Tips After the Season Opener

Nae gives some tips for after the first debate tournament of the year. Nae talks about the next steps you can take after your season opening tournament to take the right steps to strategize for the rest of the year. Nae gives some tips for what you should and shouldn't do regardless of how you performed the past weekend(s).

Nae suggests that you don't take a results based analysis approach after the season opener. Just because you lost a lot of aff rounds doesn't mean you need to change affs. Consistency between different feedback is more important than your specific results and should guide your edits.

Nae also suggests against rushing towards being ahead of the curve and breaking new things just to break new things. People overestimate how long it takes people to adjust to arguments over the course of a debate topic. Finding new ways to articulate the arguments you already have is more important. Jumping into new literature bases is hard. Figure out ways to change the execution of your arguments like redoes that try out different base scenarios.