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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 2 | Mission San Jose SS | Khattak, Muhammad |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 5 | Byram Hills AK | Harris, Michael |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 3 | Lakeville South KK | Anderson, Sam |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Octas | Prospect ST | Kirkpatrick, Braedon - Broussard, Austin - Robinson, Tajaih |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 1 | Nova CD | Robinson, Tajaih |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 2 | Harker DS | Datti, Abhilash |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 4 | Christopher Columbus AM | Dua, Raunak |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 5 | Strake Jesuit MS | Lakshman, Rohit |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 1 | Greenhill NT | Ribera, Claudia |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 4 | Iowa City West NW | Georges, Joseph |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 5 | Los Altos BF | Robinson, Tajaih |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 7 | Westlake MR | Qin, Andrew |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Quarters | BASIS Peoria PY | Stuckert, James - Forrest, Jayanne - Georges, Joseph |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Octas | Bergen County Academies AK | Stuckert, James - Nails, Jacob - Pandey, Indu |
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| Grapevine Classic | 2 | Southlake Carroll AS | Salazar, Davd |
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| Grapevine Classic | 3 | Elkins RS | Sun, Favian |
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| Grapevine Classic | Triples | Southlake Carroll SD | Stuckert, James |
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| Harrison Round Robin | 2 | Keshav Rastogi | Levi, Briajia - Stuckert, James |
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| Harrison Round Robin | 4 | Pranav Kaginele | Qin, Andrew - Levi, Briajia |
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| Mid America Cup | 4 | American Heritage Broward MA | Robinson, Tajaih |
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| Mid America Cup | 5 | Strake Jesuit MS | Quisenberry, Jack |
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| Mid America Cup | Doubles | Harrison AA | Krause, Lukas - Quisenberry, Jack - tanguturi, nikita |
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| Mid America Cup | 2 | Sharon RG | Jasani, Aryan |
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| National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | 2 | San Mateo YR | Stuckert, James |
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| National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | 3 | Marlborough SL | Mork, Alexandra |
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| National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | 5 | Harker MK | Cortez, Ben |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 2 | Lake Highland Prep AB | Lee, Andrew |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 3 | West Des Moines Valley AM | Ciocca, Amanda |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 5 | Byram Hills AK | Tanguturi, Nikita |
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| Palm Classic | 1 | Immaculate Heart RR | Ribera, Claudia |
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| Palm Classic | 4 | Flower Mound ST | Stuckert, James |
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| Palm Classic | 5 | Harker KB | Chatur, Shahina |
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| Princeton Classic | 1 | Montville SH | Iskhakov, Daniel |
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| Princeton Classic | 3 | Milton AT | Gentleman, Jonah |
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| Princeton Classic | 5 | Academy Of Classical Christian Studies JM | Lee, Andrew |
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| Princeton Classic | Octas | Princeton CB | StPeter, Joshua - Wu, Jalyn - Siegel, Zachary |
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| Princeton Classic | Quarters | Harrison MB | Kang, Albert - Siegel, Zachary - Basu, Sreeta |
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| Princeton Classic | Finals | Walt Whitman EY | Menon, Uma - Siegel, Zachary - Cukier, Wolf |
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| The Newark Invitational 2022 | 1 | Harrison JC | Siegal, Zach |
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| The Newark Invitational 2022 | 3 | Harrison TB | Coln, Kassie |
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| Tournament of Champions | 2 | Saratoga AG | Quisenberry, Jack |
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| Tournament of Champions | 4 | American Heritage Broward MC | Brown, Grant |
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| Tournament of Champions | 5 | Monta Vista RD | Nails, Jacob |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 1 | Oak Grove AA | Lee, Andrew |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 4 | Park City NL | Rao, Anand |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 5 | Memorial DX | Herrera, David |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 2 | Opponent: Mission San Jose SS | Judge: Khattak, Muhammad 1ac - china |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 5 | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Harris, Michael 1ac - existentialism - afc |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 3 | Opponent: Lakeville South KK | Judge: Anderson, Sam 1ac - structural violence |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Octas | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Kirkpatrick, Braedon - Broussard, Austin - Robinson, Tajaih 1ac - kant |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 1 | Opponent: Nova CD | Judge: Robinson, Tajaih forfeit |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 2 | Opponent: Harker DS | Judge: Datti, Abhilash 1ac - democracy |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 4 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Dua, Raunak 1ac - rawls |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 5 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit MS | Judge: Lakshman, Rohit 1ac - ripstein - must not be from future - knowledge truth testing |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 1 | Opponent: Greenhill NT | Judge: Ribera, Claudia 1ac - German class conciousness |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 4 | Opponent: Iowa City West NW | Judge: Georges, Joseph 1ac - libertarianism |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 5 | Opponent: Los Altos BF | Judge: Robinson, Tajaih 1ac - capitalism |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 7 | Opponent: Westlake MR | Judge: Qin, Andrew 1ac - china |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Quarters | Opponent: BASIS Peoria PY | Judge: Stuckert, James - Forrest, Jayanne - Georges, Joseph 1ac - gillespie - tricks |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Octas | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Stuckert, James - Nails, Jacob - Pandey, Indu 1ac - UK |
| Grapevine Classic | 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Salazar, Davd 1ac - weed |
| Grapevine Classic | 3 | Opponent: Elkins RS | Judge: Sun, Favian 1ac - biopiracy medical access |
| Grapevine Classic | Triples | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Stuckert, James 1ac - weed |
| Harrison Round Robin | 2 | Opponent: Keshav Rastogi | Judge: Levi, Briajia - Stuckert, James 1ac - lunar mining |
| Harrison Round Robin | 4 | Opponent: Pranav Kaginele | Judge: Qin, Andrew - Levi, Briajia 1ac - LEOs |
| Mid America Cup | 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward MA | Judge: Robinson, Tajaih 1ac - indnigenous |
| Mid America Cup | 5 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit MS | Judge: Quisenberry, Jack 1ac - vaccine diplomacy covid access |
| Mid America Cup | Doubles | Opponent: Harrison AA | Judge: Krause, Lukas - Quisenberry, Jack - tanguturi, nikita 1ac - insulin |
| Mid America Cup | 2 | Opponent: Sharon RG | Judge: Jasani, Aryan 1ac - access contraceptives |
| National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | 2 | Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Stuckert, James 1ac - lunar mining |
| National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | 3 | Opponent: Marlborough SL | Judge: Mork, Alexandra 1ac - global commons |
| National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | 5 | Opponent: Harker MK | Judge: Cortez, Ben 1ac - comets mining |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AB | Judge: Lee, Andrew 1ac - data exclusivity |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 3 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Ciocca, Amanda 1ac - patent piracy |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 5 | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Tanguturi, Nikita 1ac - gauthier |
| Palm Classic | 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Ribera, Claudia 1ac - mars colonization |
| Palm Classic | 4 | Opponent: Flower Mound ST | Judge: Stuckert, James 1ac - tt - tricks - space mining |
| Palm Classic | 5 | Opponent: Harker KB | Judge: Chatur, Shahina 1ac - china |
| Princeton Classic | 1 | Opponent: Montville SH | Judge: Iskhakov, Daniel 1ac - capitalism |
| Princeton Classic | 3 | Opponent: Milton AT | Judge: Gentleman, Jonah 1ac - US prison workers |
| Princeton Classic | 5 | Opponent: Academy Of Classical Christian Studies JM | Judge: Lee, Andrew 1ac - st pierre |
| Princeton Classic | Octas | Opponent: Princeton CB | Judge: StPeter, Joshua - Wu, Jalyn - Siegel, Zachary 1AC - teachers |
| Princeton Classic | Quarters | Opponent: Harrison MB | Judge: Kang, Albert - Siegel, Zachary - Basu, Sreeta 1ac - womens strike |
| Princeton Classic | Finals | Opponent: Walt Whitman EY | Judge: Menon, Uma - Siegel, Zachary - Cukier, Wolf 1ac - butler |
| The Newark Invitational 2022 | 1 | Opponent: Harrison JC | Judge: Siegal, Zach 1ac - racial capitalism |
| The Newark Invitational 2022 | 3 | Opponent: Harrison TB | Judge: Coln, Kassie 1ac - racial cap |
| Tournament of Champions | 2 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Quisenberry, Jack 1ac - lunar mining |
| Tournament of Champions | 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward MC | Judge: Brown, Grant 1ac - intuitions - afc or acc - permissibility or presumption - tt |
| Tournament of Champions | 5 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Nails, Jacob 1ac - lunar mining |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 1 | Opponent: Oak Grove AA | Judge: Lee, Andrew 1ac - medicine access |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 4 | Opponent: Park City NL | Judge: Rao, Anand 1ac - virtue theory must check interps in cx |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 5 | Opponent: Memorial DX | Judge: Herrera, David 1ac - prag evergreening |
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Cites
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0 - ContactTournament: baby | Round: Finals | Opponent: the oppositions | Judge: ysn flo | 10/15/21 |
0 - Contact InfoTournament: baby | Round: Finals | Opponent: the oppositions | Judge: ysn flo | 7/7/21 |
0 - NavigationTournament: baby | Round: Finals | Opponent: the oppositions | Judge: ysn flo | 10/15/21 |
1 - Combo Shell v1Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: Quarters | Opponent: BASIS Peoria PY | Judge: Stuckert, James - Forrest, Jayanne - Georges, Joseph | 11/22/21 |
1 - Combo Shell v2Tournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Academy Of Classical Christian Studies JM | Judge: Lee, Andrew | 12/4/21 |
1 - Counter Solvency AdvocateTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 2 | Opponent: Sharon RG | Judge: Jasani, Aryan A. Interpretation: If the affirmative defends anything other than "The member nations of the world trade organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines," then they must provide a counter-solvency advocate for their specific advocacy in the 1AC. (To clarify, you must have an author that states we should not do your aff, insofar as the aff is not a whole res phil aff)B. Violation: they don't – they say united states and other countries shouldn't do the planC. Standards:1. Fairness – This is a litmus test to determining whether your aff is fair –a) Ground – there are infinite things you could defend outside the exact text of the resolution which pushes you to the limits of contestable arguments, even if your interp of the topic is better, the only way to verify if it's substantively fair is proof of counter-arguments. Nobody knows your aff better than you, so if you can't find an answer I can't be expected tob) Limits – Operating outside the bounds of the general maxim places an infinite research burden explodes neg prep2. Research – Forces the aff to go to the other side of the library and contest their own view points, as well as encouraging in depth-research about their own position. Having one also encourages more in-depth answers since I can find responses. Key to education since we definitionally learn more about positions when we contest our own. | 10/3/21 |
1 - Disclose In Cite BoxTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 2 | Opponent: Sharon RG | Judge: Jasani, Aryan A. Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all constructive positions in cite boxes on the 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki. To clarify, they can't say check open source, and if cites don't work, they should have a note saying so.Debatecoaches no date https://hsld.debatecoaches.org/Main/ Violation: see the screenshot in the docStandards:1~ Pre-round prep: prep becomes atrocious when you make people sift through 20 word docs to figure out which links you're reading and which impacts to prep. Discourages tricks—you can just hide a bunch of blippy arguments. Also key for inclusion since disadvantaged people have computers more prone to lag and even 3 or 4 can crash the program for them—outweighs accessibility is a multiplier for their impacts. Disclosing in cite boxes solves—people can quickly get a summary of your position and go to open source if they need more information2~ wiki rules—the wiki tells you to disclose like everyone else. Freeloading is bad and o/w—it cultivates passive citizenship and turns any hope of actually solving their impacts which is a voter for education. | 10/3/21 |
1 - Disclose In Cite Box v2Tournament: The Newark Invitational 2022 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harrison JC | Judge: Siegal, Zach Interpretation – Debaters must disclose all constructive positions in cite boxes on the 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki. To clarify, they can't say check open source, and if cites don't work, they should type a basic summary of the position.Violation – they don't have cites1~ Wiki rules and accessibility – inclusion is a voter because you can't debate if you can't participateWiki Admin ~Administrator, "NDCA LD 2021-2022," No Publication, https://hsld.debatecoaches.org/Main JB~ 2~ Wiki also warns you before you disclose which means no reasonability on this shellI'll preempt "wiki doesn't work" – 1~ The interp solves, yes the wiki sometimes doesn't post wikify versions but you can still post a summary of arguments which is what the wiki asks you to do 2~ Asking doesn't solve because it's a question of the norm you posit and some people don't know you 3~ Verifiability flows neg – you know they didn't disclose but you don't know if they're lying. Either way, most debaters follow my interp which means risk of offense negates.Wiki rules is a voter – 1~ You reap the benefits of it from other disclosure but you think you're special – links to fairness which is a voter you can't tell who won if the layer was skewed 2~ It's run by volunteers so you're just freeriding on a volunteer website that does great things – internal link to being a better person | 1/7/22 |
1 - Disclose Plan TextTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mission San Jose SS | Judge: Khattak, Muhammad Interpretation—the aff must disclose the plan text, framework, and advantage area 30 minutes before the round. To clarify, disclosure can occur on the wiki or over message. They must also not lie on their wiki and meet their own disclosure interpretations.Violation—they didn't disclose all – frmaing doesn't solve because advantage areas change the direction of policy debatesVoter for academic integrity and lying – their wiki has a part that says they will meet disclosure interps but they didn't meet this disclosure interp. – ow on portability debate is where we develop life long skills for life. Independently not meeting your own disclosure interps is a voter bc it kills norming and no one knows what you actually care about to meet which kills fairness – lying is misleading and defeats the purpose of debating if you can lie and it's an educational space which means it's an indict to them. They also read new affs bad on the neg which flips reasonability and predictability.Vote neg for prep and clash—two internal links—a) neg prep—4 minutes of prep is not enough to put together a coherent 1nc or update generics—30 minutes is necessary to learn a little about the affirmative and piece together what 1nc positions apply and cut and research their applications to the affirmative b) aff quality—plan text disclosure discourages cheap shot affs. If the aff isn't inherent or easily defeated by 20 minutes of research, it should lose—this will answer the 1ar's claim about innovation—with 30 minutes of prep, there's still an incentive to find a new strategic, well justified aff, but no incentive to cut a horrible, incoherent aff that the neg can't check against the broader literature. | 11/5/21 |
1 - Have Wiki and Contact InfoTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker DS | Judge: Datti, Abhilash Interpretation – debaters must have a wiki with contract information specific to the debater who is debatingViolation – they don't ss in doc~1~ Safety – having a wiki is key to understand any accessibility concerns like trigger warnings or potentially sensitive topics. Absent a wiki there's no way to tell – not having contact information makes it worse because there's no way to verify it preround which kills 1NC strat construction. Inclusion is a voter – you can't debate if you can't participate~2~ Disclosure is good – open sourcing and disclosing round reports are a good thing because it levels the playing field – big schools have flows and docs but small schools won't have access to such resources without things like open source – you don't do that and our norm necessitates that everyone discloses everything – I didn't get the aff 30 minutes before the round which means err neg on offense. They'll say its' disclosed, but if you download the doc the aff is about intellectual property which is not this topic | 10/29/21 |
1 - If ROTJ and ROTB SpecTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Harrison AA | Judge: Krause, Lukas - Quisenberry, Jack - tanguturi, nikita Interpretation – if the affirmative reads both a Role of the Judge and Role of the Ballot as ways to frame offense, they must specify which one comes first and how each interacts with each other in the 1ACViolation – they didn'tVote negative for Critical Engagement – absent specification the NC doesn't know what types of offense to read to link under their multiple frameworks. Even if we somehow link offense under one, the 1AR can shift and moot the NC, and we still don't know how each interacts with each other ie. does the ROTB influence the ROTJ. There are a couple impacts –~1~ Movement building – a) Dogmatism DA – Absent specification we can't discuss countermethods of solving the affirmative which kills solvency and causes polarization b) Legitimacy DA – If NC's don't know how to link offense that means your ROTB or ROTJ becomes a NIB that the NC will have to frame out of which is bad because the nuances of the affirmative never get discussed~2~ Education – only my model allows debaters to rigorously test the affirmative and learn the literature through countermethods, anything else excludes offense and ends in commodification of literature for the ballot. Independently, not specifying is bad for novice inclusion because they won't know how to engage with the affirmative and lose everytime – inclusion is a voter you can't debate if you can't participateFraming is that they can't use their aff to take out theory a) that proves the abuse of the shell they should have specified and that's shifting b) truth testing – we couldn't rigorously test the aff so we don't know if it's true c) form v content distinction – the shell criticizes the ability to read the framing in the first placeVoters – Fairness is a voter since debate is a competitive activity that intrinsically requires an equal shot at winning. Education is a voter since it's the reason schools fund debate and its ultimate impact.DD – a) to deter future abuse, b) otherwise they could just kick and go for the positive time tradeoff on theory, c) the round has been skewed so theory is the only fair place to vote d) DTA doesn't make sense because it indicts you as a normCI – a) reasonability requires judge intervention because I don't know where your BS meter is, and b) reasonability creates a race to the bottom since it motivates debaters to use increasingly unfair strategies and get away with them by playing defense on theory c) collapses because you garner offense based on the brightline d) footnoting because saying "oh lets be reasonable just this once" even if it's a better norm means we never get the norming potential of the shell e) the bl is catered to your situation not the best situation f) race to the bottom because we never find better norms and think everything is reasonableNo RVIs – a) It's illogical to vote for you for being fair, rounds without theory would be irresolvable b) It incentivizes you to bait theory and win off a scripted CI which means infinite abuse c) you have the 2ar to blippily extend rvis which kilsl substance education | 9/27/21 |
1 - Impact Justified FrameworksTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AB | Judge: Lee, Andrew A: Interpretation – Debaters must only read normatively justified frameworks and or justify the baseline starting point for morality.B: Violation – You read an impact justified framework – I'll read a couple lines of moenC: Standards –1. Strat skew – Reading an impact justified framework destroys my strategy: A) Turn ground – it artificially exclude impacts from a larger framework that would justify your impact being bad which means you can cherry pick any impact that flows one direction B) Limits – it makes it impossible for me to answer your framework because you can choose any impact that is always bad like racism which leaves me no ground and grants you an infinite number of impacts to defend that aren't justified by a broader philosophy. Also, you should reject impact justified frameworks because they fail and derive a moral imperative to act.2. Phil ed – Impact justified framework destroy phil ed: A) Justification – impact justification destroys the requirement to learn concepts like normativity, metaphysics, meta-ethics, and other types of justifications for frameworks since all you need is reasons why one impact is bad Phil ed controls the internal link to education since it's the internal link to knowing what counts as good education through philosophical justification. | 10/15/21 |
1 - Indexicals BadTournament: Tournament of Champions | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward MC | Judge: Brown, Grant Interp: The affirmative debater may not claim that each subject's ethicality arises from their own affective relations indexed to themselves. To clarify, indexicals is bad.Violation – "quote from the doc"Negate:~1~ infinite abuse – there are infinite potential indexes that could affirm including descriptive standards that are impossible to turn and allowing them to win if they affirm under any index makes it impossible to negate – they can introduce a new descriptive index in the 1ar and auto-win which means it's impossible to beat them. strongest internal link to fairness since one side wins every round.~2~ accessibility – indexicals justifies horrible things, i.e. if the resolution was "slavery ought to be reinstated," under a certain index, that would affirm such as "consistency with reinstating slavery," which means they can justify literally any reprehensible action and can't condemn things like racism or genocide since there are indexes that would affirm that. That's an independent voter since they make debate unsafe and accessibility is a prior question to being able to debate. It's also false – a~ generation an obligation requires an absolute obligation that justifies following it b~ we can have indexes that negate which nonuniques their offense since you need to prove it 100 true. | 4/24/22 |
1 - Multiple MetaethicsTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 5 | Opponent: Memorial DX | Judge: Herrera, David | 10/3/21 |
1 - No Say CX ChecksTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: Octas | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Kirkpatrick, Braedon - Broussard, Austin - Robinson, Tajaih Interpretation – the affirmative may not claim that CX checks for interps. To clarify, they may not claim CX checksViolation – they do~1~ Norming – cx checks kills the ability to read theory like spec shells which have the strongest internal link to good norms – spec shells are good because it checks back aff abuse, if we stop reading spec shells then people will stop specifying anything in the 1AC for me to check in CX, means people will come to rounds with no specified framework, offense, or anything which kills norming and neg strat construction because everyone is incredibly shifty and we can't call it out with a spec shell~2~ Strat skew – there are two internal links a) I lost 6 minutes of prep time for strat construction if I have to wait till CX b) this norm causes a race to the bottom of shiftiness for infinite CX clarification – two implications 1 is that it loses my ability to construct a strategy and 2 is that novices will forget to ask which is the strongest internal link to inclusion – that's an independent voter because you can't debate if you're excluded | 11/8/21 |
1 - Open SourceTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Ciocca, Amanda Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all constructive positions on open source with highlighting on the 2021/2022 NDCA LD wiki after the round in which they read them.Violation: you did not. Screenshots in Doc1~ Evidence Ethics —- disclosure deters mis-cutting, power-tagging, abuse of brackets and ellipses, and plagiarism. Independent reason to vote you down because it promotes better norms about academic engagement—-debate is an academic environment and must ensure that we become fair scholars. Even if you don't lose on fairness in the round, you will lose in college if you violate academic ethics which establish a crucial real-world norm, and outweighs any in-round impact. Also, if you aren't honest, we don't know what else you're lying about which means we don't know if your arguments are actually true since they can be misrepresented.2~ Revolutionary testing - their affirmative is an echo chamber absent the ability to test it from multiple angles which replicates the issue of status quo solvency because not everyone key to change starts from the position of understanding that their aff grants to their method. Debaters around the country rely on interconnected networks like disclosure to share methods and liberation tactics which makes our method key to your solvency.3~ White Flooding DA – if only non-black debaters disclosed then the wiki would be full of super white arguments like friv theory and tricks. Turns new black debaters away from the community.4~ Debate resource inequities—you'll say people will steal cards, but that's good—it's the only way to truly level the playing field for students such as novices in under-privileged programs who can't bypass paywalled articles. | 10/16/21 |
1 - Read All AloudTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 5 | Opponent: Memorial DX | Judge: Herrera, David Interpretation – Debaters must read everything that they want to be relevant in the round. To clarify, all analytics and definitions must be read in order for it to be relevant on the flow in round.Violation – they don'tStandards:1~ Infinite Abuse – their model of debate justifies putting any number of things in the doc that they no longer have to read ranging anywhere from preempts to plan texts to aprioris. Kills fairness since I don't know how these arguments affect the round until I've already conceded them. Outweighs A~ it's structural abuse that can't be compensated via better debating B~ accessibility – people with cognitive or motor disabilities can struggle with a prioris especially hidden ones2~ Time Skew – I have to respond to arguments that take them no time to make if I want to go for T or a disad that doesn't link under your definition. Outweighs A~ it's structural abuse because it requires me to fulfil a burden that they don't have to B~ magnitude – it's infinite abuse because it's zero time for them – the time loss is proportion is definitionally infinite C~ it's a resolvable time skew whereas other skews like the 1ar are ingrained D~ reversibility – 1nc is our first and only chance to generate offense so we need to maximize our chances3~ Fair version – read it aloud or extempt a version of the graph. It's not infinitely regressive – A~ we only defend this norm not every specification B~ lay debaters do it – that flips reasonability and means err negative because it's a predictable normFairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it's the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules can be debated over but rely on some conception of fairness to be justified.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.Competing interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear norm, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it's a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 10/3/21 |
1 - Round ReportsTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Salazar, Davd Interp: Debaters must disclose round reports on the 2021-2022 NDCA LD wiki for every round they have debated this season. Round reports disclose which positions (AC, NC, K, T, Theory, etc.) were read/gone for in every speech.Violation: screenshot in the doc – they have noneStandards:1~ Level Playing Field – big schools can go around and collect flows but independents are left in the dark so round reports are key for them to prep- they give you an idea of overall what layers debaters like going for so you can best prepare your strategy against them. Accessibility first and independent voter – it's an impact multiplier.2~ Strategy Education – round reports help novices understand the context in which positions are read by good debaters and help with brainstorming potential 1NCs vs affs – helps compensate for kids who can't afford coaches to prep out affs.3~ Pre-round prep –1ARs gives especially give an idea of what type of debater someone is – they could go for 1AR theory every round– otherwise I enter every round unknowing whereas you have an idea of what you want to go for from the start – key to good clash4~ Data collection – round reports are key to statistical analysis of LD debateZhang 1/22 Peter Zhang, 1-22-2021, "Disclosure in Numbers by Peter Zhang," Briefly, https://www.vbriefly.com/2021/01/22/disclosure-in-numbers-by-peter-zhang/?fbclid=IwAR0q5uCO74vLhYipH8QEO0PrLhY7CiIOwlEJUWEmnIVdqCmlM-jC4A-8rk0 LEX JB Data collection outweighs on norming – a) allows us to be accurate with our findings to see which norms are good and which norms are aren't b) data collection allows us to see if norming is working – means it comes lexically prior to any shells read in this round~1~ DTD on disclosure – a) disclosure cannot be drop the argument because it would just drop you because you're the norm b) deterrence, also dropping them is key now because it's the beginning of the season which is key to norms creation~2~ Reject all responses to disclosure – they disclose open source which concedes the validity of disclosure being good – anything else is a doubleturn~3~ No RVI on disclosure – a) prevents people from checking back for bad disclosure – means we never get better wikis because they're afraid to lose off the RVI b) they know that people will read disclosure on them so they prep a counterinterp just to win off the RVI – leads to infinitely abusive norms~4~ CI – 1~ reasonability is arbitrary – impossible to know what is reasonable until you establish a brightline 2~ bites judge intervention cuz they have to gut check what they think is good 3~ reasonability collapses cuz u use offense defense to evaluate offense under the BL 4~ norms – you can sidestep norms by selectively choosing a different brightline you meet every round.~5~ Disclosure outweighs – it's key to assessing the honesty of the form of your argumentation and how you presented arguments which means it precludes 1AC claims.~6~ Fairness is a voter because debate is a game governed by rules and you can't tell who actually won if the layer was skewed. | 9/11/21 |
1 - Spec 1AC Theory ViolationTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Iowa City West NW | Judge: Georges, Joseph Interpretation – if the aff reads a preemptive 1AC theory shell, they must specify what a violation would look like in the 1AC.Violation – you read AFC but didn't say what a violation looks like. Meeting the shell could look like saying "any role of the ballot or framework violates"Vote neg~1~ Absent specification you can shift a violation into the 1NC ie. I could read truth testing or a fairness voter and concede the shell thinking the shell only applies to ethical frameworks but the 1AR can shift into the violation which kills fairness.~2~ Contestation – the warrants for the counterinterp to AFC change based on what violates. If truth testing violates it would have a different abuse story than if only contesting the ethical framework violates. Absent spec that kills norming – norming is an independent voter because it's the terminal impact of theory. This is also a reason why you should err negative and give new 2NR responses on the counterinterp because they skewed my counterinterp | 11/21/21 |
1 - Spec MetaethicTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: Triples | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Stuckert, James Interpretation – the affirmative must specify the metaethic of their ethical theory/framework in the delineated text of the 1ACViolation – they don't~1~ Resolvability – Metaethics is a key question when debating moral obligation – it explores questions that a simple "the standard is" can't solve for – that's also a reason to vote negative on substance because it's a reason I couldn't truth test itSayre-Mccord 12 ~Sayre-Mccord, Geoff, 1-23-2007 substantive revision Thu Jan 26, 2012, "Metaethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)," No Publication, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/metaethics LEX JB~ ~2~ Extinction – the question and discussion of metaethics is key to solve collapse and extinction of the galaxy, discussion is key – we have at best 40 more years and it won't wait for us to have sloppy phil debatesMuehlhauser 11 ~Muehlhauser, Luke (Executive director at the Singularity Institute). "The Urgent Meta-Ethics of Friendly Artificial Intelligence." LessWrong. 01 February 2011. http://lesswrong.com/lw/43v/the_urgent_metaethics_of_friendly_artificial~~ Reject uncarded responses – study of quantum physics requires evidence from smart scholars~3~ Phil debate – two internal links – a) frameworks fail to provide an ought statement if they don't explore the natural state of agents or the actor in the resolution – independent voter because we can't correctly discuss the moral worth of an action b) I can't ask questions about it in 1AC CX which kills access to novices trying to learn – outweighs on inclusion~4~ Strat skew – two internal links a) absent specification the NC loses access to framework k's, metaethic debate, metahijacks, hijacks etc. for example, a metaethic can be used to frame out a kritik, but the NC loses access to this and the 1AR can shift into one that's reactive b) even if I specify my own in the 1NC, I can't contest yours until the 2NR which means you moot 7 minutes of the 1NC and this cause latebreaking framing debates, and the metaethic debate is skewed 7-6 favoring aff~5~ Engagement – specifying in the 1AC means we can have more engagement about the phil | 9/12/21 |
1 - Spec ValueTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 5 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit MS | Judge: Quisenberry, Jack Interpretation – the affirmative must specify the value and value criterion in the 1AC. For example, they must say something like "my value is morality/justice"Violation – they don'tVote neg~1~ Resolvability – not knowing what the overarching goal makes the debate irresolvable because the judge doesn't know what to filter through frameworks – independent voter because every round needs a winnerHalvorson Koshy 13 ~Dr. Seth Halvorson and Cherian Koshy, 2013 by the National Speech and Debate Association All rights reserved, DR. SETH HALVORSON Ph.D., Columbia University (NY) CHERIAN KOSHY, National Speech and Debate Association; formerly of Apple Valley HS (MN), Dr. Halvorson and Mr. Koshy both debated for Apple Valley High School in Minnesota during the 1990s and were the two Minnesota State Champions from Apple Valley during that decade. Over the course of the last 15 years, both Dr. Halvorson and Mr. Koshy have spent summers traveling the country, teaching students about Lincoln-Douglas debate. Each summer, they work with hundreds of students who are interested in developing their skills and learning about LD debate. They also coach teams throughout the year, and the students they have coached have been immensely successful on the local, state, regional, and national levels, including impressive finishes at the Tournament of Champions and National Speech and Debate Tournament. Over the course of the last 15 years, they have taught thousands of students how to debate, including many current coaches and judges in the activity. In 2006, after spending several summers together, they designed a series of instructional materials they believe will be useful for students, coaches, parents, and judges new to the activity of competitive debate. In 2008, the second edition of the text was published including updated material and information., https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Lincoln-Douglas-Debate-Textbook.pdf LEX JB~ ~2~ Inclusion – novice or traditional debaters always use values and the lack of one excludes them from the space because a) I would be confused if I didn't know the overarching goal of the debate b) value debates are core questions of novice and traditional debates, their counterinterp will justify excluding certain circuits, but mine allows for all of them to engage. Also, any answer to this shell is just a reason to go do policy or PF, values and value criterions are unique to LD which is a reason why it outweighs – proves no regress.~3~ Strat skew – two internal links a) absent a specified value you can shift ie. values can implicate to negative util which would take out case turns like "death good", permissibility triggers based on a value, also things like logcon require a conception of value, hijacks to role of the ballots, answers to TJFs – that's a unique reason why it has to be in the 1AC and also in circuit debate b) I can't respond to your value in the 1NC which moots 7 minutes of value debate.Specifying my own value in the 1NC or specifying in the 1AR doesn't solve because a) if it was in the 1AC, I would have the NC to respond to the value b) causes a 4-6-3 timeskew on the value debate, and you would be reactive to my value and shift in the 1AR after encouraging a strategic error c) it's not my burden to dictate your affirmative, the aff is the stasis point for contestation which justifies affirmatives having everything in the aff, not the NC to have it | 9/26/21 |
1 - T - General PrincipleTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Iowa City West NW | Judge: Georges, Joseph Interpretation – topical affirmatives defend the resolution as a general principle. To clarify, a general principle necessitates that you defend that the plan is a good idea in the abstract and don't defend implementation and PICs don't negate.Violation – they read enforcementNegate –(1) Jurisdiction – it's NSDA rulesNSDA 21 ~2021-22 Lincoln-Douglas Ballot, https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Sample-Lincoln-Douglas-Debate-Ballot-Blank.pdf JB~ Outweighs – It's literally on the LD ballot which means whenever a judge submits the ballot it's what they contractually abide by – operating outside of the rules would forfeit the judge's ability to submit a decision – that flips reasonability because rules are most predictable because they're procedures to debating.(3) Phil education – it encourages philosophical analysis and prevents messy enforcement and process debates where you just focus on the post-fiat implications – we'll impact turn policy debate a) it's nonunique through forums of CX and PF b) philosophical policy is better because you can find the best possible idea, not the most common c) phil education outweighs because it's unique to LD and controls the internal link to other education through philosophical justification | 11/21/21 |
1 - T - General Principle v2Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 7 | Opponent: Westlake MR | Judge: Qin, Andrew Interpretation – topical affirmatives defend the resolution as a general principle. To clarify, a general principle necessitates that you defend that the plan is a good idea in the abstract and don't defend implementation and PICs don't negate.Violation – they read enforcementNegate –(1) Jurisdiction – it's NSDA rulesNSDA 21 ~2021-22 Lincoln-Douglas Ballot, https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Sample-Lincoln-Douglas-Debate-Ballot-Blank.pdf JB~ Outweighs – It's literally on the LD ballot which means whenever a judge submits the ballot it's what they contractually abide by – operating outside of the rules would forfeit the judge's ability to submit a decision – that flips reasonability because rules are most predictable because they're procedures to debating.(2) Fairness – it prevents abusive PICs out of certain parts of the plan that are abusive because it steals aff ground by isolating a hyperspecific DA to the plan – solves topic education to read it as a DA and has the net benefit of critical thinking because you need to win the DA actually outweighs the plan(3) Phil education – it encourages philosophical analysis and prevents messy enforcement and process debates where you just focus on the post-fiat implications – we'll impact turn policy debate a) it's nonunique through forums of CX and PF b) philosophical policy is better because you can find the best possible idea, not the most common c) phil education outweighs because it's unique to LD and controls the internal link to other education through philosophical justification | 11/21/21 |
1 - TT First SpecTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Flower Mound ST | Judge: Stuckert, James | 2/13/22 |
1 - Trigger WarningsTournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Academy Of Classical Christian Studies JM | Judge: Lee, Andrew ====B. Violation: They didn't give a content warning. ==== ====C. Standard: ==== ====1. Access – Content warnings for those who suffer from trauma or anxiety are excluded from the conversation without content warnings. Carter 15, ~Angela Carter (Ph.D. Candidate in Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota), "Teaching with Trauma: Trigger Warnings, Feminism, and Disability Pedagogy," Disabilities Studies Quarterly, 2015~ Given these findings, it is imperative that the debate on trigger warnings focus on the inherent questions of access. However, because of the misuse of "triggered" to reference anything that makes someone uncomfortable, disagreements about the classroom as a "safe space" often divert the conversation away from any real discussion of pedagogy and access in higher education. In his 2012 research, Mark Salzer found that students with mental illness were more likely to withdraw because of the impact of "perceived sigma and discrimination" than because of personal struggles with the symptoms or stresses related to their disability (Salzer 1). Because such students are "often viewed as disruptive, lacking academic skill, prone to violence" they are often socially isolated and left alone to question "how welcome they are on campus" (2). These findings suggest that simply providing information about mental illness and "chiding the audience to treat individuals with mental illness" by noting the available resources, is not an effective approach to decreasing the rate of withdraw for disabled students (6). The false conflations of access with "safety" allow accommodations to be dismissed, and only serve to further marginalize mentally disabled students by telling them they are in fact not welcome because their needs disrupt the processes of learning their peers deserve. In the most basic sense, accommodations are not about "safety," but about access to opportunity for a more livable life. When disability is denied because it is not understood or seen, or when access is denied because it is inconvenient or complicated, humanity is denied. While it is certainly possible to recognize trauma as a mental disability and still be hesitant toward trigger warnings as an accommodation practice,14 the content and tenor of that conversation would be far removed from the outright hostility and rejection that has reverberated most widely. When presented as an access measure, it becomes evident that trigger warnings do not provide a way to "opt out" of anything, nor do they offer protection from the realities of the world. Trigger warnings provide a way to "opt in" by lessening the power of the shock and the unexpectedness, and granting the traumatized individual agency to attend to the affect and effects of their trauma. Traumatized individuals know that trigger warnings will not save us. Such warnings simply allow us to do the work we need to do so that we can participate in the conversation or activity. They allow us to enter the conversation, just like automatic doors allow people who use wheelchairs to more easily enter a building.==== Voters: Access is an independent voter – a) it's a prior question to engaging in the space b) it's a violation of the humanity of the opponent c) we are people before we're debaters which makes it most intrinsic to the nature of the activity. | 12/4/21 |
1 - Unified Solvency AdvocateTournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Milton AT | Judge: Gentleman, Jonah Interpretation: If the affirmative delineates specific functions of its advocacy as normal means i.e. enforcement, actor, definitions of strike, specific workers, etc, then it must have a unified solvency advocate that agrees with all those specifications.Violation: They don't – elaborateNegate-1~ Limits- Not having a unified solvency advocate that agrees with all your "normal means" specifications allow you to choose any permutation of actor, enforcement mechanism, punishment, targeted group of people, and government in conjunction with each other that makes negative advocacy construction impossible because its literally impossible to predict which is supercharged by no normal means on this topic. Unified solvency advocates grant sufficient aff flexibility while still ensuring a reasonable case list since specification all comes from one source.2~ Ground- They can choose the best definition for right to strike that suites them, the best enforcement mechanism, all with any exceptions they want which makes it really easy for them to delink core negative positions like circumvention, PICs out of weapons, etc. | 12/4/21 |
2 - K - PsychoanalysisTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward MA | Judge: Robinson, Tajaih The subject emerges through alienation by attempting to explain one's desires through language, which always has a communicability gap from the real world. This leads to a constant and impossible desire to fufill the lost object which justifies infinite violence. Thus the role of the ballot is to Traverse the Fantasy which means exposing drives.McGowan 13, McGowan, Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. University of Nebraska Press, 2013. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1ddr7nv. Accessed 19 Sept. 2020. AT Their deployment of debate is an agential fantasy – the affirmative is an investment into subjectivity as a teleological entity dependent on external recognition to satisfy its goals, which is addicting and causes passivityLundberg 12 Dr. Christian Lundberg, 2012, "Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric," The University of Alabama Press, Dr. Lundberg is an associate professor and co-director of the University Program in Cultural Studies at UNC, he has a B.A. from the University of Redlands, a Master of Divinity from Emory University, and a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University, sjbe That destroys politics, ethics, and the value to lifeRuti '14 (mari, English, Toronto, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society (2014) 19, 297–314) SJBE, recut from Harvard BoSu Vote negative to embrace the lack, this means accepting the anxiety from the encounter with the other and exposing drives, its Uncondo not a floating PikMcGowan 2, McGowan, Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. University of Nebraska Press, 2013. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1ddr7nv. Accessed 19 Sept. 2020. AT | 9/26/21 |
2 - K - SemiocapitalismTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Dua, Raunak Technology has created an age of constant information and signifiers floating through our phones and computers as media. This creates a dyslexia – reduced attention spans, no time for true human interaction – this leads to information overload, which is too fast for our organic minds to keep up with – that causes depression and drug use. It's no coincidence that the rise of tech in the 80s was complimented with a drug epidemic. These signifiers come prior to action, thus the role of the ballot is to disrupt semiocapitalism.Berardi 09 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2009. P. 40-42 LEX JB~ The topic's call for unionization and strikes might have worked a century ago, but post digital infosphere, the solvency is impossible.Berardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ Questions regarding ethics are irrelevant in the world of the infosphere. All information gets coopted by the inescapability of capitalism – it's search is cruelly optimistic in a world of semiocapitalism because of how information interacts with us.Berardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "0. Bifurications." Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 14-15 LEX JB~ Thus, the alternative is to symbolically take the system hostage through it's own method of exhaustion. We do this through radical passivity and a method of the Wu Wei – only radical passivity can escape the infosphereBerardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ Semio capitalism has foreclosed the possibility of democracy having an impact – voters choose between names that will impose pre-packaged and inevitable decisions onto them.Berardi 15 (Franco Bifo Berardi, 2015, Berardi was a member of the Italian Communist Youth Federation and expelled for factionalism, was/is involved In the political movement of Autonomia, has contributed to Semiotexte, Chimerees, Metropli, and Felix, currently collaborating on the magazine Derive Approdi, and teaches social history of communication at Accademia de belle Arti in Milan. "Heroes – Mass Murder and Suicide")Lex AKu | 10/30/21 |
2 - K - Semiocapitalism v2Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Greenhill NT | Judge: Ribera, Claudia Debate is structured as a marketplace for information where we fetishize notions of "pedagogy" and is an extension of semiocapitalist logic through immaterial manors. Communication within the university isn't one that develops subjectivities and psychic identity rather a system geared towards fragmentation and futuristic productivity.Berardi 12 ~David Hugill and Elise Thorburn, 9-26-2012, "Interview with 'Bifo': Reactivating the Social Body in Insurrectionary Times," Critical Legal Thinking, https://criticallegalthinking.com/2012/09/26/interview-with-bifo-reactivating-the-social-body-in-insurrectionary-times JB~ Technology has created an age of constant information and signifiers floating through our phones and computers as media. This creates a dyslexia – reduced attention spans, no time for true human interaction – this leads to information overload, which is too fast for our organic minds to keep up with – that causes depression and drug use. It's no coincidence that the rise of tech in the 80s was complimented with a drug epidemic. These signifiers come prior to action, thus the role of the ballot is to disrupt semiocapitalism.Berardi 09 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2009. P. 40-42 LEX JB~ The topic's call for unionization and strikes might have worked a century ago, but post digital infosphere, the solvency is impossible.Berardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ Questions regarding ethics are irrelevant in the world of the infosphere. All information gets coopted by the inescapability of capitalism – it's search is cruelly optimistic in a world of semiocapitalism because of how information interacts with us.Berardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "0. Bifurications." Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 14-15 LEX JB~ Thus, the alternative is to symbolically take the system hostage through it's own method of exhaustion. We do this through radical passivity and a method of the Wu Wei – only radical passivity can escape the infosphereBerardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ | 11/20/21 |
2 - K - Semiocapitalism v3Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: Quarters | Opponent: BASIS Peoria PY | Judge: Stuckert, James - Forrest, Jayanne - Georges, Joseph Technology has created an age of constant information and signifiers floating through our phones and computers as media. This creates a dyslexia – reduced attention spans, no time for true human interaction – this leads to information overload, which is too fast for our organic minds to keep up with – that causes depression and drug use. It's no coincidence that the rise of tech in the 80s was complimented with a drug epidemic. These signifiers come prior to action, thus the role of the ballot is to disrupt semiocapitalism.Berardi 09 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2009. P. 40-42 LEX JB~ Blackness moves past their social position and into a position of signification of semiotics – their movements get fractalized and pushes minority groups against each otherFerguson 12 Ferguson, Roderick A. The Reorder of Things: the University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference. University of Minnesota Press, 2012.DHS NJ Thus, the alternative is to symbolically take the system hostage through it's own method of exhaustion. We do this through radical passivity and a method of the Wu Wei – only radical passivity can escape the infosphereBerardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ | 11/22/21 |
2 - K - Semiocapitalism v4Tournament: Princeton Classic | Round: Finals | Opponent: Walt Whitman EY | Judge: Menon, Uma - Siegel, Zachary - Cukier, Wolf THE DIGITAL AGE IS HERE – Technology has created an age of constant information and signifiers floating through our phones and computers as media. This creates a dyslexia – reduced attention spans, no time for true human interaction – this leads to information overload, which is too fast for our organic minds to keep up with – that causes depression and drug use. It's no coincidence that the rise of tech in the 80s was complimented with a drug epidemic. These signifiers come prior to action, thus the role of the ballot is to disrupt semiocapitalism.Berardi 09 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2009. P. 40-42 LEX JB~ The topic's call for unionization and strikes might have worked a century ago, but post digital infosphere, the affirmative bites into a cruelly optimistic cycle of productionBerardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ Questions regarding ethics are irrelevant in the world of the infosphere. All information gets coopted by the inescapability of capitalism – it's search is cruelly optimistic in a world of semiocapitalism because of how information interacts with us.Berardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "0. Bifurications." Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 14-15 LEX JB~ The impact is the destruction of the subject—info overload impedes memory retention. This produces a depersonalized subject that gets molded by structures of homogeneity and distorts our ability to engage in affective enjoyment – reducing us to cold automatons that react to stimuli with non-reflective action. This is the internal link to panic, chaos, depression, and conflict.Berardi 09 "Precarious Rhapsody: Semiocapitalism and the pathologies of the post-alpha generation" by Franco Berardi 2009 LHPDD Thus, the alternative is to symbolically take the system hostage through it's own method of exhaustion. We do this through radical passivity and a method of the Wu Wei – only radical passivity can escape the infosphereBerardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ | 12/5/21 |
2 - K - Semiocapitalism v5Tournament: The Newark Invitational 2022 | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harrison TB | Judge: Coln, Kassie Debate is structured as a marketplace for information where we fetishize notions of "pedagogy" and is an extension of semiocapitalist logic through immaterial manors. Communication within the university isn't one that develops subjectivities and psychic identity rather a system geared towards fragmentation and futuristic productivity.Berardi 12 ~David Hugill and Elise Thorburn, 9-26-2012, "Interview with 'Bifo': Reactivating the Social Body in Insurrectionary Times," Critical Legal Thinking, https://criticallegalthinking.com/2012/09/26/interview-with-bifo-reactivating-the-social-body-in-insurrectionary-times JB~ Technology has created an age of constant information and signifiers floating through our phones and computers as media. This creates a dyslexia – reduced attention spans, no time for true human interaction – this leads to information overload, which is too fast for our organic minds to keep up with – that causes depression and drug use. It's no coincidence that the rise of tech in the 80s was complimented with a drug epidemic. These signifiers come prior to action, thus the role of the ballot is to disrupt semiocapitalism.Berardi 09 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2009. P. 40-42 LEX JB~ Financial absolutism is framed by accelerationism – appropriation of resources becomes the end goal of desire. Extinction has already happened but the race for space through appropriation allows that semiotic cycle of wealth to survive – we're a better starting pointBerardi 18 ~Excerpted from Breathing: Chaos and Poetry by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, published by Semiotext(e) © Franco "Bifo" Berardi, 2018. All Rights Reserved, https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/events-archive/vital-exhaustion/expiration-the-last-breath-franco-bifo-berardi-2018 JB~ Questions regarding ethics are irrelevant in the world of the infosphere. All information gets coopted by the inescapability of capitalism – it's search is cruelly optimistic in a world of semiocapitalism because of how information interacts with us.Berardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "0. Bifurications." Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 14-15 LEX JB~ Thus, the alternative is to symbolically take the system hostage through it's own method of exhaustion. We do this through radical passivity and a method of the Wu Wei – only radical passivity can escape the infosphereBerardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ | 1/8/22 |
2 - Reps - ButlerTournament: Princeton Classic | Round: Finals | Opponent: Walt Whitman EY | Judge: Menon, Uma - Siegel, Zachary - Cukier, Wolf Butler is a defender of a predator – reading her scholarship creates an unsafe debate space – That's a voting issue for inclusion.Greenberg 18 ~Zoe Greenberg, 8-13-2018, "What Happens to ~#MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?," No Publication, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/nyregion/sexual-harassment-nyu-female-professor.html~~ THAT'S A VOTING ISSUE – Discourse in round matters – educators must take a stance against oppression in the activity – we can't divorce the flow from our performance – they don't get to weigh the caseVincent:– (Christopher ~Debate Coach, former college NDT debater~ "Re-Conceptualizing Our Performances: Accountability In Lincoln Douglas Debate" | 12/5/21 |
2 - Reps - DeweyTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 5 | Opponent: Memorial DX | Judge: Herrera, David Dewey's pragmatist philosophy discounts the materiality of racism and legitimizes institutional violence- he also personally endorsed exclusionary viewpoints – this is perpetuated by every tag in the framework and citing DeweyJones 12: John Wesley Jones. John Dewey and Cultural Racism. University of Illinois, 2012. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/42217/John_Jones.pdf?sequence=1. RW | 10/3/21 |
2 - Reps - GauthierTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Tanguturi, Nikita Gauthier is indefensibly ableist and their philosophy concludes the same.Pfeiffer 01 ~David Pfeiffer, 1-11-2001, "'Disabled Lives' commentary," No Publication, http://www.raggededgemagazine.com/0901/0901pfeiffer.htm JB~ | 10/16/21 |
2 - Reps - Policy ParalysisTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 2 | Opponent: Sharon RG | Judge: Jasani, Aryan Your rhetoric of the word "paralysis" is an independent voting issue for ableism – use 'freeze' instead. This is perpetuated by their use of this word in 1AC Murray 17
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2 - Reps - SartreTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Harris, Michael Their scholarship is hateful and a reason to lose the round—their Jean Paul Sartre endorsed pedophilia and actively advocated against the age of consent law.Doezema 18 ~Marie Doezema (Parisian Journalist). "France, Where Age of Consent Is Up for Debate." The Atlantic, 10 March 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/frances-existential-crisis-over-sexual-harassment-laws/550700/ WWDH~ Drop the debater—academic spaces have way too many sympathizers who ignore violence against children, and every act must be challenged in the most unflinching terms because anything else reinforces the epistemic bias in favor of rationalizing disgusting behavior.Grant 18 ~Alec Grant (Independent Scholar, retired from the Uiversity of Brighton where he was a Reader in Narrative Mental Health). "Sanitizing Academics and Damaged Lives" Mad In The UK, 12 April 2018. https://www.madintheuk.com/2018/12/sanitizing-academics-and-damaged-lives/ WWDH~
1~ controls the form of argumentation – every arg you make is skewed because you justified them with flawed rhetoric2~ prevents debaters from engaging in your arguments – if you're arguments justify these things, they may be sensitive to debaters who identify with those groups and prevent them from effectively engaging.3~ reps shape reality because we only understand arguments through how they're conveyed, just like you won't vote on an argument you don't understand. | 11/6/21 |
3 - CP - 21 SavageTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward MA | Judge: Robinson, Tajaih CP text: The member nations of the world trade organization should right the wrongs of colonialism through the embodiment of 21 Savage.The arrest of 21 Savage is something greater than an ICE investigation. It is an operation by corporatist capitalism to silence immigrants who historically speak up against it, like issues of environmentalism. The way that capitalism structures a system of corporatism proactively excludes immigrants who have their lives destroyedAhmad 20 ~Ahmad, Nadia, Climate Cages: Connecting Migration, the Carceral State, Extinction Rebellion, and the Coronavirus through Cicero and 21 Savage (July 21, 2020). Loyola Law Review, New Orleans, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3657096 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3657096 LEX JB~ Sheyaa's lyricism can redefine subjectivities and break down borders, enhancing cultural range and changing political narratives – controls the internal link to movement building. Answers their prefiat offense and has my own.Morgan Bennett 11 ~Marcyliena Morgan and Dionne Bennett "Hip-Hop and the Global Imprint of a Black Cultural Form" Daedalus , Spring 2011, Vol. 140, No. 2, Race, Inequality and Culture, volume 2 (Spring 2011), pp. 176-196 The MIT Press on behalf of American Academy of Arts and Sciences https://www.jstor.org/stable/23047460 LEX JB~ | 9/26/21 |
3 - FW - Extinction v GauthierTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Tanguturi, Nikita I'm conceding their framework, but extinction outweighs and consequences matter~1~ All intentions are forward looking ie. You only act based on a consequence~2~ Intent cannot be action guiding without a conception of consequences because you cannot act without one~3~ Extinction outweighsA) Reversibility – we can never improve society because our impact is irreversible which proves moral uncertaintyB) Prerequisite – you can't do the aff if you're dead, threats to bodily security preclude actionC) Resolvability – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical anything else means judge interventionD) Reciprocity – you can weigh your impacts under different frameworks, I should be able to as wellE) Phil education – MacAskill 14~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ Uncerainty - | 10/16/21 |
3 - FW - Truth TestingTournament: Tournament of Champions | Round: 2 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Quisenberry, Jack The role of the ballot is to determine whether the resolution is a true or false statement – anything else moots 7 minutes of the nc – their framing collapses since you must say it is true that a world is better than another before you adopt it.They justify substantive skews since there will always be a more correct side of the issue but we compensate for flaws in the lit. no 1ar rotbScalar methods like comparison increases intervention – the persuasion of certain DA or advantages sway decisions – T/F binary is descriptive and technical.Negate because either the aff is true meaning its bad for us to clash w/ it because it turns us into Fake News people OR it's not meaning it's a lie that you can't vote on for ethicsa priori's 1st – even worlds framing requires ethics that begin from a priori principles like reason or pleasure so we control the internal link to functional debates – no 1arThe ballot says vote aff or neg based on a topic – dictionaries define to negate as to deny the truth of and affirm as to prove true so it's constitutive and jurisdictional. | 4/23/22 |
3 - FW - Util v1Tournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 4 | Opponent: Park City NL | Judge: Rao, Anand Framework~1~ Ethics must begin in the external worldA) Action Guiding – anything else means it can't influence action because action only happens externally – abstraction can't explain everyday decisions like the trolley problemB) Naturalism – only moral naturalism can explain the influence of moral facts on the physical worldPapineau 07 David ~Professor of Philosophy King's College London~, First published Thu Feb 22, 2007; substantive revision Tue Mar 31, 2020 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/~~#MorFac C) Evolution – only a naturalistic understanding of the world explains it.Lutz and Lenman 18 Lutz, Matthew and Lenman, James, "Moral Naturalism", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2018/entries/naturalism-moral/. Massa ~2~ Ethics must solve the problem of regress, else you can infinitely question why should I follow this? Util meets – Pleasure and pain are the starting point for moral reasoning—they're our most baseline desires and the only things that explain the intrinsic value of objects or actionsMoen 16, Ole Martin (PhD, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo). "An Argument for Hedonism." Journal of Value Inquiry 50.2 (2016): 267. ~3~ Extinction outweighsA) Reversibility – we can never improve society because our impact is irreversible which proves moral uncertaintyB) Prerequisite – you can't do the aff if you're dead, threats to bodily security preclude actionC) Resolvability – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical anything else means judge interventionD) Reciprocity – you can weigh your impacts under different frameworks, I should be able to as wellE) Phil education – MacAskill 14~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ F) Uncertainty – we've been debating about ethics for centuries – if we're uncertain we should default to keeping us alive to keep learningThus, the standard is act hedonistic utilPrefer additionally –~1~ Actor Spec – Util is the best in the context of governments which is the actor in the resolutionA) Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.B) No act-omission distinction governments are responsible for everything in the public sphere so inaction is an implicit authorization of actionC) No intent foresight distinction for states.Enoch 07 Enoch, D ~The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew Unviersity, Mount Scopus Campus, Jersusalem~. (2007). INTENDING, FORESEEING, AND THE STATE. Legal Theory, 13(02). doi:10.1017/s1352325207070048 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-theory/article/intending-foreseeing-and-the-state/76B18896B94D5490ED0512D8E8DC54B2 D) Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings. Takes out util calc indicts since they're empirically denied and link turns them because the alt would be no action~2~ Skepticism – all ethics try to define meaning in action, but they haven't answered why we even try to find a universal obligation. Pleasure is the one naturally valuable thing that's given to us which means it's the only true theory to us as humans | 9/18/21 |
3 - P - Glenbrooks Disclosure v Big PhillyTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: Quarters | Opponent: BASIS Peoria PY | Judge: Stuckert, James - Forrest, Jayanne - Georges, Joseph Disclosure is a tournament rule they agreed to adhere to when they decided to participate at the Glenbrooks.Greenstein and Corrigan N.D. Michael Greenstein and Alyssa Corrigan, ~Director of Debate at GBS since 2019, assistant coach for a year before that. Her job mostly involves teaching (novice debate + varsity policy + English/Social Studies), admin work, and coaching novices. Former coach at USC/UNLV/UNT/Notre Dame High School~ Tournament Directors of the Glenbrooks 2021 Invitational N.D. "Rules, Policies, and Procedures,"Tabroom, https://www.tabroom.com/index/tourn/index.mhtml?webpage_id=14418andtourn_id=20143, 11-22-2021Aanya breh If they can't prove that their disclosure was appropriate, this is an auto-loss for them which is a tournament rule that they knowingly agreed to when they registered and signed up to compete. Keep flowing the 1NC just in case they prove that they did disclose – if they don't care about rules the 1AR has to concede that "I don't want to win" because it's tournament rule for the judge to vote for the winner. If there's no impact to rules they should also personally email glenbrooks to have their bid taken away because it's rule to award bids to octofinalists | 11/22/21 |
3 - P - Semiotic SkepticismTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit MS | Judge: Lakshman, Rohit THE DIGITAL AGE IS HERE – Technology has created an age of constant information and signifiers floating through our phones and computers as media. This creates a dyslexia – reduced attention spans, no time for true human interaction – this leads to information overload, which is too fast for our organic minds to keep up with – that causes depression and drug use. It's no coincidence that the rise of tech in the 80s was complimented with a drug epidemic. These signifiers constraint action, thus, such evaluation comes prior to action.Berardi 09 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2009. P. 40-42 LEX JB~ It's impossible to affirm or prove the resolution true – all information gets coopted by the inescapability of capitalism – it's search is cruelly optimistic in a world of cognitive capitalism.Berardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "0. Bifurications." Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 14-15 LEX JB~ That negates –1~ If proactive affirmation is impossible you preserve the squo which is the negative2~ It proves a neutral sphere but statements are more often false than true because it can be false infinite ways but true one way3~ Affirmation and a search for truth only to be productive creates more televisual communication – negating embraces a negativity that destroys notions of "the plan is a good idea"4~ Ought means to express obligation which means denial of the obligation means there's no ought – that's Meriam Websterhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ought 5~ The affirmative is impossibleBerardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ | 10/30/21 |
3 - P - Semiotic Skepticism v2Tournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: Octas | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Kirkpatrick, Braedon - Broussard, Austin - Robinson, Tajaih THE DIGITAL AGE IS HERE – Technology has created an age of constant information and signifiers floating through our phones and computers as media. This creates a dyslexia – reduced attention spans, no time for true human interaction – this leads to information overload, which is too fast for our organic minds to keep up with – that causes depression and drug use. It's no coincidence that the rise of tech in the 80s was complimented with a drug epidemic. These signifiers constraint action, thus, such evaluation comes prior to action.Berardi 09 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2009. P. 40-42 LEX JB~ It's impossible to affirm or prove the resolution true – all information gets coopted by the inescapability of capitalism – it's search is cruelly optimistic in a world of cognitive capitalism.Berardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "0. Bifurications." Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 14-15 LEX JB~ That negates –1~ If proactive affirmation is impossible you preserve the squo which is the negative2~ It proves a neutral sphere but statements are more often false than true because it can be false infinite ways but true one way3~ Affirmation and a search for truth only to be productive creates more televisual communication – negating embraces a negativity that destroys notions of "the plan is a good idea"4~ Ought means to express obligation which means denial of the obligation means there's no ought – that's Meriam Websterhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ought 5~ Contradictions negate – it confuses productivity in debate which is good under the framing6~ The affirmative is impossibleBerardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ | 11/8/21 |
3 - P - Time TravelTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker DS | Judge: Datti, Abhilash I've returned from the year 2050 and I've got one goal – this ballot. I've seen what happens in the world, I've read it in history books, I've witnessed it happen in front of me. You do not want to vote affirmative. Voting affirmative leads to a mass extinction event with the final Armageddon of the human race. Super species aliens are monitoring Tabroom, and if this round shows an affirmative ballot they end all life in the universe through collapse of the universe through supertechnology. I know this now, and I was sent back as the universe's last hope. This comes first – direct correlation to the ballot proximity and exportability.The plan is also a bad idea – before the universe began it's collapse, the affirmative was passed and caused extinction (except me because I'm different) because policy makers decided to destroy oxygen in the environment. Also even if it's a good idea, you can endorse it with a negative ballot with the net benefit of giving me the ballot.Time travel is real – relativity, wormholes, etc. I'm the warrant.Boogaard 20 ~Chenoa van den Boogaard, 11-16-2020, "Time travel is possible, but it's a one-way ticket," ScienceBorealis.ca Blog, Chenoa van den Boogaard has a B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia, majoring in astronomy and minoring in English literature, https://blog.scienceborealis.ca/time-travel-is-possible-but-its-a-one-way-ticket JB~ Their weighing arguments flow negative –1) - Epistemic modesty – compare the probability of the framework times the magnitude of the impact under a framework – it's true since it maximizes the probability of achieving net most moral value—beating a framework acts as mitigation to their impacts but the strength of that mitigation is contingent. It's the best model for clash because we clash on all layers of the debate instead of strategic concessions which also promotes fairness because it doesn't moot offense.2) - The future epistemologically knows more than the past – progress of ideas like humans thinking the Earth was the center of the universe prior proves that you should err neg because we have more knowledge3) - You should reject answers – they're in a flawed futuristic mindset which is what brought us to extinction in the first place. Only this time rupture can rectify the flow of time. Also means they can't weigh case because their sense of value doesn't exist. | 10/29/21 |
JF - 1NC - Kant v1Tournament: The Newark Invitational 2022 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harrison JC | Judge: Siegal, Zach | 1/7/22 |
JF - DA - Starlink UkraineTournament: National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough SL | Judge: Mork, Alexandra Ukraine war is optimistic, but maintaining outside support is keyUkraine getting outside help from west Russian invasion has been shutting down Internet access in Ukraine – private companies like Starlink are key to keeping Ukraine above the water.Lerman and Zakezewski 3/19 ~Rachel Lerman and Cat Zakrzewski, March 19, 2022, Elon Musk's Starlink is keeping Ukrainians online when traditional Internet fails, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/19/elon-musk-ukraine-starlink JB~ It's key to infrastructure and preventing more cyberattacks and miscalculated escalationMenn and Timberg 2/28 ~Joseph Menn and Craig Timberg, 2/28/22, The dire predictions about a Russian cyber onslaught haven't come true in Ukraine. At least not yet, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/28/internet-war-cyber-russia-ukraine JB~ Russian cyberattacks escalate and would win – escalation in multiple forums – goes global.LIANA FIX 22 (Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, in Washington, D.C). MICHAEL KIMMAGE (Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and a Visiting Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. )2/18/22, What If Russia Wins? A Kremlin-Controlled Ukraine Would Transform Europe, Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-02-18/what-if-russia-wins No limited nuclear wars – extinction.Webber 19 – Dr Philip Webber has written widely on nuclear issues and is Chair of Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) – a membership organisation promoting responsible science and technology. We will all end up killing each other and one nuclear blast could do it. 5/18/19. ~METRO.UK "We will all end up killing each other and one nuclear blast could do it," https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/18/we-will-all-end-up-killing-each-other-and-one-nuclear-blast-could-do-it-9370115/~~ Recut Justin | 4/9/22 |
JF - PIC - KamooalewaTournament: Harrison Round Robin | Round: 2 | Opponent: Keshav Rastogi | Judge: Levi, Briajia - Stuckert, James CP Text: Space faring nations should establish a multilateral agreement that restricts asteroid mining done by private entities except for on asteroid Kamo'oalewa.Kamo'oalewa is NEO asteroid comprised of lunar materialDevlin 21 ~Hannah Devlin is the Guardian's science correspondent, having previously been science editor of the Times. "Near-Earth asteroid is a fragment from the moon, say scientists." November 11, 2021. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/nov/11/near-earth-asteroid-is-a-fragment-from-the-moon-say-scientists~~ Space based solar power is being developed and transitions to 100 clean energy, but lunar regolith is keyO'Neill 13 ~Ian O'Neill is a media relations specialist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. Prior to joining JPL, he served as editor for the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Mercury magazine and Mercury Online and contributed articles to a number of other publications, including Space.com, Space.com, Live Science, HISTORY.com, Scientific American. Ian holds a Ph.D in solar physics and a master's degree in planetary and space physics. "How to Turn the Moon Into a Giant Space Solar Power Hub." December 3, 2013. https://www.space.com/23810-moon-luna-belt-solar-power-idea.html~~ Climate change causes extinction.Specktor 19 ~Brandon; writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years; "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, 6/4/19; https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html~~ | 4/2/22 |
JF - T - Private EntitiesTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harker KB | Judge: Chatur, Shahina Interpretation: "Private entities" is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend that a subset of nations ban the appropriation of outer space.Bare plurals imply a generic "rules reading" in the context of moral statementsCohen 1 — (Ariel Cohen, Professor of Linguistics @ Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, PhD Computational Linguistics from Carnegie Mellon University, "On the Generic Use of Indefinite Singulars". Journal of Semantics 18: 183-209, Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed 12-7-20, HKR-AM) BP = bare plurals Violation—they specified China private entitiesVote neg:1~ Precision –any deviation justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution.2~ Predictable limits—specifying states offers huge explosion in the topic since they get permutations of hundreds of states. Innovation DA, generic mining case turns, US-Russia huge part of the topic mootedTopicality is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interpretations – it tells the negative what they do and do not have to prepare for | 2/13/22 |
JF - T - Private v ChinaTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harker KB | Judge: Chatur, Shahina Interpretation: the affirmative must only defend that the appropriation of space by private entities is unjust.Violation – China's "private" sector companies aren't privateOlson 20 ~Stephen Olson, research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation. "Are Private Chinese Companies Really Private?" The Diplomat, 9-30-2020, accessed 1-14-2022, https://thediplomat.com/2020/09/are-private-chinese-companies-really-private/~~ HWIC 1AC Swinhoe 21 proves it's government led – Lex reads greenSwinhoe 21 – Editor at Datacenter Dynamics. Previously he was at IDG in roles including UK Editor at CSO Online and Senior Staff Writer at IDG Connect. ~Dan, "China's moves into mega satellite constellations could add to space debris problem," 4/20/2021, https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/chinas-moves-into-mega-satellite-constelations-could-add-to-space-debris-problem/~~ Negate – they skirt the core controversy of the topic which is national vs private space activities – kills stasis point and pre-round prep and means we lose access to generics that rely on the motives of private companies differing from national interest proven by the fact that their advantage is functionally China space good/bad – competing interps and DTD on T, it's a question of models and we indict their advocacy | 2/13/22 |
JF - T - TropicalityTournament: The Newark Invitational 2022 | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harrison TB | Judge: Coln, Kassie Interpretation: Topical 1AC's analyze appropriation of space through a lens of tropicality. To clarify, affirmatives must interpret their critical geography and provide an ethical lens to understand the tropical spaces in space.Violation: They don't forefront a critical geography framing—that reproduces destructive colonial violence against the equatorial margins.Tropicality is a procedural prerequisite to ethical space policy discussion.Dunnett, 19—Department of Geography, School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen's University Belfast (Oliver, "Imperialism, Technology and Tropicality in Arthur C. Clarke's Geopolitics of Outer Space," Geopolitics, January 31, 2019, dml) That ethical frame outweighs.Klinger, 19—Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University (Julie Michelle, "Environmental Geopolitics and Outer Space," Geopolitics, March 20, 2019, dml) | 1/8/22 |
ND - 1NC - Kant v1Tournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lakeville South KK | Judge: Anderson, Sam | 11/6/21 |
ND - 1NC - Kant v2Tournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Harris, Michael | 11/6/21 |
ND - DA - InfrastructureTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker DS | Judge: Datti, Abhilash Biden has PC for infrastructure but it needs to maintained in the face of impatient democrats.Sullivan and Kane 6/11 ~Sean and Paul. Sean Sullivan covers national politics, with a focus on the 2020 presidential campaign. Paul Kane. Washington, D.C. Senior congressional correspondent and columnist. Education: University of Delaware, BA. "'Time is running out': Democrats split over Biden's relentless focus on infrastructure". 6-9-2021. . https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-split-biden-infrastructure/2021/06/10/f1f95a8e-c91f-11eb-afd0-9726f7ec0ba6_story.html.~~ Preserving comfortable union relations maintains PC.Kerrissey and Schofer 13 ~Kerrissey, Jasmine, and Evan Schofer. Jasmine Kerrissey Department of Sociology University of California, Irvine Evan Schofer Department of Sociology University of California, Irvine. "Union Membership and Political Participation in the United States." Social Forces, vol. 91, no. 3, 2013, pp. 895–928. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23361125~ Strike would divide the UnionIsraelstam 17 ~Ivan. Ivan Israelstam is the Chief Executive of Labour Law Management Consulting. "What is the impact of strikes for employers and employees?". 11-22-2017. Skills Portal. https://www.skillsportal.co.za/content/what-impact-strikes-employers-and-employees.~~ Infrastructure bill is necessary to tackle emission reduction goals.Newburger 3/29 ~Emma. Emma Newburger is a Climate policy reporter at @CNBC. @Cornell grad. "Here's how Biden's infrastructure package will likely tackle climate change". 1-27-2021. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/29/biden-infrastructure-bill-what-to-expect-on-climate-change.html.~~ Warming causes extinctionSpecktor 19 ~Brandon writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years~ 6-4-2019, "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html | 10/29/21 |
ND - T - Just Government is DemocracyTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 7 | Opponent: Westlake MR | Judge: Qin, Andrew Interpretation: Just governments must be a full or flawed democracy as pertained by the 2020 democracy index. China doesn't qualify, ss and link below.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index Just gov is a democracy – prefer because its from a legal dictionaryThe Free Dictionary, "Declaration of Independence," TheFreeDictionary, https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Declaration+of+Independence SR China violates - check screenshots its an authoritarian regimeVote neg for limits and ground - they can literally pick any government not grounded in the resolution making it impossible for us to predict and arbitrarily prepare specific political scenarios that we can never possibly expect. Especially true for authoritarian governments who have a lot worse conditions than democracies which means uniqueness will ALWAYS flip aff and their affs are objectively more likely to be true and unturnable. Our interp solves - just pick a full or flawed democracy which is still 75 different affs. C/a the ! to limits and precision | 11/21/21 |
ND - T - Just Government v GermanyTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Greenhill NT | Judge: Ribera, Claudia Interpretation: the affirmative must defend that only just governments ought to recognize an unconditional right to strikeJust governments respect libertiesDorn 12 James A. Dorn, Cato Journal, "The Scope of Government in a Free Society", Fall 2012, https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2012/12/v32n3-10.pdf The German government is polluted with racism – that doesn't' secure libertiesDeutsche Welle (Www.Dw, 09.06.2020, "Racism on the rise in Germany," DW, https://www.dw.com/en/racism-on-the-rise-in-germany/a-53735536 JB Prefer –1~ Precision — anything else justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution.2~ Limits – there are 200 governments in the world – letting them pick an unjust ones explodes limits via infinite permutations of governments3~ Phil ed – 1AR will claim no government is just but that just means that we defend ideal theory. That's good –A~ forces philosophical contestation which can uniquely happen in LD debate whereas you can util debate on any topicB~ outweighs – framework debate allows to identify injustice which is a prereq to any other theory voter because they're all philosophically groundedFairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it's the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules can be debated over but rely on some conception of fairness to be justified.4~ TVA – Defend whole res – you can defend a full democracy or just don't defend a state that has been committing racial atrocities and purposefully not giving legal support to victimsDrop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.Competing interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear norm, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it's a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices1nc theory first – if the aff was abusive we had to be abusive to compensate. | 11/20/21 |
ND - T - LeslieTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: Octas | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Stuckert, James - Nails, Jacob - Pandey, Indu Interp - The letter "A" is an indefinite article that modifies "just government" – the resolution must"A" implies a nonspecific or generic reading of the word "government".Walden 20 Walden University ~The Writing Center provides a broad range of writing instruction and editing services for students at Walden University, including writing assistance for undergraduates, graduate students, and doctoral capstone writers~, ""A" or "An"" last modified July 14 2020, https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingcenter/grammar/articles SM "Just government" is a generic indefinite singular.Leslie 12 Leslie, Sarah-Jane. "Generics." In Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Language, edited by Gillian Russell and Delia Fara, 355–366. Routledge, 2012. https://www.princeton.edu/~~sjleslie/RoutledgeHandbookEntryGenerics.pdf SM This applies to the res – 1~ Upward entailment test – "a just government ought to recognize an unconditional right to strike" doesn't imply that "in a society, governments ought to recognize this right" because an authoritarian regime might not recognize it 2~ Adverb test — "just governments usually ought to recognize a right to strike" doesn't substantially change the meaning of the res.Violation – They spec _Standards:1~ Limits – You can pick any government and find a flimsy definition of it being "just". Just is super vague and it's easy to prove any government as just. That's over 123 countries – there are solid affs for China, US, India, South Africa, and Russia - that explodes neg prep burdens and kills clash. Generics don't solve- infinite pre-round prep and encourages reading the same arguments which kills education.
2~ TVA solves – just read your aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff – we don't stop them from reading new FWs, mechanisms or advantages. a~ it's ridiculous to say that neg potential abuse justifies the aff being non-T b~ There's only a small number of pics on this topic c~ PICs incentivize them to write better affs that can generate solvency deficits to PICs | 11/23/21 |
ND - T - Policy ActionTournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Montville SH | Judge: Iskhakov, Daniel Our interpretation is that topical affirmatives defend implementation of a policy action by a just government. To clarify, they must ONLY garner offense based off of "A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike"They don't – their actor is not a just government and hold the line on I-meets – any change on a single word of the resolution still links to our offenseResolved requires policy actionLouisiana State Legislature (https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Glossary.aspx) Ngong Vote Neg:Their interp explodes limits and allows affs to monopolize the moral high ground. The lack of a stable mechanism lets them radically re-contextualize their aff and erase neg ground via perms – that causes a race to the margins where they're incentivized to defend uncontestable statements like "racism bad" which is also psychologically violent. Caselists are concessionary, unpredictable, beaten by perms, and don't justify their model.2~ SSD is good – it forces debaters to consider a controversial issue from multiple perspectives. Non-T affs allow individuals to establish their own metrics for what they want to debate leading to ideological dogmatism, while SSD encompasses your education.3~ TVA: Read the affirmative as with a just government as the actor which solves 100 of offense4~ Fairness is an impact –A~ Fairness is good and prior – debate's a game that requires effective competition and negation, which makes their offense inevitable, it internal link turns clash and engagement.B~ Cutting negs to every possible aff wrecks small schools, which has a disparate impact on under-resourced and minority debaters.C~ Can't weigh the aff—it's just as likely that they're winning it because we weren't able to effectively prepare to defeat it.D~ Inescapable – the AC conforms to every norm of debate – speed, speech times, ballots – proves they value playing the game and isolating T as the one bad rule is arbitrary.E~ Probability – ballots can't shape our subjectivity or create broad political change but can rectify in-round skews.No impact turns:1~ T is just an argument for why the aff is a bad idea, which is what every single negative position says—there's nothing unique about T that causes violence but the cap k or case turns don't2~ T isn't violent – A~ I don't have the power to impose a norm – only to convince you my side is better. T doesn't ban you from the activity – the whole point is that norms should be contestable B~ Exclusion is inevitable – every role of the ballot excludes some arguments and even saying T bad excludes it – that means we should delineate ground along reciprocal lines, not abandon division altogether.Use competing interps—reasonability collapses to offense defense paradigm.No RVIs — Baiting—they'll just bait theory and prep it out—justifies infinite abuse and results in a chilling effect | 12/3/21 |
ND - T - Spec StrikeTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Los Altos BF | Judge: Robinson, Tajaih Interpretation: Topical affirmatives specify which type of strike they recognize in a delineated 1AC text. To clarify, this isn't must spec subset, just specify which you defend. – must be in doc and saidViolation: they don'tStandards –1~ Topic lit – strikes are the core question of the topic and there's no consensus on normal means so you must spec – "whole res" doesn't cut it, each strike is different and has different ethical implications – No DA to specing, they specified enforcement which means reject all responses because they're double turnsLaw Library ~"Strike", N.D., https://law.jrank.org/pages/10554/Strike-Status.html, Law Library, This law and legal reference library provides free access to thousands of legal articles, covering important court cases, historical legal documents, state laws and statutes, and general legal information. Popular articles include Landlord and Tenant Relationship, Health Insurance Law and Employment Law. The legal reference database also covers historically important court cases such as the Ulysses obscenity trial, Plessy vs. Ferguson, Roe vs. Wade and many others. All of the legal information on this website was professionally written and researched, and each law article has been carefully selected — all to create the most comprehensive legal information site on the web. Read more: Law Library - American Law and Legal Information - JRank Articles https://law.jrank.org/~~#ixzz6yOIvCHj7~~ ~SS~ This acts as a resolvability standard. Debate has to make sense and be comparable for the judge to make a decision which means it's an independent voter and outweighs.Implications:~1~ Strat construction – 1AR clarification delinks neg positions that prove a specific strike is bad like a Jurisdictional strike that is illegal has different ethical implications than a Wildcat that isn't authorized by the union – this also means I can't debate over aff's inherency because some are illegal and some are legally permissible like Whipsaw strikes.~2~ Prep skew – I don't know what they will be willing to clarify until CX which means I could go 6 minutes planning to read an econ DA and then get screwed over in CX when they spec something that doesn't link. Asking preround doesn't check – a) it's a question of norming you should already be good not my burden to make you better b) reject out of round justifications because things like photoshop and it didn't happen in round so its not jurisdictional c) its better to have it under the aff in competing interps | 11/21/21 |
SO - 1NC - Kant v1Tournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Elkins RS | Judge: Sun, Favian | 9/11/21 |
SO - 1NC - Kant v2Tournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Oak Grove AA | Judge: Lee, Andrew | 9/17/21 |
SO - CP - WHOTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Elkins RS | Judge: Sun, Favian | 9/11/21 |
SO - DA - EU MultilateralismTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Tanguturi, Nikita The plan requires unanimous support to pass – fiat makes it must pass which further divides the EU – that kills EU multilateralism.Welle 7/5 ~Deutsche Welle, 07.05.2021, "COVID vaccine patent waivers divide EU leaders," DW, https://www.dw.com/en/covid-vaccine-patent-waivers-divide-eu-leaders/a-57464976 JB~ The plan violates the EU's constitutionEU Parliament 6/10 ~EU Parliament, 6-10-2021, "Texts adopted," No Publication, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-06-10_EN.html~~#sdocta4 JB~ Yes scope – violations and divide risks collapse and loss of credibilityEU Parliament 6/10 ~EU Parliament, 6-10-2021, "Texts adopted," No Publication, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-06-10_EN.html~~#sdocta4 JB~ Yes uniqueness – IP is a point of contention great power tradeEU Parliament 6/10 ~EU Parliament, 6-10-2021, "Texts adopted," No Publication, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2021-06-10_EN.html~~#sdocta4 JB~ EU collapse causes distrust and nuclear warMarÃa Carmen and MartÃn Palacios 17 "What Would Happen to Security in Europe if the European Union Broke Up?", http://www.sirjournal.org/research/2017/9/27/what-would-happen-to-security-in-europe-if-the-european-union-broke-up//ar | 10/16/21 |
SO - DA - ILawTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Salazar, Davd The WTO has been seen as ineffective but has the opportunity to bounce back with strong international buy inNgozi Okonjo-Iweala, 20, Reviving the WTO, https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/reviving-the-wto/, Brookings, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a nonresident distinguished fellow with the Africa Growth Initiative in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. She is an economist and international development expert with over 30 years of experience. Intellectual property rights cannot be discriminated on the basis of field, or place of inventionWTO https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_04c_e.htm, Article 27.1, Section 5 on patents, World trade Organization, WTO, Part II — Standards concerning the availability, scope and use of Intellectual Property Rights The WTO's appellate body no longer exists to mediate disputes, without immediate buy in by states, and no mechanism to make disobedient states obey, the system collapsesHorton, 08/3, Lessons from Trump's assault on the World Trade Organization, https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/08/lessons-trumps-assault-world-trade-organization, Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank, Communications Manager; Project Lead, Common Futures Conversations A major country operating outside WTO consensus wrecks global trade normsBacchus 20 ~James Bacchus, member of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, the Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida, 12-16-2020, "An Unnecessary Proposal: A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines," Cato Institute, https://www.cato.org/free-trade-bulletin/unnecessary-proposal-wto-waiver-intellectual-property-rights-covid-19-vaccines~~/Kankee Collapse of the WTO triggers an inevitable global warRaymond J. Waldmann, Corporate Counsel and Secretary for AuBeta Networks Inc and former vice president of international relations and as director of government affairs for The Boeing Company and assistant U.S. Secretary of Commerce for international economic policy (1981-83) and chair of the Seattle Host Committees for the 1999 WTO Ministerial Meeting, "WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION IMPORTANT TO CITIZENS OF CITY AND STATE, Seattle-Post Intelligencer, 5/11/99, WTO cred solves wars that go nuclear.Hamann 09 ~Georgia; 2009; J.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt University Law School; "Replacing Slingshots with Swords: Implications of the Antigua-Gambling 22.6 Panel Report for Developing Countries and the World Trading System," VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW, http://www.jogoremoto.pt/docs/extra/duqJ53.pdf~~ Justin | 9/11/21 |
SO - DA - ILaw v2Tournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Tanguturi, Nikita Intellectual property rights cannot be discriminated on the basis of field, or place of inventionWTO https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_04c_e.htm, Article 27.1, Section 5 on patents, World trade Organization, WTO, Part II — Standards concerning the availability, scope and use of Intellectual Property Rights The WTO's appellate body no longer exists to mediate disputes, without immediate buy in by states, and no mechanism to make disobedient states obey, the system collapsesHorton, 08/3, Lessons from Trump's assault on the World Trade Organization, https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/08/lessons-trumps-assault-world-trade-organization, Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank, Communications Manager; Project Lead, Common Futures Conversations A major country operating outside WTO consensus wrecks global trade normsBacchus 20 ~James Bacchus, member of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, the Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida, 12-16-2020, "An Unnecessary Proposal: A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines," Cato Institute, https://www.cato.org/free-trade-bulletin/unnecessary-proposal-wto-waiver-intellectual-property-rights-covid-19-vaccines~~/Kankee WTO cred solves wars that go nuclear.Hamann 09 ~Georgia; 2009; J.D. Candidate, Vanderbilt University Law School; "Replacing Slingshots with Swords: Implications of the Antigua-Gambling 22.6 Panel Report for Developing Countries and the World Trading System," VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW, http://www.jogoremoto.pt/docs/extra/duqJ53.pdf~~ Justin Nuclear war causes extinction – mass starvation and ice age.Starr 15 (Steven Starr 15. "Nuclear War: An Unrecognized Mass Extinction Event Waiting To Happen." Ratical. March 2015. https://ratical.org/radiation/NuclearExtinction/StevenStarr022815.html) TG | 10/16/21 |
SO - PIC - WeedTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Salazar, Davd The member nations of the World Trade Organization should reduce intellectual property protections for medicines except for marijuana.It competes! – Marijuana is medicine and has multiple medical usesGrinspoon 20 ~Peter Grinspoon, 4-10-2020, "Medical marijuana," Harvard Health, https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/medical-marijuana-2018011513085 JB~ Weed booming now.Agustin et al. 20 ~Alejandro Agustin, Jorge Alvarado, Gerardo Cardenas, Talia Towe, Breonna Vann, December 7, 2020, "The Economic Rise of Marijuana", https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4c839fb0499a453d88be4ab862a96f37 JB~ IP is the driving factor for innovation, participation, and operation of the weed industry.Sander 16 ~Jason Sander. "Patenting Cannabis Strains – Good or Bad?" June 8, 2016, Jason is a versatile writer and marketer with twelve years of experience serving clients. He couples this expertise with a passion for cannabis businesses and the science of medical marijuana, https://www.marijuanatimes.org/patenting-cannabis-strains-good-or-bad JB~ Otherwise that's extinction – weed industry collapses 1AC evidenceThese cards also answer the affirmative and link turn it. | 9/11/21 |
SO - T - CurrentTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: Triples | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Stuckert, James Interpretation – Reduce means current—-not preventing future action. The 1AC must defend an immediate actionNaporn Popattanachai 18. This thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement of Nottingham Trent University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Law. "Regional Cooperation Addressing Marine Pollution from Land-Based Activities: an Interpretation of Article 207 of The Law OF THE SEA CONVENTION FOCUSING on Monitoring, Assessement, and Surveillance of the Pollution" http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/33374/1/Naporn20Popattanachai202018.pdf Violation: their plan text says delayVote negative for textuality – the actors in the resolution are members of the WTO and evidence from court operates within the WTO's jurisdiction.~1~ Predictability – the resolution is the stasis point for contestation, anything else would be unpredictable and an unfair prep burden for the negative. Their counterinterp will justify jettisoning any possible aspect of the topic which explodes predictable limits for prep~2~ Topic education – only our interpretation allows for the most nuanced clash pertaining to what parameters in which the actors in the resolution act. Anything else doesn't actually talk about the topic because it's not what the actors are allowed to fiat. | 9/12/21 |
SO - T - Data ExclusivityTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AB | Judge: Lee, Andrew Interpretation – topical affirmatives must defend reduction of intellectual property rights for medicinesMedicine is treatment for illness or injuryCambridge Dictionary 21 ~Cambridge Dictionary, 2021, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/medicine~~ Lex AKo Violation – Data exclusivity are not IPP for medicine.Thrasher 21 Thrasher, Rachel. "How Data Exclusivity Laws Impact Drug Prices:" Global Development Policy Center Chart of the Week How Data Exclusivity Laws Impact Drug Prices Comments, 25 May 2021, www.bu.edu/gdp/2021/05/25/chart-of-the-week-how-data-exclusivity-laws-impact-drug-prices/. Lex AKo Clinical trials are a study for medicine to then get protected, but not medicine themselvesReview ~Institutional Review, "Clinical Trials," https://www.phrma.org/policy-issues/Research-Development/Clinical-Trials~~ Lex AKo IP is a specific, definable category which doesn't include data exclusivity. WTO"World Trade Organization." WTO, https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/intel1_e.htm. "Medicines" refers to patentsOxFam ~Oxfam, No Date, "Intellectual property and access to medicine," No Publication, https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issues/economic-well-being/intellectual-property-and-access-to-medicine/ LEX JB~ Violation – they defend data exclusivityVote Neg –1~ Limits – their model justifies defending ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY PROTECTION outside of medicines which – A~ incentivizes the aff for a race to the margins and pick topics like this aff that have little to no lit base which also guts education. B~ shifts an unfair prep burden to prep hundreds of affs compared to the generics that the AC has to answer2~ TVA – read the literature on the neg as a counterplan | 10/15/21 |
SO - T - LeslieTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Harrison AA | Judge: Krause, Lukas - Quisenberry, Jack - tanguturi, nikita Interpretation: "medicines" is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend WTO member nations reducing intellectual property protections for a subset of medicines.The upward entailment test and adverb test determine the genericity of a bare pluralLeslie and Lerner 16 ~Sarah-Jane Leslie, Ph.D., Princeton, 2007. Dean of the Graduate School and Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy. Served as the vice dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, director of the Program in Linguistics, and founding director of the Program in Cognitive Science at Princeton University. Adam Lerner, PhD Philosophy, Postgraduate Research Associate, Princeton 2018. From 2018, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Center for Bioethics at New York University. Member of the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab.~ "Generic Generalizations." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. April 24, 2016. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/generics/ TG
It applies to "medicines" – 1~ upward entailment test – "reduce intellectual property protections for medicines" doesn't entail reducing protections for aids, because it doesn't prove that we should derestrict other beneficial tech, 2~ adverb test – member nations "ought to usually reduce intellectual property protections for medicines" doesn't substantially change resolutional meaning, 3~ predicate level – the rez is an individual level predicate not a stage level because moral obligations in ought statements are long-lasting as opposed to fleeting phasesViolation – they only defend diabetes medicineVote neg:1~ Limits – you can pick anything from COVID vaccines to HIV/AIDS to random biotech to insulin treatments and there's no universal disad since each one has a different function and implication for health, tech, and relations – explodes neg prep and leads to random medicine of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible. PICs don't solve – it's absurd to say neg potential abuse justifies the aff being flat out not T, which leads to a race towards abuse. Limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep.2~ TVA – read the aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff.T outweighs 1ar theory – a) norms – topic for 2 months, theory can be anytime b) if I was abusive it was because you forced me into it | 9/27/21 |
SO - T - TemporaryTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Salazar, Davd Interpretation: Reductions are permanentReynolds 59. Judge (In the Matter of Doris A. Montesani, Petitioner, v. Arthur Levitt, as Comptroller of the State of New York, et al., Respondents ~NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL~ Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Third Department 9 A.D.2d 51; 189 N.Y.S.2d 695; 1959 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7391 August 13, 1959) Violation: the COVID enforcement cards talk about a temporary waiveringVote negative for textuality – the actors in the resolution are members of the WTO and evidence from court operates within the WTO's jurisdiction.~1~ Predictability – the resolution is the stasis point for contestation, anything else would be unpredictable and an unfair prep burden for the negative. Their counterinterp will justify jettisoning any possible aspect of the topic which explodes predictable limits for prep~2~ Topic education – only our interpretation allows for the most nuanced clash pertaining to what parameters in which the actors in the resolution act. Anything else doesn't actually talk about the topic because it's not what the actors are allowed to fiat. | 9/11/21 |
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