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| Berkeley | Triples | Cardinal Gibbons RS | River Cook, Derek Hilligoss, Gerard Grisby |
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| Berkeley | 1 | Nova 42 CH | Nelson Okunlola |
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| Florida Blue Key | 2 | Lake Highland Prep ArVe | Tajaih Robinson |
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| Florida Blue Key | 3 | Strawberry Crest AK | Faizaan Dossani |
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| Florida Blue Key | 5 | Brookfield East DJ | Raunak Dua |
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| Greenhill | 4 | Kenston EJ | Austin Broussard |
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| ASU | 1 | Opponent: Peninsula AB | Judge: Gerard Grigsby 1AC Mining |
| ASU | 5 | Opponent: BASIS Peoria KC | Judge: Nick Fleming 1AC Regionalism |
| ASU | 3 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: Kevin Sun 1AC PTD |
| Berkeley | 3 | Opponent: Harker SS | Judge: Ari Davidson 1AC Mining |
| Berkeley | 6 | Opponent: Harker SY | Judge: Raunak Dua 1AC China |
| Berkeley | Triples | Opponent: Cardinal Gibbons RS | Judge: River Cook, Derek Hilligoss, Gerard Grisby 1AC Megaconstellations |
| Berkeley | 1 | Opponent: Nova 42 CH | Judge: Nelson Okunlola 1AC Stock |
| Florida Blue Key | 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep ArVe | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1AC Pettit |
| Florida Blue Key | 3 | Opponent: Strawberry Crest AK | Judge: Faizaan Dossani 1AC Climate Strikes - Econ |
| Florida Blue Key | 5 | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Raunak Dua 1AC Democracy |
| Glenbrooks | 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JS | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1AC Courts |
| Glenbrooks | 4 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Kyle Kopf 1AC an underview |
| Glenbrooks | 5 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart SS | Judge: Leah Clark-Villanueva 1AC Brazil Wiki isn't letting me disclose cites for T and K email me or check open source |
| Greenhill | 1 | Opponent: Plano East NG | Judge: Claudia Ribera 1AC Evergreening |
| Greenhill | 4 | Opponent: Kenston EJ | Judge: Austin Broussard 1AC Stock |
| Greenhill | 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Kartikeya Kotamraju 1AR CRISPR |
| TOC | 1 | Opponent: Sidwell SW | Judge: River Cook 1AC The Voice of Woman |
| TOC | 3 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake IC | Judge: Joseph Barquin 1AC Starlink |
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0 - ContactTournament: NA | Round: Finals | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA For some rounds, not all the cites are uploading - let me know if you want cites for anything, but everything is open sourced anyways. | 1/8/22 |
JanFeb - CP - CUPUOSTournament: Berkeley | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harker SS | Judge: Ari Davidson 1NC – CPCounterplan text: The Committee on the Peaceful use of Outer Space ought toestablish an application system for property rights on celestial bodies. Applications and approval of property rights should be granted upon the condition ofopen disclosure of data gathered in the exploration of a celestial bodyApplications must be publicly announcedProperty Rights will be made tradeable between private entitiesProperty Rights will be set to expire on the conclusion of a successful extraction missionPrivate Entities will only be allowed one property right grant per celestial body and cannot have more than one grant at a timeBan the militarization of outer spaceThe counterplan establishes international norms for safe extraction of resources on celestial bodies while increasing RandD in outer space.Steffen 21 ~Olaf Steffen, Olaf is a scientist at the Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Sytems at the German Aerospace Center. 12-2-2021, "Explore to Exploit: A Data-Centred Approach to Space Mining Regulation," Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Systems, German Aerospace Center, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265964621000515 accessed 12/12/21~ Adam AND of a NEO's orbit to intercept Earth by changing its mass through mining. | 2/20/22 |
JanFeb - CP - Debris v1Tournament: ASU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula AB | Judge: Gerard Grigsby CP: States shouldEstablish a unified system of space traffic management modeled after the International Telecommunication UnionCollaborate on techniques to track and display the location of objects in real time and AI to automate debris-avoidance maneuversSlowly and methodically phase out purchases from Africa’s mining industryEliminate their nuclear weaponsThe United States Federal Government should:Shift responsibility for the Space-Track catalogue to the civilian Department of Commerce, allocating necessary fundsNature 8/11 ~(Nature Editorial Board, peer-reviewed, comprises experimental scientists and data-standards experts from across different fields of science) "The world must cooperate to avoid a catastrophic space collision," Nature, 8/11/2021~ JL AND and capable of — managing the flow of space traffic is long overdue. | 1/7/22 |
JanFeb - CP - PPPTournament: ASU | Round: 5 | Opponent: BASIS Peoria KC | Judge: Nick Fleming 1NC – CPCP: States should fund a public-private partnership for the appropriation of outer space.Galeon 17 ~(Dom, writer for Futurism), "SpaceX Asks the U.S. To Fund a Public-Private Partnership for Deep Space Exploration," July 14, 2017, https://futurism.com/spacex-asks-the-u-s-to-fund-a-public-private-partnership-for-deep-space-exploration~~ TDI AND , and the best chance of success may come from pooling our resources. The CP turns the aff and prevents stifling of innovation.Van Burken 20 ~(Rebecca, technology policy analyst at Reason Foundation) "Biden Can Utilize Space Companies and Public-Private Partnerships," December 14, 2020 https://reason.org/commentary/biden-can-utilize-space-companies-and-public-private-partnerships/~~ TDI AND United States to fall behind other nations in a number of key areas. | 1/8/22 |
JanFeb - DA - InnovationTournament: ASU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula AB | Judge: Gerard Grigsby 1NC – DAThe commercial space industry is growing now but it’s on the brink.Weinzierl and Sarang ‘21 ~Matt Weinzierl; a Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Mehak Sarang; works with the Space Exploration Initiative, a Research Associate at Harvard Business School; 02-12-2021; "The Commercial Space Age Is Here"; Harvard Business Review; https://hbr.org/2021/02/the-commercial-space-age-is-here; Accessed 12-03-2021~ AK AND decades with an array of space-for-space goods and services. Maintaining it is key to crisis response, crop monitoring, and innovation.Joshua Hampson 17. Security Studies Fellow The Niskanen Center. "The Future of Space Commercialization." Niskanen Center. 1/25/2017. https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/TheFutureofSpaceCommercializationFinal.pdf AND to global networks, and new opportunities could lead to wider economic growth. Tech innovation solves every existential threat – cumulative extinction events outweigh the affDylan Matthews 18. Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University. 10-26-2018. "How to help people millions of years from now." Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good AND far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery.* | 1/7/22 |
JanFeb - DA - WarmingTournament: ASU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula AB | Judge: Gerard Grigsby 1NC – DASpace mining releases less emissions than Earth-based mining by a LOTEmerging Technology 18, 10-19-2018, "Asteroid mining might actually be better for the environment," MIT Technology Review, https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/19/139664/asteroid-mining-might-actually-be-better-for-the-environment/~~//pranav AND in the numbers here, so these will need to be better understood. | 1/7/22 |
JanFeb - DA - Xi LashoutTournament: Berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nova 42 CH | Judge: Nelson Okunlola 1NC – DAXi’s regime is stable now, but its success depends on strong growth and private sector development.Mitter and Johnson 21 ~Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, Rana Mitter is a professor of the history and politics of modern China at Oxford. Elsbeth Johnson, formerly the strategy director for Prudential PLC’s Asian business, is a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the founder of SystemShift, a consulting firm. May-June 2021, "What the West Gets Wrong About China," Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china accessed 12/14/21~ Adam AND University thanks to social mobility and the party’s significant investment in scientific research. Xi has committed to the commercial space industry as the linchpin of China’s rise – the plan is seen as a complete 180Patel 21 ~Neel V. Patel, Neel is a space reporter for MIT Technology Review. 1-21-2021, "China’s surging private space industry is out to challenge the US," MIT Technology Review, https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/21/1016513/china-private-commercial-space-industry-dominance/ accessed 12/14/21~ Adam AND for the commercial space sector as it tries to expand," he says. Shifts in regime perception threatens CCP’s legitimacy from nationalist hardlinersWeiss 19 Jessica Weiss 1-29-2019 "Authoritarian Audiences, Rhetoric, and Propaganda in International Crises: Evidence from China" http://www.jessicachenweiss.com/uploads/3/0/6/3/30636001/19-01-24-elite-statements-isq-ca.pdf (Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University)Elmer AND to it more directly than even the U.S. government."11 Xi will launch diversionary war to domestic backlash – escalates in multiple hotspotsNorris 17, William J. Geostrategic Implications of China’s Twin Economic Challenges. CFR Discussion Paper, 2017. (Associate professor of Chinese foreign and security policy at Texas AandM University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service)Elmer AND resource is directed shifts away from industrial and export production toward domestic consumption. | 4/24/22 |
JanFeb - K - Cosmological ImaginationTournament: Berkeley | Round: Triples | Opponent: Cardinal Gibbons RS | Judge: River Cook, Derek Hilligoss, Gerard Grisby 1NC – KWith the modern age has come new lies about outer space – the 1AC’s portrayal of space is a communicative fantasy that spectacularizes space, which is already unmaking itself. Entropy will end everything eventually – the aff is a fruitless attempt at survival.Kriss ‘15 ~Sam Kriss; a writer and dilettante surviving in London; 02-02-2015; "Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space"; The New Inquiry; https://thenewinquiry.com/manifesto-of-the-committee-to-abolish-outer-space/; Accessed 02-02-2022~ AK AND the moon!"), but we intend to abolish outer space out of love. Debate is fundamentally a closed information schema where nothing leaves the room which means the only role of the ballot left is to decide on the ethicality of the debates mode of information exchange and will to meaning. Even if liberatory on the level of contact, on the level form the affirmative is complicit in a mode of communicative imperialism whereby all aspects of life must be calculated and preconfigured through Western semiotic notions of rationality and coherent information exchange.Ligotti, 12 ~Thomas Ligotti, contemporary American philosopher and horror author, THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE, p. 59-60, Evan~ AND 1958), this is the only conclusion to be drawn from Negative Utilitarianism. To make the world mean something, the will to reality, is the generative point of violence. The attempt to sublimate the Evil of irrationality and mystery terminates in its opposite. We are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. The attempt to enclose the universe within semiotic reality begets implosive violence against all singularities. The communicative form of information devours its own content. The amassing of facts and evidence – and especially truth – only makes the world more unreal.Artrip and Debrix 14. Ryan E. Artrip, Doctoral Student, ASPECT, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, and Francois Debrix, professor of political science at Virginia Polytechnical Institute, "The Digital Fog of War: Baudrillard and the Violence of Representation," Volume 11, Number 2 (May, 2014) AND in what Baudrillard calls hyperreality—things appear more real than reality itself. You goody two shoes propagate life and reason like any fascist. Prefer not life, not reason, and not the good. Affirm your own death, for their propagation of life and reason is much more violent than material dispossession, erecting a violent binary between life and death. The will to die preserves the possibility of singularity.Robinson 12. Andrew Robinson, political theorist and activist based in the UK, "An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: The Rise of Capitalism and the Exclusion of Death" Ceasefire Magazine, March 30, 2012, https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-2/ AND code works constantly to ward off the danger of irruptions of the symbolic. The only alternative is to join the Committee to Abolish Outer Space. The complete abolition of outer space brings the cosmos back to where it belongs – the realm of mythology and radical otherness. This type of radical mimicry reframes how we understand and perceive outer space.Kriss ‘15 ~Sam Kriss; a writer and dilettante surviving in London; 02-02-2015; "Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space"; The New Inquiry; https://thenewinquiry.com/manifesto-of-the-committee-to-abolish-outer-space/; Accessed 02-02-2022~ AK AND and the knowledge that we live in a world that is not possible. Charity cannibalism is a voter. Without it, the West would collapse out of shame.Baudrillard ‘94 (Jean Baudrillard. The Illusion of the End translated by Chris Turner. Cambridge: Polity (1994)) AND hallucinogenic misery which comes to us from the other half of the world. They are stuck inside the argument room, constantly deliberating about what should happen outside the court-house without ever leaving it.Schlag ’03 (Pierre; Byron White Professor of Law at the University of Colorado; 2003; "A Reply—The Missing Portion"; University of Miami Law Review; https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1532andamp;context=articles; accessed 4-6-2019; SM) *edited in brackets to be gender-neutral AND , it's time to move on. This is why there is hope. | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - K - Settler Colonialism v2Tournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Sidwell SW | Judge: River Cook 1NC – KYour techno-futurism is settler colonialist – the AFF’s project produces techno-citizenship in which a one humanity is brought under the dream of technological progress rehearses settler colonial violenceAtanasoski and Vora 19 ~Neda, Prof. Feminist Studies and Critical, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Legal Studies @ UC Santa Cruz, and Kalindi, Assoc. Prof Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and Dir., Feminist Research Institute, Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures, pp. 60-4ak47~ AND a US national resource) thus also further the project of US imperialism. The failure of the settler subject to come to grips with the death drive dooms their politics to totalitarianism. Force them to confront the reliance of the aff on indigenous genocide. They don’t make society more equitable. They make it more equitable for settlers.Young ’17 ~Bryanne; Ph.D Student, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; "Killing the Indian in the Child: Materialities of Death and Political Formations of Life in the Canadian Indian Residential School System"; Last Modified 3/22/19; Published August 2017; University of North Carolina Digital Repository; https://doi.org/10.17615/zkyc-q417; Accessed 7/24/20; NT~ AND freedom more highly valued than the actuality of freedom itself" (ii). Feminist strategizing is parasitic on Indian land and strengthens settler colonial relations – only a decolonization first strategy can liberate oppressive structuresGrande 4 (Sandy, Associate Professor of Education at Connecticut College, Ph.D., Kent State University, Fellow in the Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy, member of the EPA’s National Environmental Justice Advisory Council’s Indigenous People’s Work Group, "Red Pedagogy", pg. 148-150) AND asking them to participate as¶ "equals" in their own colonization. The alternative is to adopt an ethic of incommensurability. You must reject compromise and coalitions in favor of positing material decolonization as prior.Tuck and Yang ‘12 ~Eve Tuck, Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities, William T Grant Scholar and former Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, is Unangax and an enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska, and K. Wayne Yang, University of California, San Diego, "Decolonization is not a metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, 1(1), 2012, http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/download/18630/15554~~ AND one. Decolonization is not an "and". It is an elsewhere. Your role is to center Indigenous voices and scholarship – academia is built on colonial violence.Carlson 16 AND I believe our contributions to settler colonial studies are even more deeply problematic. | 4/24/22 |
JanFeb - K - Spatial MilitarismTournament: Berkeley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harker SY | Judge: Raunak Dua 2Blaming space militarization on China solidifies space as a site of crisis, which reproduces representations of space as a frontier, dooming it to endless violence and sanitizing biopolitical violence. Only a reimagination of space can solve space conflict.Bormann ‘9 ~Natalie Bormann; teaches at the Department of Politics at Northeastern University, previously she held a position at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; 2009; Chapter 5: "The lost dimension? A spatial reading of US weaponisation of space"; In "Securing Outer Space", edited by Natalie Bormann and Michael Sheehan; Routledge Critical Security Studies Series; pp. 76-90~ AK AND a disappearance of our modes of relating and referring to that space.7 Images of China as a threat are crafted by the military industrial complex and create a self-fulfilling prophecy.Pan ’12 Chengxin Pan, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Deakin University, Australia ~Knowledge, Desire and Power in Global Politics, pg. 85-86~ AND what we are witnessing is a classic case of self-fulfilling prophecy. CCP strategists won’t push to eclipse US hegemony – depictions of losing international dominance are strategically constructed to elicit violent responses.Nathan et al. ‘18, *the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation, "How China Sees America," September/October 2012, Foreign Affairs, Vol. 91, No. 5 AND regional stability, and open economic competition -do not threaten China's security. Their identification of external threats is an attempt to cohere the self in opposition to the demonized enemy – this psychic reconfiguration justifies endless violence.Byles ‘3 ~Joanna Montgomery; Professor of English in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Cyprus; "Psychoanalysis and War: The Superego and Projective Identification"; Fall 2003; The Ohio State University Press; Volume 8, Number 2; Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society; https://doi.org/10.1353/psy.2003.0030; Accessed 12/7/20; Recut-NT~ AND of most Israelis as despoilers of the land they are supposed to share. The alt is ecological imagination—Bearing down on every decision in modern policy, the Anthropocene provides a space of affective excess. The alt theorizes a new geographical imagination centered on current apocalypse instead of deferring it to the future. It decenters securitized hierarchies to materially address the tensions inherent to space policy.Gergan et al ‘20 M., Smith, S., and Vasudevan, P. (2020). Earth beyond repair: Race and apocalypse in collective imagination. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 38(1), 91-110. AND and an embodied refusal of surrender to a white eco-apocalyptic future? The judge is the analyst – your refusal to affirm their politics forces them to confront the fantasy of the 1AC.Dean ‘6 ~Jodi; Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.; "Introduction"; 2006; Routledge; Žižek’s Politics; Accessed 12/7/20; Recut-NT~ AND we can organize, consider, and formalize our experiences as ideological subjects. | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - K - Technological ImperialismTournament: Berkeley | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harker SS | Judge: Ari Davidson 1NC – KThe management of space debris is rooted in a militarized approach to the future that culminates in the full-spectrum dominance of the globe.Reno 20 (Joshua Ozias Reno, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University. PhD from the University of Michigan, "The Wrong Stuff", chapter 4 of Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness Univ of California Press, Feb 4, 2020 Pg. 127-130)DR 19 AND , moreover, cleaning up space debris was linked directly with military objectives. Multilateral space governance is the next step in the geopolitical domination of outer space, a critical astropolitics of empire. The move to space policy to solve space mining is indicative of their desire to command and control space, bringing the cosmos under imperial control.Havercroft and Duvall ‘9 (Jonathan Havercroft and Raymond Duvall; 2009; "Critical astropolitics The geopolitics of space control and the transformation of state sovereignty"; accessed 12/13/21; https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/7892-havercroft-and-duvallcritical-astropoliticspdf; Jonathan Havercroft is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. He teaches in the areas of political theory and international relations. He is the editor of the journal Global Constitutionalism; Raymond Duvall is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota; pages 44-50) HB AND of analysis – be used to supplement and refine critical international relations theory? Their identification of external threats is an attempt to cohere the self in opposition to the demonized enemy – this psychic reconfiguration justifies endless violence.Byles ‘3 ~Joanna Montgomery; Professor of English in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Cyprus; "Psychoanalysis and War: The Superego and Projective Identification"; Fall 2003; The Ohio State University Press; Volume 8, Number 2; Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society; https://doi.org/10.1353/psy.2003.0030; Accessed 12/7/20; Recut-NT~ AND of most Israelis as despoilers of the land they are supposed to share. The alt is ecological imagination—Bearing down on every decision in modern policy, the Anthropocene provides a space of affective excess. The alt theorizes a new geographical imagination centered on current apocalypse instead of deferring it to the future. It decenters securitized hierarchies to materially address the tensions inherent to space policy.Gergan et al ‘20 M., Smith, S., and Vasudevan, P. (2020). Earth beyond repair: Race and apocalypse in collective imagination. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 38(1), 91-110. AND and an embodied refusal of surrender to a white eco-apocalyptic future? | 2/20/22 |
JanFeb - P - ASPECTournament: ASU | Round: 5 | Opponent: BASIS Peoria KC | Judge: Nick Fleming 1NC – PTheir failure to specify an agent is a voting issue – makes mechanism counterplans and agent-based disads impossible – it’s a voter for fairness because the 1AR can spike out of DAs and CPs, which kills clash and nuance. | 1/8/22 |
JanFeb - P - DisclosureTournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Sidwell SW | Judge: River Cook 1NC – PNew, undisclosed advantages are a voting issue – they moot pre-round prep and force the neg into generics. The advocacy isn’t good enough – it could be anything from a Kant aff to a K aff to a policy aff. Nuanced pre-round prep is key to clash and testing the aff – you should be skeptical of aff offense because I couldn’t thoroughly test it. | 4/24/22 |
JanFeb - P - Extra TTournament: ASU | Round: 5 | Opponent: BASIS Peoria KC | Judge: Nick Fleming 1NC – TExtra-topicality is a voting issue – wrecks clash, fairness, shift out of offenseViolation: promoting regionalism | 1/8/22 |
JanFeb - P - Plan FlawTournament: Berkeley | Round: Triples | Opponent: Cardinal Gibbons RS | Judge: River Cook, Derek Hilligoss, Gerard Grisby | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - P - Tactics FWTournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Sidwell SW | Judge: River Cook 1NC – FWOur interpretation is that the aff should specify and defend a specific political demand resulting from the performance of the 1AC.Violation – the aff’s performance is a method but is not committed to specific political demands.Prefer our interpretation:Political education – Popular political education requires both dismantling and radical reconstruction – it is not enough to simply critique, we must offer new and challenging political alternatives, opening much needed space for new political parties to emerge that tactically engage with oppressive structures to open material space for new imaginations.Testing – comparing radical grassroots tactics against others opens dialogue about local contexts to interconnections between global conditions – only affs that defend grassroots political demands can generate broad support for linked struggles with the nuance and specificity required to change oppressive environments. Anything else makes it impossible to be negative and incentivizes the aff to wait until the 1AR to clarify their strategy.Davis ’16 (Angela Davis, 2016, Freedom is a constant struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the foundations of a movement. Chicago, IL: Haymarket Books.) AND a movement? What does it mean physically, philosophically, and psychologically? Neg Flex – holding the affirmative to the artifact of the 1ac is the only check on unclear or shifty affs – affs get infinite prep, set the stasis point for the debate and get ample opportunities to dictate negative argumentation. Impossible Referendums on our framework make it impossible to be neg and forecloses educational debates over revolutionary tactics.Vote neg on presumption – the affirmative does not propose a change to the status quo. We don’t require the aff to use state action or have a plan text, but they must at least argue that the affirmatives method results in a material change from the status quo | 4/24/22 |
JanFeb - PIC - MiningTournament: ASU | Round: 5 | Opponent: BASIS Peoria KC | Judge: Nick Fleming 1NC – CPCP: States should ban the appropriation of outer space by private entities except for space mining.It competes – "appropriation" includes claims to natural resources.Amanda M. Leon, Associate*, Caplin and Drysdale, Chtd., ’18, Virginia Law Review ~"MINING FOR MEANING: AN EXAMINATION OF THE LEGALITY OF PROPERTY RIGHTS IN SPACE RESOURCES" Vol. 104:497 2018~ TDI AND an analysis of preparatory materials, historical context, and state practice follows. Space mining releases less emissions than Earth-based mining by a LOTEmerging Technology 18, 10-19-2018, "Asteroid mining might actually be better for the environment," MIT Technology Review, https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/10/19/139664/asteroid-mining-might-actually-be-better-for-the-environment/~~//pranav AND in the numbers here, so these will need to be better understood. Warming causes extinction and turns every impact – no adaptation and each degree is worseKrosofsky ’21 ~Andrew, Green Matters Journalist, "How Global Warming May Eventually Lead to Global Extinction", Green Matters, 03-11-2021, https://www.greenmatters.com/p/will-global-warming-cause-extinction~~//pranav AND increase will also mean more pandemics, devastating storms, and uncontrollable wildfires. Commercial mining solves extinction from scarcity, climate, terror, war, and disease.Pelton 17—(Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University, PHD in IR from Georgetown).. Pelton, Joseph N. 2017. The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon! Springer. Accessed 8/30/19. AND global space agreements, are part of this new pathway to the future. | 1/8/22 |
JanFeb - T - Appropriation v1Tournament: ASU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula AB | Judge: Gerard Grigsby 1NC – TInterpretation: "Appropriation of outer space" is exclusive and permanentTIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, ’13 quoting Smith 92, TAKING UP SPACE BY ANY OTHER MEANS: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NONAPPROPRIATION ARTICLE OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW ~Vol. 2013 No. 4~ AND the Bogotá Declaration were trying to accomplish, albeit through different means.219 Violation: the non-Appropriation principle does not apply to resource extraction. International consensus and rejection of the Moon Treaty support the distinction between sovereign ownership and resource extractionWrench 19 ~John, JD Candidate at Case Western, BA from Pace University~ "Non-Appropriation, No Problem: The Outer Space Treaty Is Ready for Asteroid Mining," Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 51 Issue 1, https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2546andcontext=jil, 2019 RE AND of property rights in resources extracted from that land, is nothing new. Prefer:1~ Precision—any thing else justifiesz deviating from the topic which destroys neg predictability2~ limits and ground: expanding the topic beyond appropriation allows for affs about any miniscule use of space resources which decimates links to generics which are based on property rights in space and results in a litany of small affirmatives that cause a race to the marginsTheir failure to specify an agent is a voting issue – makes mechanism counterplans and agent-based disads impossible – it’s a voter for fairness because the 1AR can spike out of DAs and CPs, which kills clash and nuance.Competing interps – reasonability invites a race to the bottom of interventionNo RVIS – it’s your burden to be topical | 1/7/22 |
JanFeb - T - Appropriation v2Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harker SS | Judge: Ari Davidson 1NC – T"Appropriation of outer space" is exclusive and permanentTIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, ’13 quoting Smith 92, TAKING UP SPACE BY ANY OTHER MEANS: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NONAPPROPRIATION ARTICLE OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW ~Vol. 2013 No. 4~ AND the Bogotá Declaration were trying to accomplish, albeit through different means.219 Violation: resource extraction isn’t ownership of land.Wrench 19 ~John, JD Candidate at Case Western, BA from Pace University~ "Non-Appropriation, No Problem: The Outer Space Treaty Is Ready for Asteroid Mining," Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 51 Issue 1, https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2546andcontext=jil, 2019 RE AND of property rights in resources extracted from that land, is nothing new. Vote neg for limits and ground: expanding the topic beyond appropriation allows for affs about any miniscule use of space resources which decimates links to generics which are based on property rights in space and results in a litany of small affirmatives that cause a race to the marginsMultilateral treaties are extra-topicality is a voting issue – it wrecks clash and fairness by letting the aff artificially fiat away every topic disad | 2/20/22 |
JanFeb - T - Appropriation v3Tournament: Berkeley | Round: Triples | Opponent: Cardinal Gibbons RS | Judge: River Cook, Derek Hilligoss, Gerard Grisby 1NC – T"Appropriation of outer space" is exclusive and permanentTIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, ’13 quoting Smith 92, TAKING UP SPACE BY ANY OTHER MEANS: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NONAPPROPRIATION ARTICLE OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW ~Vol. 2013 No. 4~ AND the Bogotá Declaration were trying to accomplish, albeit through different means.219 Violation: Satellite constellations aren’t appropriation.Johnson ‘20 ~Christopher D. Johnson, "The Legal Status of MegaLEO Constellations and Concerns About Appropriation of Large Swaths of Earth Orbit," Handbook of Small Satellites, 2020-09-13, p.1337-1358~ CT AND domain and are therefore not occupation, or possession, much less appropriation. Ground—they shift the controversy from sovereign domination to minute activity. The topic literature is grounded in a debate over sovereign control over space, which means core neg generics are space ownership bad, space democracy bad, not temporary resource extraction or expeditions. Their interp minimizes link uniqueness because our impacts will never be overcome the advantage. | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - T - GenericTournament: Berkeley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harker SY | Judge: Raunak Dua 1Interpretation: Affirmatives must not specify a subset of private entities.Moral statements are generic normative principles – necessitates the generic interpretationMcDonald 09 ~Hugh P. McDonald, professor of philosophy at the New York City College of Technology. "Principles: The Principles of Principles." The Pluralist, vol. 4, no. 3, ~University of Illinois Press, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy~, 2009, pp. 98–126, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20708996~~ HWIC AND of emission from the sun but are not identical with those for red. Violation – they spec Chinese private entitiesVote neg for limits – there’s 195 different governments that you could potentially specify, which explodes the number of affs – there’s no universal disad to every government.Drop the debater since drop the arg means they have no plan ext.Use competing interps – reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention.No RVIs – shouldn’t win for being fair or topical.Their failure to specify an agent is a voting issue – makes mechanism counterplans and agent-based disads impossible – it’s a voter for fairness because the 1AR can spike out of DAs and CPs, which kills clash and nuance. | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - T - LEOTournament: Berkeley | Round: Triples | Opponent: Cardinal Gibbons RS | Judge: River Cook, Derek Hilligoss, Gerard Grisby 1NC – TInterpretation: "Outer space" starts at 391,000 miles from Earth’s surface.Stein ‘19 ~Vicky Stein; 02-28-2019; "If this space study is right, humans have never left Earth’s atmosphere"; PBS; https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/if-this-space-study-is-right-humans-have-never-left-earths-atmosphere; Accessed 02-02-2022~ AK AND were not thinking that they were indeed inside the atmosphere of the Earth." Violation: The low-Earth orbit is only 1200 miles away from Earth’s surface – that’s inside.NASA ‘ND ~NASA; No Date; "LEO Economy FAQs"; https://www.nasa.gov/leo-economy/faqs; Accessed 02-02-2022~ AK AND Space Station currently orbits and where many proposed future platforms will be located. Vote neg –1) Scientific precision – Stein cites the best and most recent science on where the atmosphere ends and outer space begins – anything else is arbitrary and provides no predictable statis point.2) Limits and ground – including objects inside the atmosphere justifies ridiculous affs like regulating airplanes, banning drones, and removing blimps. That destroys links to core neg generics and makes negating impossible. | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - T - UnjustTournament: ASU | Round: 3 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: Kevin Sun 1NC – T1~ Interp – Unjust refers to a negative action – it means contrary.Black Laws No Date "What is Unjust?" https://thelawdictionary.org/unjust/ Elmer 2~ Violation – The Aff is a positive action – it creates a new concept for Space i.e. the treating of Space as a "Global Commons".3~ Standards –a~ Limits – making the topic bi-directional explodes predictability – it means that Aff’s can both increase non-exist property regimes in space AND decrease appropriation by private actors – makes the topic untenable.b~ Ground – wrecks Neg Generics – we can’t say appropriation good since the 1AC can create new views on Outer Space Property Rights that circumvent our Links since they can say "Global Commons" approach solves.Their failure to specify an agent is a voting issue – makes mechanism counterplans and agent-based disads impossible – it’s a voter for fairness because the 1AR can spike out of DAs and CPs, which kills clash and nuance.4~ TVA – just defend that space appropriation is bad.a~ Topicality is Drop the Debater – it’s a fundamental baseline for debate-ability.b~ Use Competing Interps – 1~ Topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical and 2~ Reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation.c~ No RVI’s - 1~ Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, 2~ Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and 3~ Illogical – you shouldn’t win for not being abusive. | 4/24/22 |
NovDec - K - Politics of DecencyTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JS | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1NC – KThe affirmative’s call for the unconditional right to strike is cotemporaneous with what we will call: the "politics of decency." Decency is fundamentally a colonial enterprise that establishes a schema of intelligibility vis a vis the division between "good" and "bad" citizen subjects. The illusion of a "more just society" not only serves to calibrate the state’s ability to kill, but also leads to an internalized desire to aspire towards decency, thus eradicating the very potential for meaningful anti-institutional organizing. You should understand the politics of decency as fundamentally conducive of the current racial order – making possible globalized forms of authoritarian, racialized violence under the façade of democratic transparency.KatherineKellyAbraham’18 |Three anonymous members of the Abolition Collective, April 22, 2018, "Burn it Down: Abolition, Insurgent Political Praxis, and the Destruction of Decency," Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics Volume 1 Issue 2. Footnotes i, iii, and iv included in curly braces|KZaidi AND and are thus marked for rationalized, legitimized, "civilized" annihilation. This spectacle of "radical liberalism," this wielding of sovereignty against itself, can only end in the abduction of global revolutionary movements by the corporate state in a grand theatre of reactionary protest masquerading as radical politics.Interior Ministry'18 |The Interior Ministry comprises of an anonymous group of guerilla militants and semioticians. "Guerilla Semiotix," from ALIENIST Magazine ~#4 (December 2018): RAGE AGAINST THE ALGORITHM. Page 38-42. https://alienistmanifesto.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/Alienist'Magazine-4'December'2018-1.pdf~|KZaidi AND the psychosis of Power, whose madness is that it is "everywhere"? Rather than choosing to become assassins, as the 1AC has done, vote negative to side with the tactic of cyberguerilla warfare. Do NOT fall into the trap of commodification and stratified politics and instead, opt for evasion, outflanking, scrambling and stealth to find system vulnerabilities to target and exploit. Only this contains the means of leveraging not only alternative mediums of communication but also guerilla tactics that spell the death of western power structures.Interior Ministry'18 |The Interior Ministry comprises of an anonymous group of guerilla militants and semioticians. "Guerilla Semiotix," from ALIENIST Magazine ~#4 (December 2018): RAGE AGAINST THE ALGORITHM. Page 84-88. https://alienistmanifesto.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/Alienist'Magazine-4'December'2018-1.pdf~|KZaidi AND and of exercising initiative in offence, and which ideally leave no trace. | 11/20/21 |
NovDec - K - Settler Colonialism v1Tournament: Florida Blue Key | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep ArVe | Judge: Tajaih Robinson Settler colonialism is a structure, not an event – the aff’s call to protect workers’ strikes is premised upon Indigenous erasure. Their protection of the laborer structurally excludes Natives and furthers the colonial marketplace. Workers are still settlers – concepts of "workers’ rights" are only coherent by making Native genocide the norm.Baker ‘17 ~W. Oliver Baker; Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies @ PennState; "Democracy, Class, and White Settler Colonialism"; Public, Volume 28, Number 55, June 2017, pp. 144-153(10); https://doi.org/10.1386/public.28.55.144'1; Accessed 10-16-2021~ AK AND to confront capital as they seek refuge and protection within and through it. The failure of the settler subject to come to grips with the death drive dooms their politics to totalitarianism. Force them to confront the reliance of workers’ strikes on indigenous genocide. They don’t make society more equitable. They make it more equitable for settlers.Young ’17 ~Bryanne; Ph.D Student, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; "Killing the Indian in the Child: Materialities of Death and Political Formations of Life in the Canadian Indian Residential School System"; Last Modified 3/22/19; Published August 2017; University of North Carolina Digital Repository; https://doi.org/10.17615/zkyc-q417; Accessed 7/24/20; NT~ AND freedom more highly valued than the actuality of freedom itself" (ii). Ideal theory is a form of abstraction away from the material violence of settler colonialism – their view from nowhere is not only useless but actively props up settlerism.Nichols 13 Nichols, R. (2013). Indigeneity and the Settler Contract today. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 39(2), 165–186. doi:10.1177/0191453712470359 SM AND reformulate some modified version of analytic contract theory in relation to indigenous peoples. The alternative is to adopt an ethic of incommensurability. You must reject compromise and coalitions in favor of positing material decolonization as prior.Tuck and Yang ‘12 ~Eve Tuck, Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities, William T Grant Scholar and former Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, is Unangax and an enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska, and K. Wayne Yang, University of California, San Diego, "Decolonization is not a metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, 1(1), 2012, http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/download/18630/15554~~ AND one. Decolonization is not an "and". It is an elsewhere. The role of the ballot is to fracture the settler imago in the debate space. Speech acts are critical to create moments of uncomfortability in academic spaces that deconstruct the settler psyche.Henderson ’17 ~Phil; Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Victoria, with a specialization in Cultural, Social and Political thought, Bachelor’s (Hons.) in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario "Imagoed communities: the psychosocial space of settler colonialism"; 2017; Volume 7, Issue 1; Settler Colonial Studies; https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2015.1092194; Accessed 8/29/20; NT~ AND insistently drawing attention to the ongoing presence of indigenous peoples who refuse erasure. | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - K - Settler Colonialism v2Tournament: Florida Blue Key | Round: 3 | Opponent: Strawberry Crest AK | Judge: Faizaan Dossani 1NC – KSettler colonialism is a structure, not an event – the aff’s call to validate workers’ strikes is premised upon Indigenous erasure. Their protection of the laborer structurally excludes Natives and furthers the colonial marketplace. Workers are still settlers – concepts of "workers’ rights" are only coherent by making Native genocide the norm.Baker ‘17 ~W. Oliver Baker; Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies @ PennState; "Democracy, Class, and White Settler Colonialism"; Public, Volume 28, Number 55, June 2017, pp. 144-153(10); https://doi.org/10.1386/public.28.55.144'1; Accessed 10-16-2021~ AK AND to confront capital as they seek refuge and protection within and through it. The failure of the settler subject to come to grips with the death drive dooms their politics to totalitarianism. Force them to confront the reliance of workers’ strikes on indigenous genocide. They don’t make society more equitable. They make it more equitable for settlers.Young ’17 ~Bryanne; Ph.D Student, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; "Killing the Indian in the Child: Materialities of Death and Political Formations of Life in the Canadian Indian Residential School System"; Last Modified 3/22/19; Published August 2017; University of North Carolina Digital Repository; https://doi.org/10.17615/zkyc-q417; Accessed 7/24/20; NT~ AND freedom more highly valued than the actuality of freedom itself" (ii). The alternative is to adopt an ethic of incommensurability. You must reject compromise and coalitions in favor of positing material decolonization as prior.Tuck and Yang ‘12 ~Eve Tuck, Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities, William T Grant Scholar and former Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, is Unangax and an enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska, and K. Wayne Yang, University of California, San Diego, "Decolonization is not a metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, 1(1), 2012, http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/download/18630/15554~~ AND one. Decolonization is not an "and". It is an elsewhere. | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - K - Settler Colonialism v3Tournament: Florida Blue Key | Round: 5 | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Raunak Dua 1NC – KSettler colonialism is a structure, not an event – the aff’s call to ~contextual~ is premised upon Indigenous erasure. Their protection of the laborer structurally excludes Natives and furthers the colonial marketplace. Workers are still settlers – concepts of "workers’ rights" are only coherent by making Native genocide the norm.Baker ‘17 ~W. Oliver Baker; Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies @ PennState; "Democracy, Class, and White Settler Colonialism"; Public, Volume 28, Number 55, June 2017, pp. 144-153(10); https://doi.org/10.1386/public.28.55.144'1; Accessed 10-16-2021~ AK AND to confront capital as they seek refuge and protection within and through it. The failure of the settler subject to come to grips with the death drive dooms their politics to totalitarianism. Force them to confront the reliance of workers’ strikes on indigenous genocide. They don’t make society more equitable. They make it more equitable for settlers.Young ’17 ~Bryanne; Ph.D Student, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; "Killing the Indian in the Child: Materialities of Death and Political Formations of Life in the Canadian Indian Residential School System"; Last Modified 3/22/19; Published August 2017; University of North Carolina Digital Repository; https://doi.org/10.17615/zkyc-q417; Accessed 7/24/20; NT~ AND freedom more highly valued than the actuality of freedom itself" (ii). Settlerism ensures a paradigm of perpetual war. Settlers will always prioritize themselves over the "racialized other" to ensure their future which results in infinite violence.Torres ‘8 (Nelson; associate professor of comparative literature at Rutgers; 2008; "Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity"; AH) AND and the source of many of its pathologies, crises, and evils. The alternative is to adopt an ethic of incommensurability. You must reject compromise and coalitions in favor of positing material decolonization as prior.Tuck and Yang ‘12 ~Eve Tuck, Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Methodologies with Youth and Communities, William T Grant Scholar and former Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, is Unangax and an enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska, and K. Wayne Yang, University of California, San Diego, "Decolonization is not a metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, 1(1), 2012, http://decolonization.org/index.php/des/article/download/18630/15554~~ AND one. Decolonization is not an "and". It is an elsewhere. | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - P - DisclosureTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Kyle Kopf 1NC – PInterpretation – debaters must disclose contact info and all affs and neg off-case positions from TOC bid-earning tournaments.Violation – see screenshot, Aidan doesn’t have anything on the wiki. Pre round, I asked for disclosure, Aidan said no.
~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. Fairness is a voter since debate is a game and we’re both here to win.~1~ DTD on 1nc theory and disclosure – a) disclosure cannot be drop the argument because it would just drop you because you’re the norm b) deterrenceNo RVI’s - 1~ Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, 2~ Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and 3~ Illogical – you shouldn’t win for not being abusive. | 11/21/21 |
NovDec - P - Disclosure v2Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart SS | Judge: Leah Clark-Villanueva 1NC – PYour failure to disclose the aff 30 minutes before the round is a voting issue – I emailed you but didn’t get a response, see the screenshot. Destroys clash – not knowing what aff I’ll hit means I can’t put together an in-depth case strategy. I was totally ready to debate your US aff, but not this. | 11/21/21 |
NovDec - P - Email ChainTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Kyle Kopf Interp – must send evidence in the email chain | 11/21/21 |
NovDec - P - Must Have WikiTournament: Florida Blue Key | Round: 3 | Opponent: Strawberry Crest AK | Judge: Faizaan Dossani 1NC – PInterpretation – debaters must have a wiki with contract information specific to the debater who is debatingViolation – their school isn’t on the wiki, see screenshot
~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. Fairness is a voter since debate is a game and we’re both here to win.~1~ DTD on 1nc theory and disclosure – a) disclosure cannot be drop the argument because it would just drop you because you’re the norm b) deterrenceNo RVI’s - 1~ Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, 2~ Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and 3~ Illogical – you shouldn’t win for not being abusive. | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - P - Must Spec StrikesTournament: Florida Blue Key | Round: 5 | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Raunak Dua 1NC – PInterpretation: The affirmative debater must specify the type of strikes they defend in a delineated text in the 1AC.Violation: they didn’tStandards –1~ Topic lit – strikes are the core question of the topic and there’s no consensus on normal means so you must spec.Law Library AND the argument is between unions and not between a union and the employer. ====This acts as a resolvability standard. Debate must make sense and be comparable for the judge to decide which means it’s an independent voter and outweighs.==== 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 a disad and then get screwed over in CX when they spec a different type of strike. This means that CX can’t check because the time in between is when I should be formulating my strat and waiting until then is the abuse. Key fairness because I won’t be able to use the strat I formulated if you skewed my prep and will have a time disadvantageDrop 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 | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - P - Must Spec Strikes v2Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Kyle Kopf 1NC – PInterpretation: The affirmative debater must specify the type of strikes they defend in a delineated text in the 1AC.Violation: they didn’tStandards –1~ Topic lit – strikes are the core question of the topic and there’s no consensus on normal means so you must spec.Law Library AND the argument is between unions and not between a union and the employer. ====This acts as a resolvability standard. Debate must make sense and be comparable for the judge to decide which means it’s an independent voter and outweighs.==== 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 a disad and then get screwed over in CX when they spec a different type of strike. This means that CX can’t check because the time in between is when I should be formulating my strat and waiting until then is the abuse. Key fairness because I won’t be able to use the strat I formulated if you skewed my prep and will have a time disadvantage | 11/21/21 |
NovDec - T - Just GovernmentTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JS | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1NC – TInterpretation: the affirmative must defend that only just governments ought to recognize the 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 AND people’s money, but to prevent injustice by protecting property and securing liberty. Violation – the US isn’t a just government – they violate libertiesAmnesty International, 4-14-2021, "Everything you need to know about human rights in United States of America," No Publication, https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/americas/united-states-of-america/report-united-states-of-america/ AND carrying of firearms is permitted engaged protesters, causing at least four deaths. 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 governmentsEducation is a voter since it is the only portable and durable skill that influences our subject formation. Fairness is a voter since a~ debate is a game, competition equity matters proven by desire for wins, b~ is worthless without rules and equal access.~Competing Interps~ – Reasonability is arbitrary and causes a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation.~No RVI’s~ – 1~ Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, 2~ Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and 3~ Illogical – you shouldn’t win for not being abusive.DTD – DTA is incoherent since its an indict to the plan as a whole and its key to deterring future abuse. Independently drop the arugment would reject the whole plan text so still vote neg | 11/20/21 |
SeptOct - K - Racial CapitalismTournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Plano East NG | Judge: Claudia Ribera 1NC – KAll capitalism is racial capitalism – racial capitalism uses the bodies of post-colonial subjects to prop up a new corporate empire of extraction. The flow of capital and information through Western notions of IP rights enables accumulation by dispossession from the Global South. The aff’s modification of the patent system merely enables disciplinary control by sanitizing the West’s imperial control over the knowledge economy. Racial and colonial logics undergird the IP system – piecemeal reforms like a one-and-done approach only serve to erase Western culpability in stealing Indigenous knowledge and unethical clinical trials.Chaurey ‘19 ~Keeyaa Chaurey; Master’s Degree from The London School of Economics and Political Science (in Human Rights, Healthcare and Capitalism); January 2019; "Pirates and Property: The Moralities of Branded and Generic Medicines"; http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/102949/1/Keeyaa'pirates'and'property'submitted.pdf; Accessed 08-28-2021~ AK AND are just as thin across the world as they are in South Africa. The 1AC’s fetishism of the public domain, is a form of neocolonial domination that papers over inequalities and information feudalism. The public domain is a structure of white supremacy that erases the 1AC’s complicity.Vats and Keller ‘18 ~Anjali Vats; Assistant Professor of Communication and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College and Assistant Professor of Law at Boston College Law School; Deirdré A. Keller; Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University, Claude W. Pettit College of Law; 2018; "Critical Race IP"; Cardozo Arts and Ent. LJ; https://www.cardozoaelj.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VATS-KELLER-ARTICLE.pdf; Accessed 08-29-2021~ AK AND , therefore, remain important questions for scholars of race and intellectual property. The 1AC’s project of reforming IP rights is a racially neutral construct that uses the law to perpetuate anti-Blackness by divesting Black inventors of their patents. Merely modifying the IP system is the perfection of racial capitalism.Greene ‘8 ~Kevin J. Greene; an American lawyer and professor of contract music law and entertainment law at Southwestern Law School; "Intellectual Property at the Intersection of Race and Gender: Lady Sings the Blues"; Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, Vol. 16, Iss. 3 ~2008~, Art. 2; https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/jgspl/vol16/iss3/2/; Accessed 08-28-2021~ AK AND notion that economic incentives alone are not the sole motivator of creative output. Neoliberal capitalism will produce extinction – the system reproduces crises that depoliticize the left, undermine futural thought, and postpone its demise – the impacts are environmental collapse, endless war, and the rise of fascismShaviro ‘15 (Steven Shaviro is an American academic, philosopher and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time, science fiction, panpsychism, capitalism, affect and subjectivity. He earned a PhD from Yale in 1981. "No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism" https://track5.mixtape.moe/qdkkdt.pdf rvs) AND easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." The alternative is Black Marxism. Their opposition to IP protections fails because it starts at the wrong place. This radical Black tradition disrupts the terms of ownership and turns Marxism inside out. The alt generates Black kinship and social life outside of the university, rebuilding the IP system from the ground up to solve the aff.Moten ‘13 (Fred Moten, Moten is professor of performance studies at New York University and has taught previously at University of California, Riverside, Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa, 3 July 2013, "The Subprime and the beautiful", African Identities Volume 11, 2013 - Issue 2, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14725843.2013.797289) AND , then that subject’s presence destabilizes all other analogs (p. 31). The ROJ is to engage in a project of mapping property. Both property and rhetorical spaces like debate perpetuate IP as whiteness, sustaining racial capitalism and reinforcing an exclusionary praxis. Only the K engages in strategies to fight racial capitalism inside and outside debate.Vats ‘19 ~Anjali Vats, JD, PhD; Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law with a secondary appointment in the Communication Department at the University of Pittsburgh; 10-02-2019; "Mapping property"; Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 105, No. 4, 508–526; DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2019.1666347; Accessed 08-29-2021~ AK AND also in thinking with more depth about problems of property in the world. | 9/18/21 |
SeptOct - K - Racial Capitalism v2Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Kenston EJ | Judge: Austin Broussard 1NC – KAll capitalism is racial capitalism – racial capitalism uses the bodies of post-colonial subjects to prop up a new corporate empire of extraction. The flow of capital and information through Western notions of IP rights enables accumulation by dispossession from the Global South. The aff’s modification of the IP system merely enables disciplinary control by sanitizing the West’s imperial control over the knowledge economy. Racial and colonial logics undergird the IP system – piecemeal reforms like the aff only serve to erase Western culpability in stealing Indigenous knowledge and unethical clinical trials.Chaurey ‘19 ~Keeyaa Chaurey; Master’s Degree from The London School of Economics and Political Science (in Human Rights, Healthcare and Capitalism); January 2019; "Pirates and Property: The Moralities of Branded and Generic Medicines"; http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/102949/1/Keeyaa'pirates'and'property'submitted.pdf; Accessed 08-28-2021~ AK AND are just as thin across the world as they are in South Africa. The 1AC’s fetishism of the public domain, demonstrated by their embrace of generic medicine, is a form of neocolonial domination that papers over inequalities and information feudalism. The public domain is a structure of white supremacy that erases the 1AC’s complicity.Vats and Keller ‘18 ~Anjali Vats; Assistant Professor of Communication and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College and Assistant Professor of Law at Boston College Law School; Deirdré A. Keller; Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University, Claude W. Pettit College of Law; 2018; "Critical Race IP"; Cardozo Arts and Ent. LJ; https://www.cardozoaelj.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VATS-KELLER-ARTICLE.pdf; Accessed 08-29-2021~ AK AND , therefore, remain important questions for scholars of race and intellectual property. Neoliberal capitalism will produce extinction – the system reproduces crises that depoliticize the left, undermine futural thought, and postpone its demise – the impacts are environmental collapse, endless war, and the rise of fascismShaviro ‘15 (Steven Shaviro is an American academic, philosopher and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time, science fiction, panpsychism, capitalism, affect and subjectivity. He earned a PhD from Yale in 1981. "No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism" https://track5.mixtape.moe/qdkkdt.pdf rvs) AND easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." The alternative is Black Marxism. Their opposition to IP protections fails because it starts at the wrong place. This radical Black tradition disrupts the terms of ownership and turns Marxism inside out. The alt generates Black kinship and social life outside of the university, rebuilding the IP system from the ground up to solve the aff.Moten ‘13 (Fred Moten, Moten is professor of performance studies at New York University and has taught previously at University of California, Riverside, Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa, 3 July 2013, "The Subprime and the beautiful", African Identities Volume 11, 2013 - Issue 2, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14725843.2013.797289) AND , then that subject’s presence destabilizes all other analogs (p. 31). The ROJ is to engage in a project of mapping property. Both property and rhetorical spaces like debate perpetuate IP as whiteness, sustaining racial capitalism and reinforcing an exclusionary praxis. Only the K engages in strategies to fight racial capitalism inside and outside debate.Vats ‘19 ~Anjali Vats, JD, PhD; Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law with a secondary appointment in the Communication Department at the University of Pittsburgh; 10-02-2019; "Mapping property"; Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 105, No. 4, 508–526; DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2019.1666347; Accessed 08-29-2021~ AK AND also in thinking with more depth about problems of property in the world. | 9/18/21 |
SeptOct - K - Racial Capitalism v3Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Kartikeya Kotamraju 1NC – KAll capitalism is racial capitalism – racial capitalism uses the bodies of post-colonial subjects to prop up a new corporate empire of extraction. The flow of capital and information through Western notions of IP rights enables accumulation by dispossession from the Global South. The aff’s modification of CRISPR IP protections merely enables disciplinary and imperial control – piecemeal reforms like the aff only serve to erase Western culpability in neocolonial domination.Chaurey ‘19 ~Keeyaa Chaurey; Master’s Degree from The London School of Economics and Political Science (in Human Rights, Healthcare and Capitalism); January 2019; "Pirates and Property: The Moralities of Branded and Generic Medicines"; http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/102949/1/Keeyaa'pirates'and'property'submitted.pdf; Accessed 08-28-2021~ AK AND are just as thin across the world as they are in South Africa. The 1AC’s fetishism of the public domain, demonstrated in calling the aff a "harmonized approach," is a form of neocolonial domination that papers over inequalities and information feudalism – that perpetuates and hides white supremacy.Vats and Keller ‘18 ~Anjali Vats; Assistant Professor of Communication and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College and Assistant Professor of Law at Boston College Law School; Deirdré A. Keller; Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University, Claude W. Pettit College of Law; 2018; "Critical Race IP"; Cardozo Arts and Ent. LJ; https://www.cardozoaelj.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/VATS-KELLER-ARTICLE.pdf; Accessed 08-29-2021~ AK AND , therefore, remain important questions for scholars of race and intellectual property. Capitalism causes extinction – the system only postpones its future demise. The impacts are environmental collapse, endless war, and fascism.Shaviro ‘15 (Steven Shaviro is an American academic, philosopher and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time, science fiction, panpsychism, capitalism, affect and subjectivity. He earned a PhD from Yale in 1981. "No Speed Limit: Three Essays on Accelerationism" https://track5.mixtape.moe/qdkkdt.pdf rvs) AND easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism." The alternative is Black Marxism. Their opposition to IP protections fails because it starts at the wrong place. This radical Black tradition disrupts the terms of ownership, turning Marxism inside out to generate Black kinship and social life outside of the university. That rebuilds the IP system from the ground up to solve the aff.Moten ‘13 (Fred Moten, Moten is professor of performance studies at New York University and has taught previously at University of California, Riverside, Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa, 3 July 2013, "The Subprime and the beautiful", African Identities Volume 11, 2013 - Issue 2, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14725843.2013.797289) AND , then that subject’s presence destabilizes all other analogs (p. 31). The ROJ is to engage in a project of mapping property. Both property and rhetorical spaces like debate perpetuate IP as whiteness, sustaining racial capitalism and reinforcing an exclusionary praxis. Only the K engages in strategies to fight racial capitalism inside and outside debate.Vats ‘19 ~Anjali Vats, JD, PhD; Associate Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law with a secondary appointment in the Communication Department at the University of Pittsburgh; 10-02-2019; "Mapping property"; Quarterly Journal of Speech, Vol. 105, No. 4, 508–526; DOI: 10.1080/00335630.2019.1666347; Accessed 08-29-2021~ AK AND also in thinking with more depth about problems of property in the world. | 9/19/21 |
SeptOct - T - MedicineTournament: Greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Kartikeya Kotamraju 1NC – TInterpretation – CRISPR isn’t a medicine.Merriam Webster ‘ND ~https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medicine~~ Violation: CRISPR isn’t a medicine – it just has potential to be. We read blue1AC Sfera 2/24 ~(Dan, entrepreneur. Clinical Trials) "CRISPR Therapeutics creates gene-based medicines", Real Dan Sfera, 2/24/2021. https://therealdansfera.medium.com/crispr-therapeutics-creates-gene-based-medicines-25a66c674998~~ BC AND , while Vertex obtained the rights to market the treatments to be developed. CRISPR is a platform technology, not a medicine – being relevant for other medical research isn’t sufficientEditas n/d ~Editas Medicine, transnational medical organization focused on gene research and medical innovation. "CRISPR Gene Editing" https://www.editasmedicine.com/crispr-gene-editing/~~ AND technology because of its ability to target DNA in any cell or tissue. Vote neg for limits and neg ground – expanding the topic to DNA fragments allows anything from surgery to medical devices to education strategies or mosquito repellent to prevent malaria. Destroys core generics like innovation which are exclusive to disease curing – core of the topic is about proprietary information. No ground for disads against a medicine that doesn’t exist yet.Drop the Debater – topicality a fundamental baseline for debate-ability.Use Competing Interps – you can’t be reasonably topical and reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottomNo RVI’s - 1~ Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, 2~ Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and 3~ Illogical – you shouldn’t win for not being abusive. | 9/19/21 |
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