Carnegie Vanguard Rana Neg
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| Barkley Forum | 2 | King CP | Rishi Mukherjee |
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| Barkley Forum | 4 | Marlborough MS | Jack Quisenberry |
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| Barkley Forum | 6 | Peninsula RM | Alex Dumas |
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| Barkley Forum | Doubles | Strath Haven AM | Panel |
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| Blue Key | 1 | Durham RL | Nigel Taylor-Ward |
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| Blue Key | 3 | Cardinal Gibbons RS | James Stuckert |
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| Blue Key | 5 | Lexington AG | Javier Navarrete |
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| Blue Key | Doubles | Bellarmine AK | Panel |
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| Blue Key RR | 1 | Lexington VM | Panel |
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| Colleyville | 2 | Coppell SG | James Allen |
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| Colleyville | 3 | Lay | Lay |
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| Glenbrooks | 6 | Coppell RM | Tate Weston |
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| Glenbrooks | Doubles | Greenhill KD | panel |
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| Glenbrooks | 1 | Saratoga AG | Emmiee Malyugina |
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| Glenbrooks | 7 | Harrison TB | Grant Chmielewski |
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| Greenhill | 1 | Lake Highland Prep AB | Tej Gedela |
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| Greenhill | 4 | Harker RM | Tarun Ratnasabapathy |
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| Greenhill | 5 | Lexington BF | James Stuckert |
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| Greenhill | Doubles | Bellarmine AK | Panel |
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| Harvard | 2 | North Mecklenburg | Frenkel |
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| Harvard | 4 | Lexington EY | James Stuckert |
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| Harvard | 5 | Harrison MB | Rafael Li |
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| Harvard | 7 | Lexington AK | Muhammad Khattak |
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| Loyola | 2 | Acton-Boxborough BH | Asher Towner |
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| Loyola | 4 | Immaculate Heart AW | Brett Cryan |
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| Loyola | 6 | Perry JA | Aryan Jasani |
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| Loyola | Doubles | Dulles NJ | Than, Navarrete, Kang |
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| Strake | 2 | Lake Highland Prep PS | Andrew Qin |
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| Strake | 4 | King CP | MT |
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| TFA State | 2 | Strake ZD | Asad Ahmed |
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| TFA State | 4 | Semino Caleb Stanley | Joey Georges |
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| TFA State | 6 | Southlake Carroll PK | Jack Quisenberry |
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| TOC | 1 | Byram Hills AK | Indu Pandey |
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| TOC | 1 | Byram Hills AK | Indu Pandey |
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| TOC | 4 | Harker AS | David Dosch |
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| TOC | 6 | Bellarmine AK | Viren Abhyankar |
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| UH | 1 | Strake EP | Eric Schwerdtfeger |
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| UH | 4 | Greenhill SK | Arun Mehra |
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| UH | 5 | Dulles VN | Javier Navarrete |
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| UH | Quarters | Strake JK | Panel |
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| UT | 1 | Westwood AP | Breigh Plat |
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| UT | 4 | Memorial MG | Nathan Smith |
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| UT | 4 | Memorial MG | Nathan Smith |
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| UT | Triples | Lay | Lay |
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| UT | Octas | Stake Jesuit JS | Panel |
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| UT | 6 | Memorial BD | Alexander Yoakum |
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| Valley | 1 | Michael Stuckert | Breigh Plat |
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| Valley | 3 | Ryan Lampman | Nikita Tanguturi |
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| Valley | 5 | Lexington AK | Grant Brown |
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| tommy | 1 | tommy | tommy |
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| Tournament | Round | Report |
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| Barkley Forum | 2 | Opponent: King CP | Judge: Rishi Mukherjee 1AC - Disability |
| Barkley Forum | 4 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Jack Quisenberry 1AC - Commons |
| Barkley Forum | 6 | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Alex Dumas 1AC - Stock |
| Barkley Forum | Doubles | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Panel 1AC - Tourism |
| Blue Key | 1 | Opponent: Durham RL | Judge: Nigel Taylor-Ward 1AC - India Farmers |
| Blue Key | 3 | Opponent: Cardinal Gibbons RS | Judge: James Stuckert 1AC - Cap |
| Blue Key | 5 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Javier Navarrete 1AC - Heg |
| Blue Key | Doubles | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Panel 1AC - K |
| Blue Key RR | 1 | Opponent: Lexington VM | Judge: Panel 1AC - Disability |
| Colleyville | 2 | Opponent: Coppell SG | Judge: James Allen 1AC- Asian Mel |
| Colleyville | 3 | Opponent: Lay | Judge: Lay All Lay |
| Glenbrooks | 6 | Opponent: Coppell RM | Judge: Tate Weston 1AC - Pokemon Beller |
| Glenbrooks | Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill KD | Judge: panel 1AC - Germany |
| Glenbrooks | 1 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Emmiee Malyugina 1AC - China |
| Glenbrooks | 7 | Opponent: Harrison TB | Judge: Grant Chmielewski 1AC - Prisons A bit disturbing that I could have lost a bid over a lay round r7 of GBX crazy shit |
| Greenhill | 1 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AB | Judge: Tej Gedela 1AC - Insulin |
| Greenhill | 4 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Tarun Ratnasabapathy 1AC - Whistleblowing |
| Greenhill | 5 | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: James Stuckert 1AC - COVID |
| Greenhill | Doubles | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Panel 1AC - K |
| Harvard | 2 | Opponent: North Mecklenburg | Judge: Frenkel 1AC - Jaeggi |
| Harvard | 4 | Opponent: Lexington EY | Judge: James Stuckert 1AC - Moon |
| Harvard | 5 | Opponent: Harrison MB | Judge: Rafael Li 1AC - EthnoFuturism |
| Harvard | 7 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Muhammad Khattak 1AC - Kant |
| Loyola | 2 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough BH | Judge: Asher Towner 1AC - New Marijuana |
| Loyola | 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Brett Cryan 1AC - CRISPR |
| Loyola | 6 | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Aryan Jasani 1AC - Evergreening Tricks |
| Loyola | Doubles | Opponent: Dulles NJ | Judge: Than, Navarrete, Kang 1AC - New |
| Strake | 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Andrew Qin 1AC - ILaw |
| Strake | 4 | Opponent: King CP | Judge: MT 1AC - Disfluency |
| TFA State | 2 | Opponent: Strake ZD | Judge: Asad Ahmed 1AC - Black Liberation Theology |
| TFA State | 4 | Opponent: Semino Caleb Stanley | Judge: Joey Georges 1AC - Kant |
| TFA State | 6 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: Jack Quisenberry 1AC - Vaccines |
| TOC | 1 | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Indu Pandey 1AC - Kant |
| TOC | 1 | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Indu Pandey 1AC - Kant |
| TOC | 4 | Opponent: Harker AS | Judge: David Dosch 1AC - AAC |
| TOC | 6 | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Viren Abhyankar 1AC - K idk |
| UH | 1 | Opponent: Strake EP | Judge: Eric Schwerdtfeger 1AC - Debris |
| UH | 4 | Opponent: Greenhill SK | Judge: Arun Mehra 1AC - Trad |
| UH | 5 | Opponent: Dulles VN | Judge: Javier Navarrete 1AC - Kant |
| UH | Quarters | Opponent: Strake JK | Judge: Panel 1AC - Kant |
| UT | 1 | Opponent: Westwood AP | Judge: Breigh Plat 1AC - Egypt |
| UT | 4 | Opponent: Memorial MG | Judge: Nathan Smith 1AC - Stock |
| UT | 4 | Opponent: Memorial MG | Judge: Nathan Smith 1AC - Stock |
| UT | Triples | Opponent: Lay | Judge: Lay 1AC - Lay |
| UT | Octas | Opponent: Stake Jesuit JS | Judge: Panel 1AC - CIL |
| UT | 6 | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Alexander Yoakum 1AC - New Prag |
| Valley | 1 | Opponent: Michael Stuckert | Judge: Breigh Plat 1AC - Kant |
| Valley | 3 | Opponent: Ryan Lampman | Judge: Nikita Tanguturi 1AC - Cowboy |
| Valley | 5 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Grant Brown 1AC - Kant |
| tommy | 1 | Opponent: tommy | Judge: tommy tommy |
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0- Contact Info and NotesTournament: Any | Round: 2 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any My phone may recognize you as a scam caller so calling may not work but still try it and message me directly, email/message is preferred, facebook message is also good. I disclose the aff 30 minutes before in prelims. If I don't, assume it is because of technical issues. Email: kaneki15pi@gmail.com Here is how this wiki is organized SO- Sept/Oct | 9/4/21 |
1 - Race War DisclosureTournament: Any | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lay | Judge: Panel | 11/20/21 |
1 - TommyTournament: tommy | Round: 1 | Opponent: tommy | Judge: tommy i also lost the longhorn classic at the university of texas octas mez - 1.204 on evaluate the debate after the 1ac p.s. elmer check the open source | 1/5/22 |
G - Theory -Tournament: TFA State | Round: 4 | Opponent: Semino Caleb Stanley | Judge: Joey Georges | 3/11/22 |
G - Theory - Cant Change AffTournament: UH | Round: 4 | Opponent: Greenhill SK | Judge: Arun Mehra Interpretation: Debaters may not change any parts of the affirmative within 10 minutes of the round if they have sent a version of the 1AC that was not open sourcedVio- they did
StandardsA~ Bait and switchB~ Neg strat skew | 1/15/22 |
G - Theory - Contact If Wiki DownTournament: UH | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Strake JK | Judge: Panel all extempted sorry | 1/16/22 |
G - Theory - Disclose At BracketsTournament: UH | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Strake JK | Judge: Panel Interpretation: The aff must disclose all previously read positions as well as round reports for each previous round detailing which positions were read within an hour of the bracket being posted, including open sourced documents . This disclosure must occur on a wiki page corresponding to the debater's entry.Violation: You don't we have screenshots
Standards:1~ Reciprocal Engagement—Irreciprocal disclosure creates the scenario in which one debater is able to view the entirety the opponent's positions the night before the round, but the opponent is unable to view any of theirs. The aff debater is able to adapt their aff prep to every single neg position we've read but not vice versa, creating a massive in-round bias in ability to engage and readiness. Even if we read new arguments, we can't adapt those arguments to what they've already read, but they can to us. That's a substantially easier path to the ballot. Controls the internal link into accessing any other benefit in the round.2~ Research—Disclosure creates a high incentive to do deeper and more focused research, since debaters quickly learn the stock arguments and can do specific research that they know will be useful.Treat this as a normal open source shell as well | 1/16/22 |
G - Theory - Disclose Final Version 10 BeforeTournament: UH | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dulles VN | Judge: Javier Navarrete Interpretation: Debaters must disclose a finalized version of the 1AC 10 minutes before the roundViolation: They don'tStandardsA~ Hiding tricksTricking novicesAccessibility is an IVIB~ Clash | 1/15/22 |
G - Theory - Disclose Full 15 BeforeTournament: Harvard | Round: 7 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Muhammad Khattak | 2/20/22 |
G - Theory - Judge CardsTournament: UT | Round: 6 | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Alexander Yoakum Interpretation: Debaters may not read evidence that the judge adjudicating the debate has cut in round, to clarify, if a card was cut by the judge that is judging that debate round then debaters should not read itVio- Yoaks cut the second card for the prag contention 1~ Perceptive skewsThat outweighs, a procedurally balanced playing field is the only way to truly engage, when a major component of their offenseDTA won't solve, the judge has been skewed by connecting the evidence they have cut and the prag position that ben took which proves that any counter arguments or straight refs will always be secondaryNo lying standards, judges obviously know which cards they cut so theres no point removing the cite | 12/11/21 |
G - Theory - Kant SpecTournament: Harvard | Round: 7 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Muhammad Khattak This one is not getting cited properly so I have to full text rip | 2/20/22 |
G - Theory - Must Have Wiki v2Tournament: TFA State | Round: 4 | Opponent: Semino Caleb Stanley | Judge: Joey Georges A Safety, key to check preferred pronouns or accessibility requests | 3/11/22 |
G - Theory - Must Read FWTournament: Barkley Forum | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Jack Quisenberry | 1/29/22 |
G - Theory - Must Record v2Tournament: Barkley Forum | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Jack Quisenberry | 1/29/22 |
G - Theory - Record SpeechesTournament: UH | Round: 4 | Opponent: Greenhill SK | Judge: Arun Mehra Interp: debaters must record their speechesViolation: They didn't record, that was cxA~ Cheating – debaters can fake internet drop offs and then steal prep which decks reciprocity. O/Ws since it destroys competitive incentives and educational value.B~ Accidents | 1/15/22 |
G - Theory - TFW v PhilTournament: Strake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Andrew Qin Interpretation - the affirmative can only garner offense from the hypothetical implementation of their plan text"Resolved" requires a policy.Merriam Webster '18 (Merriam Webster; 2018 Edition; Online dictionary and legal resource; Merriam Webster, "resolve," https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resolve; RP)
Violation- They defend the resolution as a general principle and refuse to defend impacts under implementationA~ Clash, the resolution serves as a predictable stasis point to enhance accessible research and equitable ground, but obfuscating that limit makes negative preparation impossible because any ground we receive is self-serving, concessionary, and from distorted literature bases—-defining a role for negation is essential to sustaining competition and comes before any affirmative offense—-the impact is debatabilityB~ Limits —re-contextualizing the resolution lets them defend any method exploding limits, which erases neg ground and renders research burdens untenable for points of difference for third- and fourth-line testing, DAs, PICs, CPs, that are all intuitive points of research are null and void, our interp link turns creativity by allowing both sides to predict arguments, research deficits, and clash—-we access the a stronger internal link because of equitable burdensTVA – Read the affirmative advocacy and offense while defending that negatives can read and weigh neg offense through defending implementation | 12/18/21 |
G - Theory - Tech CheckTournament: UH | Round: 4 | Opponent: Greenhill SK | Judge: Arun Mehra Interp: Debaters must show-up to the tech-check(NSDA, National Speech and Debate Association) Online Speech and Debate Competition Tips No Date https://drive.google.com/uc?export=downloadandid=15gZxwk_e7FdlEAiRU0yrqOUQDbExZ-4h DOA 9/18/21 Cho Violation: They were late, screenshots in doc, 15 b4 expected (12:45 CST)1~ Tech issues – testing tech pre-round is key to functional debates like audio quality and sound settings. O/Ws A~ Sequencing – controls the internal link to other standards B~ Reversibility – you could get disqualified for being late.2~ Prep Skew – I had to spend 15 minutes checking my tech while they could be prepping which irreparably skews the burdens in their favor. O/Ws on structural abuse since it's the only verifiable impact.3~ Delay – Late tech-checks and preventable tech issues delay RFDs and future pairings 2 impacts – (A) Scope – delaying the tournament skews flight 2 neg debaters, big prep-squads (B) Late rounds cause sleep-deficits which is bad for your health and skews your ability to effectively clash and engage.4~ Disqualification – you could get disqualified which is a lexical pre-requisite to other standards. | 1/15/22 |
JF - CP - COPUOS RegsTournament: TOC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker AS | Judge: David Dosch 1CP Text - The Committee on the Peaceful use of Outer Space shouldestablish an application system for property rights on celestial bodies conditioned upon open disclosure of data and applications to incentivize increased safe and regulated Asteroid Mining.create and coordinate new programs for tracking Near Earth Objects.Private entities will only be granted one property grant per celestial body.Private entities may not use Artificial Asteroid Capture to move Asteroids within Earth's orbit.CP Competes – Restrict means to decrease in size – the CP explicitly fosters growth.Cambridge Dictionary No Date "Restrict" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/restrict Elmer CP solves:1~ Solves Debris and Unsafe Mining Offense - makes mining safe and establishes a regulatory regime.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 2~ Solves Deflection Dilemma – keeping Asteroids out of Earth's Orbit and establishing NEO tracking solves risk of Deflection Dilemma.Drmola and Mares 15 Jakub Drmola and Miroslav Mares October 2015 "Revisiting the deflection dilemma" (Ph.D. Assistant professor, Department of Political Science)Elmer | 4/24/22 |
JF - CP - Kant Regs CPTournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Indu Pandey Counterplan text: The Committee on the Peaceful use of Outer Space ought to establish 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 timeSteffen 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 The right to humanity as our own person necessitates property – infringing on someone else's body is unethical and not universalizableGeneral Law 15 General Law. "Poverty and Property in Kant's System of Rights |." https://lawexplores.com/poverty-and-property-in-kants-system-of-rights/, 30 Oct. 2015, lawexplores.com/poverty-and-property-in-kants-system-of-rights/. Accessed 7 Apr. 2022. 2~ Universality means every agent has the right to set and pursue their own ends to achieve happiness – property is that good that private entities want | 4/23/22 |
JF - CP - Kant Regs CPTournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Indu Pandey Counterplan text: The Committee on the Peaceful use of Outer Space ought to establish 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 timeSteffen 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 The right to humanity as our own person necessitates property – infringing on someone else's body is unethical and not universalizableGeneral Law 15 General Law. "Poverty and Property in Kant's System of Rights |." https://lawexplores.com/poverty-and-property-in-kants-system-of-rights/, 30 Oct. 2015, lawexplores.com/poverty-and-property-in-kants-system-of-rights/. Accessed 7 Apr. 2022. 2~ Universality means every agent has the right to set and pursue their own ends to achieve happiness – property is that good that private entities want | 4/23/22 |
JF - CP - MarketsTournament: UH | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake EP | Judge: Eric Schwerdtfeger Counterplan text: The United Nations office for outer space affairs ought to adopt a system of market share liability in regards to the creation of debris in outer space by private entities.The Counterplan incentivizes proportional debris clean up while deterring future debris creationMunoz-Patchen 18 ~Chelsea Munoz-Patchen, Chelsea Muñoz-Patchen is an associate in the Houston office of Latham and Watkins. While attending University of Chicago Law School, Ms. Muñoz-Patchen was an articles editor for The Chicago Journal of International Law. Her research on regulating space debris was published in 2018. Ms. Muñoz-Patchen served as a research assistant for Professors Daniel Abebe and Jonathan Masur, focusing on intellectual property and constitutional law in the US and Ethiopia. Prior to law school, Ms. Muñoz-Patchen earned her BA and BS in Geography from Arizona State University. As a graduate student, she studied political ecology and people's relationship to urban nature, and taught Introduction to Physical Geography labs. 7-1-2018, Semanticscholar, "Regulating the Space Commons: Treating Space Debris as Abandoned Property in Violation of the Outer Space Treaty | Semantic Scholar", https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Regulating-the-Space-Commons3A-Treating-Space-Debris-Munoz-Patchen/607eff0141f48332a69ae8c5a3301d871057a4fa accessed 12/21/21~ Adam | 1/14/22 |
JF - CP - Space ElevatorsTournament: Barkley Forum | Round: 6 | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Alex Dumas | 1/29/22 |
JF - CP - WHITENESSTournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harrison MB | Judge: Rafael Li Ballot PIK: We endorse the entirety of the affirmative except for the call for a ballot. Instead I imagine an ethnofuture where white people do not win performative virtue signaling.Voting neg solves – here's to a ballot for the Ethnics!The perm is violent – their forefronts themselves as the leader of the movement and denotes us as followers that is paternalistic and turns solvency in which Whiteness always takes over and include themselves.Tomkin, 20 ~Anastasia Reesa Tomkin, (Anastasia Tomkin is a radical thinker, organizer and cake enthusiast. She serves as the Direct Service Coordinator of Common Justice, an alternative to incarceration program based in Brooklyn, New York. Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, she holds a Bachelor's degree in French and Spanish from the University of the West Indies. An avid writer, she is currently working on her second book following the self-published poetry collection, "Delusions of Grandeur.")~. "Unpacking the False Allyship of White Racial Justice Leaders." Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly, 12-14-2020, Accessed 2-11-2022. https://nonprofitquarterly.org/unpacking-the-false-allyship-of-white-racial-justice-leaders/ duongie | 2/19/22 |
JF - CP - Yellow FellowTournament: Colleyville | Round: 2 | Opponent: Coppell SG | Judge: James Allen I advocate for the aff absent being read against a fellow Asian.Causes psychological violence since you force us to negate our identity and suffering O/ws A~ perf-con and pre-meditated murder – you know what you were doing awas bad but did it anyways B~ Link turn – aff can't solve when it recreates violence.Asian coalitions are key to their method.Colitations good | 2/5/22 |
JF - DA - HackingTournament: UH | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dulles VN | Judge: Javier Navarrete Hacking towards Satellites is coming now – incentives and vulnerabilities align.Culpan 21 Tim Culpan 11-2-2021 "The Next Big Hack Could Come From the Stars" https://archive.is/XElln~~#selection-3035.0-3040.0 (Bloomberg Opinion Columnist)Elmer Megaconstellations solves satellite hacking – multiple warrants. Commercial Satellites are key due to production capacity.Hallex and Cottom 20 Hallex, Matthew, and Travis Cottom. "Proliferated commercial satellite constellations: Implications for national security." Joint Forces Quarterly 97.July (2020): 20-29. (Matthew A. Hallex is a Research Staff Member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. Travis S. Cottom is a Research Associate at the Institute for Defense Analyses.)Re-cut by Elmer Hacking on Satellites goes Nuclear.Miller and Fontaine 17 James Miller and Richard Fontaine 11-26-2017 "Cyber and Space Weapons Are Making Nuclear Deterrence Trickier" https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2017/11/cyber-and-space-weapons-are-making-nuclear-deterrence-trickier/142767/ (James N. Miller, Jr. is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Center for a New American Security. He served as U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2012 to 2014.)Elmer | 1/15/22 |
JF - DA - HegTournament: Colleyville | Round: 2 | Opponent: Coppell SG | Judge: James Allen Commercial Space Race favors American Companies that cements space dominance – shift away endangers our lead – losing green-lights Chinese Dominance across the board.Autry and Kwast 19 Greg Autry and Steve Kwast 8-22-2019 "America Is Losing the Second Space Race to China" (Greg Autry, a clinical professor of space leadership, policy, and business at Arizona State University's Thunderbird School of Global Management, and Steve Kwast)Elmer Hegemony solves Extinction.Ikenberry 20 John Ikenberry 6-9-2020 "The Next Liberal Order: The Age of Contagion Demands More Internationalism, Not Less" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-06-09/next-liberal-order (Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University, in South Korea)Elmer | 2/5/22 |
JF - DA - InnovationTournament: UH | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake EP | Judge: Eric Schwerdtfeger Space Commercialization drives Tech Innovation in the Status Quo – it provides a unique impetus.Hampson 17 Joshua Hampson 1-25-2017 "The Future of Space Commercialization" https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/TheFutureofSpaceCommercializationFinal.pdf (Security Studies Fellow at the Niskanen Center)Elmer Strong Innovation solves Extinction.Matthews 18 Dylan Matthews 10-26-2018 "How to help people millions of years from now" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good (Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University)Re-cut by Elmer | 1/14/22 |
JF - DA - JapanTournament: UH | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Strake JK | Judge: Panel Japan's space industry is driven by private actors.Jaxa 18 2-8-2018 "Focal Point on commercial space exploration in Japan" https://media.nature.com/full/nature-cms/uploads/ckeditor/attachments/8865/00_Editorial_UK.pdf (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is the Japanese national aerospace and space agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organizations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003.)Elmer Japan space commitment re-vitalizes and modernizes the US-Japan Alliance.Wright 20 John Wright 2-4-2020 "Where No Alliance Has Gone Before: US-Japan Military Cooperation in Space" https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/where-no-alliance-has-gone-before-us-japan-military-cooperation-in-space/ (Major John Wright is a U.S. Air Force officer, pilot, and a Mike and Maureen Mansfield Fellow. He is a Foreign Area Officer who specializes in Japan, and recent author of the book "Deep Space Warfare: Military Strategy Beyond Orbit." The views expressed in this article are solely those of the author, and not necessarily those of the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Government, Mansfield Foundation, or any other government or government entity.)Elmer Strong US-Japan alliance prevents a range of existential threats.Hamre 16 John Hamre, President and CEO of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Former Under Secretary of Defense, and Richard Armitage, President of Armitage International, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, co-chairs of the U.S.-Japan Commission on the Future of the Alliance, et al., "The U.S.-Japan Alliance to 2030: Power and Principle", Report of the Commission on the Future of the Alliance, 2/29/2016, p. 1-5 | 1/16/22 |
JF - DA - MiningTournament: TOC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker AS | Judge: David Dosch AAC is the most effective and feasible method of Asteroid Mining – other methods can't fill-in.Sutter 21 Paul Sutter 8-20-2021 "What can we do with a captured asteroid?" https://www.space.com/asteroid-mining-bring-space-rocks-to-earth (an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute in New York City. Paul received his PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011, and spent three years at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics, followed by a research fellowship in Trieste, Italy)Elmer Resource scarcity coming now and causes extinction—asteroid mining is the only way to solveCrombrugghe 18 – Guerric, Business Development Manager Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, "Asteroid mining as a necessary answer to mineral scarcity", LinkedIn, 1/11/2018, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/asteroid-mining-necessary-answer-mineral-scarcity-de-crombrugghe Resource Shortages Exacerbate ConflictWingo 13 - Dennis Wingo, Former CTO of the Orbital Recovery Corporation, Founder and CEO of Skycorp Inc, and Greentrail Energy Inc., Co-Founder and CTO of Orbital Recovery Inc. Leader of NASA's the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP), First in history to rescue and operate a spacecraft (ISEE-3) in interplanetary space, and University of Alabama in Huntsville Consortium for Materials Development in Space Researcher At University of Alabama in Huntsville Consortium for Materials Development in Space "Commentary | The Inevitability of Extraterrestrial Mining", Space News, 7/29/2013, https://spacenews.com/36511the-inevitability-of-extraterrestrial-mining/ Those Conflicts go NuclearKlare 13 – Michael T., professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC, " How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion", The Nation, 4/22/2013, https://www.thenation.com/article/how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion/ JHW | 4/24/22 |
JF - DA - PhysiologyTournament: Barkley Forum | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Panel | 1/30/22 |
JF - DA - SpaceTournament: TOC | Round: 6 | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Viren Abhyankar Space col possible within decadesArmstrong and Sandberg 13 ~Stuart Armstrong and Anders Sandberg, * James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University, PhD in computational neuroscience from Stockholm University, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, "Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life and sharpening the Fermi paradox," 2013, Acta Astronautica, Vol. 89, pp. 1-13, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.04.002, EA~ Only private sector solves itDiakovska and Aliieva 20 ~Halyna Diakovska and Olga Aliieva, Ph.D.s in Philosophy, Associate Professors, Donbass State Pedagogical University, "Consequentialism and Commercial Space Exploration," 2020, Philosophy and Cosmology, Vol. 24, pp. 5-24, https://doi.org/10.29202/phil-cosm/24/1, EA~ Space colonization solves otherwise inevitable extinction.Zarkadakis 19 ~George; December 26; Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence; George Zardakis, "Abandoning the metropolis: space colonisation as the new imperative," https://georgezarkadakis.com/2019/12/26/abandoning-the-metropolis-space-colonisation-as-the-new-imperative/~~ Independently brings immeasurable expected valueBaum 16 – Executive Director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute ~Seth D. Baum, "The Ethics of Outer Space: A Consequentialist Perspective," 2016, Springer, pp. 115-116, EA~ Try-or-die for space explorationBen Austen 11, citing the Lifeboat Foundation and the Alliance to Rescue Civilization, contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, "After Earth: Why, Where, How, and When We Might Leave Our Home Planet," popular science, http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-02/after-earth-why-where-how-and-when-we-might-leave-our-home-planet?page=3 Resource scarcity coming now and causes extinction—asteroid mining is the only way to solveCrombrugghe 18 – Guerric, Business Development Manager Brussels, Brussels Capital Region, "Asteroid mining as a necessary answer to mineral scarcity", LinkedIn, 1/11/2018, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/asteroid-mining-necessary-answer-mineral-scarcity-de-crombrugghe Resource Shortages Exacerbate ConflictWingo 13 - Dennis Wingo, Former CTO of the Orbital Recovery Corporation, Founder and CEO of Skycorp Inc, and Greentrail Energy Inc., Co-Founder and CTO of Orbital Recovery Inc. Leader of NASA's the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP), First in history to rescue and operate a spacecraft (ISEE-3) in interplanetary space, and University of Alabama in Huntsville Consortium for Materials Development in Space Researcher At University of Alabama in Huntsville Consortium for Materials Development in Space "Commentary | The Inevitability of Extraterrestrial Mining", Space News, 7/29/2013, https://spacenews.com/36511the-inevitability-of-extraterrestrial-mining/ Those Conflicts go NuclearKlare 13 – Michael T., professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC, " How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion", The Nation, 4/22/2013, https://www.thenation.com/article/how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion/ JHW Any nuclear war causes extinction – ice age and famine.Steven Starr 15 ~Director of the University of Missouri's Clinical Laboratory Science Program, as well as a senior scientist at the Physicians for Social Responsibility. He has worked with the Swiss, Chilean, and Swedish governments in support of their efforts at the United Nations to eliminate thousands of high-alert, launch-ready U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons; he maintains the website Nuclear Darkness. "Nuclear War: An Unrecognized Mass Extinction Event Waiting To Happen." Ratical. March 2015. https://ratical.org/radiation/NuclearExtinction/StevenStarr022815.html~~ TG | 4/24/22 |
JF - DA - XiTournament: UH | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake EP | Judge: Eric Schwerdtfeger Xi'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 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 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 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 ====US–China war goes nuclear – crisis mis-management ensures conventional escalation - extinction==== | 1/14/22 |
JF - NC - AP or ADTournament: Strake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Andrew Qin 11~ The "(with a unit of time) the present; the current." but appropriation has no specified time frame2~ appropriation is a sum of money or total of assets devoted to a special purpose." but outer space cannot own a sum of money3~ of "expressing an age" but the rez is atemporal4~ outer is "further from the center or inside.." but the resolution is aspacial and doesn't specify distance5~ space is to "the dimensions of height, depth, and width within which all things exist and move" but the rez doesn't volume6~ by is "indicating the amount or size of a margin." but the resolution and entities doesn't specify6~ private is "(of a person) having no official or public role or position." so entities have no authority over appropriation7~ entity is "the existence of a thing as contrasted with its attributes" but the rez doesn't spec8~ is describes being "Stay in the same place or condition." so action is impossible and negate on presumptionPermissibility and presumption negate1~ Obligations- the resolution indicates the affirmative has to prove an obligation, policies require positive justification and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation. Err neg, we have no obligation to act, that's why we aren't morally accountable for tragedies around the world.2~ Falsity- Statements are more often false than true because proving one part of the statement false disproves the entire statement. Presuming all statements are true creates contradictions which would be ethically bankrupt. We default to statements being false that's why we don't believe in conspiracy theories.3~ Negating is harder – A~ Aff gets first and last speech which control the direction of the debate B~ Affirmatives can strategically uplayer in the 1ar giving them a 7-6 time skew advantage, splitting the 2nr C~ They get infinite prep time4~ Affirmation theory- Affirming requires unconditionally maintaining an obligationAffirm ~is to~: maintain as true. Paradox of tolerance- to be completely open to the aff we must exclude perspectives that wouldn't be open to it which makes complete tolerance impossible.3~ Decision Making Paradox- We need a decision-making procedure to enact the aff, but to choose a procedure requires another meta level decision-making procedure and so forth leading to infinite regress.4~ The Place Paradox- if everything exists in a place, that place must have a place that it exists in and so forth. Therefore, identifying ought statements is impossible since it assumes the space-time continuum.5~ Grain Paradox- One grain falling makes no sound, but a thousand grains make a sound. A thousand nothings cannot make something which means the physical world is paradoxical.6~ Arrows Paradox- If time is divided into 0-duration slices, no motion is happening in each of them, so taking them all as a whole, motion is impossible.7~ Bonini's Paradox- As a model of a complex system becomes more complete, it becomes less understandable and vice versa; therefore, no model can be useful. | 12/18/21 |
JF - PIC - AAC Space ColTournament: TOC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker AS | Judge: David Dosch Plan: Private entities ought to restrict asteroid mining involving artificial asteroid capture except for asteroid mining for the purpose of space colonization.CP Competes - Asteroid Mining is being used as a tool to support Space Colonization.Williams '17 ~Matt Williams, Writer for Universe Today. Citing A. J. Berliner, UC Berkeley; C. P. McKay. Space Sciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center; Valeriy Yakovlev, an astrophysicist and hydrogeologist from Laboratory of Water Quality in Kharkov, Ukraine. 3/10/17, "The future of space colonization – terraforming or space habitats?" https://phys.org/news/2017-03-future-space-colonization-terraforming-habitats.html Accessed 1/2/20 *edited for gendered language~ Solves the Aff – AAC is defined in 1AC Neenass as "bringing into orbit" – Space Colonization is explicitly defined as orbit of non-Earth planets – solves Debris and Astro-Terror risks since they wouldn't be in Earth orbits.NWE No Date "Space colonization" https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Space_colonization Elmer The Private Industry is the only avenue for Space Colonization – Governments have no incentive and are bound by I-Law.Eure 16 (, J., 2016. Space… the final frontier. ~online~ Campbell Law Observer. Available at: http://campbelllawobserver.com/space-the-final-frontier/ ~Accessed 28 December 2021~ Jonathan Eure is a 2017 graduate of Campbell Law School, winner of the 2017 J. Bryan Boyd Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism, and served as a senior staff writer for the Campbell Law Observer. He lived in Morganton, in the foothills of North Carolina, before moving to Raleigh for law school. He earned BA's in Political Science and History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 2014. The summer after his first year of law school, Jonathan worked as a legislative research intern with Representative Rob Bryan in the North Carolina General Assembly. Jonathan now interns with the Honorable Paul Newby at the North Carolina Supreme Court. Jonathan is the Secretary for the Campbell Public Interest Law Student Association (CPILSA).)-rahulpenu Concede that Mining democratizes AAC tech – that's necessary for Space Colonization to occur.NASA 14 National Aeronautics and Space Administration 6-27-2014 "How Will NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission Help Humans Reach Mars?" https://www.nasa.gov/content/how-will-nasas-asteroid-redirect-mission-help-humans-reach-mars/ Elmer Earth is dyingArora 19 (Naveen Kumar Arora, Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Ex-Head Department of Env. Microbiology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University.)("Earth: 50 years challenge", Environmental Sustainability, March 2019, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp 1–3)ASMITH Space colonization is key to ensure human survival – pursuing it as soon as possible is crucialKovic 18 (Marko Kovic, co-founder and president of the thinktank ZIPAR, the Zurich Institute of Public Affairs Research. He is also co-founder and CEO of the consulting firm ars cognitionis,. He has a PhD in political communication, University of Zurich.)("Why space colonization is so important", Nov 10, 2018, https://medium.com/@marko_kovic/space-colonization-why-nothing-else-matters-a877723f77d4)//ASMITH | 4/24/22 |
JF - PIC - Defensive Satellites PICTournament: TOC | Round: 6 | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Viren Abhyankar Negativity, a return to the crypt is just except for revolutionary activity that harms space reconnaissance satellitesSpace reconnaissance satellites to reveal military secrets – that's good – it removes military information asymmetry which reduces incentives for warEarly and Gartzke 21 Early, Bryan R., and Erik Gartzke. Political Science, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany CUNY. Political Science, University of California, San Diego"Spying from space: Reconnaissance satellites and interstate disputes." Journal of Conflict Resolution 65.9 (2021): 1551-1575. The PIC endorses the entirety of the affirmative, but keeps one instance of space appropriation for net safety | 4/24/22 |
JF - T - AppropriationTournament: UH | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake EP | Judge: Eric Schwerdtfeger Interpretation – the Affirmative must specify what type of Private Actor Appropriation they effect.Appropriation is extremely vague – no legal precedent which means no normal means.Pershing 19, Abigail D. "Interpreting the Outer Space Treaty's Non-Appropriation Principle: Customary International Law from 1967 to Today." Yale J. Int'l L. 44 (2019): 149. (Robina Fellow at European Court of Human Rights. European Court of Human Rights Yale Law School)Elmer 2~ Violation: they don't3~ Standardsa~ Shiftiness – vague plan wording wrecks Neg Ground since it's impossible to know which DAs link or which CPs are competitive since different types of appropriation like Space Mining, Space Col, and Satellites – absent 1AC specification, the 1AR can squirrel out of links by saying they don't effect a certain type of appropriation or they don't reduce private appropriation enough to trigger the link.Independently vote Negative on Presumption since the Aff gets struck down for being void-for-vagueness since they don't have an explanation of what is effected or remaining after the Plan.Singer 10 Bill Singer 9-13-2010 "Yo, Congress, Keep On Truckin' — Can You Dig It?" http://www.brokeandbroker.com/index.php?a=blogandid=554 (Bill Singer is a lawyer who represents securities-industry firms, individual registered persons, Wall Street whistleblowers, and defrauded public investors. For over three decades, Singer has represented clients before the American Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (formerly the NASD), the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, and in criminal investigations brought by various federal, state, and local prosecutors. Before entering the private practice of law, Singer was employed in the Legal Department of Smith Barney, Harris Upham and Co.; as a regulatory attorney with both the American Stock Exchange and the NASD (now FINRA); and as a Legal Counsel to Integrated Resources Asset Management. Singer was formerly Chief Counsel to the Financial Industry Association; General Counsel to the NASD Dissidents' Grassroots Movement; and General Counsel to the Independent Broker-Dealer Association. He was registered for a number of years as a Series 7 and Series 63 stockbroker.)Elmer b~ Topic Education – nuanced debates about private property in Outer Space requires specification since each form of appropriation has specific issues related to it so generalization disincentivizes in-depth research. Topic Education is a voter since we only debate the topic for two months.Appropriation Spec isn't regressive – it's a core discussion central to the literature, we've read a card proving predictability, and is a floor for topic debates.CX doesn't check - 1~ Skews pre-round prep – key to in-depth clash, 2~ Judges don't flow CX, 3~ Unverifiable and Irresolvable, 4~ Skews CX Time since it forces me to clarify rather than pursue lines of argumentation, and 5~ Allows them to changeEducation 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.Drop the debater – a~ deters future abuse through a loss and b~ set better norms for debate since you are less likely to repeat a practice you can lose forCompeting interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear model of debate, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate through offense ~c~ offense defense paradigm is the best method for evaluation since you can compare benefits under both interps easier.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, if logic isn't true then you should hack against them, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices~Comes above 1AR Theory~ – 1NC Theory outweighs on scope cause 1AC abuse effects every speech – we had to be abusive since the 1AC was abusive first. | 1/14/22 |
JF - T - Appropriation v MiningTournament: TOC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker AS | Judge: David Dosch Interpretation—-"Appropriation of outer space" by private entities refers to the exercise of exclusive control of space.TIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, '13, 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~ Private appropriation for temporary usage or perusal is distinct from appropriation "of" outer space. Sovereign claims are still universally prohibited.Abigail D. Pershing, J.D. Candidate @ Yale, B.A. UChicago,'19, "Interpreting the Outer Space Treaty's Non-Appropriation Principle: Customary International Law from 1967 to Today," Yale Journal of International Law 44, no. 1 Violation—-they defend restricting private asteroid mining which isn't absolute.Standards:1~ Limits—their interp means that affs about any outer space activity are topical: tourism, photography, sending rovers, collecting ice cores, launching satellites, deflecting debris, can't sell rocks on EBAY, etc.2~ 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.Use competing interps – reasonability invites arbitrary britelines and judge intervention. CI is a prerequisite to reasonability because you have to use offense to determine if their interp is reasonable. | 4/24/22 |
JF - T - CryptTournament: TOC | Round: 6 | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Viren Abhyankar Our Interpretation is the affirmative should instrumentally defend the resolution – hold the line, CX and the 1AC prove there's no I-meet – anything new in the 1AR is either extra-T since it includes the non-topical parts of the Aff or effects-T since it's a future result of the advocacy which both link to our offense.Resolved requires policy actionLouisiana State Legislature (https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Glossary.aspx) Ngong "Resolved" requires a policy.Merriam Webster '18 (Merriam Webster; 2018 Edition; Online dictionary and legal resource; Merriam Webster, "resolve," https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resolve; RP)
AppropriationTIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, '13, 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~ Outer spaceLexico. Oxford Dictionary. Outer Space. https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/outer_space Topicality is what you justify, not what you do. Ground in this debate does not insulate the affirmative from an inferior model.Three Impacts -First - Fairness – radically re-contextualizing the resolution lets them defend any method tangentially related to the topic exploding Limits, which erases neg ground by eviscerating predictable arguments. Procedural questions first – debate is a game and it makes no sense to skew a competitive activity as it requires effective negation which incentivizes argument refinement, but skewed burdens deck pedagogical engagement. Fairness outweighs, any other impact is terminally inaccessible in this one round which outweighs on ballot influence, its necessary for you to fairly evaluate zions arguments, and anything else determines the better cheater.Second - Clash – picking any grounds for debate precludes the only common point of engagement, which obviates preround research and incentivizes retreat from controversy by eliminating any effective clash. Only the process of negation distinguishes debate and discussion by necessitating iterative testing and effective engagement, but an absence of constant refinement dooms revolutionary potential,TVA – 1~ Affirm a that Resolved; The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust because of the harms that the 1AC identifies, and offer the crypt method as a point of discussion for the best solution, or no crypt, solves offense.The TVA is terminal defense – proves compatibility of our Models AND Solvency Deficits proves ground for engagement.CI for topicality, makes no sense to be reasonably untopical and anything else invites judge intervention in a debate about models. | 4/24/22 |
JF - T - EspecTournament: UH | Round: 4 | Opponent: Greenhill SK | Judge: Arun Mehra Interpretation – the Affirmative must specify what enforcement mechanism that they use2~ Violation: they don't3~ Standardsa~ Shiftiness – vague plan wording wrecks Neg Ground since it's impossible to know which DAs link or which CPs are competitive since different types of enforcement shift out of basic neg ground like Space Mining, Space Col, and Satellites – absent 1AC specification, the 1AR can squirrel out of links by saying they don't effect a certain type of ssat or they don't reduce private appropriation enough to trigger the link.b~ Topic Education – nuanced debates about private property in Outer Space requires specification since each form of enforcement has specific issues related to it so generalization disincentivizes in-depth research. Topic Education is a voter since we only debate the topic for two months.Fairness is a voter since it's debate is a game so it's a jurisdictional question and sequencing to evaluating any other argument in the debate.Espec Spec isn't regressive – it's a core discussion central to the literature, we've read a card proving predictability, and is a floor for topic debates.– CX doesn't check - 1~ Skews pre-round prep – key to in-depth clash, 2~ Judges don't flow CX, 3~ Unverifiable and Irresolvable, 4~ Skews CX Time since it forces me to clarify rather than pursue lines of argumentation, and 5~ Allows them to change advocacy based on what my CX questions are which irreparably skews my Neg Strat.Education 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.Drop the debater – a~ deters future abuse through a loss and b~ set better norms for debate since you are less likely to repeat a practice you can lose forCompeting interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear model of debate, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate through offense ~c~ offense defense paradigm is the best method for evaluation since you can compare benefits under both interps easier.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, if logic isn't true then you should hack against them, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 1/15/22 |
JF - T - Extra T vs EFTournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harrison MB | Judge: Rafael Li Interp – the affirmative may only garner offense from the resolutional bounds. To clarify, extra-t bad.Violation –1~ Resolved' before a colon denotes a formal resolution.AWS '13 ~Army Writing Style; August 24th; Online resource dedicated to all major writing requirements in the Army; Army Writing Style, "Punctuation — The Colon and Semicolon," https://armywritingstyle.com/punctuation-the-colon-and-semicolon/~~ 2~ Advocacy statement: the resolution goes further than a value statement1AC Ethnofuturism: the resolution is not a question of appropriation, but rather, a method to confront capitalismFirst is limits – all negative strategy is premised off a stable reading of the resolution. The lack of a stable mechanism lets them radically re-contextualize their aff and erase neg ground via perms. Including their advocacy authorizes any methodology or orientation tangentially related to the topic, which renders research burdens untenable.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.Second is clash – extra-t sanctions picking any interpretation for debate – incentivizes retreat from controversy and forces the neg to first characterize the aff and then debate it which eliminates the benefit of preround research. A common point of engagement ensures effective clash, which is a linear impact –A~ Negation is the necessary condition for distinguishing debate from discussion, but negation exists on a sliding scale.B~ only effective clash starts the process of critical thinking, reflexivity, and argument refinement which internal link turns any scholastic benefit of the 1ACTVA, read the affirmative without a method of EF and instead offer it as a framing mechanism for why appropriation is badReject impact turns on T, we have presented a model of debate which you can answer | 2/19/22 |
JF - T - OS SpecTournament: Strake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Andrew Qin Interp: The affirmative must define "outer space" in a delineated text in the 1AC."Outer Space" is flexible and has too many interps – normal means shows no consensusLeepuengtham 17 ~Tosaporn Leepuengtham (Research Judge, Intellectual Property and International Trade Division, Supreme Court of Thailand). "International space law and its implications for outer space activities." 01-27-2017, Accessed 12-9-2021. https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781785369612/06_chapter1.xhtml duongie In international consensus, its unclear what outer space is and whether it includes areas that are air space, ie 80 km to 120 km above the sea, and theres multiple interpretations of what counts as outer space which differs among peopleViolation – you don't.Prefer –1~ Stable Advocacy – they can redefine in the 1AR to wriggle out of DA's which kills high-quality engagement and becomes two ships passing in the night –We lose access to Tech Race DA's, Asteroid DA's, basic case turns, and core process counter plans that have different definitions and 1NC pre-round prep.2~ Real World – Policy makers will always define the entity that they are recognizing. It also means zero solvency, absent spec, private entities can circumvent since there is no delineated way to enforce the aff and means their solvency can't actualize. | 12/18/21 |
JF - T - TFWKTournament: UH | Round: 1 | Opponent: Strake EP | Judge: Eric Schwerdtfeger Resolved in LD means statement of valuesUPitt ND University Of Pittsburgh Communications Services Webteam, copyright 2015-21, "Basic Definitions," Department of Communication , https://www.comm.pitt.edu/basic-definitions CHO Violation: They defend "states" as the actor and implement an OST amendment regulation which isn't resolutional OR they are extra TVoter for limits and ground - justifies infinite unpredictable aff advantage ground which overstretches research burdens while spiking core genericsFairness - manipulating the balance of prep structurally favor's the aff - people come to debate for different reasons but pursuit of the ballot is the only unifying characteristicClash - unpredictability destroys research accessibility and nuanced refinement - empathy and value clarification are key to fight dogma and create better advocates - turns case because precluding testing means the aff should be considered presumptively falsePhil Ed – creates better ethical subjectivity and critical thinking that o/ws on uniqueness to LD, switch to policy and LARP on the water topic – solves all your offenseTVA: Read a phil aff that affirms that private appropriation is unjustVote negative for deterrence - at worst agree with the aff and vote neg because we shouldn't be burdened to debate itNot specifying the actor/states of the aff is a voting issue - decimates core neg ground and nuanced method debates - Cross X is too late for the 1NC stratsome cards arent formatting for some reason | 1/14/22 |
ND - DA - InnovationTournament: UT | Round: Octas | Opponent: Stake Jesuit JS | Judge: Panel Global Innovation is high now despite bumps from COVID.UN 21 9-20-2021 "Innovation continued despite COVID-19: New UN report" https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/09/1100362 (United Nations)Elmer The aff proves they increase Union Power via Collective Bargaining - stronger Union Power decrease Innovation.Bradley 17, Daniel, Incheol Kim, and Xuan Tian. "Do unions affect innovation?." Management Science 63.7 (2017): 2251-2271. (Department of Finance, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida)Elmer The US is uniquely pre-disposed to drive innovation growth – 5 reasonsShapiro 16 Gary Shapiro 1-8-2016 "5 Reasons the U.S. Is Great for Innovation" https://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/articles/2016-01-08/5-reasons-the-us-is-great-for-innovation (president and CEO of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)®, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,200 consumer technology companies, and author of The New York Times best-selling books "Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World's Most Successful Businesses" and "The Comeback: How Innovation Will Restore the American Dream.")Elmer Strong Innovation solves Extinction.Matthews 18 Dylan Matthews 10-26-2018 "How to help people millions of years from now" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good (Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University)Re-cut by Elmer | 12/11/21 |
ND - CP - IncarcerationTournament: Blue Key | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Panel 5CP Text: Incarcerated workers ought to strike Competes: intersectionality | 10/30/21 |
ND - DA - Air StrikesTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill KD | Judge: panel 4EU Air Traffic Strikes cause massive disruption – singular strikes can have ripple effects on international flights.Xinhua 18 4-10-2018 "Germany faces air transport chaos as public sector strikes" http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/10/c_137100895.htm Elmer Empowered Unions is our Link – they take and endorse aggressive Strike Action.France24 10 2-23-2010 "Air traffic controller strike to disrupt flights from French airports" https://www.france24.com/en/20100223-air-traffic-controller-strike-disrupt-flights-french-airports Elmer Strong Airline Industry key to global trade and the economy – strikes obliterate these benefits.PWC 16, Pricewaterhouse Coopers. "Economic impact of air traffic control strikes in Europe." (2016). (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)Elmer Germany is key to Global Trade.Sprich 19 Christoph Sprich 11-11-2019 "Germany in World Trade: A Clear Winner of Globalisation" https://english.bdi.eu/article/news/germany-in-world-trade-a-clear-winner-of-globalisation/ (Senior Manager External Economic Policy)Elmer Collapse of Trade causes Hotspot Escalation – goes Nuclear.Kampf 20 David Kampf 6-16-2020 "How COVID-19 Could Increase the Risk of War" https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28843/how-covid-19-could-increase-the-risk-of-war (Senior PhD Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School)Elmer | 11/22/21 |
ND - DA - German PTXTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill KD | Judge: panel German centrist coalition seals the deal next week but relies on FDP.Gehrke 11/16 ~LAURENZ GEHRKE (politics reporter to cover German politics and the general election at Politico, Master's degree in Economic History at the London School of Economics and a Bachelor's degree in American Studies at the University of Munich). "Future German coalition: Deal due next week". Politico. November 16, 2021. Accessed 11/19/21. https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-coalition-talks-deal-election-eu/ Xu~ Plan causes fighting – the FDP is centered on pro-business and anti-working class policies.DW 10/5 "Germany's political parties — what you need to know" DW, Oct 5, 2021, https://www.dw.com/en/spd-green-party-fdp-cdu-left-party-afd/a-38085900 SM Empirics prove the FDP stands alone in opposition to the plan.Gaisenkersting 6/13 "German labour legislation strengthens hand of trade unions" Dietmar Gaisenkersting 13 June 2021 https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/14/germ-j14.html SM Failure to form a centrist coalition drives Germany coalition politics too far too the left – that kills German NATO participation.Bloomberg 9/25 Editorial Board, September 25, 2021 "How Germany's Election Could Go Dangerously Wrong" https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-25/germany-s-election-could-go-dangerously-wrong SM German alliance commitment key to NATO.Palocaren 20 "A REALIST CASE FOR GERMANY TO RESURRECT NATO", October 1, 2020 Antony Palocaren is a Captain in the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army. He is an Instructor of International Affairs in the Department of Social Sciences at the United States Military Academy. https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/germany-nato/ SM NATO cohesion solves laundry list of Impacts – Economy, Climate Change, Pandemics, Terrorism, Cyber, and DemocracyBurns 18 Nicholas Burns 7-11-2018 "What America Gets Out of NATO" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/opinion/what-america-gets-out-of-nato.html (former under-secretary of state and ambassador to NATO and teaches diplomacy and international relations at Harvard)Elmer | 11/22/21 |
ND - DA - Reverse Court PackingTournament: UT | Round: Octas | Opponent: Stake Jesuit JS | Judge: Panel The Court is stimulating massive backlash over partisanship BUT liberal civil rights rulings pacify opposition.Dr. Bruce Peabody 20, Professor of American Politics, Fairleigh Dickinson University, PhD in Government from the University of Texas at Austin, "How the Supreme Court can maintain its legitimacy amid intensifying partisanship", The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/how-the-supreme-court-can-maintain-its-legitimacy-amid-intensifying-partisanship-148126 A Right to Strike is perceived as a key Liberal Ruling.Lim 19 Woojin Lim 12-11-2019 "The Right to Strike" https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/12/11/lim-right-to-strike/ (Philosophy BA at Harvard)Elmer That prevents Democratic court packing.D. Benjamin Barros 20, Dean and Professor of Law at the University of Toledo School of Law, "How the Democrats can pack the court and de-escalate at the same time", The Hill, https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/520190-how-the-democrats-can-pack-the-court-and-de-escalate-at-the-same-time Court packing prevents extinction from environmental tipping points like warming—-AND independently solves: CJR, democracy collapse and reproductive rights.Jay Willis 20, J.D. from Harvard Law School, B.A. in Social Welfare from the University of California, Berkeley, Senior Contributor, The Appeal at The Justice Collaborative, "Expanding the Supreme Court is Not Radical", The Appeal, https://theappeal.org/expand-the-supreme-court/ | 12/11/21 |
ND - DA - Suez CanalTournament: UT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westwood AP | Judge: Breigh Plat | 12/3/21 |
ND - K - CurryTournament: Blue Key | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Panel Reading Curry is black fem-phobic – I'm gonna attach a shit ton of screen-shots and insert sections of curry's work.He scapegoats Black women as the ones who wanted Black men to be the patriarch – in response to Black hypermasculinity, Curry would blame Black women.Curry 17 — Tommy J. Curry, Professor of Philosophy at Texas AandM University, holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Southern Illinois University, 2017 ("Conclusion: Not MAN but Not Some Nothing," The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood, Published by Temple University Press, ISBN 9781439914878, p. kindle 4854-4996) AND He argues that women have privilege in the court system, and they actively use and exploit it in assault cases.Curry 17 — Tommy J. Curry, Professor of Philosophy at Texas AandM University, holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Southern Illinois University, 2017 ("Introduction: Toward a Genre Study of Black Male Death and Dying," The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood, Published by Temple University Press, ISBN 9781439914878, p. kindle 705-823) AND He Misgenders queer folxAND Says Black Trans folx are too small of a category to analyze the intersections between transness and violenceAnd Elitist –AND Positions Black males as the Most oppressed in society – pathologizing the plights of black womenAND Silences Black WomenThat's a reason to DTD: 1.~ DTA makes it a no risk option – they can always read the argument and then go for it if a team doesn't call them out but if they are they kick out of it. Only rejecting them sets a norm of violent authros to read. 2.~ Risk of reading this author causes trauma to other debaters in the future is proof of why you should err on the side of dropping the team 3.~ Even if they cited a different portion of curry, we shouldn't let him gain academic hegemony that invisiblizes his violent tendencies. | 10/30/21 |
ND - NC - AODTournament: Blue Key | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Javier Navarrete | 10/30/21 |
ND - NC - Solo BoloTournament: Blue Key | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Javier Navarrete | 10/30/21 |
ND - T - ConsequentialismTournament: Blue Key | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Javier Navarrete A. Interpretation: If the affirmative defends a consequentialist framework, they must explicitly delineate which theory of the good they defend in the form of a text in the 1ac.Each nuance of the ethic entails different obligations and would exclude different offense – there are 7 different versions.Mastin ~Luke Mastin, Consequentialism, The basics of philosophy http://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_consequentialism.html~~ Massa B. Violation: They don't and maximizing well-being doesn't cut it.Crisp, Roger, "Well-Being", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/well-being/. Massa C. Standards:1. Shiftiness – They can shift out of my turns based on whatever theory of the good they operate under due to the nature of a vague standard. Especially true because the warrants for their standard could justify different versions of consequentialism as coming first and I wouldn't know until the 1ar which gives them access to multiple contingent standards.2. Strat – I lose 6 minutes of time during the AC to generate a strategy because I don't know what turns or strategy I can go for during the 1N absent which proves CX doesn't check since it would occur after the skew. | 10/30/21 |
ND - T - Just Government GermanyTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill KD | Judge: panel 1Interpretation: 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 victims | 11/22/21 |
ND - T - Unconditional v1Tournament: Blue Key | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Panel 1~ Interpretation: The affirmative must defend an unconditional right to strike. This means that the Affirmative must defend that anyone regardless of job or occupation has a fundamental right to strike.Merriam Webster ND, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unconditional sid UnconditionalUS Legal. Unconditional Law and Legal Definition. https://definitions.uslegal.com/u/unconditional/ 2~ Violation – They only grant the Right to Strike to Teachers. That by definition is a condition since they condition the right to strike on a particular occupation.3~ Standards –a~ Limits – there are endless conditions the aff can place on the right to strike – i.e based on occupation, national holidays, location of strike, etc. That makes the topic untenable since the Aff can just infinitely specify any condition or permutation of conditions which makes predictable preparation and in-depth clash impossible.b~ Neg Ground – all of our ground is predicated on the debate between unconditional and conditional – shifting the debate to particular conditions eviscerates core Negative Arguments like Economic Perception or Investment Signaling which only happen as a result of a blanket right to strike.4~ TVA – establish a right to strike and read prisons as an Advantage.5~ Paradigm Issues –Education 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.Topicality is Drop the Debater – it's a fundamental baseline for debate-ability and deters future abuse through a loss and b~ set better norms for debate since you are less likely to repeat a practice you can lose forCompeting interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear model of debate, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate through offense ~c~ offense defense paradigm is the best method for evaluation since you can compare benefits under both interps easier.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, if logic isn't true then you should hack against them, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 10/30/21 |
ND - Theory - CPITournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Emmiee Malyugina | 11/24/21 |
ND - Theory - CSATournament: Blue Key | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Panel 1Interp: If the affirmative defends anything other than "States ought to ban lethal autonomous weapons" 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)ViolationPrefer1. Limits – 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 to. Our interp narrows out trivially true advocacies since counter-solvency advocates ensure equal division of ground for both sides.2. 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. | 10/30/21 |
ND - Theory - CSATournament: Glenbrooks | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill KD | Judge: panel 2Interp: If the affirmative defends anything other than "Resolved: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike." 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)ViolationPrefer1. Limits – 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 to. Our interp narrows out trivially true advocacies since counter-solvency advocates ensure equal division of ground for both sides.2. 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. | 11/22/21 |
ND - Theory - ConsequencesTournament: Blue Key | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Bellarmine AK | Judge: Panel Interpretation - the affirmative can only garner offense from the hypothetical implementation of a topical aff – hold the line, CX prove there's no I-meet.Resolved" requires a policy.Merriam Webster '18 (Merriam Webster; 2018 Edition; Online dictionary and legal resource; Merriam Webster, "resolve," https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/resolve; RP)
Debate is a game since we're both here to win so procedural questions come first. The only role of the ballot and judge is to vote for whoever better debated the topic.Vote neg – their interp explodes limits ~ AA~ 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. Impacts—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.
Debate is imperfect, but only our interpretation can harness legal education to understand the law's strategic reversibility paired with intellectual survival skills.Archer 18, Deborah N. "Political Lawyering for the 21st Century." Denv. L. Rev. 96 (2018): 399. (Associate Professor of Clinical Law at NYU School of Law)Elmer | 10/30/21 |
ND - Theory - ESpec v1Tournament: Blue Key | Round: 1 | Opponent: Durham RL | Judge: Nigel Taylor-Ward Interpretation: Debaters must specify how they enforce the unconditional right of workers to strike.1~ Topic lit – enforcement is the core question of the topic and there's no consensus on normal means so you must spec. WeissMarley S. Weiss ~Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law~, 2000, "The Right To Strike In Essential Services Under United States Labor Law", https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2189andcontext=fac_pubs 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.2~ Stable advocacy – 1AR clarification delinks neg positions that prove why enforcement in a certain instance is bad by saying it isn't their method of enforcement – wrecks neg ballot access and kills in depth clash – CX doesn't check since it kills 1NC construction pre-round since I don't know advocacy till in round, and judges do not flow cross ex so its not verifiable.3~ 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 something else. | 10/29/21 |
ND - Theory - New Affs UTTournament: UT | Round: 6 | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Alexander Yoakum 1Interpretation—the aff must disclose the aff as soon as pairings come out, to clarify they cannot disclose 30 minutes before the round. Disclosure can occur on the wiki or over message.Violation—they didn'tVote 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—45 minutes turns into 30 minutes at UT, lunch break just ended and travel times across a 4 block campus is huge, its 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.Education 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.Drop the debater – a~ deters future abuse through a loss and b~ set better norms for debate since you are less likely to repeat a practice you can lose forCompeting interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear model of debate, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate through offense ~c~ offense defense paradigm is the best method for evaluation since you can compare benefits under both interps easier.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, if logic isn't true then you should hack against them, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practicesNC theory first, AC abuse was self afflicted since they picked the aff, and debates become irresolvable unless u adjudicate the abuse story of earlier theory first | 12/11/21 |
ND - Theory - SpecTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill KD | Judge: panel | 11/22/21 |
SO - DA - China Rise GoodTournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: James Stuckert China's using absence of Vaccine alternates to assert influence.Zhao 4-29 Suisheng Zhao 4-29-2021 "Why China's vaccine diplomacy is winning" https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/04/29/why-chinas-vaccine-diplomacy-is-winning/ (Professor and Director of the Center for China–US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver)Elmer Waivers are a critical issue in the perceptual ineptness of America and the West.Pratt and Levin 4-29 Simon Frankel Pratt and Jamie Levin 4-29-2021 "Vaccines Will Shape the New Geopolitical Order" https://archive.is/OgDcA~~#selection-847.23-857.11 (Simon Frankel Pratt is a lecturer in the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies at the University of Bristol. Jamie Levin is an assistant professor of political science at St. Francis Xavier University in Canada.)Elmer Chinese leadership solves existential threats.Yamei 18 Shen Yamei 18, Deputy Director and Associate Research Fellow of Department for American Studies, China Institute of International Studies, 1-9-2018, "Probing into the "Chinese Solution" for the Transformation of Global Governance," CAIFC, http://www.caifc.org.cn/en/content.aspx?id=4491 That solves the Case – China has the vaccine production capacity to vaccinate the world.Mallapaty 6-9 Smriti Mallapaty 6-9-2021 "China is vaccinating a staggering 20 million people a day" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01545-3 (She has a master of science degree in environmental technology from Imperial College London.)Elmer | 9/19/21 |
SO - DA - Climate PatentsTournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: James Stuckert Climate Patents and Innovation high now and solving Warming but COVID waiver sets a dangerous precedent for appropriations - the mere threat is sufficient is enough to kill investment.Brand 5-26, Melissa. "Trips Ip Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors." IPWatchdog.com | Patents and Patent Law, 26 May 2021, www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/26/trips-ip-waiver-establish-dangerous-precedent-climate-change-biotech-sectors/id=133964/. sid Climate Patents are critical to solving Warming – only way to stimulate Renewable Energy Technology Investment.Aberdeen 20 Arielle Aberdeen October 2020 "Patents to climate rescue: how intellectual property rights are fundamental to the development of renewable energy" https://www.4ipcouncil.com/application/files/4516/0399/1622/Intellectual_Property_and_Renewable_Energy.pdf (Caribbean Attorney-at-Law with extensive experience in legal research and writing.)Elmer Warming causes ExtinctionKareiva 18, Peter, and Valerie Carranza. "Existential risk due to ecosystem collapse: Nature strikes back." Futures 102 (2018): 39-50. (Ph.D. in ecology and applied mathematics from Cornell University, director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Pritzker Distinguished Professor in Environment and Sustainability at UCLA)Re-cut by Elmer | 9/19/21 |
SO - DA - Infrastructure v1Tournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Aryan Jasani Biden's infrastructure bill will pass through reconciliation but absolute Dem Unity is key.Turns Structural Violence Pharma backlashes to the Plan – they're aggressive lobbyists and will do anything to preserve patent rights.Turns Case – Waters down the Plan due to lobbying They choose Infrastructure as backlash – they bill costs Pharma millions – lobbyists can derail the Agenda.Brennan 8-2 Zachary Brennan 8-2-2021 "How the biopharma industry is helping to pay for the bipartisan infrastructure bill" https://endpts.com/how-the-biopharma-industry-is-helping-to-pay-for-the-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill/ (Senior Editor at Endpoint News)Elmer Democrat Senators in Big Pharma's pocket derails the Plan.Sirota 8-23 David Sirota 8-23-2021 "Dem Obstructionists Are Bankrolled By Pharma And Oil" https://www.dailyposter.com/dem-obstructionists-are-bankrolled-by-pharma-and-oil/ (an American journalist, columnist at The Guardian, and editor for Jacobin. He is also a political commentator and radio host based in Denver. He is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, political spokesperson, and blogger)Elmer Infrastructure reform solves Existential Climate Change – it results in spill-over.USA Today 7-20 7-20-2021 "Climate change is at 'code red' status for the planet, and inaction is no longer an option" https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2021/07/20/climate-change-biden-infrastructure-bill-good-start/7877118002/ Elmer | 9/5/21 |
SO - DA - Innovation WhistleTournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Tarun Ratnasabapathy Strong IP protection guarantees pharma innovation.Stevens and Ezell 20 Philip Stevens and Stephen Ezell 2-3-2020 "Delinkage Debunked: Why Replacing Patents With Prizes for Drug Development Won't Work" https://itif.org/publications/2020/02/03/delinkage-debunked-why-replacing-patents-prizes-drug-development-wont-work (Philip founded Geneva Network in 2015. His main research interests are the intersection of intellectual property, trade, and health policy. Formerly he was an official at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva, where he worked in its Global Challenges Division on a range of IP and health issues. Prior to his time with WIPO, Philip worked as director of policy for International Policy Network, a UK-based think tank, as well as holding research positions with the Adam Smith Institute and Reform, both in London. He has also worked as a political risk consultant and a management consultant. He is a regular columnist in a wide range of international newspapers and has published a number of academic studies. He holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Durham University (UK).)~Stephen Ezell is vice president, global innovation policy, at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). He focuses on science and technology policy, international competitiveness, trade, manufacturing, and services issues. He is the coauthor of Innovating in a Service-Driven Economy: Insights, Application, and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage (Yale, 2012). Ezell comes to ITIF from Peer Insight, an innovation research and consulting firm he cofounded in 2003 to study the practice of innovation in service industries. At Peer Insight, Ezell led the Global Service Innovation Consortium, published multiple research papers on service innovation, and researched national service innovation policies being implemented by governments worldwide~.Elmer Trade Secrets are key to incentivize competitive Innovation – specifically key to protect start-ups.Gutfleisch 18, Georg. "Employment issues under the European Trade Secrets Directive: Promising opportunity or burden for European companies." European Company Law Journal 15 (2018): 175-181. (working as an Associate with Brandl and Talos Rechtsanwälte GmbH in Vienna, Austria, and recently studied in the LL.M. (International and European Business Law) program at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.)Elmer Yes Link – the thesis of the Aff is mean to help ease burden of whistleblowers in winning suits to expose Trade Secrets – the mere threat of a weakening IPR and Secret Protection deters investment.Ezell et al. '19 (Stephen; vice president of global innovation policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; 4-25-2019; "The Way Forward for Intellectual Property Internationally"; Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; https://itif.org/publications/2019/04/25/way-forward-intellectual-property-internationally; Accessed: 8-31-2021; AU) Pharma innovation solves Pandemics, ABR, and Bioterrorism – only Private Firms have the ability for preparedness and reaction.Marjanovic and Feijao 20 Sonja Marjanovic and Carolina Feijao May 2020 "Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management" https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PEA400/PEA407-1/RAND_PEA407-1.pdf (directs RAND Europe's portfolio of research in the field of healthcare innovation, industry and policy)Re-cut by Elmer Bioterrorism and future pandemics cause extinction.de Bretton-Gordon 20, Hamish. "Biosecurity in the wake of COVID-19: the urgent action needed." (2020). (Director at DBG Defense)C.VC | 9/19/21 |
SO - DA - Innovation vMarijaunaTournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough BH | Judge: Asher Towner Pharma drug innovation is high now, alternatives to IP collapse existThe Economist 20 5-23-2020 "Drug innovation is back in fashion" https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/05/23/drug-innovation-is-back-in-fashion (The Economist is an international weekly newspaper printed in magazine-format and published digitally that focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, and technology.)Elmer Best analysis confirms our Link – strong IP protection are the only incentive for drug innovation.Answers Evergreening/Me-Too Drugs Cannabis wipes out superbugs and kills developing mutations, but further research and investments are required.Sample '20 ~Ian; journalist at New Scientist and worked at the Institute of Physics as a journal editor, PhD in biomedical materials; 1-19-2020; "Cannabis compound could be weapon in fight against superbugs", Guardian; https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/19/cannabis-compound-could-be-weapon-in-fight-against-superbugs, accessed 4-16-2021~ Only CBD solves superbugs.Stevens '21 ~Kylie; reporter covering medical breakthrough by Researchers at University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience and the peer-reviewed Communications Biology journal; 1-19-2021; Mail Online; https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9165415/Medical-breakthrough-revealed-cannabis-kill-superbugs-save-10million-lives-year.html, accessed 4-16-2021; RG~ Only innovation now solves AMR super-bugs — timeframe's key.Sobti 19 ~Dr. Navjot Kaur Sobti is an internal medicine resident physician at Dartmouth-Hitchcock-Medical Center/Dartmouth School of Medicine and a member of the ABC News Medical Unit. May 1, 2019. "Amid superbug crisis, scientists urge innovation". https://abcnews.go.com/Health/amidst-superbug-crisis-scientists-urge-innovation/story?id=62763415~~ Dhruv | 9/4/21 |
SO - NC - AODTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Brett Cryan | 9/5/21 |
SO - NC - Experience MachineTournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Tarun Ratnasabapathy Presumption and permissibility negates – a) statements are more often false than true since I can prove something false in infinite ways b) real world policies require positive justification before being adopted c) the aff has to prove an obligation which means lack of that obligation negates.Framing –The standard is consistency with epistemic and experiential authenticity.Experience Machine: Pleasures are intrinsically worthless without authentic experience.Nozick 74 ~Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State and Utopia. 1974, rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil3160/Nozick1.pdf.~ Massa recut Lex VM Brackets for gendered language That negates –Value theories must make sense of the experiences we have and give us reasons why certain experiences are better than others.Consider two worlds In world 1, you are in love with a person A, and A loves you genuinely. In world 2, you are in love with A, but A only pretends to love you they actually hate you, hedonistic experiences are identical but clearly, world 1 is better than world 2.Negate – objective knowledge of the external world is epistemically nonsensical.Neta 14 ~Neta, Ram. "External World Skepticism." The Problem of The External World, 2014, philosophy.unc.edu/files/2014/06/The-Problem-of-the-External-World.pdf.~ Massa | 9/19/21 |
SO - NC - IntuitionsTournament: Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Grant Brown We're hijacking a priori morality first- that means intuitions1) Intuitions are defined a priori- some truths are intuitively clear.Parfit ~David Parfit(Senior Research Fellow @ Oxford). The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory. Second Edition. February 21, 2000. Accessed 1/8/20. https://books.google.com/books?id=FcUi2AxNW3gCandprintsec=frontcover~~#v=onepageandqandf=false// Recut Houston Memorial DX~ 2) Reason exists in 2 forms, intuitive and reflective. If I say what is 1+1, the answer of 2 is intuitive ie you don't need to think about it. If I say what is 5/11, this is reflective, because you need to go through a system of conscious steps to reflect upon it. However, every step made in a deductive syllogism should be intuitively true, so intuitions control the internal link to reflective reasoning.Independently we're hijacking Agrippan Skepticism- the Kantian notion of "asking why" leading to the concession the authority of reason conflates the difference between epistemological truth and moral truths. Thus, when asking why of moral truths, the only answer is that it is some way because it is intuitive which only non-naturalism based a priori intuitions can resolve.Thus the standard is consistency with a priori intuitions.We have an intuitive preference for the squo, that was their arg for presumption in the UV | 9/26/21 |
SO - Phil - Skep v1Tournament: Loyola | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Dulles NJ | Judge: Than, Navarrete, Kang We will only apply skepticism to instances of moral obligations being incoherent or the literal impossibility of the aff and relevant actors happening Every reason is equally as violent in its creation. Objective knowledge of the external world is epistemically nonsensical. | 11/24/21 |
SO - T - OughtTournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Tarun Ratnasabapathy 1~ Interpretation – The Affirmative must defend a definite reduction of IP protections for Medicines."Ought" means a particular obligation.American Heritage Dictionary 16 5th Edition by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries Elmer Obligation means a binding requirement – it denies an option.Black's Law 90 Black's Law Dictionary 2ND ED. "Obligation" https://thelawdictionary.org/obligation/ 2~ Violation – The Aff does not definitely reduce IP Protections – there's a world where the Courts don't agree w/ the Plaintiffs.3~ Standards –a~ Limits – Allowing Conditions Affs explodes the Topic – there's an infinite number of other conditions that become Topical if this Aff does - companies could be forced to go through a third-party audit to check if their IP protections were beneficial or not, public citizens could be asked to take a poll as to whether a certain IP patent should go through or not, etc.b~ Neg Ground – Conditions Affs allow the Aff to spike out of every Neg Arg – generics like Innovation don't link if the Aff can say the Aff only applies if it is proven to not harm innovation or Biotech Heg since they can say "only if it doesn't violate National Security". No Neg Link arguments assume every condition since they're all Patents Good/Bad meaning they either force us to research infinite conditions or we simply lose since the 1AR will no link everything. Proven in this instance, since the 1AR will always say "every Neg Arg will just be proven to be against the Public Good" making negating impossible.4~ TVA – unconditionally enforce the Plan regardless of plaintiff justifications. | 9/19/21 |
SO - T - Reduce v1Tournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough BH | Judge: Asher Towner Interpretation – Reduce means decreasing an existing quantity – it excludes preventing a future increase/implementationPopattanachai 18 – PhD dissertation at Nottingham Trent University (NAPORN, "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 Two Violations –1~ The Plan is an explicit delay on patent enforcement – that means patents don't exist in the status quoDictionary.com No Date "Delay" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/delay 2~ Marijuana patents don't exist right now – your evidence says they're pending approval but none say that they exist meaning you don't reduce anything.Standards -1~ Limits – the topic is already massive since there's hundreds of patents on current medicines – allowing the aff to apply to future medical patents explodes predictability since it triples the possible aff case list.2~ Ground – no author assumes a futuristic patent enforcement so there's no da ground against them. Delay also isn't defined so they could infinitely delay it to spike out of all of our links. | 9/4/21 |
SO - T - Reduce v1Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Tarun Ratnasabapathy 1~ Interpretation – "Reduce" means to annul.Black's Law 90 Black's Law Dictionary 2ND ED. "Reduce" https://dictionary.thelaw.com/reduce/ Elmer That means the Aff has to cancel IP protections in their entirety, they can't just modify it.Black's Law 90 Black's Law Dictionary 2ND ED. "Annul" https://thelawdictionary.org/annul/ 2~ Violation – They don't remove the IP, the Trade Secret still has the same protection under law, it cannot be disclosed unless disclosure is in the public interest – the Aff only shifts who has to prove that NOT the actual protection.3~ Standards –a~ Limits – Allowing the Aff's to deal with the enforcement of IP rather than the actual protection explodes the Topic – Affs can modify court proceedings, specify which courts hear the cases, how long those proceedings last, which agencies pursue legal action, etc. – it eviscerates a predictable stasis by shifting it away from IPP good/bad.b~ Neg Ground – Shifting the topic to enforcement means DAs like Innovation, Biotech Heg, Politics no longer apply since the Aff doesn't have to reduce anything related to the IPP itself – proven by the fact we can't read Trade Secrets Good vs this Aff since the 1AR will shift to the IP itself doesn't change and if they were good, the Aff wouldn't be enforced proving modifications are infinitely abusive.4~ TVA – eliminate Trade Secret protection of Pharma to eliminate deterrent litigation against whistle-blowers since there's no longer a legal basis for enforcement.5~ Paradigm Issues –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.d~ Topicality outweighs 1AR Theory – 1~ Outweighs on scope cause 1AC abuse effects every speech – we had to be abusive since the 1AC was abusive first and 2~ Better for norming since we have more speeches to discuss what's the best norm for debate. | 9/19/21 |
SO - T - Spec ReductionsTournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough BH | Judge: Asher Towner Interpretation: The affirmative must specify which intellectual property rights they reduce and to what degree they reduce them.There's no normal means.Chopra 18, Samir. "The Idea of Intellectual Property Is Nonsensical and Pernicious: Aeon Essays." Aeon, Aeon Magazine, 12 Nov. 2018, aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-intellectual-property-is-nonsensical-and-pernicious. Samir Choprais professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books, including A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents (2011), co-authored with Laurence White.sid Reduce requires quantification.Passarello 13 – J.D. Candidate, Duke University School of Law, 2013. (Nicholas, NOTE: THE ITEM VETO AND THE THREAT OF APPROPRIATIONS BUNDLING IN ALASKA, 30 Alaska L. Rev. 125, Lexis)BB Violation: they don'tStandardsa~ Shiftiness – vague plan wording wrecks Neg Ground since it's impossible to know which DAs link or which CPs are competitive since different IP's have different implications – absent 1AC specification, the 1AR can squirrel out of links by saying they don't effect a certain protection or they don't reduce IP enough to trigger the link.b~ Topic Education – nuanced debates about IP requires specification since each form of IPR has specific issues related to it so generalization disincentivizes in-depth research. Topic Education is a voter since we only debate the topic for two months.Reductions Spec isn't regressive – it's a core discussion central to the literature, we've read a card proving predictability, and is a floor for topic debates.CX doesn't check - 1~ Skews pre-round prep – key to in-depth clash, 2~ Judges don't flow CX which makes it unverifiableEducation 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.Drop the debater – a~ deters future abuse through a loss and b~ set better norms for debate since you are less likely to repeat a practice you can lose forCompeting interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear model of debate, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate through offense ~c~ offense defense paradigm is the best method for evaluation since you can compare benefits under both interps easier.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don't win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, if logic isn't true then you should hack against them, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 9/4/21 |
SO - Theory - Misdisclosure v1Tournament: Loyola | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Dulles NJ | Judge: Than, Navarrete, Kang The standard is infinite abuse, telling us the aff is kant before the flip caused me to flip negative, changing the aff post knowledge is abusive since it incentivizes teams to bait and switch vs teams in out rounds, our entire 1NC is based around previous disclosure, frame this debate through the norms that they justify, even if there was no abuse, we impacted out norming and how it’s a voter above. Infinite abuse is a voting issue, that was impacted on CPI where debaters leave the activity from arbitrary norms and push novices out, independent irreversibly skews this round. | 11/24/21 |
SO - Theory - New Affs BadTournament: Loyola | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Dulles NJ | Judge: Than, Navarrete, Kang Violation—they didn’t 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. All the disclose paradigm issues apply | 11/24/21 |
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