Quiz- 9/3 Flashcards
What is the resolution?
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should adopt a clean energy policy in the United States, including a market-based instrument.
What is fiat?
How the judge votes for the affirmative, guarantees what the affirmative wants happens, regardless of its practicality
What is the order of the speeches?
1AC, 1NC, 2AC, 2NC, 1NR, 1AR, 2NR, 2AR
Who cross examines who?
Whoever is not speaking next, is the one answering the questions
What makes a constructive speech different than a rebuttle?
In a rebuttal you cannot make new arguments or read new evidence, can only comparative claims
What is the SHIT
Solvency, harms, inherency, topicality
Who has presumption at the start of the debate?
The Negative team, if the affirmative got up there and didn’t say a word the negative wins by default
What are the 4 types of off case arguments?
Disadvantage, Counter plan, Kritique, Procedural
Disadvantage
Chain of events that the aff causes
4 parts of disadvantage
uniqueness, external link, internal link, impact
Counter plan
Opportunity cost to the affirmative, another proposal to the affirmative, something that is not just the status quo
4 parts of counter plan
Text, mutually exclusive, net benefit, status
What are the two types of Status?
Conditional- at any point you can stop advocating the counter plan
Unconditional- advocate for the counter plan no matter what
Kritik (K)
A philosophical indictment of the team
What is pre-fiat?
What happens in the actual room, everything prior to when the debate happens and the judges vote
Claim
What you are saying
Warrant
Why it is true
Impact
Why it is important
What is the order of speeches in a debate?
1AC, 1NC, 2AC, 2NC, 1NR, 1AR, 2NR, 2AR
What is the length of constructive speeches
3 minutes
What is the length of a rebuttal
2 minutes
What is the length of a cross examination
1 minute long after each constructive speech, whoever is not speaking next is the one asking questions
Solvency
Prove they have a solution to solve for the harms; resolve the problem, eliminate the harms
Harms
Why the status quo is bad, what will happen if we don’t vote affirmative, why the affirmative wants you to vote for them
Inherency
arguments that prove you’re not the status quo
Topicality
Proof that the solution you propose is on topic
4 parts of Kritique
Link, Impact, Alternative, Mutually exclusive
Procedural
Only norms and not rules; Arguing about the rules of the game, what the rules should be
4 parts of procedural
Interpretation, violation, standards, voting issue
How much time does each team get for prep
3 minutes
When does presumption flip
If the negative team runs a counter plan
