Debate basics
DSM aff
DSM neg
Alaskan Oil aff + neg
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100

The first speech in a debate

What is the 1AC?

100

The title of Advantage 1

What is climate?

100

Name of the DA

What is China Soft Power?

100

This is the Alaskan Oil aff's biggest weakness

What is "it's not topical/anti-topical?"

100

Our secretary for the 2025-26 year <3

Who is Fatima?

200

The side that gets 13 minutes straight to speak (excluding CX)

What is the neg?

200

The title of Advantage 2

What is leadership?

200

The terminal impact of the DA

What is nuclear war?

200

The group that is consulted for the counterplan

Who are Indigenous people?

200
These two won city champs back-to-back

Who are Sam and Lupe?

300
This allows the debate to be about whether something ought to occur instead of whether it will occur

What is fiat?

300
How the aff extracts minerals
What is microbes leeching onto critical minerals?
300

Winning this means it's game over for the aff regardless of substance

What is topicality?

300

The resource that the DA claims is key to the economy

What is oil?

300

One of our assistant coaches, who is also an alum and hosts meetings every Wednesday evening

Who is Emerson?

400
One element of impact calc

What is magnitude, timeframe, probability, or reversibility?

400

The speech that must answer 13 minutes of arguments

What is the 1AR?

400

What UNCLOS means

What is the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?

400

A word for maintaining livelihood (also the title of one of the advantages)

What is subsistence?
400
The head varsity coach

Who is Cameron Ward?

500

The stock issues

What are significance, harms, inherency, topicality, and solvency?
500

The advantage that discusses the same impacts as the DA but with a different internal link

What is leadership?

500

One reason that DSM fails

What is "lack of knowledge," "lack of technology," "lack of scale?"

500
The issue that the aff seeks to resolve (relating to Indigenous people)

What is settler colonialism?

500

The first year our school won a city championship

What is 2021?