Here is the schedule for weekend electives - you get to pick one elective from each section to attend.
Saturday 9:55AM
Meet in BLB 80 to take attendance
Elective Set 1 – 10:10-11:00am
Shelby Pryor – Room 65
Topicality - A Standards Debate
Impact comparison between the standards on Topicality. Topicality like a disad.
Collin Roark – Room 70
Winning with Politics and Midterms
Learn the key fundamentals about researching, preparing, and winning the politics disadvantage etc.
Ryan Wash – Room 73
"Debate as a homeplace: Quaring Deliberative Democracy"
This elective will clarify my understanding of debate as home and discuss the difference between a fight for inclusion and a fight against an ethic of exclusion.
Brian Kersch – Room 75
The “WARMEST” Impact, One impact to rule them all. – Learn how to debate warming impacts both generically and in comparison to other impact claims. Louie wants me to call this "the WARMEST impact"
Bryan Gaston – Room 80
The Film Room
This elective is designed to explore how to film your debates and use those films to improves your skills and make you a better debater. Its not just for football anymore film studies in debate will increase your speaker points and its one the best ways to view and correct bad habits.
Andy Casey – Room 90
Indigenous Peoples and the Ocean
I will discuss indigenous peoples and possible affirmative and negative ideas for the topic. this will include brief history reviews.
Elective Set 2 – 11:15-12:05pm
Toby Whisenhunt – Room 140
A Cap K Hack's Secrets Revealed –
Capitalism is complicated, but the Cap K is not. Learn about some classic cards, authors, terms, and tricks found in debate rounds not the pesky real world. Also talking about how to bum out Cap K teams. The Cap K can be 3 cards and a cloud of dust. Nothing fancy here.
Eric Robinson – Room 65
Cross-X
This lecture focuses on how to improve your win totals and speaker points via cross-x. Strategies for asking and answering questions will be discussed with various examples and drill suggestions given.
Iggy Evans – Room 70
Cultural CPs
modes of competition(textual, cultural, political conclusion, pedagogical purpose [ motives])- the different levels, creative DA's(whiteness DA's, anti- da, language) or different k's as DA for a performative cp, c(p) (counter performance ), counter advocacy- ie snitching bad / opacity good, interest convergent args become da's for consult Blk ppl cp
Gabe Murillo – Room 90
*Deploying the K*
How to extend the K and amplify its strategic value.
Sydney Pasquinelli – Room 75
Aesthetics
I will be discussing some basic aesthetic theory. I will then be applying that theory to practice in a debate round. Eg how to weigh aesthetics against extinction impacts or ethics impacts.
Colin Quinn – Room 73
The 1N: how to be the best position in debate
A lecture about what to do as the 1n before/during/after the debate.
Josh Gonzlaez – Room 80
Metaphysics
Yeah, so a traditional branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world that encompasses it, so let’s answer TWO questions – 1) What is ultimately there?, and 2) What is it like?
Sunday 3:00pm
Meet at 2:55 in BLB 80 to take attendance
Elective Set 3 – 3:10-4:00pm
Collin Roark – Room 65
Negative terrorism
Lecture on way to crush the affirmative throughout the season. because they ain't got no humanity. topics covered: concept of 'playbook', 1NC construction, advanced block strategy, 2NR decision-making, closing doors, when to run & gun etc.
Iggy Evans – Room 70
Remixing
It is a method lecture that seeks to show how negs create creative counter advocy using song and metaphor. Sampling as process that is educational, music as the starting point for political project , examples of themes as political
Brian Kersch – Room 73
Constructing an effective 2ac to the K
Learn how to not only order and construct a proper 2ac to the K, also learn which arguments make the 2nr nearly impossible in a K debate. I will also teach you the ins and outs of the tricks negative teams use to try and cheat their way into a negative ballot.
Shelby Pryor – Room 75
Aff Strategic Choices
Different types of 1acs and their pros/cons and aff tips and tricks for each speech.
Andy Casey – Room 90
Winning at a Small School
Managing resources: how to successfully compete at a small school without having much access to coaching or card cutting.
Toby Whisenhunt – Room 140
Now what? What to do after camp to prepare for the season.
We will look at some important resources you can access and talk about the best way to utilize those resources throughout the year.
Sydeny Pasquinelli – Room 80
Femininity in debate
This will be a follow up discussion to the lecture I gave thursday. I am requesting that *only girls* attend this session (any person who identifies as a girl).
Elective Set 4 – 4:10 – 5:00pm
Max Anderson – Room 65
"The Crazies"
A discussion of the arguments you love to hate. Discussion will include, Wipeout, ASHTAR, and Aliens.
Gabe Murillo – Room 90
*Beating Framework*
How to deploy your affirmative and craft the most effective response to framework arguments.
Colin Quinn – Room 70
Debating liberalism
Why great power war won't happen and why disads don't make sense.
About how to debate with a no war contention.
Bryan Gaston – Room73
It's Go Time-How to Prepare for Tournaments
This elective is designed to teach you steps you should take to prepare for specific tournaments during your debate season. We will cover strategic planning choices, how to scout, and use online resources to your advantage.
Ryan Wash – Room 75
"Mastering the Light Arts: Using debate to beat debate"
This elective is designed to highlight some of the dangers of arguments being deployed in debate and also how side burdens can help and/or hurt a particular argument. I will also highlight ways that more traditional teams use debate to beat critical teams.
Eric Robinson – Room 80
Aff Prep
This lecture focuses on summer strategizing and the considerations that go into picking an affirmative topic area, picking a specific aff, writing a plan, picking advantages, and writing frontlines.
