Past Debate Lessons
To create this, you would need a Claim, Warrant and Impact
What is an argument?
Affirmative uses this to describe how they would solve the problem.
What is a plan?
The first affirmative speech is called this
What is 1AC (First Affirmative Constructive)?
One team side stole their name from the military word for “yes” as said by radio operators.
What is affirmative?
The total amount of speeches that the negative team gets.
What is 4?
Debaters must be able to use these terms like magnitude and probability to win an argument
What is an impact calculus (risk calculus)
A word that is most often used in a “claim of policy”.
What is “Should?”
The last four speeches of the debate are called this.
What are the rebuttals?
TRUE or FALSE: The affirmative team does not get the first and last speech of the debate.
What is false?
Three of the five different arguments that the negative team can read.
What are [ list 3 of the 5 arguments]
This particular moral framework uses these forms such as “rule” and “act” to determine what is a justified action.
What is utilitarianism?
This is what we use to describe what is happening now, absent the affirmative plan
What is the “Status Quo?”
Should I choose to oppose a certain action, the other team would tell me to stop being so, this.
What is negative?
To determine the amount of time the affirmative gets in the rebuttal, I need only look at my fingers or toes.
Answer: What is 5?
The last two remaining negative arguments that negative could read.
What is [list 2 of the 5 arguments]
In debate, you use this form of refutation to attack every argument in a speech.
What is line-by-line?
It takes just as many people to tango as it does to make up a policy team.
What is two?
A section of a policy debate where one team gives two consecutive speeches.
What is the negative block?
The part of the affirmative case that identifies a problem in the current political system or “status quo”.
What is Inherency?
A disadvantage consists of these four main parts.
What is: uniqueness, link, internal link and impact
This was the resolution that we covered in Debate 100/100 under the Policy Debate format.
What is “Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its protection of water resources in the United States?
There are usually only this many stock issues in a policy round.
What is 4?
The amount of time one speaker gets during a constructive which is equivalent to the amount of legs on a spider.
What are 8 minutes?
The part of the affirmative case that mentions the solution to the problem.
What is the Plan?
The judge determines if the counterplan is competitive based on this.
What is the Net-Benefit?