Zhang,+Sabrina

Add me to the email chain - sabrinasabrinazhang@gmail.com My past debate experience: Last topic debated: China topic 2016-17, I know nothing about education policy so please define acronyms during the 1AC and CX and describe lesser-known acts on education This was my wiki from last year if this would help you: https://hspolicy16.debatecoaches.org/Lexington/Gao-Zhang+Neg I was a 2N and my favorite debate arguments were:  ***NOTE: PLEASE DEBATE WHAT YOU'RE COMFORTABLE WITH*** GENERAL THINGS SPEAKER POINT RANGE TOPICALITY DISADVANTAGES  COUNTERPLANS KRITIKS KRITIKAL AFFS/FRAMEWORK TLDR; Make smart arguments and be good people!
 * 4 years of policy debate at Lexington High School
 * My senior year I qualified for NDCA and the TOC national debate tournaments
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Competed in 25+ tournaments, if you want more detail, ask me about it when I judge you
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I am currently affiliated with Lexington High School in MA
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Case-specific turns (I will vote on a flushed-out case turn)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Well-researched DAs
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A specific CP + a generic DA
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Cap K
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Commodification/Tuck & Yang
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I am a very good judge for anything you may want to run and I evaluate everything - I have written out some things that I am more/less persuaded by below, but please do not let that deter you from running what you are comfortable with - if you debate it better than your opponent then I will vote for you!!
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I want to be added to the email chain but I will not be looking at cards unless I have to at the end of the debate - it is your job to explain cards throughout the debate, a good card will not save you if you didn't debate it well
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I prefer technical debate - this means that if you have a sketchy I/L that wasn't answered I would vote on it, this DOES NOT mean that you can make arguments like "they dropped it, we win" - you have to flush out every argument even if it was dropped
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Know your evidence - extend the best cards throughout speeches, know what they are saying - I dislike when teams are questioned about evidence and they don't know how to answer questions - it's just awkward so make sure you read your evidence before hand
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I reward good research/preparation - this usually is granted through the speaks I give you - I think that debate is fundamentally a research/prep activity and debate is only fun and educational when both teams come into the debate prepared - Please have specific answers to arguments
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I WILL ONLY SAY CLEAR ONCE - Please be clear after that!!! If you don't listen to me when I say clear, that is your problem. Your speaker points will be affected and you will potentially lose the ballot (depends on how much of your arguments I can actually flow)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Take advantage of CX time!!! It is not just a time for "extra prep" - this is the BEST time to poke holes in your opponents' arguments and establish flaws in them - I love good CXs
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Make your speeches easy to flow - do line by line, sign post, be clear when you are moving on, etc
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">PLEASE DO IMPACT CALCULUS - I don’t care what argument you go for - tell me at the top of your speech what your impacts are and why they matter
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I tend to give out points generously, so please give me a reason to give you higher points - I assign speaker points on these factors: making smart arguments, asking good questions and follow-up questions, being a likable person, speaking clearly
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">< 27.0 - you are rude and unlikable, please learn manners
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">27.0-27.5 - you have a lot of potential in debate, but you are still learning the ropes and it is clear you are confused about arguments/debate - keep at it!
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">27.5-28.0 - good debater but still shaky - you are missing some key arguments that you need in the round and you are making some mistakes, but I can tell that you are working on improving
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">28.0-28.5 - good debater but you made a mistake(s) that was avoidable
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">28.5-29 - great debater, but not doing anything exceptionally smart - I think you deserve to be in elims of the tournament
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">29.0-29.5 - amazing debater, you are making the right arguments and are efficient in doing so - you have a ton of potential and I believe you should be in the top 10 speakers
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">29.5-30.0 - you are making arguments that are too good not to vote for, you are the best debater and I think you deserve to win top speaker and all the tournaments from here on out
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I really love T debates when they are done correctly - this means that both teams must have offense on why their counterinterpretation is better
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Please have a caselist on the neg and please explain why each aff you choose is good for the topic whereas the aff team's is not - Caselists should be carefully thought out before the debate
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If you are aff against topicality, have offense, do not just extend reasonability and pray I will vote for it
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If you are neg in the above scenario, please go for T - don't shy away from topicality debates!!
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I think that the link determines the direction of uniqueness - In that regard, please have a strong link to the aff (have a specific card)
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Politics DAs - I love politics disadvantages, but make sure your evidence is recent - in these debates usually the most recent evidence is the best evidence - Establish a clear internal link chain in the 1NC and keep to the same story - Side note: I will not vote on politics theory even if it is the entirety of the 2AR
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I think the best DA is an aff-specific DA - this is where I want you to show off your extensive preparation - if you have a DA based on the implementation of the plan with good evidentiary support, I would likely be persuaded by it
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Aff teams - If you are going to go for a turn on a DA, you have to have evidence supporting your turn, make sure you have impact defense and link arguments when you answer a DA
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I believe in sufficiency framing - this does not mean I vote neg on every counterplan, because I hold a very high threshhold for CP solvency - You have to spend a lot of time proving how your CP solves the impacts of the aff - on the aff side this means you have to prove why it doesn't solve/aff method is better
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Not the biggest fan of generic CPs because more often than not they don't solve - Please have a solvency card on the neg specific to the aff
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If you have multiple planks, it is my pet peeve when teams don't read a solvency advocate (s) that advocate for all of the planks
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">COUNTERPLAN THEORY - here are some things I am convinced by in terms of theory - One conditional advocacy is good, Conditional planks are bad, and object fiat is bad - In general, I can be convinced by any other theory argument - Please don't be afraid of going for theory in front of me
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I think that it is extremely important to be able to test how the aff makes decisions - I would vote off of FW if it is impacted out
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Links - I think that the link debate is the most important part of a K - Please make your links as specific as possible, and please make as many links as you can - it helps if your links are carded as well, but I will evaluate well-thought out analytical links as well - I do not like links of omission or generic "state bad" or "state is capitalist" links, I might vote on them but I think that is lazy debating
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Alternative - Please do not kick out of your alternative - I've voted on teams who have done that before, but it is really risky and if you are going to spend the time to explain why you don't have to win the alternative, you have the time to extend it
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Permutations - Don't have competing ideologies in the 1NC because then I am almost compelled to vote for the permutation do both, if you are aff, please extend a permutation but make sure you address links in order to go for the permutation as your main strategy
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I will NOT evaluate an impact turn if you are making an argument like "racism good" or "imperialism good" - that would be a big no-no in my book and you will get zero speaker points and a stern lecture
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If you want to read a high-theory K, please explain it in the context of the topic, please do not put together buzzwords that don't form full sentences, this is a huge pet-peeve of mine
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">If you are aff, make sure you have answers on all parts of the K and make sure you can justify your assumptions to make in your aff
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I also dislike overviews that are more than 2 minutes long - I hate getting out a new sheet for an overview, this is not debate this is a rant and you are avoiding clash entirely by doing this
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I really like hearing Kritikal affirmatives, and even though I debated mostly policy affs during my four years, I am open to listening to any affirmative you may have
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Please relate to the topic in some way - Mention it briefly, it's not hard, explain why you couldn't defend changing education policy - I believe that this helps you against potential framework arguments
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">FRAMEWORK - I think fairness can be an impact on its own, but there is a high standard you have to prove that you just couldn't have debated and the debate should be over just because of the aff - It would be better if you use fairness as an internal link to other impacts - Have TVAs to make your argument better - Contextualize all your answers in the context of what the aff is
 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">AT FRAMEWORK - Have a lot of DAs to their interpretation of debate - contextualize everything to your aff - Explain why whatever you're doing is good for debate/why debate is bad now - Have a counterinterpretation/counter ROB as well, they are good to have and extend even if your counterinterpretation isn't a strong argument