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| Long Beach | 3 | Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Jan Wimmer 1ac - Vaccine Imperialism |
| Long Beach | 1 | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Lukas Krause 1ac - Zoom Vitality |
| Long Beach | 6 | Opponent: Mitty AA | Judge: Saketh Kotapati 1ac - Data exclusivity |
| Pres | 5 | Opponent: Irvington SD | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin 1ac - wholeres |
| Pres | 2 | Opponent: Sequoia AS | Judge: Amy Nyberg 1ac - Jordan |
| Valley | 5 | Opponent: MSJ SB | Judge: Spencer Orlowski ac - gender hacking |
| Valley | 3 | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Cyrus Jackson 1ac - Covid |
| Valley | 1 | Opponent: Peninsula JG | Judge: Faizaan Dossani 1ac - Disability |
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- ContactTournament: turbografx16 | Round: Quads | Opponent: Contact | Judge: Contact fb - Muzzammil Khan I should respond to those quickly, but if I dont message me @ 6692338905 Some docs have a blank case page b/c everything was on my flow | 10/9/21 |
SO - CP DonationsTournament: Valley | Round: 3 | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Cyrus Jackson NC – Donations CP – ShortCP: France, Germany, Sweden, and Italy should:substantially increase COVID vaccine production to meet the global demand Eliminating IPR for vaccines gives China a massive competitive edge on innovation broadly – tanks pharma, undermines pandemic response, and tech leadership – BUT domestic production and distribution solvesOkutsu and Sharma 21 ~Akane, staff writer for Nikkei International, and Kiran, LPC, The College of Law, Guildford, 1997 BA (Hons), Law, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, 1996. "Vaccine Patent Waiver: COVID Stopper or Innovation Killer?" https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-vaccines/Vaccine-patent-waiver-COVID-stopper-or-innovation-killer~~ AND Health Organization's~ COVAX initiative to purchase and distribute vaccines to developing countries." Biopharma innovation is key to overall competitiveness – US still has a razor thin lead but IP is uniquely keyEzell 20 ~Stephen Ezell, Director of Global Innovation Policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). "Ensuring U.S. Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness." 7/16/20. https://itif.org/publications/2020/07/16/ensuring-us-biopharmaceutical-competitiveness~~ AND time for Washington to articulate and embrace a robust national biopharmaceutical competitiveness strategy. Chinese tech leadership causes nuke warKroenig and Gopalaswamy 18, *Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Deputy Director for Strategy in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. Director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering with a specialization in numerical acoustics from Trinity College, Dublin. (Matthew and Bharath, 11-12-2018, "Will disruptive technology cause nuclear war?", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, https://thebulletin.org/2018/11/will-disruptive-technology-cause-nuclear-war/) AND second-strike capabilities, but to preserve prevailing power balances more broadly. | 10/8/21 |
SO - CT CounterfeitsTournament: Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: MSJ SB | Judge: Spencer Orlowski CaseLink alone turns the case – the plan makes counterfeiting far more likely, hitting developing countries the hardest.McDole, JD, and Ezell, BS, 21 – Jaci McDole ~JD with a specialization in IP from SIU Carbondale, Senior Policy Analyst @ Information Technology and Innovation Foundation~ and Stephen Ezell ~VP of Global Innovation Policy @ Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, BS from Georgetown School of Foreign Service~, "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic," No Publication, 4-29-2021 https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through C.VC AND control and helps manufacturers maintain a level of public confidence in their products. Outweighs the aff – counterfeit medicines cause tens of thousands of preventable deaths.Reuters 17, "Tens of thousands dying from $30 billion fake drugs trade, WHO says," 11-28-2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pharmaceuticals-fakes/tens-of-thousands-dying-from-30-billion-fake-drugs-trade-who-says-idUSKBN1DS1XJ C.VC AND , threatening to undermine the power of life-saving medicines in future. | 10/8/21 |
SO - DA Debt ptxTournament: Valley | Round: 3 | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Cyrus Jackson Debt limit and government funding will pass now—everything else is delayedBRESNAHAN 9/15 ~JOHN BRESNAHAN, ANNA PALMER AND JAKE SHERMAN, Punchbowl News Legislataive Outlook 9/15, https://email.punchbowl.news/t/ViewEmailArchive/t/E48C6AF0C3714E452540EF23F30FEDED/C67FD2F38AC4859C/~~ AND , but it’s the reality we hear privately in the Capitol. Medical IP takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. AND , the European Union and the US, who all opposed the idea. Agenda change has a cascading effectJoly 19, ~Jeroen Joly is a Doctor Assistant at Universiteit Gent, Punctuated equilibrium theory and foreign policy, The research for this chapter was financially supported by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces, Directorate General for International Relations and Strategy (DGRIS), https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeroen'Joly/publication/331073786'Punctuated'equilibrium'theory'and'foreign'policy/links/5c66ec3092851c1c9de446f2/Punctuated-equilibrium-theory-and-foreign-policy.pdf~~ AND foreign policy issues (Edwards and Wood 1999; Wood and Peake 1998). Debt default is the easiest way to wreck the US economy—ruins the US dollar and financial reputationEgan 9/8 ~Matt Egan is an award-winning reporter at CNN, covering business, the economy and financial markets across CNN's television and digital platforms, "'Financial Armageddon.' What's at stake if the debt limit isn't raised", 9/8/21, https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/business/debt-ceiling-default-explained/index.html~~ AND billion in fiscal 2020, would quickly rival what Washington spends on defense. ExtinctionJoshua Zoffer 20, Investor at Cove Hill Partners, Fellow at New America, JD Candidate at Yale University Law School, AB from Harvard University, "To End Forever War, Keep the Dollar Globally Dominant", The New Republic, 2/3/2020, https://newrepublic.com/article/156417/end-forever-war-keep-dollar-globally-dominant AND consortium of countries is prepared to fund, such as climate change mitigation. | 10/8/21 |
SO - DA Drug Price ptxTournament: Long Beach | Round: 6 | Opponent: Mitty AA | Judge: Saketh Kotapati OFFDrug price reform coming now – fight is ramping up but Biden has the opportunityCancryn 9/9 Cancryn, Adam. Adam Cancryn is a health care reporter for POLITICO Pro, graduate of Washington and Lee University."Biden admin backs direct government drug price negotiations." POLITICO, 9 Sept. 2021, www.politico.com/news/2021/09/09/biden-drug-price-negotiations-510828. AND at improving competition across a range of industries, including the drug sector. Biden’s PC is key to wrangle democrats and counter pharma lobbyingJohnson 8/12 Johnson, Jake, writer for Alternet . "Joe Biden throws support behind bold reforms to slash drug prices." Alternet, August 12, 2021, www.alternet.org/2021/08/biden-medicare-negotiate-prices. AND capital to push for congressional action at a pivotal moment in the debate." External action takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. AND , the European Union and the US, who all opposed the idea. Drug price controls massively reduce healthcare costs across the board – even assuming conservative modelsGamba 6/9 Gamba, Tyler. Author at the AJMC. "Adoption of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act May Lead to Billions in Savings." AJMC, 9 June 2021, www.ajmc.com/view/adoption-of-the-lower-drug-costs-now-act-may-lead-to-billions-in-savings. AND on the significant portion it pays toward member premiums in the individual marketplaces. Collapses the economyHowrigon, 16 — Ron Howrigon, M.S. in Economics with a focus on Health Economics from North Carolina State University, President and Founder of Fulcrum Strategies, 18 Years of Experience in Healthcare, 12-30-2016, "Flatlining: How Healthcare Could Kill the U.S. Economy," Greenbranch Publishing, 1st Edition, Accessed via Minnesota Libraries, Date Accessed: 8-10 AND resulting fallout could be could be much worse than even the housing crisis. Economic decline causes nuclear warTønnesson, 15 — Stein Tønnesson, Leader of East Asia Peace program at Uppsala University, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, "Deterrence, Interdependence and Sino–US Peace" International Area Studies Review, Review Essay, Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 297-311, SAGE Journals, Minnesota Libraries, Date Accessed: 8-4 AND each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene. | 10/15/21 |
SO - DA InnovationTournament: Long Beach | Round: 3 | Opponent: Peninsula EL | Judge: Jan Wimmer InnovationPharmaceutical innovation is accelerating now – new medicines are substantially better than existing treatments.Wills, MBA, and Lipkus, PhD, 20 – Todd J. Wills ~Managing Director @ Chemical Abstracts Service, MBA from THE Ohio State University~ and Alan H. Lipkus ~Senior Data Analyst @ Chemical Abstracts Service, PhD Physical Chemistry from the University of Rochester~, "Structural Approach to Assessing the Innovativeness of New Drugs Finds Accelerating Rate of Innovation," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol. 11, 2020, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00319 C.VC AND never been used as the basis for a molecule) to further explore. The biopharmaceutical industry is uniquely reliant on IP protections – undermining them would kill innovation by making an already expensive process completely unfeasible.Kristina M. Lybecker, PhD, 17 ~PhD Economics, Associate Professor of Economics @ Colorado College~, "Intellectual Property Rights Protection and the Biopharmaceutical Industry: How Canada Measures Up," Fraser Institute, January 2017, https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/intellectual-property-rights-protection-and-the20biopharmaceutical-industry.pdf C.VC AND shaping the biopharmaceutical industry, its profitability, productivity, and innovative future. Pharmaceutical innovation is key to protecting against future pandemics, bioterrorism, and antibiotic resistance.Marjanovic and Fejiao ‘20 Marjanovic, Sonja, and Carolina Feijao. Sonja Marjanovic, Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitive biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement." (2020). ~Quality Control~ AND health threats to an even greater extent under improved innova-tion conditions. Bioterrorism and future pandemics cause extinction.Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, CBRN Expert @ British Army, 20 ~Director @ DBG Defense, Consultant on CBRN and Biosecurity~, "Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed," Combatting Terrorism Center Sentinel, November/December 2020, Volume 13, Issue 11, https://ctc.usma.edu/biosecurity-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-the-urgent-action-needed/ C.VC AND forward, there should no higher priority for the international community than biosecurity. | 10/15/21 |
SO - DA reconciliation ptxTournament: Pres | Round: 5 | Opponent: Irvington SD | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin The Debt Ceiling expansion gives Democrats two months to finalize and pass Biden’s spending package – every moment is necessary to resolve intraparty disputesCochrane 10/7 Cochrane, Emily. Emily Cochrane is a correspondent based in Washington. She has covered Congress since late 2018, focusing on the annual debate over government funding and economic legislation, ranging from emergency pandemic relief to infrastructure. "Senate Leaders Agree to Vote on Short-Term Debt Ceiling Increase." N.Y. Times, 7 Oct. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/politics/debt-ceiling-senate.html. AND " to use the reconciliation process to approve a long-term increase. Pushing a WTO takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. AND , the European Union and the US, who all opposed the idea. Infrastructure package is sufficient, necessary, and the last opportunity to solve climate change – extinctionLeber 10/7 Leber, Rebecca. Rebecca Leber covers climate change for Vox. Before joining Vox, she was an environmental reporter at Mother Jones, where her investigations exposed government corruption and fossil fuel industry disinformation. She has worked as a staff writer at Grist, The New Republic, and ThinkProgress. A dozen more outlets have published her work over her decade as a climate journalist. "A last chance for US climate action: Democrats’ Build Back Better and infrastructure bills." Vox, 7 Oct. 2021, www.vox.com/22685920/democrats-infrastructure-build-back-better-climate-change. AND that can really help catalyze more ambition from other countries," Cleetus said. | 10/15/21 |
SO - EvergreeningExclusivity Innovation linksTournament: Pres | Round: 5 | Opponent: Irvington SD | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin EvergreeningIt tips the entire industry into insolvencyGloberman and Lybecker 14 ~Steven Globerman is Resident Scholar and Addington Chair in Measurement at the Fraser Institute as well as Professor Emeritus at Western Washington University. Kristina M.L. Acri, née Lybecker – Chair of the Department of Economics and Business, Colorado College. "The Benefits of Incremental Innovation FOCUS ON THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY The Benefits of Incremental Innovation FOCUS ON THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY." https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/benefits-of-incremental-innovation.pdf~~ AND the market (Wertheimer, Levy, and O’Connor, 2001: 110). ExclusivityData exclusivity is uniquely key to innovation. Lybecker ‘14Kristina Lybecker ~{Dr. Kristina M. Lybecker is an Associate Professor of Economics at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, where she is also the Associate Chair of the Department of Economics and Business and the Gerald L. Schlessman Professor of Economics. Dr. Lybecker earned a B.A. in Economics and Latin American Studies from Macalester College and received her Ph.D. in Economics in 2000 from the University of California, Berkeley. Her Dissertation was on "Counterfeit Pharmaceuticals: Product Piracy and the Transition to Stronger Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries."~}, 14 - ("When Patents Aren’t Enough: The Case for Data Exclusivity for Biologic Medicines," IPWatchdog, 7-9-2014, https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2014/07/09/patents-arent-enough-data-exclusivity-for-biologic-medicines/id=50318/)//marlborough-wr/ AND of biologic medicines for the future of healthcare, we must protect them. | 10/15/21 |
SO - K capTournament: Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: MSJ SB | Judge: Spencer Orlowski CAPThe aff ignores the effects of capitalism on identities — sexual identity was marked as less valuable because queer bodies could not reproduce in the same way heterosexual bodies could — we are winning a sequencing argument that should frame how you view the 1ar responsesHennessy 2k AND into the power of more obvious and perhaps more compelling ways of seeing. Sexual rights rely on a neoliberal conception of negative freedom that defines autonomy as consumption independent of state regulation – this precludes an intersectional analysis that can achieve equality and justice better than the AFFs token inclusionMullins 8—Greg, is author of Colonial Affairs: Bowles, Burroughs, and Chester Write Tangier. He teaches comparative literature and human rights at Evergreen State College. "Dionne Brand's Poetics of Recognition: Reframing Sexual Rights," Callaloo 30.4 1100-1109, Project Muse AND recognition by a liberal state as a precondition for staking claims of justice. Our critique independently outweighs the case - neoliberalism causes extinction and massive social inequalities Farbod 15 ( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2) AND enhancing natural and social systems will soon reach a point of no return. Vote negative to place the force of the ballot behind the Communist Party. The method of the Party is distinct and exclusive with the method of the 1AC—-a negative ballot foregrounds political organization and commonality against capitalJodi Dean 16, Professor of Political Theory at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 2016, Crowds and Party AND crowds disperse, channeling its divisive promise of justice into organized political struggle. They don't get a permutation—a permutation is a test of competitiveness between policy options—that model doesn't make sense when the debate is between amorphous philosophical positions because you can't really tie them down to anything – they have no clear standard for competition which forces the neg to answer the aff while negotiating competitionMutual aid groups help get medicine for eachother | 10/8/21 |
SO - K cap v2Tournament: Pres | Round: 2 | Opponent: Sequoia AS | Judge: Amy Nyberg Regulating intellectual property participates in a scarcity logic that re-affirms a broader market ownership over information – that consolidates neoliberal control through a shift to private protections, even if the individual act of the aff is goodSoderberg 1 ~Johan, BA from Falmouth College of the Arts. "Copyleft vs Copyright: A Marxist Critique" https://firstmonday.org/article/view/938/860~~** AND 32~. It is predominantly this struggle that I now will attend to. IP tinkering represents a myopic focus on making capitalism nicer, but only legitimates the broader process of informatic commodification as integral to class violenceSoderberg 1 ~Johan, BA from Falmouth College of the Arts. "Copyleft vs Copyright: A Marxist Critique" https://firstmonday.org/article/view/938/860~~** AND But because of the intangible nature of information, contradictions emerges out of attempts Capitalism is quickly reaching its ecological, structural, and psychological limits and causes near-term extinction – laundry list.Robinson 16 (William, Professor of sociology, global studies and Latin American studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His most recent book is Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity. | "Sadistic Capitalism: Six Urgent Matters for Humanity in Global Crisis" in Truth-out, April 12, 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35596-sadistic-capitalism-six-urgent-matters-for-humanity-in-global-crisis )tbrooks AND financial system, despite a series of emergency summits to discuss such regulation. The alternative is to engage in anticapitalism, an act of radical resistance grounded in grassroots movements. Anticapitalism does not represent an unattainable utopia but challenges common myths about capitalism as a whole.Rogers 14 (Chris Rogers, author, Capitalism and Its Alternatives: A Critical Introduction, Zed Books, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/lib/umichigan/detail.action?docID=1758713.) AM AND , and in turn motivated action in order to try to address them. | 10/15/21 |
SO - T FW vs DisabilityTournament: Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula JG | Judge: Faizaan Dossani 1Interp: Affirmatives must defend that the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines This does not require the use of any particular style, type of evidence, or assumption about the role of the judge — only that the topic should determine the debate’s subject matter.Violation:Resolved" means enactment of a law.Words and Phrases 64 Words and Phrases Permanent Edition (Multi-volume set of judicial definitions). "Resolved". 1964. AND ," which is defined by Bouvier as meaning "to establish by law". Used genericallyDictionary.com ~Online Dictionary and Thesaurus, "the"~ ~DS~ "The" is a genericOED ~Oxford English Dictionary, "the"~ ~DS~ Here is a list of the member nations of the WTO – aff is not thatWTO 7/29/16 ~World Trade Organization, "Updated Member List"~ ~DS~ AND Sudan Nation is a group of people possessing sovereign territory and governmentMerriam Webster ~Encyclopedia Britannica, "Nation"~ ~DS~
"of" relates a part to a wholeOED ~Oxford English Dictionary, "of"~ ~DS~ WTO is an international trade organizationWTO ~"What is the WTO?"~ ~DS~ AND producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business. "Ought to" moral obligation==== Reduce diminish ==== IP protections cover patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secretsSpencePC 4/4/16 ~Legal Counsel, "Four Types of Intellectual Property for Business"~ ~DS~ AND The post Four Types of Intellectual Property for Businesses appeared first on SpencePC Medicine is for treatment of diseaseCED ~Cambridge English Dictionary, "Medicine"~ ~DS~ Offense:1. Limits OW —-bounded debate is the only way to guarantee preparation and defense against a well-prepared opponent—-that’s a prerequisite to using the form of debate effectively, no matter what for. Disruption alone isn’t justification for an aff ballot, they need an interpretation that guarantees pre-round relationality, genuine argumentative challenges and an agreed-upon end-point. Their model of debate allows the most powerful to disrupt the communicative forum – their interp is an insular victory at best and disastrous at worst for debate’s liberatory potential.Hansen, PhD, 18 AND be limited according to unconscious power structures, the rules of the strongest? 2. FairnessA. Non topical advocacies mean they can defend anything outside the resolution which is unpredictable, and also defend uncontestable offense like racism bad. This kills NEG ground and thus equal access to the ballot.B. Debate is a game: forced winner/loser, competitive norms, and the tournament invite prove. Alternative impacts like activism or education can be pursued in other forums. This makes fairness the most important impactC. Preparation- repacking the topic gives the aff a huge edge, they can prepare for 6 months on an issue that catches us by surprise. Preparation is better than thinking on your feet- research demonstrates pedagogical humility and research skills are the only portable debate trainingD. Library DA- there are a finite amount of ways to stop IP protections, but an infinite number of non topical affirmatives. not debating the topic allows someone to specialize in one area of the library for 4 years giving them a huge edge over people who switch research focus ever 2 months.E. Exclusionary rule- you can’t vote on the case outweighs T because lack of preparation prevents rigorous testing of the AC claims. If we win fairness we don’t have to "outweigh" other impactsF. TVA – ~Read this as an advantage under wholeres; lack of medicine access disproportionately effects those with disability who need medicine but dont receive it~. Solves their education offense. Our TVA is purposefully imperfect to ensure negative ground and force SSD.Outweighs their impacts - Links best to the role of the judge to determine the winner as per the ballot – that’s impossible if the round’s unfair. Even if their method is good for education there’s no reason you vote on it, just as even if exercise is good for soccer players you don’t vote for the team that ran most.Voter: Drop the debater on T – the round is already skewed from the beginning because their advocacy excluded by ability to generate NC offense– letting them sever doesn’t solve any of the abuseTheory is an issue of competing interpretations because reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention based on preference rather than argumentation and encourages a race to the bottom in which debaters will exploit a judge’s tolerance for questionable argumentation. | 10/8/21 |
SO - T FW vs Gender HackingTournament: Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: MSJ SB | Judge: Spencer Orlowski TInterp: Affirmatives must defend that the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines This does not require the use of any particular style, type of evidence, or assumption about the role of the judge — only that the topic should determine the debate’s subject matter.Resolved" means enactment of a law.Words and Phrases 64 Words and Phrases Permanent Edition (Multi-volume set of judicial definitions). "Resolved". 1964. AND ," which is defined by Bouvier as meaning "to establish by law". WTO is an international trade organizationWTO ~"What is the WTO?"~ ~DS~ AND producers of goods and services, exporters, and importers conduct their business. Violation – ~insert~No I meets – at best they’re still extra T which kills ground and engagement because they can use it to solve back our links TVA- ~Defend the actual implementation of removing IPP — the aff is very close to wholeres~ – you can still include performance and the criticism. Disads to the TVA prove neg ground and no right to a perfect 1acSwitch side debate – critiques of liberalism and permformance can be read on the neg – solves dogmatism by testing different viewpoints Vote Neg – their interpretation eviscerates negative ground because they’ll say no implementation makes the results of the aff irrelevant – kills negative engagement and testing which internal link turns any terminal impact to debate. — proven by 1ac cx shiftinessOtherwise, they have passive opinions without meaningful advocacy – MeToo, BlackLives Matter, and other movements are grounded in particular policies that can help marginalized people – they abstract from those impacts which means movement failure is inevitable and its likely they support worse, dogmatic policies that harm marginalized people more, which internal link turns the aff.Nations bad isn’t offense against topicality bc they don’t have to endorse the state, just have an opinion on it AND you can criticize the nation bc you defend a change from the squoDrop the debater – the round shouldn’t have happened in the first placeNo RVIs – this includes impact turns and independent voting issues – | 10/8/21 |
SO - T FW vs ZoomTournament: Long Beach | Round: 1 | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Lukas Krause OffInterp: Affirmatives must defend ~~~This does not require the use of any particular style, type of evidence, or assumption about the role of the judge — only that the topic should determine the debate’s subject matter.Violation:"Resolved" means enactment of a law.Words and Phrases 64 Words and Phrases Permanent Edition (Multi-volume set of judicial definitions). "Resolved". 1964. AND ," which is defined by Bouvier as meaning "to establish by law". "The" refers to the whole group in this instanceMerriam Webster ~The Free Dictionary, "the" – definite article~ ~DS~ Nation is an official territorial division independent and sovereignMerriam Webster ~Encyclopedia Britannica, "Nation"~ ~DS~
"Ought to" moral obligation==== Reduce diminish ==== Medicine Includes anything that leads to physical, mental, or social well beingJohn Walford Todd 9/7/20 ~Encyclopedia Britannica, "Medicine"~ ~DS~ AND promotion and care of health—is concerned with this ideal. Offense:1. Limits OW —-bounded debate is the only way to guarantee preparation and defense against a well-prepared opponent—-that’s a prerequisite to using the form of debate effectively, no matter what for. Disruption alone isn’t justification for an aff ballot, they need an interpretation that guarantees pre-round relationality, genuine argumentative challenges and an agreed-upon end-point. Their model of debate allows the most powerful to disrupt the communicative forum – their interp is an insular victory at best and disastrous at worst for debate’s liberatory potential.Hansen, PhD, 18 AND be limited according to unconscious power structures, the rules of the strongest? 2. FairnessA. Non topical advocacies mean they can defend anything outside the resolution which is unpredictable, and also defend uncontestable offense like racism bad. This kills NEG ground and thus equal access to the ballot.B. Debate is a game: forced winner/loser, competitive norms, and the tournament invite prove. Alternative impacts like activism or education can be pursued in other forums. This makes fairness the most important impactC. Preparation- repacking the topic gives the aff a huge edge, they can prepare for 6 months on an issue that catches us by surprise. Preparation is better than thinking on your feet- research demonstrates pedagogical humility and research skills are the only portable debate trainingD. Library DA- there are a finite amount of ways to stop ~~, but an infinite number of non topical affirmatives. not debating the topic allows someone to specialize in one area of the library for 4 years giving them a huge edge over people who switch research focus ever 2 months.E. Exclusionary rule- you can’t vote on the case outweighs T because lack of preparation prevents rigorous testing of the AC claims. If we win fairness we don’t have to "outweigh" other impactsF. TVA – You could read a Covid aff that focuses on the data aspects of IPP bc medicines requires tons of RandD and innovation and you can discuss the gatekeeping of medicines had forced us into the pandemic and on zoom. This could just be an advantage under that aff.- Solves their education offense. Our TVA is purposefully imperfect to ensure negative ground and force SSD.Outweighs their impacts - Links best to the role of the judge to determine the winner as per the ballot – that’s impossible if the round’s unfair. Even if their method is good for education there’s no reason you vote on it, just as even if exercise is good for soccer players you don’t vote for the team that ran most.Voter: Drop the debater on T – the round is already skewed from the beginning because their advocacy excluded by ability to generate NC offense– letting them sever doesn’t solve any of the abuseT is an issue of competing interpretations because reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention based on preference rather than argumentation and encourages a race to the bottom in which debaters will exploit a judge’s tolerance for questionable argumentation. | 10/15/21 |
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