Argumentation
Impact calculus
Aff starter pack
Neg starter pack
Counterplans
100

An argument which is a reason to vote for you

What is offense?

100

The length of time between the present and when the impact will occur.

What is timeframe?

100

The number of impacts in the instability advantage

What is two?

100

The number of "off-case" positions in the packet?

What is three?

100

A helpful acronym to answer counterplans in your 1ar

What is SPLOT?

200

An argument which mitigates the impact of your opponents offense

What is defense?

200

The likelihood that an impact will occur (determined by multiplying the likelihood of each of its links).

What is probability?

200

The number of impacts in the European Union Advantage

What is three?

200

I'm an alt cause to EU multilateralism

What is the US-China trade war, US tariffs on EU exports, and/or Brexit?

200

The counterplan is different from or smaller than the affirmative plan, and there exists a reason it is more desirable than a combination of the affirmative plan and the counterplan (or part of the counterplan).

What is competitive?

300

The bracketing out of the likelihood of implementation or part of the process of implementation to focus on the merits of an advocacy

What is fiat?

300

The size of the impact in its entirety, not taking risk into account. Severity or scope.

What is magnitude?

300
Ways in which US secondary sanctions reduce the strength of multilateralism

What are EU diplomatic influence and/or trade restrictions placed on the EU by non-US countries?

300

According to the oil prices disad, the reason oil prices have stabilized post-COVID

What is "producers have tightened supply?"

300

The frequency at which a counterplan is mutually exclusive

What is rarely?

400

I must nearly always be read in conjunction with an impact turn argument

What is impact defense?

400

An impact that can happen more or less, to a degree (e.g. pollution kills 200,000 a year, post-plan that number grows to 320,000). It does not have uniqueness or a brink.

What is a linear or systemic impact?

400

The solvency deficit the aff would need to go for if extending the instability advantage against a counterplan that solved for Iran prolif

What is miscalc due to drone strikes on oil competitors' targets by Iran to put pressure on the US to end sanctions?

400

This disadvantage has an impact that is "external" to the aff case

What is the oil prices disad?

400

I'm the most frequent net benefit to a courts counterplan

What is the politics disad?

500

I'm a uniqueness argument that can be conceded to kick out of a link turn

What is "uniqueness overwhelms the link?"

500

The number of "metrics" you should use to compare your impact to your opponents in the final rebuttal (not including "turns case")

What is one?

500

The likely reason there isn't a "warming causes extinction" card as part of the "oil shocks good" impact turn aff answer to the oil disad.

What is "it was read in the 1ac?"

500
How the counterplan would reduce Iran drone strikes and proliferation

What is "by moderating the regime/empowering moderates in the Iranian regime?"

500

The counterplan does not include all of the words in the aff plan

What is textual competitiveness?