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multiple sheets of begin writing Time your 2AC blocks (before
paper? answers as the tournament)
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they taking notes cross-x or and how their arguments interact
in cursive? Are hand it to the -p Do I want to kick
they using 2 pens? 1A advantages
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they shaking their -p Always pull Bring up more evidence that you
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common
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