What the WIKI?
This first round contending team is reading the Black Holes K aff.
Long Beach OM
Topicality arguments are based on this in a vacuum.
What is a plan-text?
The NDT began in 1947 at this school.
West Point (or the US military academy)
Trump already agreed to buy icebreakers from Finland.
Holland et al 10/9, (Steve Holland is a White House correspondent at Reuters. Anne Kauranen manages Reuters news coverage from Finland and cooperates on cross-border Nordic topics, such as defence, security, energy as well as foreign and monetary policy. Jeff Mason is a White House Correspondent for Reuters. He has covered the presidencies of Barack Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden and the presidential campaigns of Biden, Trump, Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Gram Slattery is a White House correspondent in Washington, focusing on national security, intelligence and foreign affairs.), 10-9-2025, "Trump and Finland's Stubb approve deal for icebreaker ships", Reuters, https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-finlands-stubb-expected-reach-icebreaker-deal-2025-10-09/
Labor Arctic/ Arctic&Antarctic/Neg/ Icebreakers LOL
Give me a round report of a quarters debate from Kentucky.
Who won, what was the aff, what was the 1nc, what was the block split, what did the 2nr go for
Who made the best one?
This first round contending team has read data workers every round.
Berkeley MR
This term refers to when you link turn and impact turn a position.
What is a double-turn?
This debater, from Dartmouth, is the most recent debater to win multiple NDTs.
Tyler Vergho
Rolling back labor protections will stimulate anti-Trump militancy among the federal workforce now, containing his agenda. The aff reverses.
McCartin ’25 [Joseph A.; April 1; PhD, professor and director of Georgetown University’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor and president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association; Dissent Magazine, "Will Federal Workers Rediscover Their Militancy?" https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/will-federal-workers-rediscover-their-militancy/]
Labor Arctic/Collective Bargaining/Neg/DAs/ DA_Militancy
This is a race!
Who won?
In the octofinals of the Wake tournament, Emory LY won on a 3-2 decision against Georgetown AC after reading 7 off and going for this off-case position.
Cap K
This perm does less than the plan.
What is a severance perm?
This was the last NDT year that had separate topics for men and women.
What is 1927-1928?
Collapse by 2050 is inevitable---rebound effects, lack of decoupling, large environmental footprints from renewables, and a lack of viable sequestration technology make growth unsustainable
Giorgos Kallis 18, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, environmental scientist working on ecological economics and political ecology, formerly Marie Curie International Fellow at the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California at Berkeley, PhD in Environmental Policy and Planning from the University of the Aegean in Greece, et al., 5/31/18, “Annual Review of Environment and Resources: Research On Degrowth,” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Vol. 43, p. 296-298
23-24 Nukes/Impacts/Dedev/Dedev file
Cut me a card on the importance of attendance.
Who cut the best card?
In the octofinals of the Gonzaga tournament, Michigan BP won on a 3-0 against Northwestern AT after they broke this cold new aff.
Glacier Northwest
This CP fixes the status quo for a DA.
What is a Uniqueness CP?
This number refers to the number of elimination rounds won by Matt Fisher and Sean McCaffity, who are tied for the most elimination round wins in NDT history.
What is 14?
The 1AC engages in scholarship from the unruly edges, the damaged landscapes, and the fractured livelihoods of capitalist managerialism. Affirmation must prioritize noticing the futures for collaborative living that are emerging from indeterminacy. It is in embracing this precarity that creates the conditions for communal deliberation and consumption and the possibility of living otherwise.
Tsing, 2015 (Anna Lowenhaupt, professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, “The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins,” Princeton University Press, p. 17-34)
24-25 Energy AI/Energy/Aff/Cyberfem/Cyberfem Aff
Who won?
[This team] has never and will never defend a “topical” affirmative, hypothetical governmental action, or the provision of collective bargaining rights. We are on strike against those very terms. To accommodate members of the debate community who may find this style of “affirmation” unpredictable or undebatable, we propose the following collective bargaining agreement: [This team] is willing to switch sides—so that we are negative, and you are affirmative—but the choice is yours.
Who is Northwestern PS?
This number refers to the possible number of 2nrs possible from this 1nc: T-Workers, Cap K, Rights PIC, States CP, Midterms DA, Militancy DA, Warming Adv CP, Cyberattacks Adv CP, defense to both the warming and cyber advantages, and a cyberattacks good impact turn.
11 (or 13 if the advantage CPs don't link to midterms)
T/ Cap K/ Rights PIC/ Militancy+Case/ Midterms+Case/ Cyber CP+Militancy/ Warming CP+Militancy/ Warming CP + Impact turn/ Impact Turn + Case/ Militancy +States CP/ Midterms + States CP/ Warming CP + Midterms/ Cyber CP + Midterms
This was the last year North Texas won the National Debate Tournament.
What is 1948?
The system demands control- the affirmative tinkering with nuclear deterrence is a continuation of the modern trend of deterrence through interpellation. Deterrence cannot be thought of as a means of managing others behavior through bargaining or rational behavior but instead as a means of creating subjects as always already having been in the majority.
Oberg 14 ( Baudrillard and War ISSN: 1705-6411 Volume 11, Number 2 (May, 2014) https://baudrillardstudies.ubishops.ca/baudrillard-and-war/Dan Öberg is a Senior Lecturer of War Studies, Department of Military Science at the Swedish Defense University in Stockholm. His current research and teaching is focused on war and warfare from a critical perspective. His recent publications include research articles in Critical Military Studies, Journal of Narrative Politics and Millennium Journal of International Studies)(this card is fire- ontology first/ traditional research bad warrant, topic link, and modernization=uq)
23-24 Nukes/Neg/Ks/K-Baudrillard
Cut the attached evidence in the 500 section of the drills doc into a card.
Who cut the best one?