Friday, June 29: Destroying the Position

On Friday, the morning session of the BC lab began with a drill involving a negative case from the 2006 Greenhill Round Robin. The case demonstrated how to give a devastating first negative speech by layering argumentation and eviscerating the components of the affirmative case. After a discussion of how to layer refutation, students implemented what they had learned in a drill intended to produce diversified argumentation. Students also had an opportunity to prepare answers to common negative arguments, and they received cases with substantial revisions. After lab, they were rewarded with free time during which several of the students...played "Air Guitar." We'd like to recognize Danielle Smogard, who gave a tremendous 1nr that incorporated many of the suggestions made by her lab leaders during the morning and afternoon sessions.