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| 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | 4 | Marlborough PP | Colton Gilbert |
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| 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | 2 | Marlborough ZG | Gordon Krauss |
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| 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | 6 | Marlborough MJ | Srinidhi Yerraguntala |
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| 48TH ANNUAL HARVARD NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT | 3 | Brandon Luo | Rishabh Ganesh |
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| 48TH ANNUAL HARVARD NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT | 2 | Ridge VS | Zachary Reshovsky |
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| 48TH ANNUAL HARVARD NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT | 5 | Acton-Boxborough AK | Jacob Thomas |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 5 | Millard North AR | Amelia Ritenour |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 3 | Northview MS | Abishek Stanley |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 1 | Millburn ST | Nathan Frenkel |
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| Barkley Forum for High Schools | 6 | Millard North JS | Tanya Moss-Barry |
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| Barkley Forum for High Schools | 3 | Brookfield East DJ | Vidya Reddy |
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| Barkley Forum for High Schools | 2 | Pennsbury GB | Dayanand Bhojak |
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| Contact Information | 2 | You | Me |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 3 | Scarsdale DD | Henry Eberhart |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 1 | Southlake Carroll SD | Eric He |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 6 | Christopher Columbus AM | Luis Bravim |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 7 | Plano West TS | Benjamin Bies |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 2 | Harvard-Westlake AW | Mohul Aggarwal |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 5 | McNeil SC | Jacob Nails |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 3 | James Logan LZ | Alex Rivera |
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| Isidore Newman School Invitational | 5 | Riverwood GB | Morgan Holly |
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| Isidore Newman School Invitational | Octas | Lexington AG | Panel |
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| Isidore Newman School Invitational | 2 | Christ Episcopal SM | Caleb Eaves |
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| Isidore Newman School Invitational | 4 | Bridgeland PT | Phoenix Pittman |
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| National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | 1 | Immaculate Heart JL | Elmer Yang |
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| National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | 3 | Immaculate Heart RR | Jinhee Heo |
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| National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | 5 | twei | Indu Pandey |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 2 | Hunter AI | Vandan Patel |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 3 | Holy Ghost Prep MM | Justin Flynn |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 6 | Millburn RB | Caitlin Soch |
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| Princeton Classic | 2 | Harrison JP | Wesley Loofbourrow |
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| Princeton Classic | 3 | Lake Highland Prep SS | Eric He |
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| Princeton Classic | 6 | La Salle ZW | Tyler Hockemeyer |
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| Sunvite | 2 | Buchholz LW | Emily Atamov |
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| Sunvite | 6 | Isidore Newman PJ | Eric He |
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| Sunvite | Semis | American Heritage Broward EM | Panel |
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| Sunvite | 4 | Lexington BF | Isaiah Salgado |
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| 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | 4 | Opponent: Marlborough PP | Judge: Colton Gilbert 1AC - Global Commons |
| 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | 2 | Opponent: Marlborough ZG | Judge: Gordon Krauss 1AC - Global Commons |
| 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | 6 | Opponent: Marlborough MJ | Judge: Srinidhi Yerraguntala 1AC - Global Commons |
| 48TH ANNUAL HARVARD NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT | 3 | Opponent: Brandon Luo | Judge: Rishabh Ganesh 1AC - lay |
| 48TH ANNUAL HARVARD NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT | 2 | Opponent: Ridge VS | Judge: Zachary Reshovsky 1AC - lay |
| 48TH ANNUAL HARVARD NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT | 5 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough AK | Judge: Jacob Thomas 1AC - Tourism |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 5 | Opponent: Millard North AR | Judge: Amelia Ritenour 1AC - SVCap |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 3 | Opponent: Northview MS | Judge: Abishek Stanley 1AC - fem |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 1 | Opponent: Millburn ST | Judge: Nathan Frenkel 1AC - Pettit |
| Barkley Forum for High Schools | 6 | Opponent: Millard North JS | Judge: Tanya Moss-Barry 1AC - lay TDI Exploration |
| Barkley Forum for High Schools | 3 | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Vidya Reddy 1AC - lay |
| Barkley Forum for High Schools | 2 | Opponent: Pennsbury GB | Judge: Dayanand Bhojak 1AC - lay |
| Contact Information | 2 | Opponent: You | Judge: Me check cites! |
| Education | Finals | Opponent: You | Judge: Competing Interps Previous interps in cites |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 3 | Opponent: Scarsdale DD | Judge: Henry Eberhart 1AC - Kant |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 1 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Eric He 1AC - Teachers |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 6 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Luis Bravim 1AC - SVRawls |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 7 | Opponent: Plano West TS | Judge: Benjamin Bies 1AC - Kant |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake AW | Judge: Mohul Aggarwal 1AC - US Cap |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 5 | Opponent: McNeil SC | Judge: Jacob Nails 1AC - Butler TT |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 3 | Opponent: James Logan LZ | Judge: Alex Rivera 1AC - Palestine |
| Isidore Newman School Invitational | 5 | Opponent: Riverwood GB | Judge: Morgan Holly 1AC - lay |
| Isidore Newman School Invitational | Octas | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Panel 1AC - lay |
| Isidore Newman School Invitational | 2 | Opponent: Christ Episcopal SM | Judge: Caleb Eaves 1AC - lay |
| Isidore Newman School Invitational | 4 | Opponent: Bridgeland PT | Judge: Phoenix Pittman 1AC - "kant" but rlly j tricks |
| National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Elmer Yang 1AC - China |
| National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Jinhee Heo 1AC - SpaceCol |
| National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | 5 | Opponent: twei | Judge: Indu Pandey 1AC - Astrocolonialism |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 2 | Opponent: Hunter AI | Judge: Vandan Patel 1AC - kant |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 3 | Opponent: Holy Ghost Prep MM | Judge: Justin Flynn 1AC - Rawls |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 6 | Opponent: Millburn RB | Judge: Caitlin Soch 1AC - Evergreening |
| Princeton Classic | 2 | Opponent: Harrison JP | Judge: Wesley Loofbourrow 1AC - Prison |
| Princeton Classic | 3 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep SS | Judge: Eric He 1AC - Alienation Cap |
| Princeton Classic | 6 | Opponent: La Salle ZW | Judge: Tyler Hockemeyer 1AC - Autonomy |
| Sunvite | 2 | Opponent: Buchholz LW | Judge: Emily Atamov 1AC - Lay |
| Sunvite | 6 | Opponent: Isidore Newman PJ | Judge: Eric He 1AC - Afrofuturism |
| Sunvite | Semis | Opponent: American Heritage Broward EM | Judge: Panel 1AC - Psychoanalysis |
| Sunvite | 4 | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Isaiah Salgado 1AC - Exploration |
| Sunvite | Octas | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Panel 1AC - Cap |
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0 - Contact InformationTournament: Contact Information | Round: 2 | Opponent: You | Judge: Me -Phone: (919)-797-8192 If you have any questions, contact me through these. I'm most likely to respond through texts. Please tell me any trigger warnings or specific disclosure practices you would like me to meet. | 11/23/21 |
0 - Lay DisclosureTournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: La Salle ZW | Judge: Tyler Hockemeyer | 2/23/22 |
0 - NavigationTournament: Contact Information | Round: 2 | Opponent: You | Judge: Me | 11/23/21 |
1 - Broken InterpsTournament: Education | Round: Finals | Opponent: You | Judge: Competing Interps Interpretation: “workers” is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend that a just government recognizes a specific group of workers unconditional right to strike Interpretation: The affirmative may not claim 1AR theory is legit, its DTD, CI, and no RVIs, Interpretation: Debaters must defend an existing government - not an ideal one. Interpretation: the affirmative must defend that only just governments ought to recognize the unconditional right to strike Interpretation: Topical affirmatives must defend all just governments everywhere recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike Interpretation: the affirmative may not defend Israel recognize a right to strike. Interpretation: Debaters may not read evaluate the debate after the 1ac | 12/11/21 |
1 - DisclosureTournament: Education | Round: Finals | Opponent: You | Judge: Competing Interps Interpretation: Debaters must disclose round reports on the 2021-2022 NDCA LD wiki for every round they have debated this season. Round reports disclose which positions (AC, NC, K, T, Theory, etc.) were read/gone for in every speech. | 12/11/21 |
2 - CP - MicrobubbleTournament: 48TH ANNUAL HARVARD NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough AK | Judge: Jacob Thomas Microbubbles are capable of solving warming, according to advanced models. AND last long enough to be effectively spread over large areas, Seitz says. | 4/1/22 |
2 - DA - Ethical IndividualismTournament: Sunvite | Round: 6 | Opponent: Isidore Newman PJ | Judge: Eric He AND that the ethical individual is reflective of the conservative forces in society today. Debate is politicizing – the attempt to engage overcomes alienation even if the goal isn’t achieved. AND the public realm, that is, only when they participate in government. | 2/20/22 |
2 - DA - TransitionTournament: 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough MJ | Judge: Srinidhi Yerraguntala AND points are ones that advocates of universal basic income should keep in mind. Pure commons alternatives reinforce existing inequalities. AND all its flaws, remains the most democratic and democratizable of modern institutions. Elites block transition-~--causes mass death-~--only capitalism enables a peaceful solution to poverty. AND 8 percent, and in 2021 it was only 9.3 percent. | 4/1/22 |
2 - K - Moen BadTournament: National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Elmer Yang AND adult-child sex, the justification for today’s widespread ban is weak. Drop the debater—academic spaces have way too many sympathizers who ignore violence against children, and every act must be challenged in the most unflinching terms because anything else reinforces the epistemic bias in favor of rationalizing disgusting behavior. Academics who sympathize with paedophilia constitute its intellectual public relations arm. Their role is AND . So it was simply a matter of clearing up prejudice and ignorance. Reading blum solves! | 4/11/22 |
2 - K - Spikes BadTournament: Isidore Newman School Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Bridgeland PT | Judge: Phoenix Pittman AND not track with what we want when assessing who did the better debating. That’s a voting issue – ableism in debate comes first | 4/1/22 |
2 - Util v1Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Luis Bravim 1 Only pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable – all other frameworks collapse. AND places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value. 2 Extinction first -~-- moral uncertainty. AND of value. To do this, we must prevent any existential catastrophe. 3 Actor specificity: A Governments must aggregate since every policy benefit some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action B Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings. | 12/4/21 |
2 - Util v2Tournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Millburn ST | Judge: Nathan Frenkel
AND , therefore, consequences and conscious states remain the foundation of all values. 2. Only consequences can explain degrees of wrongness, i.e. why it’s worse to break a promise to a dying friend than to meet someone for lunch. Thus, the standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. Prefer additionally – Death must be the primary concern of an ethical theory since it destroys the subject itself. AND maintaining the person in existence is an objective evil for the person. | 4/1/22 |
2 - Util v3Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: James Logan LZ | Judge: Alex Rivera 1 Util is the only egalitarian metric-~--anything else collapses cooperation on collective action crises and makes extinction inevitable AND cause in survival. Our future may depend on whether we realize this. 2 Apocalyptic images challenge dominant power structures – contest the implausibility that inequitable structures can produce catastrophe AND of the world. Just wait long enough. Stranger things will happen. | 12/7/21 |
2 - Util v4Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: McNeil SC | Judge: Jacob Nails AND , therefore, consequences and conscious states remain the foundation of all values. 2 Death must be the primary concern of an ethical theory since it destroys the subject itself. 3 Pleasure and pain are the starting point for moral reasoning—they’re our most baseline desires and the only things that explain the intrinsic value of objects or actions AND notion of legal standing will outstrip the power relations that ground Pettit’s theory. 4 Extinction is the upmost moral evil and disavowal of the risk makes it more likely. AND are also valid reasons to reject principles that permitted or required human extinction. | 12/7/21 |
2 - Util v5Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 7 | Opponent: Plano West TS | Judge: Benjamin Bies 1 Value is only accessible through experience. AND , therefore, consequences and conscious states remain the foundation of all values. 2 Only consequences can explain degrees of wrongness, i.e. why it’s worse to break a promise to a dying friend than to skip meeting someone for lunch – either ethical theories cannot explain comparative badness, or it collapses 3 Death must be the primary concern of an ethical theory since it destroys the subject itself. 4 Theory – determines the validity of substance. Prefer util: a. Ground – every impact function under util whereas other ethics flow to one side exclusively. Kills fairness since we both need arguments to win and b. Topic lit – most articles are written through the lens of util because they’re crafted for policymakers and the public who take consequences to be important, not philosophy majors. Key to fairness and education – the lit is where we do research and determines how we engage in the round. 5 Extinction is the upmost moral evil and disavowal of the risk makes it more likely. AND are also valid reasons to reject principles that permitted or required human extinction. | 12/4/21 |
2 - Util v6Tournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harrison JP | Judge: Wesley Loofbourrow 1 Util is the only egalitarian metric---anything else collapses cooperation on collective action crises and makes extinction inevitable AND cause in survival. Our future may depend on whether we realize this. 2 Value is only accessible through experience. AND , therefore, consequences and conscious states remain the foundation of all values. 3 Death must be the primary concern of an ethical theory since it destroys the subject itself. 4 Theory – util best for ground bc it’s most common in topic lit, k2 fairness since we both need ev to engage 5 Objectivity – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical | 12/4/21 |
2 - Util v7Tournament: Sunvite | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Panel 1 Value is only accessible through experience. AND , therefore, consequences and conscious states remain the foundation of all values. 2 Only consequences can explain degrees of wrongness, i.e. why it’s worse to break a promise to a dying friend than to skip meeting someone for lunch – either ethical theories cannot explain comparative badness, or it collapses 3 Death must be the primary concern of an ethical theory since it destroys the subject itself. 4 Theory – determines the validity of substance. Prefer util: a. Ground – every impact function under util whereas other ethics flow to one side exclusively. Kills fairness since we both need arguments to win and b. Topic lit – most articles are written through the lens of util because they’re crafted for policymakers and the public who take consequences to be important, not philosophy majors. Key to fairness and education – the lit is where we do research and determines how we engage in the round. 5 Util is the only egalitarian metric-~--anything else collapses cooperation on collective action crises and makes extinction inevitable AND cause in survival. Our future may depend on whether we realize this. 6 Apocalyptic images challenge dominant power structures – contest the implausibility that inequitable structures can produce catastrophe AND of the world. Just wait long enough. Stranger things will happen. The roll of the ballot is to evaluate the fiated aff plan vs a competitive alternative or the status quo. 1 Policies reduce material violence. AND about them or—more importantly—what we can learn from them. 2 key to education – the only way for us to have clash is if both debaters are able to compare impacts. Independently key to real world ed. | 4/1/22 |
JF - CP - CILTournament: National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Elmer Yang It competes – the affirmative must be immediate and certain-~--anything else destroys neg ground and makes the aff conditional. Solves the aff and the no-harm principle-~--ICJ say yes. AND an action is in conformity with the principles of necessity and proportionality. 224 The no-harm principle is key to overall ILaw, co-op, and warming. AND international cooperation, the objective of solving the international problems of our time. Effective ILaw prevents extinction-~--puts a cap on conflict-~--turns case. AND treaties illustrate states agreeing voluntarily to give up a portion of their sovereignty. Even a tiny bit of multilat outweighs every other impact. AND aspects of a threat or challenge that simply cannot be addressed effectively alone. | 4/11/22 |
JF - CP - CapTournament: 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough MJ | Judge: Srinidhi Yerraguntala Cap is great!-~--solves war, disease, inequality, human rights, and the environment-~--it’s historically supported, rejection is the worst option-~--solves advantage 2 AND that capitalism can create and direct, to escape from extreme poverty.21 Only internalizing the costs of the appropriation through a system of property rights and Pigouvian taxes-~--commoning drives profits to zero. AND the literatures on congestion measurement, commons management, and integrated assessment modeling. Condo advantage counterplans are good – key to test the intrinsicness of aff impacts – winning a straight turn doesn’t prove the aff is a good idea or better than the squo which is the aff’s burden, and no policymaker would implement a proposal just because it’s not the worst idea which also justifies judge kick because even if the 2AR proves the counterplan is bad it doesn’t prove the aff is good. | 4/1/22 |
JF - CP - Debris RemovalTournament: Sunvite | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Panel Governments ought to permit the appropriation of outer space for designated safety zones and tech stationing for active debris removal by private entities. Debris removal is necessary and only private entities have the incentive and capability to do it. AND frontier in the abdication of space from the public concern to the private. Satellite takeout prompts nuclear response. AND little to reduce the vulnerability of early-warning satellites to nonnuclear attack. It causes extinction AND satellites were used to detect launches of SCUD missiles during Operation Desert Storm. | 4/1/22 |
JF - CP - Labor v1Tournament: 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough ZG | Judge: Gordon Krauss Data from commercial satellites are key to preventing modern slavery-~--subjects people to horrific structural violence that can’t be explained by any single theory. AND were more willing to work against issues like child slavery and forced labour. Commercial Satellites are critical to provide data to anti-slavery movements-~--allows activists to pinpoint where it happens. AND regularly partner with humanitarian and human rights agencies to investigate crises and abuses. Condo is good proving a CP is bad doesn’t prove the plan is good, a logical policy maker can always choose not to act. Logic outweighs – it’s the basis of all rational arguments. Pics Good – 1 Real world – policy makers revise policies to exclude certain parts all the time 2 Clash – pics focus the debate on specific parts of the aff that allows for nuanced in depth clash | 4/1/22 |
JF - CP - Labor v2Tournament: 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough PP | Judge: Colton Gilbert Data from commercial satellites are key to preventing modern slavery---subjects people to horrific structural violence that can’t be explained by any single theory. AND were more willing to work against issues like child slavery and forced labour. Commercial Satellites are critical to provide data to anti-slavery movements---allows activists to pinpoint where it happens. AND regularly partner with humanitarian and human rights agencies to investigate crises and abuses. Constellations constitute appropriation---it competes. AND any formal, official claim of such by a responsible, authorizing government. Condo is good proving a CP is bad doesn’t prove the plan is good, a logical policy maker can always choose not to act. Logic outweighs – it’s the basis of all rational arguments. Pics Good – 1 Real world – policy makers revise policies to exclude certain parts all the time. 2 Clash – pics focus the debate on specific parts of the aff that allows for nuanced in depth clash | 4/1/22 |
JF - CP - Labor v3Tournament: National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | Round: 5 | Opponent: twei | Judge: Indu Pandey Data from commercial satellites are key to preventing modern slavery---subjects people to horrific structural violence that can’t be explained by any single theory. AND were more willing to work against issues like child slavery and forced labour. Commercial Satellites are critical to provide data to anti-slavery movements---allows activists to pinpoint where it happens. AND regularly partner with humanitarian and human rights agencies to investigate crises and abuses. Commerical DigitalGlobe sats are uniquely key to high rez imagery---governments open the door to wrongful use. AND engaging in remote sensing investigations of vulnerable populations. They say constellations are appropriation---the CP competes. | 4/11/22 |
JF - CP - Orbital DebrisTournament: Sunvite | Round: 2 | Opponent: Buchholz LW | Judge: Emily Atamov Solves the case while also boosting the economy. Vergoth 20: AND young space industry can avoid these costs before they escalate,” Burgess said. Decline fuels nationalism and undermines deterrence-~--great power war AND inevitably will seek to fill the voids left behind as the US retrenches. | 1/8/22 |
JF - CP - SpaceCol v2Tournament: National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | Round: 5 | Opponent: twei | Judge: Indu Pandey Private sector is key---it’s the base of international coop---solves warming and tech AND company can go it alone when it comes to the final frontier of space. Legal reform exposes contradictions in settler colonialism which creates fissures in civil society that rupture the colonial order. Reinterpretation of liberal rights creates effective movements against capitalist oppression. AND imperatives that have put their lives and livelihoods at risk. Condo Good---proving a CP is bad doesn’t prove the plan is good, a logical policy maker can always choose not to act. Logic outweighs – it’s the basis of all rational arguments. | 4/11/22 |
JF - CP - StarlinkTournament: 48TH ANNUAL HARVARD NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough AK | Judge: Jacob Thomas It competes – It requires launches to get starlink into space. Internet is open to massive vulnerabilities now AND The process begins by looking at naval charts to plot the best route. SpaceX satellites are key to internet access AND there will be a lot less global poverty here on Earth than otherwise. Internet check disease, disasters, tyranny and more-~--impact filter and solves extinction AND to suggest that the net may just be the technology that saves us. | 4/1/22 |
JF - DA - BizCon v1Tournament: Sunvite | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Isaiah Salgado AND good, they aren’t as good as they were prior to the pandemic. Consistent space regulations are key to business confidence – the aff is seen as a 180. AND and validating hardware, governments have begun to establish regulatory and policy frameworks. Unpredictable shifts ruin Confidence – prevents growth and recovery. AND to follow and will be able to plan around that,” he said. Decline fuels nationalism and undermines deterrence-~--great power war AND inevitably will seek to fill the voids left behind as the US retrenches. | 4/1/22 |
JF - DA - BizCon v2Tournament: 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough ZG | Judge: Gordon Krauss AND the experiments undertaken by Mark Shuttleworth when he was onboard the ISS.46 Unpredictable shifts ruin Confidence-~--prevents growth and recovery. AND to follow and will be able to plan around that,” he said. Decline fuels nationalism and undermines deterrence-~--great power war AND inevitably will seek to fill the voids left behind as the US retrenches. | 4/1/22 |
JF - DA - BizCon v3Tournament: National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Elmer Yang AND the experiments undertaken by Mark Shuttleworth when he was onboard the ISS.46 Unpredictable shifts ruin Confidence-~--prevents growth and recovery. AND to follow and will be able to plan around that,” he said. Decline cascades-~--nuclear war. AND in the Middle East. Soleimani was simply a cog who got replaced. | 4/11/22 |
JF - DA - InnovationTournament: Sunvite | Round: Semis | Opponent: American Heritage Broward EM | Judge: Panel AND sustainable, reliable and predictable space environment that allows private investment to flourish. Strong commercial space catalyzes tech innovation – progress at the margins and spinoff tech change global information networks AND to global networks, and new opportunities could lead to wider economic growth. Stronger Innovation solves Extinction. AND far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery. | 2/21/22 |
JF - DA - RussiaTournament: Sunvite | Round: 2 | Opponent: Buchholz LW | Judge: Emily Atamov AND , above all, American military interests." Yes, seriously. We stopped appeasing Russia – they’ll pocket concessions from coop and increase aggression – tensions aren’t the result of understandings but hardened differences AND imports, and increased the Pentagon’s European Reassurance Initiative budget by 40 percent. Appeasing Russia shreds the NPT and causes nuke prolif – extinction AND Proliferation Treaty (NPT), one of the world’s most important multilateral agreements. | 1/8/22 |
JF - DA - SBSPTournament: Sunvite | Round: 2 | Opponent: Buchholz LW | Judge: Emily Atamov AND right answer is really clear: We need to just go do it." Key to solve climate change. AND be able to provide some key learnings for future improvements in the technology. Warming causes extinction AND . Fig. 2 displays these three risk categorizations (vertical dashed lines). | 1/8/22 |
JF - DA - SpaceColTournament: National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | Round: 5 | Opponent: twei | Judge: Indu Pandey AND water can create conflict and social unrest. Space colonization solves otherwise inevitable extinction. AND policy of long-term human survival4. Colonization of outer space is essential to humanity – 5 warrants AND that enables you to compete economically." Independently brings immeasurable expected value AND immense amounts of ecosystem flourishing. Massive spillover effects, solves resources and ex risks AND dire fate, but less terrible than the first. | 4/11/22 |
JF - IT - Tourism GoodTournament: 48TH ANNUAL HARVARD NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough AK | Judge: Jacob Thomas AND allow space research to boldly go where only limited research has gone before. The next pandemic will be worse-~--action now is key-~--extinction. AND be prevented, the next pandemic can — but only with better preparation. | 4/1/22 |
JF - Lay v1Tournament: Barkley Forum for High Schools | Round: 2 | Opponent: Pennsbury GB | Judge: Dayanand Bhojak I negate the resolution – Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust. Framework – Hobbes Because the resolution is question of determining justice, the value for the round is ensuring justice. This happens through actions. The constitutive obligation of a just state, or power is to protect security. This is a prior concern to their framework since violence hinders ethical decision making. For example, in the state of nature, what is “moral” is not determined through ethical deliberation, but rather through power and subjugation. Thus, framework should be a question of how we prevent the state of nature, i.e. ensure security. Therefore, the criterion is ensuring security. If a state doesn’t ensure security, we lose reason to follow it. This means the government is no longer legitimate, or just. Philosopher Thomas Hobbes further explains: AND when Peace and Security are lost, for the recovery of the same. Additionally, prefer this framework because upholding security is a prerequisite to pursuing other values like happiness or democracy. Observations Now I offer one observation for the round. The affirmatives burden is to prove that generally situations of “appropriation of outer space” are unjust – While the negative only has to prove an instance of it being just for you to vote negative. The thesis of the negative is that we need private-sector-led innovations, especially from mining, to overcome climate change – The important role of private companies means it simply cannot be unjust. Contention 1 – Privatization The first contention is Privatization – Private companies are necessary – They have to be the ones in space to ensure continuous innovations. AND to global networks, and new opportunities could lead to wider economic growth. Stronger innovation decreases risks of extinction, and creates tangible improvements in the quality of life for the people. AND far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery. Contention 2 – Mining The second contention is Mining – Asteroid mining preserves the Earth’s environment by curbing pollution, improving water quality, and minimizing the current effects of climate change. AND improve their standard of living through increased technologies, consumption and population growth. Asteroid mining in space is much better for the environment mining on earth. AND in the numbers here, so these will need to be better understood. Climate change clearly leads to extinction and must be prevented. Since, life is one of the most valuable things when trying to protect security. We must instead minimize the chances of climate change especially by using asteroid mining. For these reason, I urge a negative ballot. Now onto my opponents case. | 4/1/22 |
JF - Lay v2Tournament: 48TH ANNUAL HARVARD NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Ridge VS | Judge: Zachary Reshovsky 1NC I negate the resolution – Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust. Observations Now I offer one observation for the round. The affirmatives burden is to prove that generally situations of “appropriation of outer space” are unjust – While the negative only has to prove an instance of it being just for you to vote negative. The thesis of the negative is that we need private-sector-led innovations, especially from mining, to overcome climate change – The important role of private companies means it simply cannot be unjust. Contention 1 – Privatization The first contention is Privatization – Privatization avoids wasteful government spending through cost effective practices---that boosts innovation and allows re-appropriation of funds for RandD. AND the opportunities to push existing technology to create jobs and boost the economy. Strong commercial space catalyzes tech innovation – progress at the margins and spinoff tech change global information networks AND to global networks, and new opportunities could lead to wider economic growth. Tech innovation solves extinction from nuclear war, food insecurity, and natural disasters. AND policy measure that could result from greater emphasis on resilience to global catastrophe. Food insecurity causes nuclear extinction. AND identify famine as a potential trigger for conflicts and possibly even nuclear war. For these reason, I urge a negative ballot. Now onto my opponents case. | 4/1/22 |
JF - NC - UtilTournament: Sunvite | Round: 6 | Opponent: Isidore Newman PJ | Judge: Eric He AND information used to identify those responsible and to facilitate any consequent targeting efforts. Space Deterrence Breakdowns causes War and Extinction. AND to make sure he’s not looking up at junk orbiting in the atmosphere. Util is the only egalitarian metric-~--anything else collapses cooperation on collective action crises and makes extinction inevitable AND cause in survival. Our future may depend on whether we realize this. | 2/20/22 |
JF - NC - Util v2Tournament: National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | Round: 5 | Opponent: twei | Judge: Indu Pandey Util is the only egalitarian metric---anything else collapses cooperation on collective action crises and makes extinction inevitable AND future may depend on whether we realize this. | 4/11/22 |
JF - T - AppropriationTournament: Sunvite | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Isaiah Salgado AND , they have no power to confer those rights on their nationals.184 Exploration is distinctly different AND not, it is unfortunate that it fails to make it clear.7 Vote Neg 1 Limits and ground: a the aff interpretation explodes the topic to allow any aff about being in space which structurally alters the neg research burden because there’s a qualitative difference between appropriation of outer space and with simply searching it B alters neg ground because it means the aff can defend trivial middle grounds about private satelites that unbalances the topic. c Jurisdiction – the judge doesn’t have the authority to vote aff if it wasn’t legitimate 2 Precision – Justifies the aff arbitrarily doing away with words in the resolution which gives way to affs about anything floating in outer space, not even following the word appropriation, which obliterates negative prep. Drop the debater to deter future abuse and because the 2N doesn’t get new disads so it’s permanently skewed. No RVIs—it’s your burden to be fair and T—same reason you don’t win for defense. Use competing interps - Topicality is a binary question, you can’t be “reasonably” topical | 4/1/22 |
JF - T - Extra v1Tournament: Sunvite | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Panel Unjust refers to a negative action – it means contrary-~--the aff is positive and adds things. 4 Violations: 1 They talk about the general structurs of capa and attempt to garner offene from that 2 the advocacy talks abt explration-~--that’s not T AND not, it is unfortunate that it fails to make it clear.7 3 “Appropriation” excludes mining -~--OST Consensus AND a system of international consultations aimed at avoiding any harmful interference with operations. Vote neg— 1 Limits – Letting affs add anything to the aff explodes limits – truisms like "2+2=4” or "racism bad" suddenly become additional aff ground if you meet the floor of the rez – means even if we have ground, the aff will always win truth claims which outweigh on sheer probability. AND lets the affirmative contradict – adding “not” or replacing “unjust” with “just” suddenly becomes topical when we do away with the words in the rez. 2 Ground – wrecks all neg arguments – smart affs under their interp will just add planks outside of the topic to solve DAs or wreck CP competition – planks about RandD funding solves innovation, random reforms could solve econ or warming – makes advantage CPs T. Meeting the floor of the rez is not sufficient if there is no ceiling to topical affirmatives T is Drop the Debater – the entire aff violates T first – A Magnitude – Affects the largest portion of the debate. B Norming – Only a few months to set topic norms – 1ar theory on other topics solves neg abuse | 4/1/22 |
JF - T - Extra v2Tournament: 48TH ANNUAL HARVARD NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough AK | Judge: Jacob Thomas Violation: they defend implementation of a ban on appropriation. Vote neg – 1 Limits – Extra T lets the aff add any words they want to the resolution which wrecks predictable neg ground – there’s no unified DA to affs that spec implementation, states, the creation of new legal regimes, etc. 2 Ground – Extra lets the aff fiat away uq or links to DAs – adding words means we can’t predictable create counterplans that compete – means the aff is always ahead – strategic affs will just add the word not to the rez which makes neg prep impossible | 4/1/22 |
JF - T - Extra v3Tournament: 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough PP | Judge: Colton Gilbert Violation: hold the line. Their plan is not the rez. The Neto card does nothing. None of those words are in the rez either. Also applies to public and private. Vote neg— 1 Limits – Letting affs add anything to the aff explodes limits – truisms like "2+2=4” or "racism bad" suddenly become additional aff ground if you meet the floor of the rez – means even if we have ground, the aff will always win truth claims which outweigh on sheer probability. AND lets the affirmative contradict – adding “not” or replacing “unjust” with “just” suddenly becomes topical when we do away with the words in the rez. 2 Ground – wrecks all neg arguments – smart affs under their interp will just add planks outside of the topic to solve DAs or wreck CP competition – planks about RandD funding solves innovation, random reforms could solve econ or warming – makes advantage CPs T. Meeting the floor of the rez is not sufficient if there is no ceiling to topical affirmatives. Justifies the NASA Aff, ISS aff, ESA Aff, US Aff, literally any other country, or combo of countries making it impossible to negate. T is DTD and No RVIs – The whole aff violates and its their burden to be topical---must proactively prove the aff is good since the entire debate follows it. Means T comes first---our abuse was because of theirs and it affects the largest portion of the debate. Anything else encourages baiting. Use Competing Interps – Anything else lets the judge intervene and pick whatever def is best under their bs meter leading to a proliferation of abuse. | 4/1/22 |
JF - T - Extra v4Tournament: 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough MJ | Judge: Srinidhi Yerraguntala | 4/1/22 |
JF - T - NebelTournament: Sunvite | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Isaiah Salgado Entities is a generic bare plural AND This suggests that “a democracy” in the resolution is not existential. It applies to this topic – a entities is an existential bare plural bc it has no determiner b The sentence “The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust” does not imply “the appropriation of outer space by US private entities is unjust” Violation – they spec the United States. Standards 1 Limits – they can spec infinite different entities like spaceX, etc.. - that’s supercharged by the ability to spec combinations of types of entities. This takes out functional limits – it’s impossible for me to research every possible combination of entities, governments, and appropriation. 2 TVA solves – just read your aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff – we don’t stop them from reading new FWs, mechanisms or advantages. PICs aren’t aff offense – a it’s ridiculous to say that neg potential abuse justifies the aff being non-T b There’s only a small number of pics on this topic c PICs incentivize them to write better affs that can generate solvency deficits to PICs | 4/1/22 |
JF - T - Outer SpaceTournament: National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Jinhee Heo AND , as the density of the atmosphere gradually decreases as the altitude increases. Violation: Mars is a planet not a part of outer space Vote Neg 1 Limits and ground: the aff interpretation explodes the topic to allow any aff about outer space, and celestial bodies which structurally alters the neg research burden. Allowing them to talk about asteroids means they also are T if they talked about any other planet. Means we get no ground bc of how unpredictable the AC could be from round to round – the counterinterp allows them to talk about appropriation happening on earth itself. 2 Precision – Justifies the aff arbitrarily doing away with words in the resolution which gives way to affs about anything which obliterates neg prep. T is DTD and No RVIs – The whole aff violates and its their burden to be topical---must proactively prove the aff is good since the entire debate follows it. Means T comes first---our abuse was because of theirs. Use Competing Interps – Anything else lets the judge intervene and pick whatever def is best under their bs meter leading to a proliferation of abuse. | 4/11/22 |
JF - T - PermanentTournament: 48TH ANNUAL HARVARD NATIONAL FORENSICS TOURNAMENT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough AK | Judge: Jacob Thomas AND with intention of keeping for one's own exclusive use would amont to appropriation. Violation: Space Tourism is travel over a short duration-~--even if they win singular examples of tourism that could be appropriation, they explicitly include temporary travel-~--makes the aff extra T at worst. AND taken up into the stratosphere and is sold for €17,500. Vote Neg 1 Limits – their interpretation means that affs about any outer space activity would be topical: photography, sending rovers, collecting ice cores, launching satellites, can’t sell rocks on EBAY, etc. This explodes neg prep burdens since outer space activity is so vague – no generics exist to answer both the photography and the tourism aff, so affs would just win with a tiny impact every round. At worst, they’re extra-T which proves all of our offense OR they don’t solve case. 2 Precision – Justifies the aff arbitrarily doing away with words in the resolution which gives way to affs about anything about outer space, for any length of time. Drop the debater to deter future abuse and because the 2N doesn’t get new disads so it’s permanently skewed. No RVIs—it’s your burden to be fair and T—same reason you don’t win for defense. Use competing interps - Topicality is a binary question, you can’t be “reasonably” topical | 4/1/22 |
JF - T - PolicyTournament: Sunvite | Round: 6 | Opponent: Isidore Newman PJ | Judge: Eric He Resolved means the affirmative must defend the implementation of a policy action AND or 'no' –which, of course, are answers to a question. Appropriation AND the Bogotá Declaration were trying to accomplish, albeit through different means.219 Vote neg 1 Fairness – the neg should win on average 50 of the time. Entering a competitive activity proves their arguments are shaped by a drive to win. The insurmountable advantage of being affirmative under their unfair model is a reason they should lose. We lose key clash – debate requires a predictable topic to motivate in depth research that yields the values of negation and argument refinement. Their interp explodes limits, allows affirmative conditionality, and makes debate a one-sided monologue devoid of argumentation which turns the case – they could j read “racism bad” which is impossible to negate against. 2 Rigorous Testing – Debate is pedagogically valuable and requires a stasis point. a) Its key to political activism – the only way we can learn about an aff’s method and its benefits or harms is if we are both prepared to debate it. b) When the aff is unlimited, it forces the neg to dogmatic claims to ideology like growth good, or heg good which answers the K, but turns the K because we don’t have productive discussions of the violence. 3 TVA Solves – Their aff but with implementation and an advantage about expending to the point of symbolic exhaustion Procedural fairness is a voter: Debate is fundamentally a game and some level of competitive equity is necessary to sustain the activity. The only impact to a ballot is deciding who wins. There is no impact to the rejection of the topic insofar as they adhere to other constraints –speech times, being aff when on the left side. It’s a prior question to substance, and turns the aff. Use competing interps – a reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention b creates a race to create the best possible norms for debate Drop the debater – a eter future abuse and b set better norms for debate No rvis— a it’s your burden to be fair and T b RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices They can’t weigh the case a logic – it’s a procedural question, they cant weigh smth that is unfair against smth saying they are unfair b SSD solves all of their offense – you can read the aff on the neg which forces debaters to consider a controversial issue from multiple perspectives. c Singular debates don’t affect our subjectivity. We don’t require defending the state, defending government policies, or saying any institution is normatively good – saying an actor ought to do something doesn’t condone the ethicality of that actor or require roleplaying as that actor. No impact turns—exclusions are inevitable because we only have 45 minutes so it’s best to draw those exclusions along reciprocal lines to ensure a role for the negative T before 1AR theory – the aff advocacy affects a larger portion of the debate since it determines every speech after it and pre round neg prep so neg abuse is justified by the aff At best they are extra T | 2/20/22 |
JF - T - Policy v2Tournament: National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | Round: 5 | Opponent: twei | Judge: Indu Pandey Violation: Anything that garners offense external to the plan is extra-t and makes being neg impossible---explodes limits. 1 Resolved---must defend the implementation of a policy action AND of course, are answers to a question. 2 Appropriation---neccesitates policy application. AND to the procedures prescribed by law...." § 37-92-103(3)(a). 3 “Unjust” means against the law---they must end the practices declared unjust. AND (no one shall be allowed to unjustly enrich himself at the expense of another; the word "unjustly" means "unlawfully"). Prefer: 1 Vagueness---debates inevitably involve the AFF defending something, but only our interp forces that to be clearly defined that from the start. Their model leads to late-breaking debates that destroy ground, for example we won’t know if asteroid mining or space exploration are offense until the 1AR, which skews neg prep. 2 Topic ed---specific policies teaches lets us go deep into the topic, uniquely important given the evolving character of space law – outweighs bc we only have 2 month topics, and phil ed is solved by free textbooks. Topical version – end the colonization of space by private entities through policy action. SSD solves their offense. T is DTD and No RVIs – The whole aff violates and its their burden to be topical---must proactively prove the aff is good since the entire debate follows it. We don’t get new DAs so DTA does nothing. Means T comes first---our abuse was because of theirs and it affects the largest portion of the debate. Anything else encourages baiting. Use Competing Interps – Anything else lets the judge intervene and pick whatever def is best under their bs meter leading to a proliferation of abuse. | 4/11/22 |
JF - T - Private v ChinaTournament: National Debate Coaches Association National Championships | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Elmer Yang China’s "private" sector companies aren't private. AND on political stand, political direction, political principles, and political roads. Negate – Limits – They skirt the core controversy of the topic which is national vs private space activities-~--kills stasis point and pre-round prep and means we lose access to generics that rely on the motives of private companies differing from national interest proven by the fact that their advantage is functionally China space good/bad. Justifies the NASA Aff, ISS aff, ESA Aff, US Aff, literally any other country, or combo of countries making it impossible to negate. T is DTD and No RVIs – The whole aff violates and its their burden to be topical-~--must proactively prove the aff is good since the entire debate follows it. Means T comes first-~--our abuse was because of theirs. Use Competing Interps – Anything else lets the judge intervene and pick whatever definition is best under their own bs meter leading to a proliferation of abuse. | 4/11/22 |
JF - T - RezTournament: 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough ZG | Judge: Gordon Krauss | 4/1/22 |
JF - T - StarlinkTournament: Sunvite | Round: 2 | Opponent: Buchholz LW | Judge: Emily Atamov Outer space starts 372 miles above the surface of earth. AND gravity is so small here that molecules of gas escape into outer space. Starlink’s satelites reach 340 Miles above earth’s surface. AND a few years so that they don't become space junk once they die. Violation: 340 miles is less than the 372 miles necessary to be considered outer space Vote neg: 1 Limits and ground: the aff interpretation explodes the topic to allow any aff about space generally which structurally alters the neg research burden because there’s a qualitative difference between outer space and the atmosohere. Means we get no ground bc of how unpredictable the AC could be from round to round – the counterinterp allows them to talk about appropriation happening on earth itself. 2 Precision – Justifies the aff arbitrarily doing away with words in the resolution which gives way to affs about anything which obliterates neg prep. DTD – a deter future abuse and b set better norms for debate No rvis – its their burden to be topical and they shouldn’t win j for being it, they have to proactively prove that their aff is good. CI – Anything else lets the judge intervene and pick whatever def is best under their bs meter. T first – it’s a prior question – the aff advocacy impacts the entire debate that comes after it. At worst they are extra T cuz they get rid of some that are not in space | 1/8/22 |
ND - CP - IntermittentTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: McNeil SC | Judge: Jacob Nails Intermittent strikes violate labor peace, Theodore 19 AND by Congress in crafting the Act and therefore does not warrant protected status. “Unconditional” necessitates no conditions/restrictions Solves aff offense none of it is specific to an unconditional right, but has benefits of not simply harming people. | 12/7/21 |
ND - CP - MilitaryTournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep SS | Judge: Eric He COUNTERPLAN – A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right for non-military workers to strikeArmed forces can’t strike nowLII 6 ~Cornell Legal Information Institute, 2006, "10 U.S. Code § 976," Cornell Legal Information Institute, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/976~~ AND to promote the readiness of the armed forces to defend the United States." Military unions wreck civilian military relations and US hegemonyCaforio 18 ~Giuseppe Caforio, Brigadier General with degrees in law, political science, and strategic studies (FYI, the author died ~2015, but this was republished in 2018 in an anthology book), 5-20-2018, "Unionisation of the Military: Representation of the Interests of Military Personnel," SpringerLink, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-71602-2'19~~ AND Austria and Sweden. ANALYSIS OF HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES THROUGH THE THOUGHT OF VARIOUS AUTHORS | 12/7/21 |
ND - CP - Police v1Tournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Millburn ST | Judge: Nathan Frenkel Police Strikes are used to combat racial progress and attempts to limit police power. Making them legal and easier only make progress much harder. AND wrest back control of the public debate on policing and reassert their independence. Those strikes cement a police culture which leads to endless amounts of racist violence. AND shape both intergroup dynamics and support for criminal justice policy (Leverentz 2012). | 4/1/22 |
ND - CP - Police v2Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: James Logan LZ | Judge: Alex Rivera Police Strikes are used to combat racial progress and attempts to limit police power. Making them legal and easier only make progress much harder. AND wrest back control of the public debate on policing and reassert their independence. Those strikes cement a police culture which leads to endless amounts of racist violence and the bolstering of the prison industrial complex. AND and to underreport how often they are stopped due to higher social desirability factors Palestinian police endorse and incite violence as well AND , Israeli officials said 90 percent of illegal firearms originated from the army. | 12/7/21 |
ND - CP - Police v3Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: McNeil SC | Judge: Jacob Nails Police Strikes are used to combat racial progress and attempts to limit police power. Making them legal and easier only make progress much harder. AND wrest back control of the public debate on policing and reassert their independence. Those strikes cement a police culture which leads to endless amounts of racist violence and the bolstering of the prison industrial complex. AND and to underreport how often they are stopped due to higher social desirability factors The harrasment is even endemic in the EU AND discriminatory ethnic profiling, better support victims of racism and properly prosecute perpetrators. | 12/7/21 |
ND - CP - Police v4Tournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep SS | Judge: Eric He Counterplan: a just government ought to recognize the conditional right of workers to strike, conditional on an exception for police officers.Police strikes strikes strengthen unions that contribute to increased violence, and protection of misconductSerwer 6/24 Serwer, Adam. "Bust the Police Unions." The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 24 June 2021, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/bust-the-police-unions/619006/ AND officers always report serious criminal violations involving abuse of authority by fellow officers." Those strikes cement a police culture which leads to endless amounts of racist violence and the bolstering of the prison industrial complex.Chaney and Ray 13, Cassandra (Has a PhD and is a professor at LSU. Also has a strong focus in the structure of Black families) , and Ray V. Robertson (Also has a PhD and is a criminal justice professor at LSU). "Racism and police brutality in America." Journal of African American Studies 17.4 (2013): 480-505. Bracketed for inclusion AND and to underreport how often they are stopped due to higher social desirability factors | 12/7/21 |
ND - CP - Prison StrikeTournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harrison JP | Judge: Wesley Loofbourrow AND demonstrations, teach-ins, sit-ins and massive email campaigns. Solves better – perceptions and recognition aren’t enough. No 1AC ev specs recognition being key to solve anything, and the DA proves recognition is bad. | 12/4/21 |
ND - CP - TeacherTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Eric He AND NEDLAC where stakeholders in education could voice their concerns through community representatives.135 Turns the aff – prevents teachers from using excessive strikes that harm education, allowing us to solve CC better. | 12/4/21 |
ND - DA - EConfidenceTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Eric He AND extensive contacts with Russian intelligence officials who sought to disrupt the 2016 election. Strikes destroy consumer confidence in business AND dispute through a non-violent mechanism such as a collective bargaining process. Business confidence is key to ensuring continued growth AND shifts in confidence and/or the development of unsettling negative feedback loops. Low growth lead to a great depression. AND all the financial leverage, financial assets and debt out of our economy. Economic Depression cascades – Extinction AND 19 lockdowns may have inadvertently served as a test run in this regard. | 12/4/21 |
ND - DA - EConfidence v2Tournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harrison JP | Judge: Wesley Loofbourrow AND extensive contacts with Russian intelligence officials who sought to disrupt the 2016 election. Labor policies like the AC scare businesses AND wage countries such as China and Mexico, and increasing international capital mobility. Business confidence is key to ensuring continued growth AND shifts in confidence and/or the development of unsettling negative feedback loops. Econ decline fuels nationalism/undermines deterrence---great power war AND inevitably will seek to fill the voids left behind as the US retrenches. | 12/4/21 |
ND - DA - TradeTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: McNeil SC | Judge: Jacob Nails AND European Commission has recently completed a fascinating study of strategic dependencies and capacities. Strike strengthen unions which cause protectionism – that slows growth and causes tariffs AND rate of return on investment further, which will necessarily compound the problem. New trade conflicts cause global war and undermine cooperation on collective action problems AND there than it should. But the destination is clear. 5*' | 12/7/21 |
ND - LayTournament: Isidore Newman School Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Christ Episcopal SM | Judge: Caleb Eaves | 1/7/22 |
ND - T - ATournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake AW | Judge: Mohul Aggarwal Violation: they spec the US “A” implies a generic reference when it can be replaced with “all a noun everywhere” AND sections and at the beginning of a paragraph that introduces a new topic. Vote neg for limits and ground -~-- other interps wrecks links to core topic DAs like bizcon since our args are predicated off the principle of the aff -~-- aff forces a rush to hyper generics which turns and outweighs their offense since its less predictable for the 1ar and avoids topic education. Independent voter for jurisdiction – the judge doesn’t have the jurisdiction to vote aff if there wasn’t a legitimate aff. DTD – A Deters – prevents future abuse B Logic – DTA drops the entire aff Fairness is a voter – if the rounds been skewed its impossible to determine who the better debater was. TVA – read the aff as an adv in a whole res Counter Interps A) Intervention – Reasonability begs for judge bias B) Race to the bottom – reasonability justifies barely being reasonable - interps force a race to the top since better models win RVIs are illogical-~--don’t get a win for being fair-~--still have to win the aff is a good idea | 12/4/21 |
ND - T - Just Gov IsraelTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: James Logan LZ | Judge: Alex Rivera Just governments respect liberties AND people’s money, but to prevent injustice by protecting property and securing liberty. Israel is not just AND away by ambulance, and one had a broken arm,” he said. 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 one explodes limits via infinite permutations of governments 3 TVA – read the aff as a whole res phil aff, same advantage area. Means neg will still have good ground and solid in-depth debates. Still allows for AFF ground cuz can read anything as long as u defend general principle of social contract under a util lens. | 12/7/21 |
ND - T - Just Gov USTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake AW | Judge: Mohul Aggarwal Just governments respect liberties AND people’s money, but to prevent injustice by protecting property and securing liberty. Violation—the US and its courts are just. AND former Georgetown Law Professor David Cole states in his book No Equal Justice, 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 one explodes limits via infinite permutations of governments 3 TVA – read the aff as a whole res phil aff, same advantage area. Means neg will still have good ground and solid in-depth debates. Still allows for AFF ground cuz can read anything as long as u defend general principle of social contract under a util lens. | 12/4/21 |
ND - T - WorkersTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Eric He AND “colleges and universities” is generic rather than existential in the resolution. It applies to “workers” – 1 upward entailment test – “a just government ought to recognize workers unconditional right to strike” doesn’t entail that a just government ought to recognize peoples unconditional right to strike because it doesn’t prove that all people should strike, 2 adverb test – adding “always” to the res doesn’t substantially change its meaning because recognition is unconditional. Violation: They spec Standards: 1 precision – the counter-interp justifies them arbitrarily doing away with random words in the resolution which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution. Independent voter for jurisdiction – the judge doesn’t have the jurisdiction to vote aff if there wasn’t a legitimate aff. 2 Limits and ground – their model allows affs to defend anything from teachers to doctors to the police— there's no universal DA since each has different functions and political implications — that explodes neg prep and leads to random worker of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible — limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep and it takes out ground like DAs to certain occupations which are some of the few neg generics when affs spec occupations. 3 TVA solves – you could’ve read your plan as an advantage under a whole res advocacy. Fairness is a voter – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it’s the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules rely on fairness to be justified. Use competing interps – a reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention b creates a race to create the best possible norms for debate Drop the debater – a deter future abuse and b set better norms for debate. No rvis— a it’s your burden to be fair and T b RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices T before 1AR theory – the aff advocacy affects a larger portion of the debate since it determines every speech after it and pre round neg prep so neg abuse is justified by the aff | 12/4/21 |
SO - CP - CovidTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Hunter AI | Judge: Vandan Patel -~--Loan an additional 4 billion dollars of additional funding to close the pre-purchase gap of 350 million vaccines to achieve world-wide immunity -~--The World Bank should relax the conditions to receive a loan as per Goldberg 21 -~--Eliminate export restriction on critical medicines during pandemics. The CP solves pandemics better – the aff misidentifies the problem. AND surpluses from high-income countries to the rest of the world. | 12/4/21 |
SO - CP - IMFTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Holy Ghost Prep MM | Judge: Justin Flynn
3. AND purchasing Access is an infrastructure issue and the AFF has no solvency to access with patent reduction AND the collaborative efforts to fight the pandemic that are already under way. | 12/4/21 |
SO - CP - ImprovementTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Millburn RB | Judge: Caitlin Soch AND could potentially conflict with the United States' TRIPS Agreement obligations with the WTO. IT solves best companies to enter the marketplace sooner and drive prices down through competition. 5z | 12/10/21 |
SO - DA - Health Diplomacy v1Tournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Holy Ghost Prep MM | Judge: Justin Flynn AND organizations and in other multilateral venues that aim to resolve global health challenges. IP is essential to modern health diplomacy AND ways by one of the modes of service supply in the GATS Agreement. Health diplomacy’s creates global cooperation solving multiple existential threats AND . To advance health diplomacy requires health leaders with an inclusive global vision... | 12/4/21 |
SO - DA - Health Diplomacy v2Tournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Millburn RB | Judge: Caitlin Soch AND ways by one of the modes of service supply in the GATS Agreement. Health diplomacy’s creates global cooperation solving multiple existential threats AND . To advance health diplomacy requires health leaders with an inclusive global vision... | 12/10/21 |
SO - DA - Innovation v1Tournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Holy Ghost Prep MM | Judge: Justin Flynn AND jeopardy only in exchange for what is at best short-term benefits. No innovation without protections—five warrants. AND from developing countries as well as faster growth rates of certain industries.36 Innovation is KEY to preventing and responding to bioterror and antimicrobial resistance. AND health threats to an even greater extent under improved innova-tion conditions. Bioterror is big risk to extinction AND exponential effect on a population (Warrick, 2006; Williams, 2006). Additionally, Pharma IP independently solves future pandemics – an INCREASE in IP could actually be better due to knowledge sharing AND the secretive bioweapons research programs several governments sponsor that help to sustain it. | 12/4/21 |
SO - DA - Innovation v2Tournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Millburn RB | Judge: Caitlin Soch AND jeopardy only in exchange for what is at best short-term benefits. No innovation without protections—five warrants. AND from developing countries as well as faster growth rates of certain industries.36 The aff still links AND , especially on the most vulnerable, just aren’t up to the task. Additionally, Pharma IP independently solves future pandemics – an INCREASE in IP could actually be better due to knowledge sharing AND the secretive bioweapons research programs several governments sponsor that help to sustain it. | 12/10/21 |
SO - T - ReduceTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Millburn RB | Judge: Caitlin Soch AND Zieche has introduced *13 no evidence to convince the Court otherwise. Violation: they preclude patent extensions 1 Limits and ground—they allow the aff to monopolize prep by precluding a future increase anytime from now allowing affs to no link from uniqueness scenarios, delay CPs, etc which kills engageability—leads to unpredictable affs that skew the debate away from whether IP is good/bad to when a reduction should occur. 2 TVA – defend the advantage to a whole rez timeframe. We don’t prevent new FWs, mechanisms, or advantages. PICs don’t solve – our model allows you to specify countries and medicines. Fairness is a voter – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it’s the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules rely on some conception of fairness to be justified. Use competing interps – a reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention b creates a race to create the best possible norms for debate Drop the debater – a deter future abuse and b set better norms for debate. No rvis— a it’s your burden to be fair and T b RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices T before 1AR theory – the aff advocacy affects a larger portion of the debate since it determines every speech after it and pre round neg prep so neg abuse is justified by the aff | 12/10/21 |
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