| Tournament | Round | Opponent | Judge | Cites | Round Report | Open Source | Edit/Delete |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contact | Finals | Info | rmation |
|
|
| |
| Glenbrooks | 2 | Peninsula AY | Akshay Manglik |
|
|
| |
| Glenbrooks | 3 | Lexington JB | Austin Broussard |
|
|
| |
| Glenbrooks | 6 | McNeil AG | Tate Weston |
|
|
| |
| Grapevine | 1 | Lake Highland Prep IK | John Fruge |
|
|
| |
| Grapevine | 3 | Memorial SC | Samantha Mcloughlin |
|
|
| |
| Grapevine | 5 | Dulles TY | Das, Sreeyash |
|
|
| |
| Greenhill | 1 | Lexington AK | Tate Weston |
|
|
| |
| Greenhill | 5 | Harker KB | Matt Moorhead |
|
|
| |
| Greenhill | 4 | Lexington BF | Michael Fain |
|
|
| |
| Greenhill | Doubles | Southlake Carroll PK | Evnen - Quinsenberry - Yi |
|
|
| |
| Loyola | 1 | St Agnes EH | Connor Self |
|
|
| |
| Loyola | 4 | Dulles JL | Eric Einsley |
|
|
| |
| Loyola | 5 | San Mateo YR | Jonah Gentleman |
|
|
| |
| Loyola | Doubles | Orange Lutheran AZ | Tej - Srey - Lena |
|
|
| |
| Mid America Cup | 1 | Byram Hills EW | Keshav Dandu |
|
|
| |
| Mid America Cup | 3 | Mission San Jose SR | Rohit Lakshman |
|
|
| |
| Mid America Cup | 6 | American Heritage Broward PG | Aryan Jasani |
|
|
| |
| Mid America Cup | Doubles | Perry JA | Barquin - Dandu - Singh |
|
|
| |
| NSD Camp Tournament | 2 | AzbelKalaria Miller Roberts | John Sims |
|
|
| |
| NSD Camp Tournament | 3 | AzbelKalaria Bryan Shi | Sesh Joe |
|
|
| |
| NSD Camp Tournament | Doubles | JoshiPlat Jayden Bai | Sam Azbel - Rohit Lakshman - Jayanne Forrest |
|
|
| |
| NSD Camp Tournament | 6 | GedelaSiegel Avik Garg | Rohit Lakshman |
|
|
| |
| St Marks | 1 | Southlake Carroll AS | Collin Smith |
|
|
| |
| St Marks | 4 | Harvard Westlake NL | Rosas, Yardley |
|
|
| |
| St Marks | 5 | Homestead SL | Joseph Barquin |
|
|
| |
| St Marks | Doubles | Harvard Westlake IC | Timmons - Smith - Rosas |
|
|
| |
| UT | 1 | Cypress Woods CL | David Dosch |
|
|
|
| Tournament | Round | Report |
|---|---|---|
| Contact | Finals | Opponent: Info | Judge: rmation Last modified by Karan Shah on 20210707 1938 |
| Glenbrooks | 2 | Opponent: Peninsula AY | Judge: Akshay Manglik 1AC-Healthcare workers |
| Glenbrooks | 3 | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: Austin Broussard 1AC-semiotic trivial coherence |
| Glenbrooks | 6 | Opponent: McNeil AG | Judge: Tate Weston 1AC-Giroux |
| Grapevine | 1 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep IK | Judge: John Fruge 1AC-TRIPs PLUS |
| Grapevine | 3 | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Samantha Mcloughlin 1AC-Evergreening - Must disclose case cards |
| Grapevine | 5 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Das, Sreeyash 1AC-"stock" |
| Greenhill | 1 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Tate Weston 1AC-Korsgaard |
| Greenhill | 5 | Opponent: Harker KB | Judge: Matt Moorhead 1AC-EU Whistleblowers |
| Greenhill | 4 | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Michael Fain 1AC-Covid |
| Greenhill | Doubles | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: Evnen - Quinsenberry - Yi 1AC-Weed |
| Loyola | 1 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Connor Self 1AC-Adv legitimacy - Adv Access 1NC-Truth Testing - NC LogCon - Theory Spec IP - DA Innovation - Case 1AR-Comparative Worlds - Theory must not read aprioris - Theory must not read circumvention - Case - Spec - TT - NC - DA 2NR-DA - Case - IP Spec - Comparative Worlds - Theory must not read aprioris - Theory must not read circumvention 2AR-Case - Must not read aprioris - Must not read circumvention - IP Spec |
| Loyola | 4 | Opponent: Dulles JL | Judge: Eric Einsley 1AC-Stock |
| Loyola | 5 | Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Jonah Gentleman 1AC-Evergreening |
| Loyola | Doubles | Opponent: Orange Lutheran AZ | Judge: Tej - Srey - Lena 1AC-Vaccine Imperialism |
| Mid America Cup | 1 | Opponent: Byram Hills EW | Judge: Keshav Dandu 1AC-Vaccine Imperialism |
| Mid America Cup | 3 | Opponent: Mission San Jose SR | Judge: Rohit Lakshman 1AC-Virtue Ethics |
| Mid America Cup | 6 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward PG | Judge: Aryan Jasani 1AC-Ethical ReciprocityBiopiracy |
| Mid America Cup | Doubles | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Barquin - Dandu - Singh 1AC-Medical Touch |
| NSD Camp Tournament | 2 | Opponent: AzbelKalaria Miller Roberts | Judge: John Sims 1ac-stock |
| NSD Camp Tournament | 3 | Opponent: AzbelKalaria Bryan Shi | Judge: Sesh Joe 1ac-existentialism |
| NSD Camp Tournament | Doubles | Opponent: JoshiPlat Jayden Bai | Judge: Sam Azbel - Rohit Lakshman - Jayanne Forrest 1ac-Kant |
| NSD Camp Tournament | 6 | Opponent: GedelaSiegel Avik Garg | Judge: Rohit Lakshman 1ac-china Changes to Disad are on osource - don't know why cite isnt working |
| St Marks | 1 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Collin Smith 1AC-Cannabis The cite for the counterplan doesn't work - its in osource |
| St Marks | 4 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NL | Judge: Rosas, Yardley 1AC-covid |
| St Marks | 5 | Opponent: Homestead SL | Judge: Joseph Barquin 1AC-Hapticality |
| St Marks | Doubles | Opponent: Harvard Westlake IC | Judge: Timmons - Smith - Rosas 1AC-Covid |
| UT | 1 | Opponent: Cypress Woods CL | Judge: David Dosch 1AC-Equality |
To modify or delete round reports, edit the associated round.
Cites
| Entry | Date |
|---|---|
0 - Contact InfoTournament: Contact | Round: Finals | Opponent: Info | Judge: rmation Note: I started disclosing case cards after Grapevine round 3. If you need them from before that round, just ask me. Osource doesn't work for scientists v3, check open source for st. marks R1 | 10/16/21 |
0 - Content WarningsTournament: Contact | Round: Finals | Opponent: Info | Judge: rmation | 10/16/21 |
0 - NavigationTournament: Contact | Round: Finals | Opponent: Info | Judge: rmation For Kritikal Positions I will try to update what Affirmative the links are contextual to. | 10/16/21 |
1 - T - Defend the TopicTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Barquin - Dandu - Singh 2Our interpretation is that the aff should defend the implementation of a topical governmental action.Resolved requires policy actionLouisiana State Legislature (https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Glossary.aspx) Ngong AND Senate Rules 10.9, 13.5 and 15.1) Violation: they don’tDebate is a game since we’re both here to win so procedural questions come first. The only role of the ballot and judge is to vote for whoever better debated the topic. Only evaluating the consequences of the plan allows us to determine the practical impacts of politics and preserves the predictability that fosters engagement. Rigorous contestation and third and fourth-line testing are key to generate the self-reflexivity that creates ethical subjects.Vote Neg:Their interp explodes limits and allows affs to monopolize the moral high ground. The lack of a stable mechanism lets them radically re-contextualize their aff and erase neg ground via perms – that causes a race to the margins where they’re incentivized to defend uncontestable statements like "racism bad" or "2+24." Caselists are concessionary, unpredictable, beaten by perms, and don’t justify their model.==== 2~ SSD is good – it forces debaters to consider a controversial issue from multiple perspectives. Non-T affs allow individuals to establish their own metrics for what they want to debate leading to ideological dogmatism, while SSD encompasses your education.3~ TVA: 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 drivesAhmed 20 ~Kavum; 6/24/20; Division Director for Access and Accountability at the Open Society Public Health Program in New York and teaches at Columbia University Law School; "Decolonizing the vaccine," Africa’s Country, https://africasacountry.com/2020/06/decolonizing-the-vaccine~~ Elmer Re-Cut Justin AND vaccine. Resistance to this colonial power requires the decolonization of the vaccine. Detailed research over specific points of difference is necessary for activism.Iverson ’9 ~Joel; 2009; Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Montana, Ph.D in Communication from Arizona State University Relations at the University of Sydney; Debate Central, "Can Cutting Cards Carve into Our Personal Lives: An Analysis of Debate Research on Personal Advocacy," https://debate.uvm.edu/dybvigiverson1000.html; GR~ AND nature of various policy proposals helps debaters to strengthen their own stance on issues 4~ Fairness is an impact –A~ Fairness is good and prior – debate’s a game that requires effective competition and negation, which makes their offense inevitable, it internal link turns clash and engagement.B~ Cutting negs to every possible aff wrecks small schools, which has a disparate impact on under-resourced and minority debaters.C~ Can’t weigh the aff—it’s just as likely that they’re winning it because we weren’t able to effectively prepare to defeat it.D~ Inescapable – the AC conforms to every norm of debate – speed, speech times, ballots – proves they value playing the game and isolating T as the one bad rule is arbitrary.E~ Probability – ballots can’t shape our subjectivity or create broad political change but can rectify in-round skews.No impact turns:1~ T is just an argument for why the aff is a bad idea, which is what every single negative position says—there’s nothing unique about T that causes violence but the cap k or case turns don’tUse competing interps—reasonability collapses to offense defense paradigm.No RVIs — Baiting—they’ll just bait theory and prep it out—justifies infinite abuse and results in a chilling effect | 9/27/21 |
1 - T - Defend the Topic v2Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: Austin Broussard 1Our interpretation is that the aff should only defend desirability of the hypothetical implementation of a topical governmental action.Resolved requires policy actionLouisiana State Legislature (https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/Glossary.aspx) Ngong AND Senate Rules 10.9, 13.5 and 15.1) Violation: they don’t and they gain offense off something that isn’t the passage of a government action i.e. the method. Reading a disad is insufficient when they would uplayer it.Debate is a game since we’re both here to win so procedural questions come first. The only role of the ballot and judge is to vote for whoever better debated the topic. Only evaluating the consequences of the plan allows us to determine the practical impacts of politics and preserves the predictability that fosters engagement. Rigorous contestation and third and fourth-line testing are key to generate the self-reflexivity that creates ethical subjects.Vote Neg:Their interp explodes limits and allows affs to monopolize the moral high ground. The lack of a stable mechanism lets them radically re-contextualize their aff and erase neg ground via perms – that causes a race to the margins where they’re incentivized to defend uncontestable statements like "racism bad" or "2+24." Caselists are concessionary, unpredictable, beaten by perms, and don’t justify their model.==== 2~ SSD is good – it forces debaters to consider a controversial issue from multiple perspectives. Non-T affs allow individuals to establish their own metrics for what they want to debate leading to ideological dogmatism, while SSD encompasses your education.3~ TVA: Allow for strikes to destroy the state and meaningDetailed research over specific points of difference is necessary for activism.Iverson ’9 ~Joel; 2009; Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Montana, Ph.D in Communication from Arizona State University Relations at the University of Sydney; Debate Central, "Can Cutting Cards Carve into Our Personal Lives: An Analysis of Debate Research on Personal Advocacy," https://debate.uvm.edu/dybvigiverson1000.html; GR~ AND nature of various policy proposals helps debaters to strengthen their own stance on issues 4~ Fairness is an impact –A~ Fairness is good and prior – debate’s a game that requires effective competition and negation, which makes their offense inevitable, it internal link turns clash and engagement.B~ Cutting negs to every possible aff wrecks small schools, which has a disparate impact on under-resourced and minority debaters.C~ Can’t weigh the aff—it’s just as likely that they’re winning it because we weren’t able to effectively prepare to defeat it.D~ Inescapable – the AC conforms to every norm of debate – speed, speech times, ballots – proves they value playing the game and isolating T as the one bad rule is arbitrary.E~ Probability – ballots can’t shape our subjectivity or create broad political change but can rectify in-round skews.No impact turns:1~ T is just an argument for why the aff is a bad idea, which is what every single negative position says—there’s nothing unique about T that causes violence but the cap k or case turns don’t2~ T isn’t violent – A~ I don’t have the power to impose a norm – only to convince you my side is better. T doesn’t ban you from the activity – the whole point is that norms should be contestableUse competing interps—reasonability collapses to offense defense paradigm.No RVIs — Baiting—they’ll just bait theory and prep it out—justifies infinite abuse and results in a chilling effect | 11/20/21 |
1 - Theory - 1AR Theory HedgeTournament: Grapevine | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Das, Sreeyash 31ar theory hedge:~1~ DTA – A~ they can blow up a blippy 20 second shell to 3 min of the 2AR while I have to split my time and can’t preempt 2AR spin which necessitates judge intervention and means 1AR theory is irresolvable so you shouldn’t stake the round on it B~ proves terminal defense to 1AR shells since the 1NC is directly engaging under the aff’s framework of choice, with the most predictable advocacy C~ Time skew doesn’t exist – we both have 13 minutes and you can do drills and spread faster~2~ Reasonability – 1AR theory is super aff-biased because the 2AR gets to line-by-line every 2NR standard with new answers that never get responded to which means either A~ the 2AR always wins since they just need a single response to each argument which flips infinite abuse or B~ means it’s irresolvable because the judge has to intervene to determine whether or not it’s warranted enough to vote on which collapses to reasonability – reasonability checks 2AR sandbagging by preventing super abusive 1NCs while still giving the 2N a chance.~3~ No 2ar weighing because I don’t have a 3nr to respond to all your arguments so I always lose theory. We get RVIs –1AR being able to spend 20 seconds on a shell and still win forces the 2N to allocate at least 2:30 on the shell which means RVIs check back time skew – outweighs on quantifiaiblity~4~ No new 1ar paradigm issues - A~ the 1NC has already occurred with current paradigm issues in mind so new 1ar paradigms moot any theoretical offense B~ introducing them in the aff allows for them to be more rigorously tested which o/w’s on time frame since we can set higher quality norms. C~ anything else screws over NC strategy because your lack of justification determines my 1nc strat D~ Infinite abuse is solved by preemptive shells empirically proven by reading ACC~5~ Reject 1AR Theory: a~ Resolvability: Either you auto accept all responses to 2NR standards and they auto win since I can't respond, or you intervene to give 2AR credence b~ flips infinite abuse - 2ar can always line by line every 2nr standard and we lose every time so eval theory debate after the 2nr so we both get one speech and also outweighs since 1ar can respond to the 1nc c~ No infinite abuse: 1NC is 7 minutes and 1AC spikes check | 9/12/21 |
1 - Theory - Affirmatives Must Defend an ActionTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 6 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward PG | Judge: Aryan Jasani 1Interpretation: Affirmatives must defend a change from the status quo. To clarify, you must defend the desirability of an action that reduces intellectual property protections for medicines. You don’t need to defend a specific actor, just that the action occurs.Violation: Their 1ac plan text is "just stating the current state of affairs is unethical." Which critiques the status quo without prescribing an action. I’ll pre-empt the I meet – the first part of the advocacy is dependent on them roleplaying the state, OR they shift their advocacy from defending the status quo to defending state action which is 1~ shifty – a reason to drop them since they delink out of neg ground and is also what settlers do to get land 2~ lying which is an independent reason to drop them for ethicality 3~ solvency deficit since it uses the state 4~ proves cx doesn’t check since they shifted from their advocacy – hold them to text - verifiabilityStandards:1~ Ground – any disad, case turns, kritik links, and process counterplans are reliant all on the aff changing something from the status quo – even NCs would just be non-unique since you defend the status quo – ground outweighs –A~ Testing – if we can’t test the aff, we don’t know the truth value of itB~ Dogmatism – they isolate their strategy to their aff and precludes discussion – impossible to implement or improve on itC~ Critical education – Every discussion of an liberation strategy assumes an level playing field with the ability to contribute to the discussion2~ Circumvention – the 1ac taking a stance about the topic while claiming representations come first does literally nothing – no aff action or any semblance of the change proves our norm massively outweighs aff solvency on proximity and duration.Competing interps – Reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom– it also collapses since brightlines operate on an offense-defense paradigmNo RVIs – A – Going all in on theory kills substance education which outweighs on timeframe B - Discourages checking real abuse which outweighs on norm-setting C – Encourages theory baiting – outweighs because if the shell is frivolous, they can beat it quicklyDTD to deter future abuse and it doesn’t make sense to drop their advocacyFairness first:1~ It’s a constitutive process of debate since debate is a game with a winner and loser, speech times, and flipping 30 min before the round – Constitutive Rules means any DA to our interpretation are inevitable and terminally non-unique2~ Self Defeating- All the 1ar's arguments assume that the judge will evaluate them fairly which concedes it's authority – actively hack against them3~ Misses the boat – Their impact turns shows a misapplication of fairness not a reason why the very structure of it is bad. | 9/27/21 |
1 - Theory - Combo Shell v1Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Das, Sreeyash 2Interpretation: The affirmative may not read 1ar theory is the highest layer, 1ar theory has no rvis, 1ar theory is legit, all neg interps are counterinterps, new 2ar arguments, and no 2n theory or I meetsThe standard is infinite abuse –- infinite abuse - lets the aff win 1ar theory every time bc its the highes tlayer, the 2n cant use paradigm issues outweigh it since and they also get new 2ar weighing, also irreciprocal bc no rvi - also link turns norming bc the aff is always structurally ahead on the theory debate which kills ability to determine what norms are actually good Framing Issue:Don’t evaluate anything but the counterinterpretation to the shell: allowing them cross apps or deflationary strats feeds back into the abuse story because they can use abusive arguments to deflate theory – that’s circular, but contradictions negate since I indicted their argument first.Fairness is a voter—debate is a competitive activity that requires objective evaluation. Education is a voter—it’s intrinsic to debate. Drop the debater—the abuse has already occurred and my time allocation has shifted – also to deter future abuse and set better norms. Use competing interps—leads to a race to the top since we figure out the best possible norm and avoids judge intervention since there’s a clear brightline.No RVIs—a. Baiting—they’ll just bait theory and prep it out—justifies infinite abuse and results in a chilling effect and b) ) illogical – you don’t win because you’re fair or educationalMeta-theory outweighs - | 9/12/21 |
1 - Theory - Cutting Cards in the Middle of a Paragraph BadTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 3 | Opponent: Mission San Jose SR | Judge: Rohit Lakshman 1Interpretation: Debaters must not cut cards in the middle of a paragraph.Violation – the card starts one word in and the dot in the screenshot is where they cut it off from – Standard is academic ethics – cutting the card in the middle of a paragraph is a voter – their ev starts and ends in the middle – misrepresents authors intent because paragraphs are how authors delineate arguments. Also allows debaters to manipulate evidence and strategically leave out what contradicts with their arguments – putting rest of the uncut paragraph in the doc solves all your offense unless your intent was to cheat which is even worse. Academic ethics is a voter and ow a) what we gain from debate means nothing if we’re academically dishonest and have no cred, b) the purpose of debate is to prepare debaters for the real world, and academic dishonesty is punished irl c) if they’re willing to be manipulate their evidence, be epistemically suspect of all of it d) turns case – its virtuous for you to concede after reading bad evidenceNo RVI’s on ev ethics violations – you don’t win for proving that you were academically honest and that’s ridiculous. Saying "we meet" checks abuse. RVI’s bad, they deter from checking actual abuse and justify 100 apriori non inherent affs.Drop the debater: it’s academic misconduct that should disqualify any other argument they make from counting. Doing good on a test doesn’t matter if you cheated. That’s a side constraint on their fairness offense so even if they win a spike the shell outweighs.The 1AR will make appeals to reasonability or intention – reject them:1~ All our violations prove the aff is unreasonable and you should not believe any of their appeals.2~ Intent is irrelevant – we should be held accountable for the consequences of our actions. If they didn’t cut it it’s more egregious – they stole miscut cards from someone and clearly didn’t bother to check.3~ It makes reading unethical ev no cost – if they’re caught, they can go for other things, if they’re not caught they get to win on no cost ev4~ Reject the team for deterrence – letting them win encourages the practice5~ Competing interps – reasonability’s arbitrary and collapses to an offense defense paradigm6~ Yes it’s against tournament procedures which outweighs on jurisdiction:NSDA link if you want to verify–~Again dependent – go here to find — https://www.speechanddebate.org/wp-content/uploads/Debate-Evidence-Guide.pdf~~ | 9/25/21 |
1 - Theory - Flex Standards BadTournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: AzbelKalaria Bryan Shi | Judge: Sesh Joe 3Interpretation – Debaters may not read affirming or negating is harder arguments. To clarify, these are reasons either side is harder absent context in the round.Violation – Underview 4 point and I don’t violate – all my arguments on aff flex are defensiveThe standard is norming – These arguments encourage terrible theory norms since you can read them in response to any shell which allows you to avoid justifying a specific practice that is good which means we can never come to any conclusions about specific norms of the activity; this is infinite abuse since you never have to defend your practice and can just prep the shit out of each side is harder and be as abusive as possible.Aff flex is false: 1~ we both have 13 minutes 2~ you can do drills and spread faster 3~ you have infinite prep for a perfect 1ar 4~ forces you to critically think.D. VoterFairness is a voter—debate is a competitive activity that requires objective evaluation. Education is a voter – it is the terminal impact of debate. Drop the debater—the abuse has already occurred and my time allocation has shifted—also the shell indicts your whole aff—justifies severance which skews my strat. Use competing interps—leads to a race to the top since we figure out the best possible norm and avoids judge intervention since there’s a clear briteline. No RVIs—a. Baiting—they’ll just bait theory and prep it out—justifies infinite abuse and results in a chilling effectb. its not logical—you don’t reward them for meeting the burden of being fair, especially on T debate where definitions are objective while your interp is subjective. Logic is a meta constraint on all args because it definitionally determines whether an argument is valid. | 7/8/21 |
1 - Theory - Method Offense BadTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 6 | Opponent: McNeil AG | Judge: Tate Weston 3~For the wiki: this position was exempted in the round~ | 11/21/21 |
1 - Theory - MisdisclosureTournament: Greenhill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: Evnen - Quinsenberry - Yi Interpretation: debaters may not misdisclose the affirmative. To clarify, lying during disclosing the affirmative is bad.Violation: they said closest to r5 aff with changes. Here’s the briteline for changes – if the advantage’s story is the same, but you can change the warrants – anything else is a new advantage and completely arbitrary. Their 1ac from round 5 is cartels and warming, but their aff this round is warming – err neg on the violation – they should’ve said it’s a new impact scenario but they chose to say it was a similar advantage with changes.~1~ lying | 9/25/21 |
1 - Theory - Must Disclose Affirmative During the FlipTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Barquin - Dandu - Singh 1Interpretation: the debater on the other side of the flip must disclose what the aff they would be reading while the debater doing the flip decides their position.Violation – While "Elmer was in the grocery store" is a good excuse, its not sufficient to justify bad disclose
Strat skew – debaters choose to flip aff or neg based on the position their opponents are planning to read – supercharged by the fact the aff could be new – kills pre-round prep and makes us structurally disadvantaged since we don’t know side would be better. No impact turns – they rely on the aff but their choice to make me flip in the dark should preclude that discussion. | 9/27/21 |
1 - Theory - Must Disclose Round ReportsTournament: Greenhill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: Evnen - Quinsenberry - Yi 2Interp: Debaters must disclose round reports on the 2020-21 NDCA LD wiki for every round they have debated this season. Round reports disclose which positions (AC, NC, K, T, Theory, etc.) were read/gone for in every speech.Violation: screenshot in the doc – they only have one round from grapevine and they do not disclose 1ars or 2ars.
Standards:1~ Level Playing Field – big schools can go around and scout and collect flows but independents are left in the dark so round reports are key to prep- they give you an idea of overall what layers debaters like going for so you can best prepare your strategy when you hit them. Accessibility first and independent voter – it’s an impact multiplier2~ Strategy Education – round reports help novices understand the context in which positions are read by good debaters and help with brainstorming potential 1NCs vs affs – helps compensate for kids who can’t afford coaches to prep out affs. | 9/25/21 |
1 - Theory - Must have solvency advocateTournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harker KB | Judge: Matt Moorhead 2Interp: If affirmatives specify beyond normal means, their plan texts must have a carded solvency advocate that advocates for their specific plan.Violation: they don’t. Abazi is about the current state of affairs and doesn’t say anything about the 1ac plan text. Vandekerckhove literally just says that the squo EU trade secrets directive is bad, nothing about reducing them in your specific manner. Hold the line – they have zero card in the 1AC that specifies anything remotely close to their extremely specific plan text.~1~ limits – you have infinite possible affs uncontrained by the topic literature – you can make up any affirmative you want, which kills neg prep and erases the role of the negative since there’s no prep against an aff that does not exist~2~ strat skew – no solvency advocate to bind the plan text allows the 1ar to shift out of all neg ground and links – outweighs since even if we do have ground on your aff, you can just shift out of it.~3~ topic literature – no solvency advocate means there’s absolutely no 1nc evidence specific to this aff that can engage – completely destroys topic ed which outweighs other education impacts on urgency. | 9/19/21 |
1 - Theory - New Affs badTournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Tate Weston 1Interpretation: Debaters must disclose the plan text and standard text to their new affirmative to their opponent 30 minutes before the round.Violation: I asked and you chose not to disclose and its nowhere close to your teammate’s aff either~1~ Limits – unbroken standard and plan text are infinitely unpredictable – they’ll always win with cheap shot affs that we can’t prep. Giving only plan and standard text preserves sufficient affirmative flexibility by allowing your warrant to be new, but also allows the 1nc a chance of engaging.~2~ Argument quality: standard text text disclosure discourages cheap shot aff’s with frings authors and shoddy solvency. If the aff isn’t inherent or easily defeated by 20 minutes of research, the case should lose. They had a month to prep – the neg is entitled to some research time to make sure the AFF is inherent, topical, and controversial. Outweighs on argument quality and innovation – kills education only portable impact and encourages unfairnessFairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Education’s a voter – terminal impact of debateDrop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.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 | 9/18/21 |
1 - Theory - Unified Solvency AdvocateTournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Jonah Gentleman 1Interpretation: Interpretation: If the affirmative delineates specific functions of its advocacy as normal means i.e. enforcement, actor, implementation, etc, then it must have a unified solvency advocate that agrees with all those specifications.Violation: They don’t – 1AC Feldman advocates for the plan passing through FDA approval; Feldman also talks about data exclusivity which is not only about patents1~ Limits – Not having a unified solvency advocate that agrees with all your "normal means" specifications allow you to choose any permutation of specifications which explodes neg prep burden. Not having a solvency advocate for it passing through the WTO at all should frame the limits debate. Unified solvency advocates grant sufficient aff flexibility while still ensuring a reasonable case list since specification all comes from one source.2~ Ground – They can choose any permutation of best definition for "reduce" that suits them, the best enforcement mechanism, the best agent, all with any exceptions they want in conjunction with each other. Frame this standard through norm setting – best specifications make it extremely easy to delink out of core neg generics especially when it’s the fifth round on the topic. It also causes shiftiness since no 1AC solvency advocate for the WTO means that the 1ar can redefine normal means through their solvency advocate and delink out of all neg positions that don’t link to FDA approval | 9/5/21 |
2 - NC - Log Con v2Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Das, Sreeyash 1Permissibility and presumption negate – a. the resolution indicates the affirmative has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation b. Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false so negate because the aff is probably falseThe aff burden is to prove that the resolutional statement is logical, and the reciprocal neg burden is to prove that the resolutional statement is illogical.Prefer:1. Text – Oxford Dictionary defines ought as "used to indicate something that is probable."https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ought Massa Ought is "used to express logical consequence" as defined by Merriam-Webster(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ought) Massa 2. Debatability – a) my interp means debates focus on empirics about squo trends rather than irresolvable abstract principles that’ve been argued for years b) Moral oughts cannot guide action.Gray, Grey, JW. "The Is/Ought Gap: How Do We Get "Ought" from "Is?"" Ethical Realism. N.p., 19 July 2011. Web. 28 Oct. 2015. Massa AND arsenic. If it is, we have some more explaining to do. 4. Neg definition choice – The aff should have defined ought in the 1ac as their value, by not doing so they have forfeited their right to read a new definition – kills 1NC strategy since I premised my engagement on a lack of your definition.~1~ Inherency – either a) the aff is non-inherent and you vote neg on presumption or b) it is and it isn’t logically going to happen. | 9/12/21 |
2 - NC - LogConTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Connor Self 2Permissibility and presumption negate – a. the resolution indicates the affirmative has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation b. Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false so negate because the aff is probably false.The standard is consistency with the logical consequence of the resolution. Prefer:1. Text – Oxford Dictionary defines ought as "used to indicate something that is probable."https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ought Massa Ought is "used to express logical consequence" as defined by Merriam-Webster(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ought) Massa 2. Debatability – a) my interp means debates focus on empirics about squo trends rather than irresolvable abstract principles that’ve been argued for years b) Moral oughts cannot guide action due to the is/ought fallacy – we cannot derive moral obligations from what happens in the real world3. Neg definition choice – The aff should have defined ought in the 1ac as their value, by not doing so they have forfeited their right to read a new definition – kills 1NC strategy since I premised my engagement on a lack of your definition.Negate:~1~ Intellectual is defined as "possessing or showing intellect or mental compacity" (Dictionary.com) but property cant possess intellect so the resolutions incoherent~2~ Inherency – either a) the aff is non-inherent and you vote neg on presumption or b) it is and it isn’t logically going to happen.~3~ member means "a body part or organ" (Marriam Webster) but a nation cannot have bodily organs so the resolutions incoherent~4~ To means "indicate movement" (Merriam Webster), but that means the resolution is incoherent because the word ought cannot move to the word reduce. Means you negate on face because you can’t even know what the resolution looks like and an incoherent claim can’t have truth.~5~ Trade means "a publication intended for persons in the entertainment business"(Merriam Webster) but a world entertainment business cannot reduce intellectual property making the resolution incoherent.~6~ Medicine means "a spell, charm, or fetish believed to have healing (Oxford Languages)" so reducing intellectual property protections for spells is incoherent.~7~ Property means "a building" (Oxford Languages) so reducing intellectual buildings is incoherent~8~ Aff has an absolute burden of proof – any doubt means you negate since a claim not that claim can’t be true so any risk of falsity is entirely false. | 9/4/21 |
2 - NC - Truth TestingTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Connor Self 1The role of the ballot is to determine whether the resolution is a true or false statement – anything else moots 7 minutes of the nc – their framing collapses since you must say it is true that a world is better than another before you adopt it.Substantive skews – there is always a more correct side of the topic but we compensate for flaws in the lit.Scalar methods rely on intervention – the persuasion of certain DA or advantages sway decisions – only a binary resolves that and prevents intervention which is the biggest impact under fairness.Most inclusive because other ROBs allow for oppression Olympics allowing personal lives and experiences to factor in decisions.a priori's 1st – even worlds framing requires ethics that begin from a priori principles like reason or pleasure so we control the internal link to functional debates.The ballot says vote aff or neg based on a topic – five dictionaries define to negate as to deny the truth of and affirm as to prove true which means it’s constitutive and jurisdictional – that outweighs – all your arguments presume the judge evaluates them and controls the IL to topic ed and fairness since the rules of the activity is what we base our arguments on.I denied the truth of the resolution by disagreeing with the aff which means I've met my burden. | 9/4/21 |
2 - NC - UtilTournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: AzbelKalaria Bryan Shi | Judge: Sesh Joe 1Permissibility and presumption negate – ~a~ the resolution indicates the aff has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation ~b~ Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false. This means you negate if there is no offense because the resolution is probably false.The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing.1~ No intent foresight distinction for states.Enoch 07 Enoch, D ~The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew Unviersity, Mount Scopus Campus, Jersusalem~. (2007). INTENDING, FORESEEING, AND THE STATE. Legal Theory, 13(02). doi:10.1017/s1352325207070048 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-theory/article/intending-foreseeing-and-the-state/76B18896B94D5490ED0512D8E8DC54B2 AND against the intending-foreseeing distinction when applied to state action than elsewhere. 2~ Death is bad and outweighs – a~ agents can’t act if they fear for their bodily security which constrains every ethical theory, b~ it destroys the subject itself – kills any ability to achieve value in ethics since life is a prerequisite which means it’s a side constraint since we can’t reach the end goal of ethics without life3~ Pleasure and pain are the starting point for moral reasoning—they’re our most baseline desires and the only things that explain the intrinsic value of objects or actionsMoen 16, Ole Martin (PhD, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo). "An Argument for Hedonism." Journal of Value Inquiry 50.2 (2016): 267. AND notion of legal standing will outstrip the power relations that ground Pettit’s theory. 4~ Extinction outweighsMacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ AND with the benefit of keeping one’s options open while one gains new information. 5~ Reject calc indicts(sorry becca):A~ Empirically denied—both individuals and policymakers carry out effective cost-benefit analysis which means even if decisions aren’t always perfect it’s still better than not acting at allB~ Theory—they’re functionally NIBs that everyone knows are silly but skew the aff and move the debate away from the topic and actual philosophical debate, killing valuable education | 7/8/21 |
2 - NC - Util v2Tournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: Doubles | Opponent: JoshiPlat Jayden Bai | Judge: Sam Azbel - Rohit Lakshman - Jayanne Forrest 1Permissibility and presumption negate – ~a~ the resolution indicates the aff has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation ~b~ Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false. This means you negate if there is no offense because the resolution is probably false.The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing.1~ No intent foresight distinction for states.Enoch 07 Enoch, D ~The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew Unviersity, Mount Scopus Campus, Jersusalem~. (2007). INTENDING, FORESEEING, AND THE STATE. Legal Theory, 13(02). doi:10.1017/s1352325207070048 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-theory/article/intending-foreseeing-and-the-state/76B18896B94D5490ED0512D8E8DC54B2 AND against the intending-foreseeing distinction when applied to state action than elsewhere. 2~ Death is bad and outweighs – a~ agents can’t act if they fear for their bodily security which constrains every ethical theory, b~ it destroys the subject itself – kills any ability to achieve value in ethics since life is a prerequisite which means it’s a side constraint since we can’t reach the end goal of ethics without life3~ Pleasure and pain are the starting point for moral reasoning—they’re our most baseline desires and the only things that explain the intrinsic value of objects or actionsMoen 16, Ole Martin (PhD, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo). "An Argument for Hedonism." Journal of Value Inquiry 50.2 (2016): 267. AND notion of legal standing will outstrip the power relations that ground Pettit’s theory. 4~ Extinction outweighsMacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ AND with the benefit of keeping one’s options open while one gains new information. 5~ Reject calc indicts:A~ Empirically denied—both individuals and policymakers carry out effective cost-benefit analysis which means even if decisions aren’t always perfect it’s still better than not acting at allB~ Theory—they’re functionally NIBs that everyone knows are silly but skew the aff and move the debate away from the topic and actual philosophical debate, killing valuable education6~ Only moral naturalism can explain the influence of moral facts on the physical world – ethics must be understood a posteriori.Papineau David ~Professor of Philosophy King's College London~, First published Thu Feb 22, 2007; substantive revision Tue Mar 31, 2020 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/~~#MorFac AND conceptual gap, not a metaphysical one (Ridge 2014: Section 2). | 7/9/21 |
2 - NC - Util v3Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Tate Weston 2Permissibility and presumption negate – ~a~ the resolution indicates the aff has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation ~b~ Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false. This means you negate if there is no offense because the resolution is probably false.The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing.1~ No intent foresight distinction for states – governments must use util because they don’t have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations—takes out calc indicts since they are empirically denied.Enoch 07 Enoch, D ~The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew Unviersity, Mount Scopus Campus, Jersusalem~. (2007). INTENDING, FORESEEING, AND THE STATE. Legal Theory, 13(02). doi:10.1017/s1352325207070048 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-theory/article/intending-foreseeing-and-the-state/76B18896B94D5490ED0512D8E8DC54B2 AND against the intending-foreseeing distinction when applied to state action than elsewhere. 2~ Death is bad and outweighs – a~ agents can’t act if they fear for their bodily security which constrains every ethical theory, b~ it destroys the subject itself – kills any ability to achieve value in ethics since life is a prerequisite which means it’s a side constraint since we can’t reach the end goal of ethics without life3~ Pleasure and pain are the starting point for moral reasoning—they’re our most baseline desires and the only things that explain the intrinsic value of objects or actionsMoen 16, Ole Martin (PhD, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo). "An Argument for Hedonism." Journal of Value Inquiry 50.2 (2016): 267. AND notion of legal standing will outstrip the power relations that ground Pettit’s theory. 4~ Extinction outweighsMacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ AND with the benefit of keeping one’s options open while one gains new information. 5~ Reject calc indicts:A~ Empirically denied—both individuals and policymakers carry out effective cost-benefit analysis which means even if decisions aren’t always perfect it’s still better than not acting at allB~ Theory—they’re functionally NIBs that everyone knows are silly but skew the aff and move the debate away from the topic and actual philosophical debate, killing valuable education6~ Util is key to debates about IP.Kar 19 ~Mohit; Writer at the Original Position; "Utilitarianism in the Context of Intellectual Property," The Original Position; 9/18/19; https://originalpositionnluj.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/utilitarianism-in-the-context-of-intellectual-property/~~ Justin AND offset by the prospect of obtaining license fees on their own patents.’ Outweighs –A~ Most articles about IP are written through util – means other frameworks can never engage with core questions of the lit and decks predictability – equal topic lit means fair ground.B~ TJFs first – substance begs the question of a framework being good for debate – fairness is a gateway issue to deciding the winner and education is the reason schools fund debate. | 9/18/21 |
2 - PIC - UndercommonsTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Perry JA | Judge: Barquin - Dandu - Singh 3We endorse the aff’s method absent the usage of the undercommons—-1~ They let feds in debate rounds coopt their movement—-Moten and Harney hate itSchepers 17 (Emily Schepers, veteran civil and immigrant rights activist, doctorate in cultural anthropology from Northwestern University, September 18, 2017. "Agents provocateurs and the manipulation of the radical left." https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/agents-provocateurs-and-the-manipulation-of-the-radical-left/) AND . Let us work on that basis and avoid tactics that undermine it. 2~ Tying ballots to survivability or the aff is violent as it forces the judge to determine whether their method was "good enough" to get the ballot, which causes self hatred given losses3~ Allows judges to dissuade their guilt by voting aff instead of participating in actual movements4~ No solvency and turn – debate as a communicative act may be violent, but their authors don’t differentiate it from the rest of the world it’s just an institution inside logistics – eradicating it will do nothing. They just create cruel optimism by creating a feel good solution to logistics which turns case | 9/27/21 |
NOVDEC - CP - ICJTournament: UT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cypress Woods CL | Judge: David Dosch 2Counterplan text – a just government ought to—-enter a prior, binding, and genuine consultation with the International Court of Justice to issue a binding ruling to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike—-pass a concurrent resolution that non-compliance with the International Court of Justice’s ruling constitutes an enforceable violation of Charter obligations.ICJ says yes and creates a culture of acculturation that socializes acceptance of international law – the aff shreds that.Brudney 21 ~James; 2/8/21; Joseph Crowley Chair in Labor and Employment Law, Fordham Law School; "The Right to Strike as Customary International Law," THE YALE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, Vol 46, https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1710andcontext=yjil~~ Justin Brackets in original AND accept international standards and practices; and contemporary U.N. leadership. Ruling on the right to strike secures the legitimacy of the ICJ as an international mediation body.Hofmann and Schuster 16 ~Claudia and Norbert; February 2016; Dr. Claudia Hofmann works as a research associate at the Chair for Public Law and Policy at the University of Regensburg. She specializes in public international law (in particular the field of socio-economic human rights and equality-oriented policies), social law, constitutional and administrative law. Norbert Schuster works as a lawyer in Berlin and teaches at the University of Bremen. He specialises in labour law; "It ain’t over ‘til it’s over: the right to strike and the mandate of the ILO Committee of Experts revisited," https://global-labour-university.org/fileadmin/GLU'Working'Papers/GLU'WP'No.40.pdf~~ Justin AND Art 31 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT). ICJ legitimacy is key to global multilateralism and crisis stability – it’s declining now.Kornelios Korneliou 18 ~Permanent Representative of Cyprus and Vice-President of the 73rd Session of the UN General assembly, "Report of the International Court of Justice," United Nations, 10-25-2018 https://www.un.org/pga/73/2018/10/25/report-of-the-international-court-of-justice/~~ Recut Justin AND international multilateral system, then adherence and respect for international law remains key. Multilateralism solves a bunch of impacts – even a tiny net benefit is enough to o/w the AFFEsther Brimmer 14 ~Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs at the United States Department of State from April 2009 to June 2013, "Smart Power" and Multilateral Diplomacy, June, http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/publications/books/Smarter20Power/Chapter20420brimmer.pdf~~ Recut Justin AND aspects of a threat or challenge that simply cannot be addressed effectively alone. The perm wrecks legitimacy.Shany, 14 – ~Yuval, Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law and Dean, Hebrew U of Jerusalem, Assessing the Effectiveness of International Courts, Google Books, p. 103-109~ Recut Justin AND adequacy of the independence and impartiality structures that have been put in place. | 12/3/21 |
NOVDEC - CP - Interstate CompactsTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Peninsula AY | Judge: Akshay Manglik 3Counterplan text: All just governments except for the United States should recognize an unconditional right to strike for workers.The fifty states and appropriate territories of the United States should ratify a cooperative horizontal federalism model interstate compact to recognize an an unconditional right of healthcare workers to strike.The counterplan solves and creates a cooperative horizontal federalism model – the perm also failsHall, 6 ~Noah D., Assistant Professor, Wayne State University Law School, "Toward a New Horizontal Federal Interstate Water Management in the Great Lakes Region," https://www.greatlakeslaw.org/blog/files/Hall'Colorado.pdf, Corrigan~ AND interstate environmental protection creates a third option to federal and individual state policymaking. Lack of new horizontal federalism framework undermines national stability and escalates conflictGerken and Holtzblatt, 14 ~Heather K., "Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and Ari, Partner, Wilmer Hale, practice focuses on appellate and government and public policy litigation, "The Political Safeguards of Horizontal Federalism," Michigan Law Review, p. Jstor, Corrigan~ AND the representatives of one state's citizens to tell another's what to do.53 Internal war escalates and turns biological and nuclearDonahue 2018 ~Chris, Editor for the Carolina Political Review, Guns will not save us from Tyranny, Carolina Political Review, March 31, https://www.carolinapoliticalreview.org/editorial-content/2018/3/31/guns-will-not-save-us-from-tyranny, Abe Corrigan~ AND . There just aren’t enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets." | 11/20/21 |
NOVDEC - DA - BizConTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Peninsula AY | Judge: Akshay Manglik 1Business Confidence is high now – best surveys.ICAEW 8-20 8-20-2021 "Business confidence remains at record high as economy gets sales boost" https://www.icaew.com/about-icaew/news/press-release-archive/2021-news-releases/business-confidence-remains-at-record-high-as-economy-gets-sales-boost (Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales)Elmer AND , but finances are fragile and any additional costs could threaten the recovery." Right to Strike has unintended effects that threaten growth and business confidence.Tenza 20, Mlungisi. "The effects of violent strikes on the economy of a developing country: a case of South Africa." Obiter 41.3 (2020): 519-537. (lecturer in the field of Labour Law at the School of Law. He holds a LLM Degree.)Elmer AND was held not to be in line with good conduct of striking.26 Corporate optimism, specifically investment, drives self-sustaining recovery.Van der Welle 7-7 Peter Van der Welle 7-7-2021 "How capex holds the key to a self-sustaining economic recovery" https://www.robeco.com/latam/en/insights/2021/07/how-capex-holds-the-key-to-a-self-sustaining-economic-recovery.html (Strategist within the Global Macro team, M.A. in Economics from Tilburg University)Elmer AND labor costs, and that means profit margins can stay elevated for longer. Economic decline results in multilateral breakdown that causes state collapse, conflict, climate change, and Arctic and Space War.McLennan 21 – Strategic Partners Marsh McLennan SK Group Zurich Insurance Group, Academic Advisers National University of Singapore Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center, University of Pennsylvania, "The Global Risks Report 2021 16th Edition" "http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF'The'Global'Risks'Report'2021.pdf Re-cut by Elmer AND less willing or less able to step in to find a peaceful solution. | 11/20/21 |
NOVDEC - DA - Build Back BetterTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Peninsula AY | Judge: Akshay Manglik 2Continued Biden PC passes Build Back better- defies inflation concernsBarrón- López 11-11 Laura Barrón-López White House Correspondent for Politico, formerly covered Congress for the Washington Examiner, HuffPost and The Hill, BA political science, California State University, Fullerton, "Dems to White House: The only prescription is more Biden," Politico, 11-11-2021, https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/11/dems-white-house-biden-520946 AND —I will cling to that hope as the Biden administration takes shape. Labor reform saps PC – empirically prove with Obama, corporate opposition, and Democratic resistanceLeon 21 Luis Feliz Leon, 01-06-2021, ""If we want it, we’re going to have to fight like hell for it" - Labor faces an uphill battle to pass the PRO Act," Strike Wave, https://www.thestrikewave.com/original-content/labor-faces-uphill-battle-to-pass-pro-act/SJKS AND in motion spur labor-law reforms, not the other way around." Passage consolidates climate momentum, but BBB’s uniquely key to solve cascading impacts.Sherell 11-10 Daniel Sherrell, author of Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World (Penguin Books) and a climate activist, "If Biden doesn’t pass the climate bill, it will be the betrayal of a generation," The Guardian, 11-10-2021, https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/09/if-biden-doesnt-pass-the-climate-bill-it-will-be-the-betrayal-of-a-generation AND evidence to the contrary – that our leaders may actually choose to lead. Climate change causes extinction.Specktor 19 ~Brandon; writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years; "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, 6/4/19; https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html~~ Justin AND and perhaps "the end of human global civilization as we know it." | 11/20/21 |
NOVDEC - NC - NIBsTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: Austin Broussard 2The resolution is incoherent-1~ Merrian websters defines to ashttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to AND or condition suggestive of movement toward a place, person, or thing reached But just governments can’t move to an obligations so rez is incoherent2~ Merrian Websters defines right ashttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/right But there is no base for strikes to be perpendicular to, so the rez does nothing3~ Merrian websters defines Strike as to delete something 4~ Merrian Websters defines workers asany of the sexually underdeveloped and usually sterile members of a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, or termites that perform most of the labor and protective duties of the colony 5~ you can’t be sure anything besides yourself exists – we could be deceived by a demon, dreaming, or in a simulation so the whole world could be nonexistent6~ In order to say I want to fix x problem, you must say that you want x problem to exist, since it requires the problem exist to solve, which makes any moral attempt inherently immoral. | 11/20/21 |
NSD - CP - Interstate CompactsTournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: AzbelKalaria Miller Roberts | Judge: John Sims 1Counterplan text: All just governments except for the United States should recognize a right to strike.The fifty states and appropriate territories of the United States should ratify a cooperative horizontal federalism model interstate compact to recognize an unconditional right to strike.The counterplan solves and creates a cooperative horizontal federalism model – the perm also failsHall, 6 ~Noah D., Assistant Professor, Wayne State University Law School, "Toward a New Horizontal Federal Interstate Water Management in the Great Lakes Region," https://www.greatlakeslaw.org/blog/files/Hall'Colorado.pdf, Corrigan~ AND interstate environmental protection creates a third option to federal and individual state policymaking. Try or die – Status quo spillovers make conflict inevitableErbsen, 8 ~Allan, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota Law School. Visiting Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, "Horizontal Federalism," University of Minnesota Law Review, https://www.minnesotalawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Erbsen'mlr.pdf, Corrigan~ AND thus a framework must exist to manage conflict before it undermines national stability. Lack of new horizontal federalism framework undermines national stability and escalates conflictGerken and Holtzblatt, 14 ~Heather K., "Dean and Sol and Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School, and Ari, Partner, Wilmer Hale, practice focuses on appellate and government and public policy litigation, "The Political Safeguards of Horizontal Federalism," Michigan Law Review, p. Jstor, Corrigan~ AND the representatives of one state's citizens to tell another's what to do.53 Internal war escalates and turns biological and nuclearDonahue 2018 ~Chris, Editor for the Carolina Political Review, Guns will not save us from Tyranny, Carolina Political Review, March 31, https://www.carolinapoliticalreview.org/editorial-content/2018/3/31/guns-will-not-save-us-from-tyranny, Abe Corrigan~ AND . There just aren’t enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets." | 7/8/21 |
NSD - CP - Warming AdvTournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: AzbelKalaria Miller Roberts | Judge: John Sims 4CP Text: a just government should –- Eliminate the use of fossil fuels.- Eliminate their production subsidies for fossil fuelsThat reduces foreign energy dependence and kickstarts a renewable revolution.Monasterolo 19 Irene Monasterolo ~Irene Monasterolo is a development economist with experience in policy monitoring and evaluation; institutional capacity building; governance of evidence-based sustainability policies; complex system thinking for modelling the resource-climate nexus; green fiscal and monetary policies for financing the green economy; and adaptation tools for building agricultural resilience to climate change, focusing on food risk and climate adaptation. She has worked as a scientist in academia, as an economist for consulting companies, as a consultant for the World Bank. She is currently Assistant Professor of Climate Economics and Finance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and a Visiting Scholar with Stanford Energy's Sustainable Finance Initiative. She holds a PhD in Agri-food economics and statistics from the University of Bologna (IT) and held a post-doc at the Global Sustainability Institute in Cambridge (UK) focused on modelling the impact of resource constraints on global growth and political instability.~ and Marco Raberto ~Associate Professor of Business and Management Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy~ (2019). The impact of phasing out fossil fuel subsidies on the low-carbon transition. Energy Policy, 124, 355–370. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.08.051 ash AND scenario to the real economy, green capital investments and the credit market. | 7/8/21 |
NSD - DA - EconTournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: GedelaSiegel Avik Garg | Judge: Rohit Lakshman 2The Global Economy is stabilizing and set for increases in 2021 but is still vulnerable to shocksWorld Bank 6-8 6-8-2021 "The Global Economy: on Track for Strong but Uneven Growth as COVID-19 Still Weighs" https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2021/06/08/the-global-economy-on-track-for-strong-but-uneven-growth-as-covid-19-still-weighs AND continues to flare, it will shape the path of global economic activity. Strikes hurt the Economy – two warrants:1~ They hurt critical core industries that is necessary for economic growthMcElroy 19 John McElroy 10-25-2019 "Strikes Hurt Everybody" https://www.wardsauto.com/ideaxchange/strikes-hurt-everybody (MPA at McCombs school of Business) AND be a better way to get workers a raise without torching the countryside. 2~ Strikes create a stigmatization effect over labor and consumption that devastates the EconomyTenza 20, Mlungisi. "The effects of violent strikes on the economy of a developing country: a case of South Africa." Obiter 41.3 (2020): 519-537. (Senior Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal) AND with a GDP declined by 0.72 and 0.78.32 Economic Collapse goes Nuclear.Tønnesson 15, Stein. "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace." International Area Studies Review 18.3 (2015): 297-311. (the Department of Peace and Conflict, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Peace research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway) AND each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene. | 7/9/21 |
NSD - DA - InnovationTournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: AzbelKalaria Miller Roberts | Judge: John Sims 2Global tech innovation high now.Mercury News et al 6/4 ~Mercury News and East Bay Times Editorial Boards, June 4, 2021, "Editorial: How America can Win the Global Tech War" https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/04/editorial-why-silicon-valley-needs-endless-frontier-bill/ gord0~ AND investments in research and development that will spark the next wave of innovation. Violent strike efforts are increasing – they slow innovation, specifically in the tech sector.Hanasoge 16 ~Chaithra; Senior Research Analyst, Market Researcher, Consumer Insights, Strategy Consulting; "The Union Strikes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," Supply Wisdom; April/June 2016 (Doesn’t specifically say but this is the most recent event is cites); https://www.supplywisdom.com/resources/the-union-strikes-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/~~ Justin AND in a city like Kolkata, which carries a strong trade union culture. Victories like the aff mobilizes unions in the IT sector.Vynck et al 21 ~Gerrit De; Carleton University, BA in Journalism and Global Politics, tech reporter for The Washington Post. He writes about Google and the algorithms that increasingly shape society. He previously covered tech for seven years at Bloomberg News; Nitashu Tiku; Columbia University, BA in English, New York University, MA in Journalism, Washington Post's tech culture reporter based in San Francisco; Macalester College, BA in English, Columbia University, MS in Journalism, reporter for The Washington Post who is focused on technology coverage in the Pacific Northwest; "Six things to know about the latest efforts to bring unions to Big Tech," The Washington Post; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/26/tech-unions-explainer/~~ Justin AND as the PRO Act, to recognize gig worker collectives as real unions. Technological innovation solves every existential threat – which outweighs.Matthews 18 Dylan. Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University. 10-26-2018. "How to help people millions of years from now." Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good AND far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery. | 7/8/21 |
NSD - DA - Innovation v2Tournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: AzbelKalaria Bryan Shi | Judge: Sesh Joe 2Global tech innovation high now.Mercury News et al 6/4 ~Mercury News and East Bay Times Editorial Boards, June 4, 2021, "Editorial: How America can Win the Global Tech War" https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/04/editorial-why-silicon-valley-needs-endless-frontier-bill/ gord0~ AND investments in research and development that will spark the next wave of innovation. Violent strike efforts are increasing – they slow innovation, specifically in the tech sector.Hanasoge 16 ~Chaithra; Senior Research Analyst, Market Researcher, Consumer Insights, Strategy Consulting; "The Union Strikes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," Supply Wisdom; April/June 2016 (Doesn’t specifically say but this is the most recent event is cites); https://www.supplywisdom.com/resources/the-union-strikes-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/~~ Justin AND in a city like Kolkata, which carries a strong trade union culture. Victories like the aff mobilizes unions in the IT sector.Vynck et al 21 ~Gerrit De; Carleton University, BA in Journalism and Global Politics, tech reporter for The Washington Post. He writes about Google and the algorithms that increasingly shape society. He previously covered tech for seven years at Bloomberg News; Nitashu Tiku; Columbia University, BA in English, New York University, MA in Journalism, Washington Post's tech culture reporter based in San Francisco; Macalester College, BA in English, Columbia University, MS in Journalism, reporter for The Washington Post who is focused on technology coverage in the Pacific Northwest; "Six things to know about the latest efforts to bring unions to Big Tech," The Washington Post; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/26/tech-unions-explainer/~~ Justin AND as the PRO Act, to recognize gig worker collectives as real unions. Technological innovation solves every existential threat – which outweighs.Matthews 18 Dylan. Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University. 10-26-2018. "How to help people millions of years from now." Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good AND far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery. Disad turns case – tech k2 freedomMike Togle, 6-11-2018, "Freedom through Modern Technology," Pointwest, https://pointwest.com.ph/blog/twelve-freedoms-granted-by-modern-technology/ AND lately? Grab a chance to converse with us through the comments below. | 7/8/21 |
NSD - DA - Stock MarketTournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: Doubles | Opponent: JoshiPlat Jayden Bai | Judge: Sam Azbel - Rohit Lakshman - Jayanne Forrest 2The stock market is booming despite corona – consumer confidence is soaring.Ziemer 21 ~Colin; New York Stock Exchange; The author may be wrong cuz it was placed under a picture so idk if it was the author or picture creds, if not assume DealBook as the author; "What is going on?" Dealbook | Business and Policy; NYTimes; 8/19/20, Updated 5/7/21; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/business/dealbook/stock-market-record-high.html~~ Justin AND Biggs, Walmart’s C.F.O., said on the call. Best data proves union strike victories statistically cause stock market crash.Lee and Mas 12 ~David; Princeton University and National Bureau of Economic Research; Alexandre; Princeton University and National Bureau of Economic Research; "Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961–1999," The Quarterly Journal Of Economics; February 2012; https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/127/1/333/1834007?redirectedFrom=fulltext~~ Justin AND returns for cases where the union won the election by a large margin. Crashes lead to a great depression.Rusoff 21 ~Jane; ThinkAdvisor Contributing Editor specializing in interviews with thought leaders. She has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and Esquire, among numerous other publications. Author/co-author of five books, Jane was a staff editor at London Express Features and Billboard’s Merchandising Magazine; "Harry Dent: ‘Biggest Crash Ever’ Likely by End of June," ThinkAdvisor; 3/10/21; https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2021/03/10/harry-dent-biggest-crash-ever-likely-by-end-of-june/~~ Justin AND economy. They’re already dead. We’ve just keeping them alive with embalming. Extinction.Liu '18 ~Qian; 11/13/18; Managing Director of Greater China for The Economist Group, previously director of the global economics unit and director of Access China for the Economist Intelligence Unit, PhD in economics from Uppsala University; "The next economic crisis could cause a global conflict. Here's why," https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/the-next-economic-crisis-could-cause-a-global-conflict-heres-why/~~ Justin AND sensible and respectful global dialogue. The alternative may well be global conflagration. | 7/9/21 |
NSD - DA - TerrorTournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: AzbelKalaria Miller Roberts | Judge: John Sims 3Tech can solve infrastructure concerns but needs to be integrated – operators are key.Jacobs 5/31 ~Lionel; Senior Security Architect in the Palo Alto Networks ICS and SCADA solutions team. Coming from the asset-owner side , Lionel has spent more than 20 years working in the IT/OT environment, with a focus on ICS systems design, controls, and implementation. He was a pioneer in bridging the IT-OT security gap and implementing next-generation security into performance and safety critical process control areas. During his tenure, he successfully deployed a large scale ICS/SCADA security architecture composed of over 100 next-generation firewalls, hundreds of advanced endpoint protection clients and SIEM, distributed over dozens of remote plants and a centralized core, all based on a "Zero Trust" philosophy. Lionel graduated from Houston Baptist University with a double degree in Physics and Mathematics and has held certifications as a MCSE, CCA, CCNP, CCIP, CCNA, CSSA, and GICSP; "Critical Infrastructure Protection: Physical and Cyber Security Both Matter," eSecurity Planet; 5/31/21; https://www.esecurityplanet.com/networks/critical-infrastructure-protection-physical-cybersecurity/~~ Justin AND assume that data traffic transversing the network is free of a potential threat. Increased strikes send a clear signal to terrorists that critical US infrastructure is vulnerable by weakening organizations.Davies 6 ~Ross; George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty, The Green Bag; "Strike Season: Protecting Labor-Management Conflict in the Age of Terror," SSRN; 4/12/06; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract'id=896185~~ Justin AND work stoppage might unwittingly facilitate a successful terrorist attack or aggravate its effects. Attacks on critical infrastructure collapses the economy through multiple avenues.FAS 6 ~DCSINT Handbook No. 1.02; Info directly from US army and Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence; "Critical Infrastructure Threats and Terrorism," DCSINT/FAS; 8/10/6; https://fas.org/irp/threat/terrorism/sup2.pdf~~ Justin AND target to a terrorist or result in catastrophic damage from a natural disaster. Extinction.Liu '18 ~Qian; 11/13/18; Managing Director of Greater China for The Economist Group, previously director of the global economics unit and director of Access China for the Economist Intelligence Unit, PhD in economics from Uppsala University; "The next economic crisis could cause a global conflict. Here's why," https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/the-next-economic-crisis-could-cause-a-global-conflict-heres-why/~~ Re-Cut Justin AND sensible and respectful global dialogue. The alternative may well be global conflagration. | 7/8/21 |
NSD - T - Must Not Spec Just GovernmentTournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: GedelaSiegel Avik Garg | Judge: Rohit Lakshman 3Interpretation: The affirmative may not specify a just government that recognizes workers’ unconditional right to strike ."A" is an indefinite article that modifies "just government" in the res – means that you have to prove the resolution true in a VACCUM, not in a particular instanceCCC ("Articles, Determiners, and Quantifiers", http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/determiners/determiners.htm~~#articles, Capital Community College Foundation, a nonprofit 501 c-3 organization that supports scholarships, faculty development, and curriculum innovation) LHSLA JC/SJ AND the former (see beagle sentence) refers to all members of that class Violation: they spec ~x~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 – the UN says there are 195 recognized governments in the world but even that’s not an agreed upon brightline because there are just governments that are not yet countries – explodes limits since there are tons of independent affs plus functionally infinite combinations, all with different advantages in different political situations incentivinsing more cheaty pics due to lack of ground – especially true for china where we can either read generic disads that don’t link or lose. Kills neg prep and debatability since there are no universal DAs that apply to every aff and need specific links – econs and geopolitical statuses are differentFairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it’s the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules can be debated over but rely on some conception of fairness to be justified.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.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 | 7/9/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - Con ConTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Dulles JL | Judge: Eric Einsley 3The member nations of the World Trade Organization except for the United States ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines related to the prevention, containment, and treatment of COVID-19.The United States ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines related to the prevention, containment, and treatment of COVID-19. through a supreme court decision by petitioning the PTAB and getting a formal ruling from APJs.APJs have the authority to rule on intellectual property—-the CP solves case.Mosier 21 ~Kevin; 8/9/21; "Supreme Court Finds Constitutional Violation in Patent Challenges, But Provides Quick Fix," JDSupra, https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/supreme-court-finds-constitutional-4702991/~~ Justin AND not the sea change that those sympathetic to Arthrex’s cause were hoping for. Circumvention is inevitable—-the aff is unconstitutional and companies use that as a sword to prevent loss of IP.Brown 21 ~Delphine; 7/21/21; Partner in the firm's Litigation Practice Group, and a member of its Intellectual Property Practice Team. With over twenty years of trial experience, Delphine's practice focuses on complex intellectual property and technology cases, with extensive experience in the life sciences industry. Delphine has served as lead counsel for several global pharmaceutical companies in Hatch-Waxman litigation and trials involving dozens of drug products, dosage forms and delivery systems. Delphine’s lead counsel expertise also includes patent litigation involving biotech, medical device, computer hardware and software, design and business method patents, and counseling of established and emerging biotechnology companies regarding intellectual property, regulatory and litigation issues. Delphine has served as lead trial counsel in complex trademark and copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, and unfair competition cases. Delphine believes that the key to being the best litigator and trial lawyer is always keeping her "eyes on the prize" which she defines with her clients as accomplishing both legal victory and strategic objectives to get the client back to running its business as quickly as possible. A corporate client once remarked to Delphine's parents at her birthday party that "if Delphine wasn't such a good lawyer, we wouldn't have become such great friends." Delphine has three decades of experience representing both U.S. and foreign corporations in federal and state courts nationwide in pretrial proceedings, trials and appeals, and in arbitration proceedings. Delphine frequently publishes thought leadership and speaks on intellectual property issues. Delphine received her bachelors degree from Princeton University and her J.D. from St. John's University School of Law. In her spare time, she serves on the boards of several private foundations, and the CT Selection Committee for the Princeton Prize in Race Relations, as well as a USA swimming official. Delphine also enjoys skiing, golf, tennis and classic wood boats; "Powerhouse Points: Will TRIPS Waiver of IP Protection for COVID-19 Vaccines Serve Global Need," Freeborn, https://www.freeborn.com/perspectives/powerhouse-points-will-trips-waiver-ip-protection-covid-19-vaccines-serve-global-need~~ Justin AND companies would be the subject of jurisdictional challenges and lack effective enforcement mechanisms. CP solves better – the US has structurally undermined WTO legitimacyBaschuk 2/22 ~(Bryce, reporter for Bloomberg Economics based in Geneva, Switzerland, has been published in Bloomberg, the Washington Times, United Press International and National Public Radio) "Biden Picks Up Where Trump Left Off in Hard-Line Stances at WTO," Bloomberg, 2/22/2021~ AND by appealing them into a legal void created by the appellate body’s paralysis. | 9/5/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - Evergreening AdvTournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Samantha Mcloughlin 4CP text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization should add more stringent requirements for filing secondary patents by requiring secondary patent filers to demonstrate increased efficacy as compared to the original. Solves all your offense by reducing purely strategic patents while permitting R and D forNewsome 17, A ~(JD candidate George Washington School of Law). (2017). Side effects of evergreening may include decreased competition and increased prices in the pharmaceutical industry. AIPLA Quarterly Journal, 45(4), 791-822~ Justin AND could potentially conflict with the United States' TRIPS Agreement obligations with the WTO. Solves best.Newsome 17, A ~(JD candidate George Washington School of Law). (2017). Side effects of evergreening may include decreased competition and increased prices in the pharmaceutical industry. AIPLA Quarterly Journal, 45(4), 791-822~ Justin AND companies to enter the marketplace sooner and drive prices down through competition. 5 | 9/11/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - LoansTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Dulles JL | Judge: Eric Einsley CP text: The member nations of the WTO should:—-Loan an additional 4 billion dollars of additional funding to close the pre-purchase gap of 350 million vaccines to achieve world-wide immunity—-The World Bank should relax the conditions to receive a loan as per Goldberg 21—-Eliminate export restriction on critical medicines during pandemics.The CP solves pandemics better – the aff misidentifies the problem.Goldberg 20 ~PINELOPI KOUJIANOU; Former World Bank Group chief economist and editor-in-chief of the American Economic Review, Professor of Economics at Yale University; "Forget the Vaccine Patent Waiver," Project Syndicate; 5/13/21; https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/wto-vaccine-waiver-is-beside-the-point-by-pinelopi-koujianou-goldberg-2021-05~~ Justin AND funneling surpluses from high-income countries to the rest of the world. Solves legitimacy as well – 1AC Meyer says that if public perception is that WTO is solving COVID, it shores up legitimacy | 9/5/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - ScientistsTournament: Loyola | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Orange Lutheran AZ | Judge: Tej - Srey - Lena 4Text: A nation appointed international panel of scientists including National Academies and corresponding organizations should eliminate patent protections for medicines and manage similar conflicts of interest between intellectual property.International panel of science diplomats can rule over IP—-that’s key to science diplomacy.Hajjar and Greenbaum 18 ~David; Dean Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Biochemistry and Pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies at the U.S. Department of State, and a recent Senior Fellow in Science Policy at the Brookings Institute; Steven; Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Hunter College of the City University of New York and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies at the U.S. Department of State; "Leveraging Diplomacy for Managing Scientific Challenges," American Diplomacy; September 18; https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2018/09/leveraging-diplomacy-for-managing-scientific-challenges-an-opportunity-to-navigate-the-future-of-science/~~ Justin AND or funding agency panelists for the advancement of science toward the greater good. Solves every existential threat.Haynes 18—research associate in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School (Trevor, "Science Diplomacy: Collaboration in a rapidly changing world," http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/science-diplomacy-collaboration-rapidly-changing-world/, dml) Re-Cut Justin AND can to foster collaboration. The future of human civilization depends on it. The WTO ensures structural poverty of the Global South – multiple warrants.Walker 11 Aurelie Walker 11-14-2011 "The WTO has failed developing nations" https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/nov/14/wto-fails-developing-countries (trade policy advisor at the Fairtrade Foundation. Aurelie has specialised in EU trade relations with Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. She has worked as trade negotiator for an East African government, as advisor to business and government in Southern Africa on the Economic Partnership Agreement negotiations and for European Institutions and think tanks. Aurelie now advocates on behalf on Fairtrade producers on international trade issues)Elmer AND when the model of global competitiveness between countries becomes one of genuine cooperation. | 9/6/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - Scientists v2Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Tate Weston 3Text: An international panel of scientists including National Academies and corresponding organizations appointed by the member nations of the World Trade Organization should release a binding ruling to ~reduce intellectual property protections for medicine~.They have the jurisdiction to rule over intellectual property and secure science diplomacy.Hajjar and Greenbaum 18 ~David; Dean Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Biochemistry and Pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies at the U.S. Department of State, and a recent Senior Fellow in Science Policy at the Brookings Institute; Steven; Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Hunter College of the City University of New York and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies at the U.S. Department of State; "Leveraging Diplomacy for Managing Scientific Challenges," American Diplomacy; September 18; https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2018/09/leveraging-diplomacy-for-managing-scientific-challenges-an-opportunity-to-navigate-the-future-of-science/~~ Justin AND or funding agency panelists for the advancement of science toward the greater good. Enforcement through scientists is effective and solves WTO legitimacy.Turekian et al 18 ~Vaughan, Peter, Teruo, Robert; 1/16/18; "Science Diplomacy: A Pragmatic Perspective from the Inside," Science and Diplomacy, https://www.sciencediplomacy.org/article/2018/pragmatic-perspective~~ Justin AND biologics. Scientific input into such negotiations is critical to protect national positions. Solves every existential threat.Haynes 18—research associate in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School (Trevor, "Science Diplomacy: Collaboration in a rapidly changing world," http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/science-diplomacy-collaboration-rapidly-changing-world/, dml) Re-Cut Justin AND can to foster collaboration. The future of human civilization depends on it. | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - Sui GenerisTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 6 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward PG | Judge: Aryan Jasani 2CP: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to –—-create a new form of Sui Generis patent applications as per Vezina 20—-Grant this form of patent to Indigenous peoples—-Exclude non Indigenous groups from applying for Sui Generis patents and reduce intellectual property protections for medicines for non Indigenous groupsSui generis moral rights framework emphasizing guardianship over ownership and are the only way to stop the appropriate that comes with public knowledge – answers the reforms fail ev bc it bars settlers from using knowledge which isn’t sharing – also solves K of IPR used by Indigenous groups bc it uses a new fwVézina 20 "Ensuring Respect for Indigenous Cultures A Moral Rights Approach" Brigitte Vézina ~fellow at the Canadian think tank Centre for International Governance Innovation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the Université de Montréal and a master’s in law from Georgetown University~, Centre for International Governance Innovation Papers No. 243 — May 2020, https://www.cigionline.org/static/documents/documents/vezina-paper'1.pdf SM AND trumps these concerns, as no use should be considered offensive per se. Reforming IPR is key to affirming native sovereignty. Solves the aff because it shifts away from western conceptions of property, but the perm fails since we think IPR is good – takes out all their epistemology deficits since the counterplan changes our epistemologyYounging 10 "Intergovernmental Committee On Intellectual Property And Genetic Resources Traditional Knowledge And Folklore" Seventeenth Session Geneva, December 6-10, 2010 Wipo Indigenous Panel On The Role Of The Public Domain Concept: Experiences In The Fields Of Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge And Traditional Cultural Expressions: Experiences From Canada Document prepared by Mr. Gregory Younging ~Creative Rights Alliance, Kelowna, Canada, Opaskwayak Cree Nation-Canada~ https://www.wipo.int/edocs/mdocs/tk/en/wipo'grtkf'ic'17/wipo'grtkf'ic'17'inf'5'a.pdf SM AND made outside the problematic frameworks of the colonization of TK and Gnaritas Nullius. | 9/27/21 |
SEPTOCT - CT - DedevTournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harker KB | Judge: Matt Moorhead DedevDownturn won’t cause war – prefer post-COVID evidenceWalt 5/13 (Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University; 5/13/20; "Will a Global Depression Trigger Another World War?"; Foreign Policy; https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/13/coronavirus-pandemic-depression-economy-world-war/) AND particular moment in history, I’m going to hope I’m right about this one COVID dramatically lowers the risk of war.Walt ‘5/13 (Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University; 5/13/20; "Will a Global Depression Trigger Another World War?"; Foreign Policy; https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/13/coronavirus-pandemic-depression-economy-world-war/) AND a deep and sustained economic downturn might make serious global conflict more likely? Massively outweighs on specificity – their evidence assumes some communist revolution in china and mid-east draw in, but that is literally not possible during a pandemicIsolated island populations repopulate Earth after radiation and nuclear winter – bunkers and submarines expand the likelihood of survivalTurchin and Green 18 (Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1) AND , and passages could provide cooling, access and even oxygen and food sources Growth’s bad and unsustainable:1~ Global cognitive collapse – extinction.Annunziata and McManus ’1-11—former Chief Economist and Head of Business Innovation Strategy at General Electric AND Visiting Research Fellow at Autodesk, Senior Advisor at BCG (Marco and Mickey, "The Great Cognitive Depression," https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcoannunziata/2019/01/11/the-great-cognitive-depression/~~#49ed9dc174c1, dml) AND for something new online, they gradually destroy our slow-thinking ability. 2~ Resources are finite – ensures collapse by 2050.Giorgos Kallis 18, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, environmental scientist working on ecological economics and political ecology, formerly Marie Curie International Fellow at the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California at Berkeley, PhD in Environmental Policy and Planning from the University of the Aegean in Greece, et al., 5/31/18, "Annual Review of Environment and Resources: Research On Degrowth," Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 43, p. 296-298 AND 8–10, year-after-year reductions in carbon emissions required 3~ Chemical emissions – extinction.Julian Cribb 17, principal of JCA, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, former Director, National Awareness, CSIRO, "The Poisoner," Surviving the 21st Century Chapter 6 AND central nervous systems of children, rendering humanity less able to solve its problems Economic crisis sparks widespread movements towards localized sustainability.Trainer ’19—Conjoint Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales (Ted, "Entering the era of limits and scarcity: the radical implications for social theory," Journal of Political Ecology Vol. 26, 2019, dml) AND that are self-governing, basically cooperative and committed to materially frugal lifestyles | 9/19/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Anti-trust PTXTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Dulles JL | Judge: Eric Einsley 2Bipartisan antitrust bills passing now but continued PC needed to pacify republicans.Perlman 9/3 ~Matthew; 9/3/21; "Interest Groups Back Big Tech Antitrust Bills In House," LAW360, https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1418789/interest-groups-back-big-tech-antitrust-bills-in-house~~ Justin AND agree is already doing great harm to our democracy," the letter said. Aff doesn’t solve but requires negotiations that saps PC.Pooley 21 ~James; Former deputy director general of the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization and a member of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding; "Drawn-Out Negotiations Over Covid IP Will Blow Back on Biden," Barron’s; 5/26/21; https://www.barrons.com/articles/drawn-out-negotiations-over-covid-ip-will-blow-back-on-biden-51621973675~~ Justin AND helping export our surplus vaccine doses and vaccine ingredients to countries in need. Antitrust is key to the DIB – brink is now.Sitaraman 20 ~Ganesh; Vanderbilt University Law School; "The National Security Case for Breaking Up Big Tech," Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia; 3/12/20; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract'id=3537870~~ brett Re-Cut Justin AND redirected via monopoly profits to the pockets of big tech executives and shareholders. That solves extinction through great power war.Marks 19 ~Michael; Former Senior Policy Advisor to the Under Secretary for Security Assistance, Science and Technology at the U.S. Department of State; "Strengthen US Industry To Counter National Security Challenges," American Military News; 10/10/19; https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/10/strengthen-us-industry-to-counter-national-security-challenges/~~ Justin AND industry, therefore, will be critical to countering our national security challenges. | 9/5/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - ChinaTournament: Loyola | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Orange Lutheran AZ | Judge: Tej - Srey - Lena 2The US is leading the biopharmaceuticals race – but China is close. Catching up would be a death sentence for US lead.Gupta 21 ~Gaurav; Physician, founder of the biotechnology investment firm Ascendant BioCapital; "As Washington Ties Pharma’s Hands, China Is Leaping Ahead," Barrons; 6/11/21; https://www.barrons.com/articles/as-washington-ties-pharmas-hands-china-is-leaping-ahead-51623438808~~ Justin AND of research capacity will negatively affect Americans’ access to cutting-edge therapies. The plan gives away sensitive biotechnology information that facilitates a China lead – no 1ar evergreening turn – it would affect both nations and that info would still be availableRogin 21 ~Josh; Columnist for the Global Opinions section of the Washington Post and a political analyst with CNN. Previously, he has covered foreign policy and national security for Bloomberg View, Newsweek, the Daily Beast, Foreign Policy magazine, Congressional Quarterly, Federal Computer Week magazine and Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper. He was a 2011 finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and the 2011 recipient of the Interaction Award for Excellence in International Reporting. Rogin holds a BA in international affairs from George Washington University and studied at Sophia University in Tokyo. He lives in Washington, DC; "Opinion: The wrong way to fight vaccine nationalism," The Washington Post; 4/8/21; https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-wrong-way-to-fight-vaccine-nationalism/2021/04/08/9a65e15e-98a8-11eb-962b-78c1d8228819'story.html~~ Justin AND Cohen, senior fellow at the University of California at Berkeley Law School. Gains are directly converted to military prowess – destroys US primacy.Kuo 17 ~Mercy A; Executive Vice President at Pamir Consulting; "The Great US-China Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence Race," The Diplomat; 8/23/17; https://thediplomat.com/2017/08/the-great-us-china-biotechnology-and-artificial-intelligence-race/~~ TDI Re-Cut Justin AND are tailored to overcome the immune system or the microbiome of specific populations. That causes extinction.Yulis 17 ~Max; Major in PoliSci, Penn Political Review; "In Defense of Liberal Internationalism," Penn Political Review; 4/8/17; http://pennpoliticalreview.org/2017/04/in-defense-of-liberal-internationalism/~~ Re-Cut Justin AND limelight to advocate the virtues of peace, stability, and human rights. | 9/6/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Debt CeilingTournament: St Marks | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Harvard Westlake IC | Judge: Timmons - Smith - Rosas 1A Temporary debt ceiling bill has passed but its not enough, comprehensive White House-Congress cooperation must be achieved through political capital for a December voteCornwell 10-13 Susan Cornwell, 10-13-2021, "U.S. House votes for short-term debt ceiling fix, averting default," Reuters, https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-house-expected-pass-bill-hike-debt-ceiling-avert-default-2021-10-12/ SJDA AND Trump priorities like construction of a southwest border wall to keep out immigrants. Aff doesn’t solve but requires negotiations that saps PC.Pooley 21 ~James; Former deputy director general of the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization and a member of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding; "Drawn-Out Negotiations Over Covid IP Will Blow Back on Biden," Barron’s; 5/26/21; https://www.barrons.com/articles/drawn-out-negotiations-over-covid-ip-will-blow-back-on-biden-51621973675~~ Justin AND helping export our surplus vaccine doses and vaccine ingredients to countries in need. Debt default tips gradual dollar decline into a spiral of destabilizing hot money outflows.Brian Chappatta 20, CFA Charterholder, Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Covering Debt Markets, BS in Journalism and Economics from Northwestern University, "A Weakening U.S. Dollar Is Still the Preeminent Currency", Bloomberg Quint, 10/22/2020, https://www.bloombergquint.com/gadfly/a-weakening-u-s-dollar-is-still-the-preeminent-currency AND pool of money will take the other side of the dollar doomsday narrative. Extinction.Joshua 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. | 10/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Infrastructure PTXTournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Samantha Mcloughlin 2Infrastructure is passing now and is at the top of Bidens agenda—-Biden has enough PC but continuation is critical.Nomikos 9/1 ~William; 9/1/21; Assistant professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis and director of the Data-driven Analysis of Peace Project; "Everyone has an opinion on Afghanistan — Do voters care?" The Hill, https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/570422-everyone-has-an-opinion-on-afghanistan-do-voters-care~~ Justin AND the best chance for retaining control of Congress in the 2022 midterm elections. Aff doesn’t solve but requires negotiations that saps PC.Pooley 21 ~James; Former deputy director general of the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization and a member of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding; "Drawn-Out Negotiations Over Covid IP Will Blow Back on Biden," Barron’s; 5/26/21; https://www.barrons.com/articles/drawn-out-negotiations-over-covid-ip-will-blow-back-on-biden-51621973675~~ Justin AND helping export our surplus vaccine doses and vaccine ingredients to countries in need. That solves existential climate change.Castillo 21 ~Rhyma; 8/16/21; News and politics writer at Elite Daily, where she's passionate about advocating for underserved communities throughout the United States. She’s covered issues in politics, immigration, environmental racism, climate change, gun violence, and more. After graduating with an English degree from Texas AandM Unversity, Rhyma has worked as a technical writer and test author at Educational Testing Service (ETS), a copywriter for Mightier Content, and as a Creative Operations Specialist at GoDaddy. She also has bylines as a freelancer at the San Antonio Current, where her reporting on local news, politics, tech, and entertainment has been widely circulated; "Experts Explain What You Can Do About Climate Change After That Scary IPCC Report," Elite Daily, https://www.elitedaily.com/news/what-you-can-do-climate-change-after-ipcc-report~~ Justin AND , ~and~ those investments take a while to come to fruition." | 9/11/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Infrastructure PTX v2Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Tate Weston 4Bipartisan infrastructure bill passing now but PC is needed – there is no margin for error.Kapur et al 9/8 ~Sahil, Frank Thorp, and Leigh Ann Caldwell; 9/8/21; Sahil Kapur is a national political reporter for NBC News, Frank Thorp V is a producer and off-air reporter covering Congress for NBC News, managing coverage of the Senate, Leigh Ann Caldwell is an NBC News correspondent; "Democrats plow 'full speed ahead' on sweeping Biden budget, despite tensions," https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-plow-full-speed-ahead-sweeping-biden-budget-despite-tensions-n1278722~~ Justin AND great bill" that honors Biden’s vision. "We will have our negotiations Aff doesn’t solve but requires negotiations that saps PC.Pooley 21 ~James; Former deputy director general of the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization and a member of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding; "Drawn-Out Negotiations Over Covid IP Will Blow Back on Biden," Barron’s; 5/26/21; https://www.barrons.com/articles/drawn-out-negotiations-over-covid-ip-will-blow-back-on-biden-51621973675~~ Justin AND helping export our surplus vaccine doses and vaccine ingredients to countries in need. Infrastructure secures the grid against worsening and increasing cyberattacks.Carney 21 ~Chris; 8/6/21; Senior policy advisor at Nossaman LLC, former US Representative, former professor of political science at Penn State University; "The US Senate Infrastructure Bill: Securing Our Electrical Grid Through P3s and Grants," JDSupra, https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-us-senate-infrastructure-bill-4989100/~~ Justin AND "defense critical" electrical infrastructure and buttressing against a constant barrage of cyberattacks | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - InnovationTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Connor Self Pharma innovation high now – monetary incentive is the biggest factor.Swagel 21 Phillip L. Swagel, Director of the Congressional budget office 4-xx-2021, "Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry," Congressional Budget Office, https://www.cbo.goc/publication/57126~~#'idTextAnchor020 SJDA AND drugs), and conducting postapproval testing for safety-monitoring or marketing purposes. The aff crushes innovation in the pharma sector—-incentivizes them to focus on non-important issues.Glassman 21 ~Amanda; 5/6/21; Executive vice president and a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, a nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington and London; "Big Pharma Is Not the Tobacco Industry," Barron, https://www.barrons.com/articles/big-pharma-is-not-the-tobacco-industry-51620315693~~ Justin AND by ponying up cash to vaccinate the entire world. No confiscation necessary. Pharma Innovation prevents Extinction – checks new diseases.Engelhardt 8, H. Tristram. Innovation and the pharmaceutical industry: critical reflections on the virtues of profit. M and M Scrivener Press, 2008 (doctorate in philosophy (University of Texas at Austin), M.D. (Tulane University), professor of philosophy (Rice University), and professor emeritus at Baylor College of Medicine) AND profit in medicine and especially in the pharmaceutical and medical-device industries. Pharma spills-over – has cascading global impacts that are necessary for human survival.NAS 8 National Academy of Sciences 12-3-2008 "The Role of the Life Sciences in Transforming America's Future Summary of a Workshop" Re-cut by Elmer AND biological processes at work in the oceans can humans live sustainably on earth. | 9/4/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Innovation v2Tournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 6 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward PG | Judge: Aryan Jasani 3Pharma innovation high now – monetary incentive is the biggest factor.Swagel 21 Phillip L. Swagel, Director of the Congressional budget office 4-xx-2021, "Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry," Congressional Budget Office, https://www.cbo.goc/publication/57126~~#'idTextAnchor020 SJDA AND drugs), and conducting postapproval testing for safety-monitoring or marketing purposes. Strong IPR is key to innovation – empirics and FDIEzell and Cory 19 ~Stephen Ezell, BS from School of Foreign Service at Georgetown, VP of global innovation policy at Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Nigel Cory, MA in public policy from Georgetown, BA in international business from Griffith University, Associate Director of trade policy at Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, former researcher in the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.~ "The Way Forward for Intellectual Property Internationally," Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, April 25, 2019, https://itif.org/publications/2019/04/25/way-forward-intellectual-property-internationally TG AND for foreign direct investment which in turn also leads to economic growth."56 Pharma spills-over – has cascading global impacts that are necessary for human survival.NAS 8 National Academy of Sciences 12-3-2008 "The Role of the Life Sciences in Transforming America's Future Summary of a Workshop" Re-cut by Elmer AND biological processes at work in the oceans can humans live sustainably on earth. | 9/27/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - WTO FisheriesTournament: Loyola | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Orange Lutheran AZ | Judge: Tej - Srey - Lena 1WTO consensus on fishing subsidies likely now but requires negotiations- consensus is key to solving overfishing- the brink is now.Koop 21 ~Fermin; Argentine journalist specializing in the environment with experience across diverse publications; "WTO Inches Towards a Deal to End Harmful Fishing Subsidies," Maritime-Executive; 7/30/21; https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/wto-inches-towards-a-deal-to-end-harmful-fishing-subsidies~~ Justin AND ,?UN special envoy for the ocean, said in a recent webinar. Negotiations on IPR require tradeoffs- empirics prove.DC = DEVELOPING COUNTRY AND Acts Embodying the Results of the Uruguay Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations’.11 That collapses biodiversity.Osmanski 20 ~Stephanie; Freelance Journaler, Writer at GreenMatters; "How Does Overfishing Affect Biodiversity? Let's Do a Deep Dive," GreenMatters; 12/29/20; https://www.greenmatters.com/p/how-overfishing-affects-biodiversity~~ Justin AND . TBH, might be best to go fish-free. instead. Biodiversity loss causes extinction.Torres 19 ~Phil; Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Founder of the X-Risks Institute, Writer Appearing in Skeptic, Free Inquiry, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Salon, Truthout, Erkenntnis, Metaphilosophy; "Biodiversity Loss: An Existential Risk Comparable To Climate Change," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; 4/11/16; https://thebulletin.org/2016/04/biodiversity-loss-an-existential-risk-comparable-to-climate-change/~~ Justin AND as one of the most significant contemporary risks to human prosperity and survival. | 9/6/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - WarmingTournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: Memorial SC | Judge: Samantha Mcloughlin 1We are on pace to cut emissions by half in 2030 and prevent 2 degree tipping point, but continued biotech innovation is keyMcmurry-Health 5-21 Michelle Mcmurry-Heath May 21, 2021, 5-21-2021, "To help solve climate change, look to the biosciences," STAT, https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/21/climate-change-solutions-from-biosciences/ Nato AND us into this mess. That same ingenuity can help get us out. Climate Patents and Innovation high now and solving Warming but patent waivers set a dangerous precedent for appropriations - the mere threat is sufficient is enough to kill investment.Brand 5-26, Melissa. "Trips Ip Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors." IPWatchdog.com | Patents and Patent Law, 26 May 2021, www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/26/trips-ip-waiver-establish-dangerous-precedent-climate-change-biotech-sectors/id=133964/. sid AND is unlikely they will continue to invest at the current and required levels. Climate change destroys the world.Specktor 19 ~Brandon; writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years; "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, 6/4/19; https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html~~ Justin AND and perhaps "the end of human global civilization as we know it." | 9/11/21 |
SEPTOCT - NC - KantTournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harker KB | Judge: Matt Moorhead 31NC – FWPermissibility and presumption negate – ~a~ the resolution indicates the aff has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation ~b~ Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false. This means you negate if there is no offense because the resolution is probably false.Ethics must begin a priori:~1~ Uncertainty – our experiences are inaccessible to others which allows people to say they don’t experience the same, however a priori principles are universally applied to all agents.~2~ Bindingness – I can keep asking "why should I follow this" which results in skep since obligations are predicated on ignorantly accepting rules. Only reason solves since asking "why reason?" requires reason which concedes its authority and equally proves agency as constitutiveThat means we must universally will maxims— any non-universalizable norm justifies someone’s ability to impede on your ends.Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.Prefer the standard:Performativity – freedom is the key to the process of justification of arguments. Willing that we should abide by their ethical theory presupposes that we own ourselves in the first place. Thus, it is logically incoherent to justify the neg arguments/standard without first willing that we can pursue ends free from others1NC – Offense1~ Intellectual property is an inalienable personal right of economic usePozzo 6 Pozzo, Riccardo. "Immanuel Kant on Intellectual Property." Trans/Form/Ação, vol. 29, no. 2, 2006, pp. 11–18., doi:10.1590/s0101-31732006000200002. SJDA recut Cookie JX AND he was to make, as we say today, a free use. 2~The aff violates the categorical imperative and is non-universalizable- governments have a binding obligation to protect creationsVan Dyke 18 Raymond Van Dyke, 7-17-2018, "The Categorical Imperative for Innovation and Patenting," IPWatchdog, https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2018/07/17/categorical-imperative-innovation-patenting/id=99178/ SJDA recut SJKS AND trade secret protection would become the mainstay for society with the heightened distrust. | 9/19/21 |
SEPTOCT - NC - Kant v2Tournament: Greenhill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: Evnen - Quinsenberry - Yi 4Framework:The meta-ethic is procedural moral realism.This entails that moral facts stem from procedures while substantive realism holds that moral truths exist independently of that in the empirical world. Prefer procedural realism –~1~ Collapses – the only way to verify whether something is a moral fact is by using procedures to warrant it.~2~ Uncertainty – our experiences are inaccessible to others which allows people to say they don’t experience the same, however a priori principles are universally applied to all agents.~3~ Is/Ought Gap – we can only perceive what is, not what ought to be. It’s impossible to derive an ought statement from descriptive facts about the world, necessitating a priori premises.Regress – I can keep asking "why should I follow this" which results in skep since obligations are predicated on ignorantly accepting rules. Only reason solves since asking "why reason?" requires reason which is self-justified.That means we must universally will maxims— any non-universalizable norm justifies someone’s ability to impede on your ends.Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.Prefer –~1~ Performativity—freedom is the key to the process of justification of arguments. Willing that we should abide by their ethical theory presupposes that we own ourselves in the first place.~2~ All other frameworks collapse—non-Kantian theories source obligations in extrinsically good objects, but that presupposes the goodness of the rational will.Offense1~ Intellectual property is an inalienable personal right of economic usePozzo 6 Pozzo, Riccardo. "Immanuel Kant on Intellectual Property." Trans/Form/Ação, vol. 29, no. 2, 2006, pp. 11–18., doi:10.1590/s0101-31732006000200002. SJDA recut Cookie JX AND he was to make, as we say today, a free use. | 9/25/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - CannabisTournament: St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Collin Smith 2Interpretation – Marijuana isn’t a MedicineMosley 20, Mark. "Medical Marijuana Is a Dangerous Lie." Emergency Medicine News 42.8 (2020): 2-3. (Dr. Mark Mosley is an emergency medicine physician in Wichita, Kansas and is affiliated with Wesley Healthcare Center. He received his medical degree from University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.)Elmer AND willow tree in place of acetylsalicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin. FDA and CDC definitions prove.CDC ’18 (CDC; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 3-7-2018; "Is marijuana medicine?"; CDC; https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/faqs/is-marijuana-medicine.html; Accessed: 9-4-2021; AU) AND way to know what kind and how much of a chemical you’re getting. ====Violation – the resolution calls for reductions on IP protections for medicines, but the aff prevents future patents for cannabis-derived products.==== Vote neg for limits and ground. Expanding the definition of "medicine" to anything that could be used in a medical setting floods the neg with cases to prep for – everything from new methods of chemo to upgrading stethoscopes becomes topical.Excluding Marijuana from the Topic is good for Limits – there’s infinite advantage areas like Cartels, Treaties, Medical Research, Cotton, Terror, Education, and Competitiveness – an area that could be a Topic by itself – adds on 1/5 of an entire College Debate Topic to thousands of medicines.At best – they’re extra-T since Cannabis isn’t intrinsically medicinal, it just has medicinal uses so they would reduce Recreational Marijuana patents too which isn’t topical and explodes limits.Johnson 20 Ian Johnson 1-20-2020 "Cannabis Patents 2000 – 2019: Trends Following Legalization" https://plantlaw.com/2020/01/20/cannabis-trends-medical-recreational/ (Registered Patent Agent, Plant and Planet Law Firm)Elmer AND below demonstrates the growth of the recreational sector’s share of cannabis patent activity. C/A Paradigm Issues | 10/16/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - MedicineTournament: Greenhill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: Evnen - Quinsenberry - Yi 1Interpretation: "medicines" is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend that member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for a medicine or subset of medicines.Nebel 19. ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Genericity on the Standardized Tests Resolution." Vbriefly. August 12, 2019. https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/08/12/genericity-on-the-standardized-tests-resolution/?fbclid=IwAR0hUkKdDzHWrNeqEVI7m59pwsnmqLl490n4uRLQTe7bWmWDO'avWCNzi14 TG AND "colleges and universities" is generic rather than existential in the resolution. It applies to "medicines" – 1~ upward entailment test – "member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines" doesn’t entail that member nations of the WTO ought to reduce IPP for drugs because it doesn’t prove that marijuana protections should be reduced 2~ adverb test – adding "always" to the res doesn’t substantially change its meaning because reduce is permanent.Violation: They spec cannabisStandards:~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.~2~ Limits and ground – their model allows affs to defend anything from Covid vaccines to HIV drugs to Insulin— there's no universal DA since each has different functions and political implications — that explodes neg prep and leads to random medicine of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible — limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep and it takes out ground like DAs to certain medicines which are some of the few neg generics when affs spec medicines.~3~ TVA solves – you could’ve read your plan as an advantage under a whole res advocacy. No prep to a plan aff would just incentivize cheaty pics which are net worse.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Edcuation – terminal imapct of debateDrop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.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 | 9/25/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - Member NationsTournament: Greenhill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harker KB | Judge: Matt Moorhead 1Interp and violation: "The member nations" denotes the totality of member nations in the WTO. The aff may not defend a subset of WTO member nations ought to reduce IP protections for medicines.Sharvy 80 ~Richard Sharvy, philosopher. "A More General Theory of Definite Descriptions on JSTOR," The Philosophical Review, Vol. 89, No. 4, Oct. 1980, accessed 8-22-2021, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2184738~~ HWIC AND it is to indicate totality; implication of uniqueness is a side effect. Standards:~1~ precision – the counter-interp justifies them arbitrarily doing away with random words in the resolution which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution. Independent voter for jurisdiction – the judge doesn’t have the jurisdiction to vote aff if there wasn’t a legitimate aff.~2~ Limits and ground – their model allows affs to defend anything from India to US to Indonesia— there's no universal DA since each has different functions and political implications — that explodes neg prep and leads to random country of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible — limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep and it takes out ground like DAs to certain nations which are some of the few neg generics when affs spec nations.~3~ TVA solves – you could’ve read your plan as an advantage under a whole res advocacy. Potential abuse doesn’t justify in round abuse, and having no prep leads to cheaty word PICs and Process Cps which are net worseFairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.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 | 9/19/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - ReduceTournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Jonah Gentleman Interpretation: Affirmatives must defend a reduction in intellectual property for medicines.Precluding a future increase is not a reductionMelinda Harmon 12, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, 3/6/12, Zieche v. Burlington Res., Inc., 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 30134, p. lexis AND Zieche has introduced ~*13~ no evidence to convince the Court otherwise. Violation:Vote neg:1~ Limits and ground– they can read infinite affs precluding future increases that is unpredictable and we can’t have offense i.e. not getting a patent 100 years in the future or something so they will always win on specificity2~ Precision o/w – anything else justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution.3~ TVA – defend the advantage to with the whole rez. We don’t prevent new FWs, mechanisms, or advantages. Evergreening already answers core neg ground like innovation – no reason why you need to delink out of it. PICs don’t solve – our model allows you to specify countries and medicines.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs because it’s the only intrinsic part of debate – all other rules can be debated over but rely on some conception of fairness to be justified.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.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 | 9/5/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - Reduce v2Tournament: St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Collin Smith 11~ Interpretation – Reduce means to annul.Black’s Law 90 Black’s Law Dictionary 2ND ED. "Reduce" https://dictionary.thelaw.com/reduce/ Elmer That means the Aff has to cancel IP protections in their entirety, they can’t just modify it.Black’s Law 90 Black’s Law Dictionary 2ND ED. "Annul" https://thelawdictionary.org/annul/ AND re Morrow’s Estate, 204 Pa. 484, 54 Atl. 342. 2~ Violation – They "delay enforcement" which is a modification, not a complete annulment3~ Standards –a~ Neg Ground – Core Neg Generics like Innovation and Biotech Heg are predicated on scope of effect – minor modifications in how long a patent lasts for or what it effects allows the 1AR to minimize our links to zero which destroys being Neg on a Topic w/ very little Generic Ground.b~ Limits – Allowing Affs to make patent modifications explodes Aff ground by three-fold because for all four intellectual property protections for every medicine MULTIPLIED by different time modifications, different scope modifications which makes predictable preparation and in-depth clash impossible.4~ TVA – eliminate the enforcement of all cannabis patents – solves their offense.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. | 10/16/21 |
SEPTOCT - Theory - Must Spec IPTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Connor Self 3Interpretation: affirmative debaters must delineate what intellectual property they reduce in the 1AC.Four types of IP that are vastly different.Ackerman 17 ~Peter; Founder and CEO, Innovation Asset Group, Inc; "The 4 Main Types of Intellectual Property and Related Costs," Decipher; 1/6/17; https://www.innovation-asset.com/blog/the-4-main-types-of-intellectual-property-and-related-costs~~ Justin AND weigh the competitive significance of your secrets against the cost of protecting them. Violation: they don’tNegate:1~ Shiftiness- they can redefine what intellectual properties the 1ac defends in the 1ar which decks strategy and allows them to wriggle out of negative positions which strips the neg of specific IP DAs, IP PICs, and case answers. They will always win on specificity weighing.CX can’t resolve this and is bad because A~ Not flowed B~ Skews 6 min of prep C~ They can lie and no way to check D~ Debaters can be shady.2~ Real World- policy makers will always specify what the object of change is. That outweighs since debate has no value without portable application. It also means zero solvency since the WTO, absent spec, can circumvent aff’s policy since they can say they didn’t know what was affected.This spec shell isn’t regressive- it literally determines what the affirmative implements and who it affectsFairness and education are voters – its how judges evaluate rounds and why schools fund debateNeg theory is DTD - 1ARs control the direction of the debate because it determines what the 2NR has to go for – DTD allows us some leeway in the round by having some control in the directionCompeting interps – Reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation – it also collapses since brightlines operate on an offense-defense paradigmNo RVIs – A – Going all in on theory kills substance education which outweighs on timeframe B - Discourages checking real abuse which outweighs on norm-setting C – Encourages theory baiting – outweighs because if the shell is frivolous, they can beat it quickly | 9/4/21 |
Open Source
| Filename | Date | Uploaded By | Delete |
|---|---|---|---|
11/20/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
11/20/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
11/21/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/10/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/11/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/12/21 | kashah23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/18/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/19/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/25/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/25/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/4/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/5/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/5/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/6/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/25/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/25/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/27/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
9/27/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
7/8/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
7/8/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
7/9/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
7/9/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
10/16/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
10/17/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
10/17/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
| |
10/18/21 | jysun23@mailstrakejesuitorg |
|