Stock Issues
The three stock issues the Aff must prove
What are Inherency, Solvency, and Advantage?
This is the first speech of the round.
What is the 1AC? (8 minutes)
These are the two sides in a debate.
What are Affirmative and Negative?
An advantage has this many parts
What is 4?
The Guiding Topic for the Debate season
What is a/the resolution?
Inherency explains this
What is the problem in the status quo?
This is the first speech where the Aff responds to the Neg's Arguments.
What is the 2AC? (8 minutes)
This is the policy proposed by the Aff
What is the Plan Text?
These are the four parts of an Advantage
What are Uniqueness, Link, Internal Link, and Impact?
This is the process of notetaking in a debate round
What is flowing?
Solvency is this
What is the mechanism that the plan uses to solve the problem?
The second speech of the round
What is the 1NC? (8 mins)
This team's job is to explain why the plan is a bad idea
What is the Negative?
This part explains why the impact presently happening
What is uniqueness?
This is a single piece of evidence used to support an argument
What is a card?
The number of Stock issues Neg must disprove to win.
This happens after each constructive
(Bonus if you can tell me how long)
What is CX? (3 mins)
This is the length of a standard CX Debate round
What is 90 minutes?
This part explains the change that is caused by the plans implementation.
What is the link?
This is the amount of time each team gets to prep.
What is 8 minutes?
This shows the additional net benefit to the plan.
What is an advantage?
This is the first "refutational" speech.
What is the 2AC?
These are the 3 phases of a debate
What are opening statements, clash, and, closing statements?
This part explains the terminal consequence the plan will avoid
What is the impact?
This is the form submitted by the judge that records the debate decision and feedback
What is the Ballot?