Difference between revisions of "Milton HD"

Latest revision as of 22:06, 25 December 2020

Hi, everyone! This is Yaman Habip '23 (Second speaker) from Milton Academy and I run this page. [email protected] if you need to contact me or [email protected] for my partner. All cases we plan to run will be disclosed here 30 minutes before the round for individual tournaments because we don't have an NDCA page. I'll disclose our full cases and blocks after topics are over.

Sophomore year (2020 - 2021)Edit

We started doing much better prep sophomore year, with good cases and well organized block files for both sides. We also started writing cases with citations in the footnotes but no paraphrasing. This allowed for much better warrants in between cards. If that is confusing, just check out one of our cases.

Nocember 2020Edit

This was a really fun topic, with lots of interesting strategy considerations on the pro (see overviews in blocks) and we started to use metaweighing. Con was very stock, and we basically used the same cases for the whole topic. Blocks were somewhat mediocre, as we didn't grind them as much as Septober and didn't prep out all the right arguments, but they got the job done. Overall, dropping in doubles at Varsity Scarsdale was rough but 4-1 at JV Little Lex, a local tournament, was a confidence booster. The next weekend, we had a great time winning Princeton in JV.

NFU Neg

NFU Aff V1

NFU Aff V2 - we never ran this one in round, but I really liked it so I thought I'd put it here. Also, both Aff's needed content warnings so we also have this:

NFU Opt Out Aff

NFU Neg Blocks

NFU Aff Blocks

Septober 2020Edit

M4A AKA UBI pharma edition. We liked this topic, recycled lots of prep. We used the same cases for the whole topic after the end of camp with slight refinement, stock on the aff and lay neg, super fun pharma collapse arg on the tech neg. Excellent block files, worked on them for 5 months from camp until the end of M4A. It wasn't fun to go 3-3 at Tim Averill varsity, but we did fairly well in JV, reaching Octos at UKY, Quarters at Bronx, and winning Duke and Yale.

Freshman Year (2019 - 2020)Edit

During Freshman year we used the same case for the whole topic. We also only had one block file so the disclosures here are relatively small. We didn't do anything noteworthy so I haven't commented on tournament performance.

February 2020Edit

We made a bunch of changes to these files post-Corona for states but did not do good version control so they are the only cases I have. Pretty much stock cases with some good cards we found on our own. Also, this was our first blocks doc with a table of contents. Changed. My. Life.

UBI Neg

UBI Aff

UBI Blocks

January 2020Edit

Aff was stock with a couple of nice finds, neg was half stock half really funky China argument. Had lots of fun with that one.

Venezuela Neg

Venezuela Aff

Venezuela Blocks

Nocember 2019Edit

First cases we ever wrote! Also stock on the neg, cool national security argument on the aff.

OCO's Neg

OCO's Aff

OCO's Blocks

Septober 2019Edit

I debated this topic with a different partner, Lorenzo didn't debate the BRI. Our captains wrote these cases for us, and we only went to one tournament on the topic.

BRI Neg

BRI Aff

BRI Blocks

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 == Sophomore year (2020 - 2021) ==
-We started doing much better prep sophomore year, with good cases and well organized block files for both sides. I disclose the cut cards version of our blocks because those have links and full citations. We also started writing cases without full cut cards (just links as footnotes) but no paraphrasing. If that is confusing, just check out one of our cases.
+We started doing much better prep sophomore year, with good cases and well organized block files for both sides. We also started writing cases with citations in the footnotes but no paraphrasing. This allowed for much better warrants in between cards. If that is confusing, just check out one of our cases.
+=== Nocember 2020 ===
+This was a really fun topic, with lots of interesting strategy considerations on the pro (see overviews in blocks) and we started to use metaweighing. Con was very stock, and we basically used the same cases for the whole topic. Blocks were somewhat mediocre, as we didn't grind them as much as Septober and didn't prep out all the right arguments, but they got the job done. Overall, dropping in doubles at Varsity Scarsdale was rough but 4-1 at JV Little Lex, a local tournament, was a confidence booster. The next weekend, we had a great time winning Princeton in JV.
+[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OWFnU80V9tGtHVnMXzRAGLLi2OiWhNRvrSDUcLtqDb0/edit?usp=sharing NFU Neg]
+[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18IS3hRX2iDgCYsgwA0qS4nfeN-Zd8QrHXWZ1g3S0aIM/edit?usp=sharing NFU Aff V1]
+[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fxppAfAoiYB8Fv4eArXHLhRPwJoKOZ8MdzjgPLS4EZM/edit?usp=sharing NFU Aff V2] - we never ran this one in round, but I really liked it so I thought I'd put it here. Also, both Aff's needed content warnings so we also have this:
+[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1On0bhKf-cJqocO0xGLRbXap6MUkAGvPhh1m_HDVOz1w/edit?usp=sharing NFU Opt Out Aff]
+[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eEA7ytTKxqPYoJPygyFjU2d6pXwWnN30fc0dGXSMhcg/edit?usp=sharing NFU Neg Blocks]
+[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e5GOh-am_py6hZGz2_yCixTYOhOaUtDkuF0M4e1jLHM/edit?usp=sharing NFU Aff Blocks]
 === Septober 2020 ===
-==== Tim Averill ====
+M4A AKA UBI pharma edition. We liked this topic, recycled lots of prep. We used the same cases for the whole topic after the end of camp with slight refinement, stock on the aff and lay neg, super fun pharma collapse arg on the tech neg. Excellent block files, worked on them for 5 months from camp until the end of M4A. It wasn't fun to go 3-3 at Tim Averill varsity, but we did fairly well in JV, reaching Octos at UKY, Quarters at Bronx, and winning Duke and Yale.
 [https://docs.google.com/document/d/11r7cwYlviO91X5jGd8qEYeylj_JhjxP76aN8ku6hyVo/edit?usp=sharing M4A Tech Neg]
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 [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y6HMXQrl02Pew_ORIZGsllE4yTNrvKk3uV9pCV0pQeI/edit?usp=sharing M4A Aff]
+[https://docs.google.com/document/d/11FUBzsITL2xMhBRmy-Izyn2hGSBLqAxRfIZeUas0Ehw/edit?usp=sharing M4A Neg Blocks]
+[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bx0sUShyC-G05b6U5QqTuKYKg8RilJilDh9xB3naIgo/edit M4A Aff Blocks]
 == Freshman Year (2019 - 2020) ==
-During Freshman year we used the same case for the whole topic. We also only had one block file so the disclosures here are relatively small.
+During Freshman year we used the same case for the whole topic. We also only had one block file so the disclosures here are relatively small. We didn't do anything noteworthy so I haven't commented on tournament performance.
 === February 2020 ===