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