Types of Refutation and Weighing
Makes your opponents less impactful and important.
What is mitigation?
When pronounced phonetically it rhymes with the word "toy."
What is a POI?
Everyone knows Rodda John founded the NYPDL; they were his co-founder.
Who is Radhika Mehta?
It is named after someone who advocated for educational reform.
What is the Horace Mann School?
They play in 1 (maybe 2) band(s).
Who is Adrian Turkedjiev?
Taking your opponents offense and making it offense for you.
What is a turn/flip?
A political and economic alliance amongst 27 European Nations.
They are the two NYPDL Tournament Directors.
Who are Hannah Riegel and Zach Berg?
Jeffrey Epstein famously taught there.
What is the Dalton School?
Who is Julia Schroers?
When your arguement must occur in order for your opponents arguement to occur.
What is a pre-requisite?
The third speech in a parli round.
What is an MG?
Prior to switching to tabroom, this was the technology used to run tournaments.
What is MIT-Tab?
The last three year's executive directors came from this school.
What is the Trinity School?
Who is Zach Berg?
When an openents impact exists equally in either world.
What is a non-unique arguement?
The leader of British Parliament and the first government speaker in a debate round.
What is a PM?
They won the NYPDL Championship last year.
Who are Julia Schroers and Mannav Mittal?
It was originally founded in 1904 as a "manual training school for boys."
What is Stuyvesant High School?
They like to go on 2am runs?
Who is Sophie Rukin?
The calculation of magnitude divided by probability.
What is impact calculus?
A group of 15 countries with the goal of maintaining world peace through deciding when and where to deploy peace keeping missions; 5 countries are permanent members with veto power and the other 10 are rotating.
What is the UNSC?
You get this many ranking points when you go 5-0 in prelims at a tournament.
What is 15 points?
The education at this school is "rooted in the Quaker belief in the Inner Light – that of God in every person."
What is Friends Seminary School?
They went on a 3 week back-packing trip through Alaska this summer.
Who is Molly Bordoff?