Debate Basics
This is the maximum preparation time teams get after a motion is released.
What is 15 minutes?
This role opens the opposition case.
Leader of Opposition
“This House would” motions fall under this type of debate.
What is a policy debate?
Adjudicators deliberate for a maximum of this many minutes before calling a vote.
What is 15 minutes?
Feminism - The term for the overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage, first coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw.
What is intersectionality?
This bell signals the unprotected time during a 7-minute speech.
What is the 1-minute bell?
This speaker gives an extension and ensures it adds unique value beyond opening
Who is the Government Member (or Opposition Member)?
A motion that requires teams to discuss the counterfactual
What is a regret debate?
Judges are encouraged to see themselves as this kind of voter.
Who is the ordinary, intelligent voter?
Philosophy - In utilitarian ethics, this principle states that actions are right if they promote the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
What is the principle of utility?
Name the two key tasks a Prime Minister must do at the start of a debate.
What are set-up / framing and presenting the main Government arguments?
This role avoids adding new substantive but focuses on weighing and comparing arguments.
Who is the Whip speaker?
These motions require teams to argue in the interest of a specific stakeholder, like “This House, as South Korea…”
What is an actor debate?
A team loses credit if it explicitly takes a position opposite its earlier claim.
What is a contradiction?
International Relations - The idea that states act primarily in their own interest, pursuing power and survival in an anarchic international system, is central to this IR theory.
What is realism?
This debate style is 3 vs 3
What is Asian Parliamentary?
The DPM and DLO both share this common responsibility besides rebuttal.
What is adding new material or extending their bench’s case?
A debate framed as “This House prefers a world where…” is this type of motion.
What is a world reset motion?
When adjudicating, judges must never do this, even if they see a missing angle in a case.
What is enter the debate (make arguments for the teams)?
Medical Ethics -This principle requires physicians to act in the best interest of their patients, often summarized as “to do good.”
What is beneficence?
In a “regret” debate, teams must argue this alternative world scenario.
What is the counterfactual (what would have happened instead)?
This is referred to as the 'short cross'
Closing government - Opening Opposition
an unfair or sneaky redefinition of the motion
What is a squirrel
comparative persuasiveness criteria
what are bench comparisons on probability, scope, morality, and strength of impact.
This concept explains why countries gain by specializing in producing goods for which they have the lowest opportunity cost.
What is comparative / competitive advantage?