Ice, Ice, Maybe
This is the primary cause for increased trade in the Arctic
What is global warming?
The phrase that describes U.S. military dominance
What is hegemony?
Reading a permutation tests this
What is competition?
In a K debate, this term defines the way the judge should evaluate link and impact arguments
Matt went to this school for undergrad
This Alaskan Archipelago is questionably "in the Arctic."
What are the Aleutian Islands?
These are the two most common ways to straight turn a disad.
What are link turn + uniqueness and impact turn?
What is severance?
This philosophical term describes the study of knowledge
What is epistemology?
This Hawaiian quarterback, the first Hawaiian to ever win the Heisman, is Jack's favorite Titan of all time
Who is Marcus Mariota?
This international body, which includes indigenous stakeholders, proposes projects and resolves disputes in the Arctic
What is the Arctic Council?
This theory of international relations posits that the world is anarchic, unstable, and material power is the most important currency in international affairs
What is realism?
The three common "statuses" of counterplans
What are dispositionality, conditionality, and unconditionality?
This balloonish version of alternative -- a common K trick -- does the plan, but minus its harmful representations
What is a floating PIK?
This lab leader is the only one who can ride a bike
Who is Matt?
These 8 countries are the only ones with territory in the Arctic
What are Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Iceland, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and Russia?
What is revisionist?
The term "POTS" stands for
What are perms, offense, theory, solvency
These are the two components of the perm double bind
What is: either the alt fails, or it does so much it overcomes the plan
This is Matt's favorite baseball team
Who are the Phillies?
This treaty gave the United States the Alaskan territory in 1867
What is the Treaty of Cession?
This Athenian general has a "trap" named after him that describes an apparent tendency towards war when an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power as a regional or international hegemon
What is Thucydides?
These are the five types of counterplan/kritik competition mentioned in my competition lecture
What are functional, textual, topical, philosophical, and positional competition?
These two three-lettered acronyms are common defensive arguments when going for framework.
What are SSD (switch-side debate) and TVA (topical version of an affirmative)
Combined, the CYY lab leaders have judged this many published debates on Tabroom
(Correct answer = +- 100)
What is 713?