The four core essential elements that have to be a part of the affirmative side.
What is Stock Issues?
100
The Affirmative responsibility to prove the need to make a change.
What is Burden of Proof?
100
This concept is used to divide arguments between the 1N and 2N during the neg bloc.
What is Division of Labour?
100
Other reasons the problem exists is referred to as...
What is alternate causality?
100
Arguments against aff evidence, arguments made without evidence
What are presses? (also analytics)
200
The affirmative responsibility to have all four stock issues covered.
What is Prima Facie?
200
In the case that the negative argues that a plan will be passed, not that it should be passed is making a...
What is Should-Would Argument?
200
The responsibility to rebut/clash with aff arguments.
What is burden of rejoinder/burden of rebuttal/burden of clash?
200
The concept that the status quo is good until proven otherwise by the aff.
What is presumption?
200
Evidence that is newer is said to [blank] the other team's evidence; often used by 1N's when arguing significance or inherency
What is post-date/update?
300
The four stock issues include (When answering provide a brief description of each):
What is Significance; size and extent, Inherency; why the problem exists, Solvency; proof that the plan will solve, and Topicality; whether or not the plan is within the bounds of the resolution?
300
Two things the Affirmative plan must do
What is specify actions to be taken and identify the logistics to take them?
300
Arguments that the aff plan provisions will not solve the harm/gain the advantage
What are solvency takeouts?
300
An off-case neg strategy that has the burden of competitiveness
What is a counterplan
300
This is the point that the plan specifically causes the impact of the disad
What is the threshold?
400
The 1AC is expected to do this before tournament.
What is pre-flow?
400
The Affirmative power to pretend that the plan is implemented.
What is Fiat?
400
A good topicality argument includes the following:
What are: a definition and interpretation of a term, explanation of aff violation of that definition, standards to weigh the interpretations, and an explanation of why T is a voting issue
400
The aff plan does not directly implement the resolution, but the effect of the plan does
What is Effects Topicality?
400
Arguments that are presented but not fully endorsed unless or until some conditions are met
What is Conditional Arguments?
500
The ways to answer a disadvantage include:
What is Not Unique, No Link, No Threshold, Case Outweighs, No Impact, and Turn (Link or Impact)
500
If an issue, like topicality, must be resolved before all others, the neg team will claim that it is...
What is a priori?
500
The neg arg that the resolution is not warranted by the aff case and/or plan (Hint: in its early days it was used against "small" cases with "big" plans; drone regs failed in 5 states but aff plan wants fed law)
What is justification
500
A Negative argument that claims the Affirmative approach has overlooked a crucial gap in our understanding of the world, or that the Affirmative performance in the round is damaging to the conduct of debate.