, not as individually defined terms. Consequently, jettisoned topicality arguments justify new answers and cross-applications. Please make clear these conditions on initial presentation.