CROSS-EX LECTURE

• Write out your questions

o Make it good, interesting
o Make it another speech
o Organize into CX trees
 Opening question, x answer leads to y question
o Never CX about something you’re about to kick
 Make both partners get on the same page
o Use closed-end questions yes/no
o Ask specific questions
 Have specific ev in front of you when referencing it – don’t make them search for it
 Give context to specific questions
o Be assertive – but not a dick
 “thank you I got it”
 “next question”
 Act like you learned something, move on
 Get judge on same page
o Pit of doom
 Make a trap for the other team into your arguments
 Be specific not just “how are you unique”
 Make one arg to thread other args
 Set up solvency takeout to give i/l to CP
o Make CX part of your strategy
 Block possible generic questions
o Answering CX questions
 Don’t have to answer questions predicated off things not in the 1AC
 Don’t give links based on things you don’t specify in the 1AC
 Write plan well but don’t say anything in CX
o Court cases
 Statutory v. constitutional law – congress can just pass it
 Statutory – congress can revise the law
 Congressional intent a bad standard – congress can interpret it any way
o Iraq timetable
 CP to establish strict withdrawal, but condition withdrawal timeline
o Aff:
 Have adv. Intrinsic to plan
 Have a purpose for everything in the plan text
 Make links to adv distinct
 Make i/l distinct
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o CX = CPs
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• Yay dugong malthus