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+Interp: The affirmative must disclose the plan text and advantage area if they break new at the toc when pairings are released. Or at coin flip |
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+Standard – |
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+1. Clash |
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+2. Discourages tricks |
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+Vote on substantive engagement: otherwise we’re speaking without debating and there’s nothing to separate us from dueling oratory. It also creates the most valuable long-term skills since we need to learn how to defend our beliefs in any context, like politics. |
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+Drop the debater on new affs: Their lack of disclosure makes substance irreparable b/c our entire argument is that we did not have a basis to engage the aff to begin with. |
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+Competing interps since reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention based on preference rather than argumentation and encourages a race to the bottom in which debaters exploit a judge’s tolerance for questionable argumentation. |
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+No RVIs |