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| Damus Invitational | 1 | Marlborough MJ | Campbell, Kaitlyn |
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| Damus Invitational | 6 | Harker RM | Totz, Kate |
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| Glenbrooks | 1 | Westwood AY | Barquin, Joseph |
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| Glenbrooks | 3 | Plano West VV | Alvarez, Diana |
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| Glenbrooks | 6 | Lake Highland Prep YA | Bukowsky, Holden |
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| Glenbrooks | 7 | Westwood BJ | Brown, Grant |
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| Heart of Texas Invitational | 1 | Harvard Westlake AL | Gilbert, Colton |
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| Heart of Texas Invitational | 3 | Strake Jesuit VJ | Bukowsky, Holden |
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| Heart of Texas Invitational | 6 | Little Rock Central MG | Paramo, Rodrigo |
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| Jack Howe | 6 | Marlborough LK | Joel Lemuel |
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| Jack Howe | 4 | Immaculate Heart AW | Wimmer, Jan |
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| Meadows Invitational | 1 | Immaculate Heart EL | Le, Davina |
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| Meadows Invitational | 3 | Ardsley LL | Galardi, Luca |
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| Meadows Invitational | 5 | Lexington AK | Mizrahi, Lena |
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| Silver and Black | 2 | Corner Canyon AP | Rosas, Yardley |
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| Damus Invitational | 1 | Opponent: Marlborough MJ | Judge: Campbell, Kaitlyn 1ac - incarcerated workers |
| Damus Invitational | 3 | Opponent: Marlborough SL | Judge: Kilpatrick, David 1ac - incarcerated workers |
| Damus Invitational | 6 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Totz, Kate 1ac - eu |
| Glenbrooks | 1 | Opponent: Westwood AY | Judge: Barquin, Joseph 1AC - climate strikes |
| Glenbrooks | 3 | Opponent: Plano West VV | Judge: Alvarez, Diana 1ac - whole res |
| Glenbrooks | 6 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep YA | Judge: Bukowsky, Holden 1ac - agonism |
| Glenbrooks | 7 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Brown, Grant 1ac - egypt |
| Glenbrooks | Doubles | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VM | Judge: Panel 1ac - korsgaard |
| Heart of Texas Invitational | 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AL | Judge: Gilbert, Colton 1AC - COVID Waiver |
| Heart of Texas Invitational | 3 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VJ | Judge: Bukowsky, Holden 1AC - COVID waiver |
| Heart of Texas Invitational | 6 | Opponent: Little Rock Central MG | Judge: Paramo, Rodrigo 1AC - Transpacific Reimaginings |
| Jack Howe | 6 | Opponent: Marlborough LK | Judge: Joel Lemuel 1AC - COVID Vaccines |
| Jack Howe | 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Wimmer, Jan 1AC - CRISPR |
| Jack Howe | Doubles | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Panel 1AC - Korsgaard |
| Meadows Invitational | 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart EL | Judge: Le, Davina 1AC - COVID Waiver |
| Meadows Invitational | 3 | Opponent: Ardsley LL | Judge: Galardi, Luca 1AC - Deleuze |
| Meadows Invitational | 5 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Mizrahi, Lena 1AC - COVID Waiver |
| NSD | 1 | Opponent: na | Judge: na 1AC - can't remember camp |
| NSD | 3 | Opponent: na | Judge: na 1AC - can't remember camp |
| NSD | 4 | Opponent: na | Judge: na 1AC - can't remember camp |
| NSD Camp Tournament | 1 | Opponent: na | Judge: na 1AC - don't remember camp |
| NSD Camp Tournament | 3 | Opponent: na | Judge: na 1AC - don't remember |
| Silver and Black | 2 | Opponent: Corner Canyon AP | Judge: Rosas, Yardley 1ac - stock aff |
| Silver and Black | 3 | Opponent: Loyola SG | Judge: Cardenas, Albert 1ac - right-wing populism aff |
| the olympics | 1 | Opponent: myself | Judge: mental gymnastics Contact Information |
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0--Contact InformationTournament: the olympics | Round: 1 | Opponent: myself | Judge: mental gymnastics Email: lisiyu0831@gmail.com I also use Facebook messenger, so you can find me on there: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009768186055 Lmk if you have disclosure preferences/requests. | 10/16/21 |
0--NSD--Cap KTournament: NSD | Round: 1 | Opponent: na | Judge: na The aff’s investment into activism and liberal modes of reform manifest in the worker’s depression and terminally fail. Occupy resistance can be dope but class struggle needs to spill up to political organization and the Party, only the alternative can turn small movements into larger collectivity that claims political power. Unions are ineffective and only reinforces capitalism, 3 warrants: 1) Unions reaffirm the right of management to control labor – only breeds conservatism that hurts the working-class struggle 2) They only exist to mitigate the negative impacts of the system instead of overthrowing it 3) Their prioritization of bureaucracy makes any militancy impossible Capitalism’s exploitation of labor and over accumulation makes the system terminally unsustainable—causes structural violence, collapse, and extinction. Voting negative refuses the affirmative in favor of Historical Materialist Pedagogy as a method for understanding both society and waste. Without revolutionary theory, there can be no revolutionary moment. Only a focus on the structural antagonisms produced by capitalism can lead to transformative politics. Every act of government is just a way of not losing control of the population. Their call to change the politics of the present is just a maneuver designed to strengthen the power of the state. Not waiting is the only option because it enters into the logic of insurrection. | 11/3/21 |
0--NSD--Innovation DATournament: NSD | Round: 4 | Opponent: na | Judge: na Global tech innovation high now. Violent strike efforts are increasing – they slow innovation, specifically in the tech sector. Victories like the aff mobilizes unions in the IT sector. Technological innovation solves every existential threat – which outweighs. | 11/3/21 |
0--NSD--T-Just GovernmentTournament: NSD | Round: 4 | Opponent: na | Judge: na Interpretation: Affirmatives must defend a just government Just is defined as ‘acting in conformity with what is morally upright’ according to Merriam Webster The USFG is racist. Violation: Being racist is not in line with being morally upright 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 – Their interpretation opens debate up to hundreds of potential unjust governments with different labor regulations and socioeconomic conditions which explodes the burden for neg prep. An ideal government is best, we can prep what that would look like and defend our interpretation. 3 Philosophical education – It allows us to debate principles in the abstract about how a perfect government ought to act. It outweighs since every other topic is about specific states, but we only get this education for 2 months. Fairness is a voter – its intrinsic to any competitive activity Education is a voter – it’s the reason schools fund debate and host tournaments Drop the debater – 1 it deters future abuse and sets a positive norm 2 Dropping the argument on T would be dropping the advocacy which is functionally the same Use competing interps – 1 reasonability is self-serving and arbitrary – they can justify their brightline no matter how abusive it is 2 it invites arbitrary judge intervention, so we won’t know your abuse meter 3) No RVIs – a illogical – fairness is a burden just like the aff has the burden of inherency b norming – I can’t concede the counterinterp if I realize I’m wrong which forces me to argue for bad norms c chilling effect – debaters are scared to check real abuse which means inf abuse goes unchecked d substance crowdout – prevents 1AR blipstorms and allows us to get back to substance | 11/3/21 |
0--NSD--T-SpecTournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: na | Judge: na Strikers’ jobs are a core question of the topic, and there’s no consensus on normal means. Mason, 18 Elinor Mason, Open Democracy, “On Striking, and the Recognition that Ethics are a Collective Affair” (April 3, 2018), https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/on-striking-and-recognition-that-ethics-are-collective-affair/ The primary aim of a strike is to harm the interests of the employer. Public Sector workers, will, inevitably end up harming the public too. In the public sector, the work we do is a public good, and if we withdraw our labour, we hurt the public. How much harm there is depends on what area, and what sort of public good we are talking about – the potential harm from doctors striking is greater than the potential harm professors do here. The harm we do to our students in striking is nonetheless significant, and it needs to be defended. Violation: they don’t Standards: 1 Shiftiness – They can redefine the jobs defended by the 1AC in the 1AR which allows them to recontextualize their enforcement mechanism to wriggle out of DA’s. 2 Real World – Policy makers will always specify about the mandates of the plan. It also means zero solvency, since vague affs get rolled back or circumvented. The shell isn’t regressive or arbitrary – it’s an active part of drafting bills and is central to any advocacy. Paradigms – Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Education – it’s why schools fund debate. Drop the debater – a indicts the aff so drop the arg is drop the debater b deter future abuse Competing interps – a reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there’s no clear norm b it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate. No RVIs – a illogical, you don’t win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it’s a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument b RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices. c Getting faster solves. CX doesn’t check since it moots all prep time. 1NC theory first – a If I was abusive it was because the 1AC was b We have more speeches to norm over whether it’s a good idea. Neg abuse o/w aff abuse – we both have 13 minutes but you have persuasive advantages in the 2AR on top of infinite prep time. | 11/3/21 |
0--NSD--Transparency CPTournament: NSD | Round: 4 | Opponent: na | Judge: na Counterplan text: States ought to increase transparency measures between workers and employers to increase the opportunities of agreements before striking. If strikes were to occur, parties would be required to take appropriate precautions to decrease the risk of terrorist attacks. Solves the aff while avoiding both DAs | 11/3/21 |
1--Theory--DisclosureTournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VJ | Judge: Bukowsky, Holden Interpretation: Debaters must post links to all previous constructive speech docs read at the tournament at least 30 minutes prior to the round. To clarify, this means you must include all analytics, full text, underlining, and highlighting of all cards as read in round. Violation – they don’t Standards – 1 Debate resource inequities—you’ll say people will steal framework justifications or cards, but that’s good—it’s the only way to truly level the playing field for students such as novices in under-privileged programs. 2 leads to higher quality engagement b/c I know exactly what the neg says which internal link turns the aff b/c it leads to net better discussion. This is especially true given that you did not disclose the offense of the AC—no way I can engage with it or contest it. 3 Evidence ethics – open source is the only way to verify before round that cards aren’t miscut – full text doesn’t solve since you could have highlighted unethically. That’s a voter – maintaining ethical ev practices is key to being good academics and we should be able to verify you didn’t cheat | 10/17/21 |
ND--CP--Democracy Adv CPTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Plano West VV | Judge: Alvarez, Diana A just government ought to: • Provide a universal basic income to all citizens over the age of 18, and • Implement compulsory voting Plank one solves income inequality and poverty Plank two solves democracy – it reinvigorates voter turnout which is the critical internal link/ | 11/20/21 |
ND--CP--NursesTournament: Damus Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Totz, Kate Counterplan text: A just government ought to recognize a conditional right of workers to strike. The right to strike ought to be conditional upon one’s profession, with all workers except healthcare workers being guaranteed an unconditional right to strike. It’s competitive – a the CP offers a conditional right, meaning it only applies in some instances, so it’s necessarily competitive and b the plan defends all workers – 1ar clarification causes shiftiness that means we lose every time since we can’t generate new links in the 2nr. Nurse strikes devastates hospitals Hospitals are the critical internal link for pandemic preparedness. Independently, profit motive is key to solving pandemics. New Pandemics are deadlier and faster are coming – COVID is just the beginning If COVID doesn’t kill us all, numerous factors guarantee the next pandemic will – preparing now is key to prevent extinction. | 11/20/21 |
ND--CP--Recidivism CPTournament: Damus Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough MJ | Judge: Campbell, Kaitlyn Solves recidivism best – we read blue Fulcher 15 | 11/20/21 |
ND--DA--InnovationTournament: Damus Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough MJ | Judge: Campbell, Kaitlyn Global tech innovation high now. Violent strike efforts are increasing – they slow innovation, specifically in the tech sector. Victories like the aff mobilizes unions in the IT sector. Technological innovation solves every existential threat – which outweighs. | 11/20/21 |
ND--DA--StocksTournament: Damus Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough MJ | Judge: Campbell, Kaitlyn Large and influential strikes are low now – their examples are outliers that don’t reflect the general trend An unconditional right to strike would encourage workers to utilize extreme strikes, hurting industries across the board. Violent and longer strikes hurt the stock market, investors perceive them to be significantly important Stock market collapse leads to full recession. Economic crisis causes nuke war-~--strong statistical support | 11/20/21 |
ND--K--AbolitionTournament: Damus Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough SL | Judge: Kilpatrick, David The 1AC sees criminal justice as reformable, redeemable, or forgivable, which prevents understanding carcerality as the structuring principle of society. Criminal justice reform gets coopted by liberal feel-good narratives that strengthen the prison regime even if they seem like gains in a vacuum. Vote neg for an abolitionist pedagogy that locates itself within a living history of radical anti-carceral movements. You are an educator who can mobilize abolition scholarship for radical ends—that’s the only ethical response to dominant carceral logics which will ensure genocidal violence and extinction. Domestic warfare is the intensely materialized modality of the state. Refining the violent machine only assumes and takes for granted the mystified permeance of domestic warfare as a constant production of targeted suffering against black, brown, and aboriginal peoples and forgoes the possibility of an abolitionist praxis to challenge the premise of these wars. How can we normalize the social liquidation and physical evisceration of entire groups of people under the guise of pursuing “winnable policies?” Raising questions about the types of reforms that are appropriate in response to injustice diverts attention from why we have those injustices in the first place. The alt solves because it avoids false dilemmas and opens the door to more substantive change. Abolition requires departure from reform the aff is ineffective and reinforce system coherence of those systems FW The role of the ballot is to endorse an abolitionist pedagogy and deconstruct carceral logic: | 11/20/21 |
ND--K--Set ColTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep YA | Judge: Bukowsky, Holden The coherence of the Western subject is formulated in opposition to the native – this death drive towards elimination structures settler futurity via the libidinal economy and its investments in native suffering because the native is the quilting point of settler subject formation. Removal recasts indigenous land as property, turning natives into ghosts, displaced and severed from their land – this ontological violence is all-encompassing and incalculable within Western ethical frames. The ethical dilemmas of settler civil society can only cohere themselves through the genocide of the Native – the grammars of suffering that shape Settler ontology are fundamentally incompatible with Native grammars because the grammars of the Settler are only possible via genocide. The affirmation of American democratic legitimacy and its redeemability via the 1ac is rooted in the active disavowal of the genocidal foundations of American democracy. Their democratic utopia is grand, but the question remains: democracy for who? The aff’s agonism flattens considerations of power dynamics, elides discussions of colonialism, and reinforces colonial power dynamics-~--deliberative democracy is inaccessible to anyone other than elites, which independently turns case. Settler subjectivity is inevitably concerned with the construction of a smooth wholeness – a coherent imago, which the settler constructs through disidentification with the violence of their origins. The alternative is reidentification – this is an iterative process that requires the refusal and disruption of settler spaces of coherence – you should refuse the research project of the affirmative as a method of subject formation. Our interpretation is that the affirmative should be responsible for their representations – you get to read the aff and weigh the consequences of the plan, but we get to weigh the consequences of the affirmative’s epistemology. Prefer:
2. Academy DA – the academy is built on land theft and exploitation – whether via land grants or biopiracy, academic spaces are constructed and solidified via the technologies of settler colonialism – this origin ensures investment in genocide absent direct engagement with the violent origins of the university the academy will never be capable of meaningful change. You need to adopt an ethics of incommensurability that steps away from the endless “what abouts” of the settler and unconditionally commit to decolonization instead of moves towards settler innocence. | 11/21/21 |
ND--K--Set Col--V2Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 7 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Brown, Grant The coherence of the Western subject is formulated in opposition to the native – this death drive towards elimination structures settler futurity via the libidinal economy and its investments in native suffering because the native is the quilting point of settler subject formation. Removal recasts indigenous land as property, turning natives into ghosts, displaced and severed from their land – this ontological violence is all-encompassing and incalculable under utilitarian logics. The traces of the Indian haunt US empire – the naturalization of the imperial war machine occurs via the identification of the enemies of empire with the native – this creates a brutal, genocidal American regime that legitimizes itself through liberal projects of inclusion like the 1ac, coercing legitimate criticisms of the state and capital into the service of empire. Their attachment to apocalyptic threat analysis is rooted in the fear of the end of Western futures only salvageable via the heroism of the white subject – reject their All Lives Matter politics. Settler subjectivity is inevitably concerned with the construction of a smooth wholeness – a coherent imago, which the settler constructs through disidentification with the violence of their origins. The alternative is reidentification – this is an iterative process that requires the refusal and disruption of settler spaces of coherence – you should refuse the research project of the affirmative as a method of subject formation. 1nc – Framing Our interpretation is that the affirmative should be responsible for their representations – you get to read the aff and weigh the consequences of the plan, but we get to weigh the consequences of the affirmative’s epistemology. Prefer:
Only the alternative can alter our subjectivities which is the only meaningful outcome of this debate – marginal fairness won’t matter in two years but the disruptions in settler colonial subjecthood the 1nc cultivates has the only risk of meaningfully impacting us long-term – that outweighs. | 11/21/21 |
ND--K--Set Col--V3Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VM | Judge: Panel The coherence of the Western subject is formulated in opposition to the native – this death drive towards elimination structures settler futurity via the libidinal economy and its investments in native suffering because the native is the quilting point of settler subject formation. Removal recasts indigenous land as property, turning natives into ghosts, displaced and severed from their land – this ontological violence is all-encompassing and incalculable within Western ethical frames. Their philosophy is built on genocide and exploitation of native bodies – metaphysical dualisms justify and inform settler colonialism by creating distinctions between the rational and irrational subject – this justifies colonialism because we will win indigenous people are never seen as rational subjects – they will be unable to answer how their framework binds settlers to treat indigenous people as agents which means you vote negative. The affirmation of American democratic legitimacy and its redeemability via the 1ac is rooted in the active disavowal of the genocidal foundations of American democracy. Their democratic utopia is grand, but the question remains: democracy for who? Settler subjectivity is inevitably concerned with the construction of a smooth wholeness – a coherent imago, which the settler constructs through disidentification with the violence of their origins. The alternative is reidentification – this is an iterative process that requires the refusal and disruption of settler spaces of coherence – you should refuse the research project of the affirmative as a method of subject formation. 1nc – Framing (1:10) Our interpretation is that the affirmative should be responsible for their representations – you get to read the aff and weigh the consequences of the plan, but we get to weigh the consequences of the affirmative’s epistemology. Prefer:
2. Academy DA – the academy is built on land theft and exploitation – whether via land grants or biopiracy, academic spaces are constructed and solidified via the technologies of settler colonialism – this origin ensures investment in genocide absent direct engagement with the violent origins of the university the academy will never be capable of meaningful change. | 11/22/21 |
ND--K--Set Col--V4Tournament: Silver and Black | Round: 3 | Opponent: Loyola SG | Judge: Cardenas, Albert Removal recasts indigenous land as property, turning natives into ghosts, displaced and severed from their land – this ontological violence is all-encompassing and incalculable under utilitarian logics. The affirmation of American democratic legitimacy and its redeemability via the 1ac is rooted in the active disavowal of the genocidal foundations of American democracy. Their democratic utopia is grand, but the question remains: democracy for who? Their affirmation of the universal right to strike is rooted in the dispossession of the native – struggles over the distribution of the colonial loot always frame labor movements in opposition to indigenous struggle because settler labor always needs the structure of settler colonialism to maintain its relative global comfort. Settler subjectivity is inevitably concerned with the construction of a smooth wholeness – a coherent imago, which the settler constructs through disidentification with the violence of their origins. The alternative is reidentification – this is an iterative process that requires the refusal and disruption of settler spaces of coherence – you should refuse the research project of the affirmative as a method of subject formation. 1nc – Framing Our interpretation is that the 1ac is an epistemological project – before you evaluate the consequences of the plan text you should weigh its ideological underpinnings. Accountability DA – “weigh the aff” is a settler ruse to ensure a lack of accountability for anti-native representations – only our model of debate ensures we can challenge violent representations which internal link turns fairness because it makes debate unsafe for black, brown, and native debaters. Psychological violence outweighs – your role as an educator is to prioritize a model of debate that makes debate safer for students. University DA – the university’s investment in land theft structures its political possibilities – academic spaces are always already pursuing genocide. Absent a politics that engages with the settler colonial nature of the university the 1ac’s politics replicate that genocidal ideology. | 12/3/21 |
ND--Turn--DemocracyTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westwood AY | Judge: Barquin, Joseph | 11/20/21 |
ND--Turn--SparkTournament: Damus Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Totz, Kate Extinction is inevitable from future technology — nanotech, our simulation gets shut down, AI, biotech, particle accelerators, and black swans. Also risks infinite torture. Nuclear war wouldn’t cause extinction, but it would spur political will for collective action on global warming and meaningful disarmament. Rigorous climate simulations prove that hydrophilic black carbon would cause atmospheric precipitation – results in a rainout effect that quickly reverses nuclear cooling. Isolated island populations repopulate Earth after radiation and nuclear winter – bunkers and submarines expand the likelihood of survival. Starr
2. Firestorms are an internal link to nuke winter, not an independent impact. 3. Ozone Not extinction – bounces back. | 11/20/21 |
ND--T--Just Government USFGTournament: Damus Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough SL | Judge: Kilpatrick, David Interpretation: Affirmatives must defend a just government Just is defined as ‘acting in conformity with what is morally upright’ according to Merriam Webster The USFG is racist. Violation: Being racist is not in line with being morally upright 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 – Their interpretation opens debate up to hundreds of potential unjust governments with different labor regulations and socioeconomic conditions which explodes the burden for neg prep. An ideal government is best, we can prep what that would look like and defend our interpretation. 3 Philosophical education – It allows us to debate principles in the abstract about how a perfect government ought to act. It outweighs since every other topic is about specific states, but we only get this education for 2 months. Fairness is a voter – its intrinsic to any competitive activity Education is a voter – it’s the reason schools fund debate and host tournaments Drop the debater – 1 it deters future abuse and sets a positive norm 2 Dropping the argument on T would be dropping the advocacy which is functionally the same Use competing interps – 1 reasonability is self-serving and arbitrary – they can justify their brightline no matter how abusive it is 2 it invites arbitrary judge intervention, so we won’t know your abuse meter 3) No RVIs – a illogical – fairness is a burden just like the aff has the burden of inherency b norming – I can’t concede the counterinterp if I realize I’m wrong which forces me to argue for bad norms c chilling effect – debaters are scared to check real abuse which means inf abuse goes unchecked d substance crowdout – prevents 1AR blipstorms and allows us to get back to substance | 11/20/21 |
ND--T--SpecTournament: Damus Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Totz, Kate Interpretation: The affirmative may not specify a just government. “A” is an indefinite article that modifies “just government” in the res – means that you have to prove the resolution true in a vacuum, not a particular instance The article “a” implies a nonspecific or generic reading of the word “just government”. “Democracy” is a generic indefinite singular. This applies to the res – 1 Upward entailment test – extemp 2 Adverb test – extemp Violation: they spec India 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 – there are infinite governments that could be just – explodes limits since there are tons of independent affs plus functionally infinite combinations, all with different advantages in different political situations. Kills neg prep and debatability since there are no DAs that apply to every aff – i.e. laws about the right to strike in the US are different than in New Zealand – means the aff is always more prepared and wins just for speccing. 3 TVA – just read your aff as an advantage under a whole adv, solves your offense Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs – it constrains your ability to evaluate the rest of the flow because they require fair evaluation. Drop the debater – to deter future abuse and set better norms for debate. Competing interps – reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention but we creates a race to the top where we create the best norms for debate. No RVIs – a illogical, you don’t win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it’s a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices 1AR theory is dta and reasonability – sandbagging o/w, irresolvable o/w RVI on 1AR theory – time skew o/w | 11/20/21 |
SO--CP--Compulsory LicensingTournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AL | Judge: Gilbert, Colton Text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to mandate compulsory licensing for medicines for COVID-19. Compulsory licensing is distinct from the aff and solves. Compulsory licensing mechanisms resolve access to tech. Doesn’t link to the net benefit---compulsory licensing maintaining intellectual property protections. | 10/16/21 |
SO--CP--Language PICTournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Little Rock Central MG | Judge: Paramo, Rodrigo The 1NC’s translation is linguistic activism that reclaims cultural agency and critiques stereotypes. Cross-linguistic testimony is key to transformative advocacy that avoids colonial cooption. | 10/18/21 |
SO--CP--ProductionTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough LK | Judge: Joel Lemuel The United States federal government should: - substantially increase production and global distribution of the COVID-19 Vaccine, specifically providing all necessary vaccines to India and South Africa, and - cooperate with allies to achieve increased production and global distribution of the COVID-19 Vaccine. That comparatively solves better – IP rights don’t hinder vaccine cooperation, but manufacturing capacity is the current constraint. | 9/19/21 |
SO--DA--InnovationTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough LK | Judge: Joel Lemuel Pharma profits are up from COVID vaccines in particular, patent waivers threaten this Strong IP protection spurs innovation by encouraging risk-taking and incentivizing knowledge sharing -- prefer statistical analysis of multiple studies Biopharmaceutical innovation is key to prevent future pandemics and bioterror That causes extinction, which outweighs. | 9/19/21 |
SO--DA--Innovation V2Tournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AL | Judge: Gilbert, Colton The biotech industry is strong now---it’s weathered the COVID storm. Biotech is key to climate change solutions---waiving IP rights decks it by setting a sweeping precedent that chills innovation. Biotech innovation is uniquely key to combatting climate change. Global warming is an existential threat. | 10/16/21 |
SO--K--CapTournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Little Rock Central MG | Judge: Paramo, Rodrigo We are in the era of late-capitalism – neoliberalism has subordinated the role of identity politics in support of cultural commodification. Their use of singular micropractices to create resistance precludes effective organizing and obscures structures of power. Capitalism culminates in extinction-~--warming, inter-state conflict, social unrest, resource wars, and lack of expansion ensures the system can’t recover and the system is on the brink now. Vote negative to endorse the form of the Party-~--our method is distinct and exclusive with the method of the 1AC-~--a negative ballot foregrounds political organization and commonality against capital. | 10/18/21 |
SO--K--Set ColTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Wimmer, Jan Settler colonialism is a power relation structured around the logic of elimination – the libidinal drive to eliminate the native, evidenced by centuries of smallpox blankets, boarding schools, bounties, pipelines, etc. This fundamental logic consistently articulates itself across time and space, seeking to remove native presence from the land by assimilation and genocide. Indigeneity exists in a constant state of sickness – the confluence of power structures that create a world uninhabitable for the native. This violence is profoundly incalculable – how does one imagine sickness as the inevitable product of a world built to eliminate indigenous people? How do you cure the incurable? The construction of Western medicine and biomedical apparatuses is invested in orchestrating sickness – the discourse of health and medicine can never come face to face with the native, because it cannot theorize life at the end of the world. Settler humanitarianism kills natives – the politics of care and healing endorsed by the affirmative are not benign interventions but rather actively genocidal disruptions of indigenous care and medicine – your medicine makes indigenous people sicker. Settler subjectivity is inevitably concerned with the construction of a smooth wholeness – a coherent imago, which the settler constructs through disidentification with the violence of their origins. The alternative is reidentification – this is an iterative process that requires the refusal and disruption of settler spaces of coherence – you should refuse the research project of the affirmative as a method of subject formation. We are living in the crisis of modernity – civilizational collapse is imminent, brought on by the settler colonial present – only immediate commitment to decolonization can prevent human extinction – laundry list of scenarios. 1nc – Framing Our interpretation is that the affirmative should be responsible for their representations – you get to read the aff and weigh the consequences of the plan, but we get to weigh the consequences of the affirmative’s epistemology. Prefer:
2. Academy DA – the academy is built on land theft and exploitation – whether via land grants or biopiracy, academic spaces are constructed and solidified via the technologies of settler colonialism – this origin ensures investment in genocide absent direct engagement with the violent origins of the university the academy will never be capable of meaningful change. 1nc – Util Pain and pleasure fail as ethical starting points –
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SO--K--Set Col--V2Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Panel Settler colonialism is a power relation structured around the logic of elimination – the libidinal drive to eliminate the native, evidenced by centuries of smallpox blankets, boarding schools, bounties, pipelines, etc. This fundamental logic consistently articulates itself across time and space, seeking to remove native presence from the land by assimilation and genocide. That removal recasts indigenous land as property, turning natives into ghosts, displaced and severed from their land – this ontological violence is all-encompassing Their philosophy is built on genocide and exploitation of native bodies – metaphysical dualisms justify and inform settler colonialism by creating distinctions between the rational and irrational subject – this justifies colonialism because we will win indigenous people are never seen as rational subjects – they will be unable to answer how their framework binds settlers to treat indigenous people as agents which means you vote negative. Settler colonialism embeds itself in structures of moral philosophy – winning that your ethical theory says racism is bad is insufficient – you need to articulate why it can disassociate itself from the implications of settler colonialism in every aspect of society. The universal human is built around conceptions of western humanity – its structurally inaccessible to the native. Settler subjectivity is inevitably concerned with the construction of a smooth wholeness – a coherent imago, which the settler constructs through disidentification with the violence of their origins. The alternative is reidentification – this is an iterative process that requires the refusal and disruption of settler spaces of coherence – you should refuse the research project of the affirmative as a method of subject formation. The role of the ballot is to adopt an ethic of incommensurability – political movements inevitably invest themselves in structures of settler innocence absent a total ideological commitment to decolonization. | 10/16/21 |
SO--K--Set Col--V3Tournament: Meadows Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Ardsley LL | Judge: Galardi, Luca The coherence of the Western subject is formulated in opposition to the native – this death drive towards elimination structures settler futurity via the libidinal economy and its investments in native suffering because the native is the quilting point of settler subject formation. Their white posthumanist lines of flight comes at the expense of Native death. Delueze and Guattari’s theory ignores indigenous people’s claims on land and culture. A rhizomatic west is the opening door to native genocide. Fluidity ignores the unique ontological violence that natives face, homogenizing settler violence with other forms of violence. This is an example of settler ignorance that’s used to justify theft of indigenous land and knowledge. The alt is a refusal of the aff - Settler subjectivity is inevitably concerned with the construction of a smooth wholeness – a coherent imago, which the settler constructs through disidentification with the violence of their origins. The discussion of settler colonialism in debate generates the potential to disrupt settler subjectivities, which resolves the impacts of the aff | 10/31/21 |
SO--K--Set Col--V4Tournament: Meadows Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Mizrahi, Lena 1nc – Kritik The coherence of the Western subject is formulated in opposition to the native – this death drive towards elimination structures settler futurity via the libidinal economy and its investments in native suffering because the native is the quilting point of settler subject formation. That removal recasts indigenous land as property, turning natives into ghosts, displaced and severed from their land – this ontological violence is all-encompassing Their attachment to apocalyptic threat analysis is rooted in the fear of the end of Western futures only salvageable via the heroism of the white subject – reject their All Lives Matter politics. Settler humanitarianism kills natives – the politics of care and healing endorsed by the affirmative are not benign interventions but rather actively genocidal disruptions of indigenous care and medicine – the logics of curing sickness is inseparable from the desire to cure the impure native. Settler subjectivity is inevitably concerned with the construction of a smooth wholeness – a coherent imago, which the settler constructs through disidentification with the violence of their origins. The alternative is reidentification – this is an iterative process that requires the refusal and disruption of settler spaces of coherence – you should refuse the research project of the affirmative as a method of subject formation. We are living in the crisis of modernity – collapse is imminent, brought on by the settler colonial present – only immediate commitment to decolonization can prevent human extinction – laundry list of scenarios. 1nc – Framing Our interpretation is that the 1ac is an epistemological project – before you evaluate the consequences of the plan text you should weigh its ideological underpinnings. Accountability DA – “weigh the aff” is a settler ruse to ensure a lack of accountability for anti-native representations – only our model of debate ensures we can challenge violent representations which internal link turns fairness because it makes debate unsafe for black, brown, and native debaters. Psychological violence outweighs – your role as an educator is to prioritize a model of debate that makes debate safer for students. University DA – the university’s investment in land theft structures its political possibilities – academic spaces are always already pursuing genocide. Absent a politics that engages with the settler colonial nature of the university the 1ac’s politics replicate that genocidal ideology. 1nc – Util Pain and pleasure fail as ethical starting points –
2. Indigenous and black people are scientifically understood to experience less pain than white people – the evaluation of pain and pleasure is skewed by settler colonialism which means weighing is invested in settler colonialism. 3. Util is a form of disposability politics – the common good always justifies indigenous fungibility – they have to explain why different lives matter more or less in the settler imaginary – otherwise calc fails. | 10/31/21 |
SO--Turn--BatailleTournament: Jack Howe | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Panel Our thesis-~--accumulation of excess energy and the problem of its expenditure makes transgression of law an inevitability of the human experience-~--traditional moral codes which discourage violence and encourage repression of these violent urges ultimately only result in more harmful violent outbursts. The alternative is a morality of evil that accepts the inevitability of violent outbursts and eschews moral prohibitionism in favor of accepting and encouraging those acts of violence that are least unacceptable-~--the alternative tactically expends energy to avoid those expenditures which are most harmful. | 10/16/21 |
SO--Turn--ChinaTournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AL | Judge: Gilbert, Colton Waiving IP protections sends a signal that encourages China to further erode U.S. IP---makes sustaining competitiveness impossible. Short-term competition key to prevent U.S.-China war. | 10/16/21 |
SO--Turn--ChinaTournament: Jack Howe | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Panel Waiving IP protections sends a signal that encourages China to further erode U.S. IP-~--makes sustaining competitiveness impossible. Short-term competition key to prevent U.S.-China war. | 10/16/21 |
SO--Turn--DedevTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Wimmer, Jan | 9/20/21 |
SO--Turn--WTO BadTournament: Meadows Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart EL | Judge: Le, Davina | 10/30/21 |
SO--T--FWTournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Little Rock Central MG | Judge: Paramo, Rodrigo Our interpretation is that the negative should not be burdened with rejoinder against AFFs that defend anything other than the desirability of a topical action. Resolved means to enact a policy by law. The WTO is the World Trade Organization – it regulates international trade and has 164 member nations. Medicines refer to physical substances. There are 4 types of IP the aff could reduce. Vote negative for predictable limits-~--allowing the affirmative to pick any grounds for the debate makes negative engagement impossible by skirting a predictable starting point, which makes all our preparation and research useless. Two impacts-~-- 1-~--Fairness-~--a predictable limit is the only way to give the neg a chance-~--radical aff choice shifts the grounds for the debate and puts the aff far ahead. Pre-tournament negative preparation is structured around topical plans as points of offense, which means anything else structurally favors the aff. That’s an intrinsic good-~--debate is a game and requires effective competition between the aff and the neg-~--the only way for any benefit to be produced from debate is if the judge can make a decision between two sides who have had a relatively equal chance to prepare for a common point of debate. 2-~-- Clash-~--debates over a stasis point incentivize argumentative refinement and self-questioning. Defending our position against a well-prepared opponent is key-~--it makes us more persuasive, informed, and forces us to adjust our position to become more effective advocates. Topical version of the aff – All the aff literally says IP is bad – only the state can reduce IP since it was the one that granted IP in the first place – here’s evidence that shows the plan deconstructs profit drives Competing interps – anything else invites judge intervention absent a clear brightline and this will be a debate about models of debate – if you have no idea what debates would look like in the world of the aff you should vote negative. Drop the debater – the entirety of the aff is being criticized which means drop the argument is incoherent. | 10/18/21 |
SO--T--MedicineTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Wimmer, Jan 1 Interpretation – Medicines solely refer to physical substances. 2 Violation – Genomic Medicine is not – it’s an “interdisciplinary medical specialty”. Their solvency advocate agrees, vidyasagar defines CRISPR as “specialized stretches of DNA”, not a specific medicine Medical Specialty refers to the field, not a particular substance. 3 The Standard is Limits – They explode the topic to include therapies, research areas, treatments, drug discovery techniques, etc. that eviscerate a stable locus of predictability. Limits is a sequencing question to Clash and in-depth Education since we’re only able to prepare if there’s stable core controversies. 4 TVA Solves – reduce IP protections on gene-based medicines. 5 Paradigm Issues – a Topicality is Drop the Debater – it’s a fundamental baseline for debate-ability. b Use Competing Interps – 1 Topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical and 2 Reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation. c No RVI’s - 1 Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, 2 Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and 3 Illogical – you shouldn’t win for not being abusive. | 9/20/21 |
SO--T--Medicine--V2Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough LK | Judge: Joel Lemuel Interpretation: Vaccines are not medicines. Prefer: it Comes from someone who works in the field of vaccines, OWs on real-worldness Violation – they defend IP waivers of vaccines Standards: 1---Limits: explodes the number of affs in the topic that are tangentially related to medicines (ie CRISPR, therapy, vitamins). Makes it impossible to predict the 1ac and decks neg prep, hurts clash 2---Ground: allows them to no link out of drug-specific DAs since they go through a different mechanism | 9/19/21 |
SO--T--PermanentTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough LK | Judge: Joel Lemuel Interpretation: Reduce means permanent reduction – it’s distinct from “suspend” Violation: Vaccine waivers are temporary Standards: 1---Legal precision: it’s the best precedent within policy, shows how words are interpreted within the law 2---Limits: it doubles the number of affs on the topic since every suspension is of different times, (ex: suspend IP protections for 6 months, 1 year, 2 years, etc.) makes it impossible to predict which turns clash and innovation 3---Ground: decks link ground, all link cards are predicated on permanent changes because authors don’t care about temporary policies 4---Aff shiftiness: no definition of how long suspension will be and how it happens allow affs to skirt out of DAs by changing their suspension periods, makes it impossible to be neg and decks clash D Paradigm Issues – 1 T is DTD – A their abusive advocacy skewed the debate from the start B DTA is incoherent because we indict their advocacy 2 Comes before 1AR theory -- A If we had to be abusive it’s because it was impossible to engage their aff B T outweighs on scope because their abuse affected every speech that came after the 1AC C Topic norms outweigh on urgency – we only have a few months to set them 3 Use competing interps on T – A topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical B only our interp sets norms -- reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention C reasonability causes a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation | 9/19/21 |
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