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| Berkeley | 1 | Taft EL | Saketh Kotapati |
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| Berkeley | 3 | Harker VZ | Lena Mizrahi |
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| Loyola | 1 | Immaculate Heart JL | Richard Li |
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| Loyola | 5 | Lilia Guizatoullina | Eric Endsley |
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| Peninsula | 5 | Monta Vista KR | Annabelle Long |
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| Saint Marks | 3 | Strake Jesuit | Yardley Rosas |
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| USC | 2 | Marlborough RJ | Nae Edwards |
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| Tournament | Round | Report |
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| Berkeley | 1 | Opponent: Taft EL | Judge: Saketh Kotapati 1AC - Case |
| Berkeley | 5 | Opponent: Peninsula AB | Judge: Calvin Tyler 1AC - Case |
| Berkeley | 3 | Opponent: Harker VZ | Judge: Lena Mizrahi 1AC - Case |
| Loyola | 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Richard Li 1AC- Covid |
| Loyola | 5 | Opponent: Lilia Guizatoullina | Judge: Eric Endsley 1AC- Set col |
| Peninsula | 5 | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: Annabelle Long 1AC - Case |
| Saint Marks | 3 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit | Judge: Yardley Rosas 1AC - Case |
| USC | 2 | Opponent: Marlborough RJ | Judge: Nae Edwards 1AC- Case |
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Abolish WTO CPTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Richard Li CP – Abolish WTONotesDo not read the 1NC Heg Bad and 1NC China Rise modules together – they directly contradict. CXHow does the aff use the WTO to ensure enforcement? CP1NC TextText:1. The World Trade Organization ought to be abolished.2. The following 164 countries listed in the speech doc ought to independently and without influence from international government ~opponent’s plan~Afghanistan AND its leading institutions, the World Trade Organization. We should abolish it. 1NC ColonialismThe WTO as an institution is unethical and perpetuates colonialismGodrej 20 AND world – were living on less than $5.50 a day. 1NC Heg BadEliminating the WTO ends U.S. global hegemonyBello, PhD, 2000 AND the pace of technological and industrial development in the rest of the world. Primacy causes endless war, terror, authoritarianism, prolif, and Russia-China aggression.Ashford, PhD, 19 AND War–era strategies better suited to an era of bipolar superpower competition. | 9/4/21 |
Cap KTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Richard Li L: Medical Diplomacy (MUST READ)The plan’s reduction of IP is in line with a broader strategy of vaccine diplomacy – this treats global health as a game of political football to advance imperialist interests in the long-term – only anti-capitalist organizing solves.Patanè, 21 AND fight the pandemic with class struggle! Expropriate the Big Pharma fat cats! L: WTOThe WTO is inevitably a tool of accumulation for capitalist imperialism – international institutional monopoly capitalism overdetermines the plan’s move to peace – causes war, environmental degradation, and extinction.Cuong, 18 AND that maintains the existence of capitalism and adapts it to new historical conditions. L: MedicineThe plan’s focus on medicine trades off with a more holistic approach to healthcare – that ensures health inequities while not solving the root of the problem.Sell and Williams, 20 AND the interests in regulation and its capture (Glasgow and Schrecker, 2016). IMPACTSWarCapitalism causes conflict due to constant demand for resourcesMcDonald 02 ~(Patrick J., Doctor of Philosophy), "The Invisible Hand of Peace: Capitalism, the War Machine, and Liberal International Relations Theory~ IC AND end in war that would wipe the slate clean for a socialist revolution. ALTSCommunist HorizonThe alternative is to orient political and social struggle toward the communist horizon – this redirection is crucial to redefine the political futures psychoanalytically imagineable– anything less is mere apologism for continued leftist failureDean 12 ~Jodi, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The Communist Horizon, Verso: Brooklyn, NY, 2012, p. 1-12~ AND of the people over the economy through which we produce and reproduce ourselves. | 9/4/21 |
Cap KTournament: Berkeley | Round: 5 | Opponent: Peninsula AB | Judge: Calvin Tyler 1NCCap KL: Reform badCapitalism is unsustainable — reforms are a "dead end" that claim to solve but distract from the only ethical action: complete refusalPeterson 18 AND Marxist Tendency and help us fight for these ideas in the socialist movement. L: Kessler/DebrisThe Aff’s attempts to stop the Kessler syndrome are rooted in their desire to preserve endless expansion into the galaxy. Despite their regulation, the profits are too big to stop— the fines will be paid, and loopholes will be found to preserve the domination of the capitalist elite. As long as the private sector exists, it will always take advantage of expansion besides natural blocks like the Kessler. The plan cleans up the road capitalism is driving on to its next destination.Frieden and Rogowski 14 AND state-led industrialization and its strong emphasis on heavy industry and armaments. ShellOur critique independently outweighs the case - neoliberalism causes extinction and massive social inequalities – the affs single issue legalistic solution is the exact kind of politics neolib wants us to engage in so the root cause goes unquestioned – and treat this as a no long-term solvency argument – the inequalities of labor relations are fundamental to capitalism. Farbod 15( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2) Global capitalism is the 800-pound gorilla. The twin ecological and economic crises AND enhancing natural and social systems will soon reach a point of no return. The alternative is to affirm the model of the Communist Party – only party organizing can provide effective accountability mechanisms to correct chauvinist tendencies, educate and mobilize marginalized communities, and connect local struggles to a movement for global liberation. Merely thinking about linguistics fails to achieve anythingEscalante, Philosophy @ UOregon, 18 AND debates will be crucial to ensuring that this rapidly growing movement can succeed. K First - There is no material world that we can separate from the lens through which we view it. Deconstructing the AFF scholarship is a prior question that has material effects.Therefore the ROB is one of deconstruction – vote for the side which best challenges neoliberal scholarship | 4/9/22 |
Cap K vs Set Col AffTournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lilia Guizatoullina | Judge: Eric Endsley Cap K v. ColCap is the root of colonialism – best empirical evidence proves it’s a one-way streetSmiley 09 AND behind Spanish colonialism and provides compelling evidence that colonialism is rooted in capitalism. L: Focus on ColonialityFocus on coloniality ignores material effects of capitalLazarus, MA/Prof of English, 11 AND remade, the basis of their power thoroughly transformed.(9-11) L: Medical Diplomacy (MUST READ)The plan’s reduction of IP is in line with a broader strategy of vaccine diplomacy – this treats global health as a game of political football to advance imperialist interests in the long-term – only anti-capitalist organizing solves.Patanè, 21 AND fight the pandemic with class struggle! Expropriate the Big Pharma fat cats! L: WTOThe WTO is inevitably a tool of accumulation for capitalist imperialism – international institutional monopoly capitalism overdetermines the plan’s move to peace – causes war, environmental degradation, and extinction.Cuong, 18 AND that maintains the existence of capitalism and adapts it to new historical conditions. L: ImpactCapitalism is inherently unsustainable and will inevitably collapse, it’s only a question if we choose to keep it afloat. The contradictions of global neoliberalism will push humanity to total extinction.Foster 19 AND can we address the future of humanity in the twenty-first century. ALTSCommunist HorizonThe alternative is to orient political and social struggle toward the communist horizon – this redirection is crucial to redefine the political futures psychoanalytically imagineable– anything less is mere apologism for continued leftist failureDean 12 ~Jodi, Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The Communist Horizon, Verso: Brooklyn, NY, 2012, p. 1-12~ AND of the people over the economy through which we produce and reproduce ourselves. Counter ROB: Tell tabroom who won. It should be about impact framing and weighing (which we will do) but there’s not a "role of the ballot." When we see our results on tabroom, it just says if we won or lost. | 10/17/21 |
Contact InformationTournament: Contact Information CITES BROKEN CHECK OPEN SOURCE | Round: Finals | Opponent: You | Judge: Emails- jharris1@hwemailcom | 4/9/22 |
Crackdown DATournament: USC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough RJ | Judge: Nae Edwards CRACKDOWN DASolitary confinement is rare now, but harmful impacts such as social pain, mental torture, and premature deaths are magnified and widespread via the planHerring 12-8-20 ~Tiana Herring is a Research Associate at the Prison Policy Initiative and recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she studied Political Science and Contemporary European Studies. She is the co-author of States of Emergency: The failure of prison system responses to COVID-19 and States of Incarceration: The Global Context 2021. For her honors thesis, she conducted research on state laws regarding prison reentry services and their impact on recidivism rates. "The research is clear: Solitary confinement causes long-lasting harm." Prison Policy Initiative. December 8, 2020. https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/12/08/solitary'symposium/~~ HW AL AND units without receiving adequate professional help to address their underlying mental health concerns. When incarcerated workers strike, they face immediate crackdown and are punished with solitary confinementKozlowska 16 (Hanna is a reporter on Quartz's investigations team. She previously worked for The New York Times as a writer for NYT Opinion and was a fellow at Foreign Policy magazine. She was also a stringer for the Times in Poland. She graduated from Swarthmore College. https://qz.com/777415/an-unprecedented-prison-strike-hopes-to-change-the-fate-of-the-900000-americans-trapped-in-an-exploitative-labor-system/) HWLD AND can be punished with solitary confinement, revoking visitation, or other measures. Solitary confinement is the worst possible method of punishment that tortures and inflicts psychological harm on prisoners, a common practice utilized by authoritiesMelzer 20 (Mr. Nils Melzer, Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, is part of what is known as the Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. Special Procedures, the largest body of independent experts in the UN Human Rights system, is the general name of the Council's independent fact-finding and monitoring mechanisms that address either specific country situations or thematic issues in all parts of the world. Special Procedures experts work on a voluntary basis; they are not UN staff and do not receive a salary for their work. They are independent of any government or organisation and serve in their individual capacity. https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=25633)//HWLD AND of more than 15 consecutive days is regarded as a form of torture. The US average length of solitary confinement is well beyond the limit for tortureRockwood et al 14 (journalist for PBS reporting on prisons https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/criminal-justice/locked-up-in-america/how-much-time-u-s-prisoners-spend-in-solitary/)//HWLD AND continue to misbehave in isolation, their punishment is typically more seg time. The exacerbation or creation of mental health problems from solitary confinement leads to recidivism and turns caseDean 20 ( cornell journalist reporting findings regarding cornell study and relationship between solitary confinement and reintegration with prisoners https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/06/short-stays-solitary-can-increase-recidivism-unemployment)//HWLD AND short as a day or two – may affect post-release outcomes. | 12/12/21 |
Firefighters PICTournament: USC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough RJ | Judge: Nae Edwards 1NCPICText: The 49 United States excluding California ought to recognize an unconditional right for incarcerated workers to strike. California should recognize a right for incarcerated workers, except those in the prison firefighter program, to strike.Firefighter programs decidedly better than prison and solve megafires – saves numerous preventable deaths.Hahn, 21 AND working the blaze and that the gratitude expressed toward first responders included us. The program reduces recidivism and violent crime by ingraining first-responder logic.Lockheart, 20 AND Once you've lived that life, it's a hard thing to leave behind. Megafires kill biodiversity.Stevens, 12 AND the impact of these mega fires over the long haul is very negative." Biodiversity loss causes extinction and turns climate changeTorres 16 AND . So the causal relation between climate change and biodiversity loss is bidirectional. | 12/12/21 |
Hammerhead CPTournament: Saint Marks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit | Judge: Yardley Rosas Hammerhead CP1NCCP text: The member nations of the WTO ought to drastically increase protections for the Scalloped Hammerhead SharkThe Scalloped and Great Hammerhead are critically endangered – any increase in demand for their highly valued liver oil (squalene) means extinctionBriggs 1/27/21 AND now must hope it also serves as an urgent wake-up call." Strong IP protection spurs innovation by encouraging risk-taking and incentivizing knowledge sharing—prefer statistical analysis of multiple studiesEzell and Cory 19 AND for foreign direct investment which in turn also leads to economic growth."56 Increased production of a COVID vaccine makes the scalloped and great hammerhead go extinct and there is no going back – vaccine production will be halted, necessitating a pivot away from squalene requiring further innovationButler 9/28/20 AND reasonable to ask that they start thinking about a reliable and sustainable production." The extinction of the great/scalloped hammerhead means disaster for the marine ecosystem – low bar for solvency because of already critical endangermentNewcastle 19 AND Primary Industry. The paper was published in the Journal of Fish Biology. Marine ecosystems are critical to the survival of all life on earth.Robin Kundis Craig, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law, 2k3 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155 AND - even if a few fishers go out of business as a result. | 10/17/21 |
Ozone CPTournament: Berkeley | Round: 5 | Opponent: Peninsula AB | Judge: Calvin Tyler Ozone CPOzoneCP – The use of propellants other than liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to fuel rocket launches is unjust.That solves all of their ozone and climate impacts because solid fuel rockets are the ones that burn the ozone layer – we'll insert a line from their Grush evidence
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Settler Colonialism KTournament: USC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough RJ | Judge: Nae Edwards Settler ColonialismL: IncarcerationSettler colonialism is a constant state of incarceration for Indigeneity. Prison reform assuages anxious settler desires whose existence is founded on the reproduction of Indigeneous bare life both inside and outside the prison. The alt is decolonization, which is mutually exclusive with the aff.Anthony and Blagg, 20—Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Technology, Sydney AND Professor of Criminology and Associate Dean of Research at the Law School, University of Western Australia (Thalia and Harry, "Hyperincarceration and Indigeneity," Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology, February 2020) AND been denied through an existence of bare life where hyperincarceration has loomed large. L: UnionsUnions are centered and organized around the white settler state, rendering unions incapable from protecting indigenous people, even if "successful"Fletcher 21 AND that, even implicitly, was challenging the assumptions of the settler state. ROBFW(Counter)-Interpretation: The 1AC is an object of research. The role of the neg should be to disprove the various meanings of that object. Plan focus restricts the debate to a ten second statement and leaves the rest of the aff unquestioned. They should be responsible for the way their knowledge is constructed and used because that produces the best model for activism and ethics in the context of the topic which is a unique education net benefit to our interpretationYou should frame your ballot as the academic debt owed to Indigenous peoples for their epistemic labor and dispossession.Carlson 16 AND I believe our contributions to settler colonial studies are even more deeply problematic. | 12/12/21 |
Settler Word PICTournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lilia Guizatoullina | Judge: Eric Endsley The underpinnings of "settler" colonialism theory are rooted in reconciliation and implies that the nation-state is no longer colonial. We should hold onto other framings like imperialism to understand violence against indigenous peoples.Barker 11 AND force or in relation to indigenous peoples within its various kinds of borders. Framing colonialism without the baggage of "settler" solves the affBarker 11 AND . Albeit still colonial, but ultimately reconciled within itself to its ideals. This isn’t a dirty word PIC that tries to skate aff discussion but about our conceptual frame of the structure of the imperial state and which lens you should endorse – all of their aff framing proves our analytics lenses are important | 10/17/21 |
Space Militarization DATournament: Berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Taft EL | Judge: Saketh Kotapati Space Militarization DA- PS221NC Tools1NC - GenericThe US government is perfectly positioned to focus on space governance and let private entities develop tech – this avoids bilateral or unilateral missions that increase the chance for conflict and space weaponization while creating effective multilateral agreements that spill overRosenberg and Marber 21 (Mark Y. - CEO of Geoquant and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Peter - teaches at Harvard University and is a senior portfolio manager at Aperture Investors, 2/22, "America Needs a Supercharged Space Program," ~accessed 9/25/21~, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/22/biden-space-force-race-policy-rockets-china/) AND Who else but the United States could even contemplate such a bold plan? Non-state actors in space are conflict dampeners – they avoid geopolitical tension and have financial incentives to keep conflict lowFrankowski 17 (Pawel, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of National Security. His current research interests include space policy, labour standards in free trade agreements, and theories of international relations, Jagiellonian University in Kakow, "OUTER SPACE AND PRIVATE COMPANIES CONSEQUENCES FOR GLOBAL SECURITY", https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.14.2017.50.06) AND nascent public good provided by private actors for the sake of global security. Space weaponization and arms racing ensure space war goes nuclear – only strong private competition can check conflictHitchens ’17 (Theresa Hitchens, Theresa Hitchens is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, Prior to joining CISSM, Hitchens was the director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva from 2009 through 2014. Among her activities and accomplishments at UNIDIR, Hitchens served as a consultant to the U.N. Group of Governmental Experts on Transparency and Confidence Building Measures in Outer Space Activities, provided expert advice to the Conference on Disarmament regarding the prevention of an arms race in outer space (PAROS), and launched UNIDIR's annual conference on cyber security, From 2001 to 2008, Hitchens worked at the Center for Defense Information, where she served as Director, and headed the center’s Space Security Project, setting the strategic direction of the center and conducting research on space policy and other international security issues, "Space weapon technology and policy", School of Public Policy University of Maryland, https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.5009221?class=pdf, November 2017) AND in space that it does on the Earth, remains to be seen. | 4/9/22 |
Space for Space DATournament: Berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Taft EL | Judge: Saketh Kotapati Space for Space DA1NC – MiningSpace-for-space economy is beginning to develop now because of private enterprise in spaceWeinzierl and Sarang 21 (Matt, PhD in Economics Harvard University, Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration at HBS and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Mehak, Research Associate at Harvard Business School and the Lunar Exploration Projects Lead for the MIT Space Exploration Initiative, Harvard Business Review, "The Commercial Space Age is Here," 2/12, https://hbr.org/2021/02/the-commercial-space-age-is-here) AND decades with an array of space-for-space goods and services. Space-for-space is key for continued space-for-earth developments like asteroid miningWeinzierl and Sarang 21 (Matt, PhD in Economics Harvard University, Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration at HBS and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Mehak, Research Associate at Harvard Business School and the Lunar Exploration Projects Lead for the MIT Space Exploration Initiative, Harvard Business Review, "The Commercial Space Age is Here," 2/12, https://hbr.org/2021/02/the-commercial-space-age-is-here) AND mining companies less as failures and more as simply ahead of their time. Mining solves extinction from scarcity.Pelton 17—(Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University, PHD in IR from Georgetown).. Pelton, Joseph N. 2017. The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon! Springer. Accessed 8/30/19. AND global space agreements, are part of this new pathway to the future. | 4/9/22 |
T AppropriationTournament: Berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Taft EL | Judge: Saketh Kotapati TT – AppropriationInterp and violation: Affirmatives may not defend that specific instances of outer space appropriation by private entities are unjust."The" can either indicate a definite generic or definite descriptionOjeda 91 ~Almerindo E. Ojeda, PhD linguistics from UChicago, professor of linguistics at UC Davis. "Definite Descriptions and Definite Generics", Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 367-397, Published August 1991, https://www.harvardlds.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/1-s2.0-S0010027718300313-main-3.pdf~~ HWIC AND " which means the res can only be referring to appropriation in general. Negate –1~ Precision – Topicality is a constitutive rule of the activity and a basic aff burden, they agreed to debate the topic when they came to the tournament and it’s the only stasis point we know before the round – it controls the internal link to engagement and there’s no way to use ground if debaters aren’t prepared to defend it.2~ Limits – every combination of instances of appropriation could be an aff like individual missions, programs or satellites – unlimited topics incentivize obscure affs that negs won’t have prep on – limits are key to reciprocal prep burden. Spec kills generics like the innovation DA and space appropriation good – decks neg ground3~ EducationDrop the debater – their abusive advocacy skewed our 1NC construction, allowing 1AR restart doesn't solveCompeting interps on T – topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical, only competing interps create norms — reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention causing a race to the bottom of questionable argumentationNo RVI’s, you don’t win for being fair | 4/9/22 |
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