The Affirmative
A speech that is often a synonym of case
What is the 1AC?
A statement about what is happening now in the status quo
What is uniqueness?
The purpose of this argument is to solve all or most of your opponent's case
What is a counterplan?
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce Direct Commercial Sales and/or Foreign Military Sales of arms from the United States.
What is the resolution?
If your impact happens sooner than the other team's impact, your impact has a faster ___
What is timeframe?
Your case is divided into sections called ___
What are advantages/contentions?
The really, really bad thing that will happen (at the end of the chain of events that the plan causes)
What is an impact?
The reason to prefer a counterplan to the plan
What is a net benefit?
The most common consequence of the affirmative dropping topicality
If your impact causes more death and destruction than your opponent's impact, it has a larger ___
What is magnitude?
Ideally, an affirmative answers an off-case position with both ___ and ___
What are offense and defense?
How the plan changes the status quo
What is the link?
An affirmative argument that the aff is not mutually exclusive with the counterplan
What is a permutation?
A different, competing way to define a word in the resolution (to help prove your plan text is topical)
What is a counter-interpretation?
If your impact is more likely to happen than your opponent's impact, it has a greater ___
What is probability?
A term that denotes when the passage of the plan is certain and immediate
What is fiat?
How the change from the status quo leads to a worse consequence
What is an internal link?
You can kick the counterplan if it is ___
What is conditional?
An argument that states your plan text is topical according to your opponent's definitions of words in the resolution
What is "we meet"?
If the impacts of your DA lead to the impacts of your opponent's case, your DA does this
What is "turns the case"?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This kind of affirmative does not defend the resolution
What is a kritikal aff?
An affirmative argument that uses an example of something else that has happened that should have triggered the link
Doing all of the plan except for one specific part is called a ___
What is a PIC?
Limits, ground, precision, advocacy
What are "reasons to prefer"?
Examples include global warming or economic decline being good
What is an impact turn?