Refutations
What is the difference between a defensive refutation and an offensive refutation?
Defensive = reason not to vote for your opponent
Offensive = reason to vote for you instead
What is "severity"?
The amount of impact your contention has on each person who is impacted.
In a rebuttal speech, whose arguments should you prioritize and why?
Your own because you can't win on defense.
What is the goal of a voter issue?
To write the judge's ballot for them.
What is "frontlining"? What is a "rebuttal"?
Frontlining = defending your own case/offense
Rebuttal = disproving/attacking the opponent's case
For the example impact of nuclear war, which weighing mechanism would you most likely use if I used magnitude?
Probability.
What is "line-by-line" in debate? When should it be used the most?
Responding to each specific argument on your flow one at a time. Should be done early-ish in the debate (1NC, 1AR, 2NR)
What is "round vision"?
Having insight on what arguments will help you win the debate as a whole (you don't need to win everything).
What does it mean for something to be "nonunique"?
It happens in both the aff and neg world; it's not dependent on the plan.
What is "link comparison" for weighing?
When both sides have the same terminal impact, so the links are compared against each other to see who better accesses the impact.
What does it mean to "collapse" in a round?
What are the 2 components of a voter issue?
Tracking the arguments, comparing the arguments
Which one of the following types of responses is OFFENSIVE: denial, no link, misconstrue, link turn
Link turn
What is "impact calculus"?
Comparing different terminal impacts to see which maximizes the framework better.
What is a "wash" and when should you use it?
Wash = when you and your opponents are evenly matched on a point, causing it to be "thrown out"
(Used as a last resort)
What are 3 types of info you can include in a voter issue?
Opponent's mistakes, 2 world analysis, best/worst case scenario, dropped/conceded arguments, outweighed impacts, turns, etc.
What does it mean to "misconstrue" something? What does it mean to have faulty "methodology"?
Miscontrue = to misinterpret evidence
Bad methodology = to find evidence in an inaccurate way
Which weighing mechanism is able to "turn" your opponent's impacts?
Prerequisite (their's can't be true unless yours is, so you access their impacts and more)
What is a "framework debate" and what should you do if one comes up?
FW debate = debate over value/criterion/framework
During a FW debate, make sure your contentions win under yours AND your opponent's frameworks so you can win the debate either way.
Name 3 ways you can order/organize your voters.
Sequentially, by actor, best/worst case scenario, strong-weak-strong, etc.