Monday, July 2: Digging In, Closing Doors

Monday started the week in all the right ways. The morning and early afternoon gave all of our students an opportunity to hold practice rounds against students in Chetan Hertzig and Josh Anderson lab. Despite the general rustiness one usually sees with workshop practice rounds, there was some pretty solid debate going on. The students made us proud!  Later on, our lab had a couple of discussions. Neil talked to the lab about the second negative rebuttal and how to take the straightforward "line-by-line" and crystallization to all new levels of strategic sophistication. Babb followed up by investigating the "strategies of persuasion" with the lab, reminding them that persuasion was MORE (and not less) important in advanced rounds. And, as it should go without saying by now, there was more rain. I've become pretty convinced that we are now in a really damp Twilight Zone. We'd like to sends props the way of Shadman Zaman. Neil watched him in a practice round and was impressed on a number of levels. Perhaps most worthy of note, Shadman is said to have actually answered some warrants. There is hope after all.