Disadvantages
This part of a disad describes how the plan changes the status quo
What is the link?
This acronym helps affirmatives craft responses to a counterplan
What is POTS?
These are the three parts of a kritik 1nc
What are the link, impact, and alternative?
These are the four stock issues the affirmative must prove
Topicality Harms Inherency solvency
Constructive speeches are this many minutes long
What is 8 minutes?
This part of a disad describes the status quo in relationship to the disad
What is uniqueness?
This theory argument says that the negative should choose one advocacy and stick to it for the entirety of the debate
What is conditionality?
This acronym helps 2acs craft a response to the kritik
What is STOP (POTS/POST)
In debate, the affirmative ____________ the passage of a policy.
What is fiats?
This is what the period of question-and-answer is called between constructive speeches
What is cross examination (or CX)?
The affirmative uses this acronym to craft 2ac responses to a disad
What is TULIP
This type of counterplan includes some but not all of the affirmative
What is a PIC/plan inclusive counterplan?
What is capitalism/neoliberalism?
What is the term to describe the statement made in the 1AC that prescribes policy action?
What is the plan?
This is what the 2NC-1NR mega-speech is called
This describes extending defense to answer the other team's offense and make the disad go away
This type of counterplan is designed to answer one of the 1ac's advantages
What is an advantage counterplan?
affirmatives use this theory argument against kritiks
What is framework?
An 1AC argument that is a combination of harms + solvency.
What is an advantage?
this term describes reading both a link turn and impact turn against the same argument
What is a double turn?
This argument attacks the causality chain of the disad, arguing that the plan does not necessarily CAUSE the disad to happen, aka "a reasonable policy maker could do both"
What is intrinsicness?
What is a PIC (Plan inclusive CP)
this is the branch of metaphysics describing the nature of being
What is ontology?
What is it called when the negative team only reads offensive arguments (turns) on the advantage?
What is the high school national debate championship called?
What is the Tournament of Champions