Tournament: - | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
awesleycarter@gmail.com
Anything on my CX wiki is also fair game.

Tournament: Young Lawyers | Round: 4 | Opponent: Brighton JS | Judge: Ghada Shehab
Merriam Webster dictionary defines prohibit as: “to make (something) impossible to do.”

Thus, the Affirmative must defend a complete and unconditional shutdown of all nuclear plants – otherwise it is still possible to produce nuclear power, and they are not Affirming the resolution.

The world relies on nuclear power – prohibiting it would create a global energy crisis.

World Nuclear Association. "Nuclear Power in the World Today." World-Nuclear.org, Aug. 2016, www.world-nuclear.org/ information-library/current-and-future-generation/ nuclear-power-in-the-world-today.aspx. Accessed 28 Sept. 2016.
The first commercial … for grid stability.

Thus the Counterplan: Countries will phase-out the production of nuclear power.

A phase out is different than a prohibition – 3 warrants:

 A phase out gets rid of nuclear conditionally and over a long period of time.  A prohibition, on the other hand, is unconditional, as proven in my observation 1.
2.  Real world examples prove that the two are distinct – take the case of the nuclear phase-out in Sweden.
Plumer 6-17
Brad Plumer, “Sweden decides it’s not so easy to give up nuclear power” on June 17, 2016, 9:40 a.m. ET http://www.vox.com/2016/6/17/11950440/sweden-nuclear-power
A 2015 study … a future boom. 

3.  Even in instances not related to nuclear power, the two terms are recognized as distinct.  

Eastman, Kristin. "6 Important Facts About the DOE Ruling on Fluorescent Magnetic Ballasts." SFEG, 12 Sept. 2014, www.sfeg.com/blog/ 6-important-facts-about-the-doe-ruling-on-fluorescent-magnetic-ballasts. Accessed 28 Sept. 2016.
Fact #3:  This … installations as well.

We have 100 solvency – the CP still stops the production of nuclear power, all we have to do is win that the methodology is superior.

Net Benefits:

 We avoid a global energy crisis.
2.  We avoid the Coal DA because we allow time for renewables to be developed enough to replace nuclear.

All countries that are making transitions away from nuclear, which is the end goal of the Affirmative, are doing it through phase outs, such as in Spain, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Even opponents of nuclear power concede that a phase out is the best option.

Time for Change.org. "Nuclear power phase-out pros and cons." Time for Change.org, timeforchange.org/nuclear-power-phase-out-pros-and-cons. Accessed 28 Sept. 2016.
Survival of human … exactly this market.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: Green River SK | Judge: Thomas Phung
The affirmative’s role as peddler of suffering ensures that they become addicted to their colonial praxis, creating an endless cycle of appropriation as they make their way into the upper echelons of the academy.

Nayar 13 (Jayan Nayar, PhD from the University of Cambridge, Department of Law at the University of Warwick, February 2013, “The Politics of Hope and the Other-in-The-World: Thinking Exteriority,” Law and Critique Volume 24 Issue 1, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2001975) gz
Suffering, as a … in this respect.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: Green River SK | Judge: Thomas Phung
The Aff is not a step forward but rather a continuation of the vicious cycle that causes police brutality in the first place.  Both their pre-fiat discourse and post-fiat advocacy create an “us against them” mentality that fuels resentment and creates a social identity of the police that requires the elimination of the other – turns case and allows circumvention.

Fassin, Didier. "On Resentment and Ressentiment: The Politics and Ethics of Moral Emotions." The University of Chicago Press, 2 Apr. 2013, www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/670390#rf55. Accessed 15 Nov. 2016. Didier Fassin is James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. WC
This vision of … as their enemies.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: Green River SK | Judge: Thomas Phung
The 1AC's invocation of death impacts reduces human lives to numbers for debaters to consume in their perverse game.

Jean Baudrillard, Dartmouth BM Hack, ‘93
(Symbolic Exchange and Death trans Iain Grant, 162-3, 173-5, “manpower” is left deliberately in)2.
More importantly, that ... input and output?

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: Green River SK | Judge: Thomas Phung
The Aff is inescapably bound to the law – this legitimates the dominant order and precludes any actual challenges to oppressive power structures.

Crenshaw, Kimberle Williams. "Race, Reform, And Retrenchment: Transformation and Legitimation in Antidiscrimination Law". Harvard Law Review 101.7 (1988): 1331. Web. 14 Oct. 2016.
The concept of … through willed delusion:88

Tournament: Alta | Round: 2 | Opponent: Quarry Lane SK | Judge: Jeff Joseph
We must give up on the future and insist that a better future is a mere fantasy. 

Edelman, Lee. 2004 (Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University. “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive”, pages 30-31)
If the fate … future stop here.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: Green River SK | Judge: Thomas Phung
No Aff fiat – demanding imaginary action precludes real-world change and prevents debate from having any educational value.
Lundberg 12 -~-- ‎Professor and Communication Strategies Consultant (Christian, Lacan in Public, Published by The University of Alabama Press, Project Muse)trepka
On Resistance: The … order, or institution.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: Green River SK | Judge: Thomas Phung
Police accountability is impossible – the Aff merely serves as a way of masking and redistributing oppressive power.

Forgie, Keith. "FOUCAULT, POLICE AND POLICING IN THE CANADIAN DEMOCRACY." Digital Thesis and Project Room, Apr. 2009, dtpr.lib.athabascau.ca/action/ download.php?filename=mais/keithforgieProject.pdf. Accessed 25 Nov. 2016.  WC
Foucault’s theory of … which it exists.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: Green River SK | Judge: Thomas Phung
Demanding government change paradoxically creates a commitment to the status quo – turns Aff solvency.

Lundberg 12 -~-- ‎Professor and Communication Strategies Consultant (Christian, Lacan in Public, Published by The University of Alabama Press, Project Muse)trepka
On Resistance: The … antagonistic democratic struggle.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: Green River SK | Judge: Thomas Phung
“Ought” implies a moral obligation, however the nature of morality means we have no obligations.

Joyce, Richard. "Moral Fictionalism." Philosophy Now 2011: n. pag. Web. 3 Feb. 2016. https://philosophynow.org/issues/82/Moral_Fictionalism. WC
The history of …‘moral error theorist’.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 2 | Opponent: Quarry Lane SK | Judge: Jeff Joseph
Queer negativity is a must. Queer positivism turns queerness into a cultural commodity as a supplement for a lack of reproductive practice. Because the queer can not be the capitalist, they become the commodity.  

Guy Hocquenghem, Guy, and Aubrey Beardsley. Baedan: Journal of Queer Nihilism. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.
Edelman's project, insofar … advanced postmodern economy.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: Green River SK | Judge: Thomas Phung
The aff's imagination of a better world creates a “will to truth” that associates all that is good with all that is not of this world – breeds ressentiment and precludes real-world change.  

Turlani in 2003 (Aydan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty of Letters and Sciences
Istanbul Technical University, “Nietzsche and the Later Wittgenstein: An Offense to the Quest for Another World”, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 26 (2003), 55-63)
The craving for … bottle" (PI §309).

Ressentiment leads to violence and war.

Blin  9/11/01 Arnaud Blin ¶ Coordinator Forum for a new World Governance a political scientist specializing in the study of conflict in particular terrorism .¶ He has studied:¶ political science at the University of Georgetown ;¶ international law and political philosophy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy ;¶ the history of religions and ethics at the Harvard University .¶ “WORLD GOVERNANCE OF RESSENTIMENT” https://www.google.com/url?sa=tandrct=jandq=andesrc=sandsource=webandcd=1andved=0CDUQFjAAandurl=http3A2F2Fwww.world-governance.org2FIMG2Fdoc_Blin_-_World_Governance_of_Ressentiment-2.docandei=-dErUebnIcnpygGc4YHQAQandusg=AFQjCNFEH7xcCrtI-U2fiQn7qTRHCceO7Aandsig2=W_hI2IgLswTAsXjPF21H_wandbvm=bv.42768644,d.aWc
History offers us … door on forgiveness.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 6 | Opponent: Green River SK | Judge: Thomas Phung
Constitutional torts lead to rights restrictions.

Park, James.2003. "The Constitutional Tort Action as Individual Remedy," 38 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 393. http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/crcl/vol38_2/park.pdf.DA=11/26/16.-SVJK)
Recently, a number ... on past injury.

Tournament: Young Lawyers | Round: 4 | Opponent: Brighton JS | Judge: Ghada Shehab
We are at a breaking point – if the earth warms past the three-degree Celsius it triggers irreversible feedback loops.

Spratt, David. "What would 3 degrees mean?" Climate Code Red, 1 Sept. 2010, www.climatecodered.org/2010/09/what-would-3-degrees-mean.html. Accessed 28 Sept. 2016. David Spratt is a professor at Washington College.  WC
Three degrees may … to perpetuate itself."

Studies prove that shutting down nuclear plants causes pollution to skyrocket.

Freed, and Ackerland. "Shutting Down U.S. Nuclear Plants is Still Bad News for Environmentalists." Third Way, 19 Mar. 2014, www.thirdway.org/memo/ shutting-down-us-nuclear-plants-is-still-bad-news-for-environmentalists. Accessed 29 Sept. 2016. Third way is a well known and respected centralist think tank. Josh Freed is Third Way's Clean Energy Vice President.
In fact, as … should not take.

This increase in pollution could cause us to surpass the 3-degree threshold – makes climate change irreversible. 

Lynas, Mark. "Why nuclear power is still a good choice." Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2011, articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/10/opinion/ la-oe-lynas-nukes-20110410. Accessed 28 Sept. 2016. Mark is an accomplished climate change author. He is a frequent speaker around the world on climate change, biotechnology and nuclear power, and was climate change advisor to the President of the Maldives between 2009 and 2011. In October 2013 he was appointed a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University’s Office of International Programs at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and now works with the Cornell Alliance for Science. A ban on nuclear power causes us to surpass the three degree threshold, making climate change irreversible and triggering the previously mentioned impacts.
Looking at the … were substituted instead.

Runaway warming guarantees extinction within 100 years.

Jamail, Dahr. "Mass Extinction: It's the End of the World as We Know It." truth-out.org. N.p., 6 July 2015. Web. 21 June 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/31661-mass-extinction-it-s-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it.
Guy McPherson is …  to live now.

Tournament: Young Lawyers | Round: 4 | Opponent: Brighton JS | Judge: Ghada Shehab
Coal use is on the decline - global shift to clean tech could be permanent.  

English, Carleton. "BHP Billiton's Long Game on Coal Looks Weak." Real Money, 22 June 2016, realmoney.thestreet.com/articles/06/22/2016/ bhp-billitons-long-game-coal-looks-weak. Accessed 29 Sept. 2016.  WC
BHP Billiton (BHP) … the developing world.

The resolution gets rid of a large portion of the world’s power and creates a void that can only be filled by coal-fired plants.

Bosselman, Fred. "The Ecological Advantages of Nuclear Power." Chicago-Kent College of Law, 13 Dec. 2009, scholarship.kentlaw.iit.edu/cgi/ viewcontent.cgi?article=1728andcontext=fac_schol. Accessed 29 Sept. 2016. Professor of Law Emeritus, Chicago-Kent College of Lab.  WC
This article concentrates … under unusual circumstances. 

Coal is far worse than nuclear– it is the primary cause of climate change and devastates public health.

UCS. "Coal Power: Air Pollution." Union of Concerned Scientists, 2004, www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/coalvswind/c02c.html#.V-2DhJMrI_M. Accessed 29 Sept. 2016.  WC
Coal plants are … parts per billion

Coal hurts indigenous communities by disturbing cultural sites and harming health – turns case.

Peeples 14 Coal-Hungry World Brings Tough Choices For Native Americans Lynne Peoples (Environment and Public Health Reporter, The Huffington Post) 1/30/14
Many activists currently … percent,” he said.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 4 | Opponent: Rowland Hall KO | Judge: Sean Fahey
In CX I told Kenzo to use a racial slur, and he said no, so I read this.

Text: In the United States, public colleges and universities will allow hate speech only when it comes from individuals to whom those terms are traditionally used to denigrate.

Solves all of their reclamation impacts but checks exclusionary speech directed at marginalized students.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 4 | Opponent: Palo Alto BH | Judge: Li-Ren Chang
Trading autobiographical narratives for the ballot commodifies one’s identity and has limited impact on the culture that one attempt’s to reform – when autobiographical narrative “wins,” it subverts its own most radical intentions by becoming an exemplar of the very culture under indictment.
Coughlin 95—Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School. (Anne, REGULATING THE SELF: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PERFORMANCES IN OUTSIDER SCHOLARSHIP, 81 Va. L. Rev. 1229)
Although Williams is ... it too." n205 
Performance is not a mode of resistance – it gives too much power to the audience because the performer is structurally blocked from controlling the (re)presentation of their representations.  Appealing to the ballot is a way of turning over one’s identity to the same reproductive economy that underwrites liberalism.
Phelan 96—chair of New York University's Department of Performance Studies (Peggy, Unmarked: the politics of performance, ed published in the Taylor and Francis e-Library, 2005, 146-9)
146 Performance’s only ... warned, constative utterances.
Even if their best intention is to resist the liberal subject, autobiography is understood by its consuming audience as the assertion of the classic autonomous subject – this subverts the political potential of performance by rendering one’s experience legible to the terms of liberalism. This recreates the violence of liberalism that is the root of Western conquest.
Coughlin 95—associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt Law School. (Anne, REGULATING THE SELF: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PERFORMANCES IN OUTSIDER SCHOLARSHIP, 81 Va. L. Rev. 1229)
The outsider narratives ... values of liberalism.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Sunset AB | Judge: Panel

The ballot is a form of interest convergence between the judge and the aff – this pacifying inclusive gesture replicates academic domination through liberal appropriation whilst perpetuating stasis through guilt assuasion.

Chow – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities @ Brown – 1993
(Rey, Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies, p. 16-17)
While the struggle ... benefiting from suffering.

The alt is to affirm the Aff’s project without the codification of the ballot – key to opening debate to subjectivity without the constraints of capitalist signifiers.

Moffatt 6 (Ken, Associate director, School of Social Work, Ryerson University, “Grading as the Coding of Student Desire in the Context of Lacking” BSH) *Brackets for clarity.
The professor’s task .... of capitalist signifiers.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker NT | Judge: Scott Nielson

Vote Neg to reject fiat – we propose a model of debate where we discuss real world action rather than fantasizing about what would happen if God role-played as the USFG and solved all our problems.

Net Benefits

1.  Fiat leads to a politics of superficiality – we role-play as a vast range of conflicting actors, hoping to gain real-world education but instead lock ourselves into cycles of simulation that erode any actual identity or connection to reality.  The impact is Ted Cruz, an emotionless sacrifice of ethics at the altar of our aleatory scripts.  Also, its Nietzsche, so ressentiment.

Antonio, Robert J. “Nietzsche's Antisociology: Subjectified Culture and the End of History.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 101, no. 1, 1995, pp. 1–43. www.jstor.org/stable/2782505. WC
The "problem of ... type of tyrant.

This link turns any net-benefit to their version of debate – simulation makes it shallow and politically irrelevant.  Even if they could win that fiat is educational or leads to real world change, they need to prove that it does so in a moral way (i.e. Ted Cruz has found a way to create real-world change, but does so in a way that hurts people).  This also turns the Aff under their framework.

2.  The Aff’s performance amounts to a demand for hypothetical government action that, rather than helping promote change, creates a perverse enjoyment of oppression that paradoxically maintains the status quo – turns the Aff and destroys any educational value to debate.

Lundberg 12 --- ‎Professor and Communication Strategies Consultant (Christian, Lacan in Public, Published by The University of Alabama Press, Project Muse)
On Resistance: The ... order, or institution. 

3.  By detaching their advocacy from concrete realities, they create an ivory tower effect that makes politics useless and exclusionary. The Neg is key to make our politics relevant.  Nadia 13

CrimthInc 13(Ex workers collective, “Your Politics Are Boring As Fuck”, http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/atoz/asfuck.php)
Face it, your ... carefree game nonetheless!

The Role of the ballot is thus to vote for the debater who best opens debate to political activism, this is inherently preferable to the production of thousands of imaginary actions that guarantees academic isolation, always talked about but never actually done.

The K is a prior question to the Aff – they have to be able to justify their version of debate before they’re allowed to weigh post-fiat solvency.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 2 | Opponent: Quarry Lane SK | Judge: Jeff Joseph
The Aff attempts to solve police violence by reforming an obscure legal doctrine while ignoring the psychological structure that produces that violence in the first place – the death drive.  The death drive is based on an inner enjoyment that can only be sustained through perpetual loss.  Their ignorance of the death drive dooms the Affirmative to cycles of policy failure – forever pursuing a future without police brutality, while it is that very pursuit that perpetuates violence.
McGowan 13 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013. WC)
The death drive ... to their good.

Police carry out violence against the other, not out of necessity, but because they see the other as the external limit to their enjoyment that must be eliminated in order to attain the utopian ideal of safety.  This turns the Aff, they perpetuate the root cause of the problem.

Continued failure to recognize the death drive not only turns case but results in extinction – fundamentally rethinking our politics is key.
McGowan 13 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013. WC)
Unlike Herbert Marcuse ... of progress altogether.

Thus the alt is psychoanalysis—examining the structure of desire and enjoyment rather than projecting better political worlds is the only means of channeling the death drive away from catastrophe.
McGowan 13 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013. WC)
There is no ... it remains lost.

Tournament: Pre-Tournament Disclosure | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -

The 1AC has painted the picture of a better world on the horizon – one where college campuses are free of censorship and open to the productive exchange of ideas.  On face, this narrative seems to be one of liberty and progress, one that promises a better future – therein lies the problem.

The dogmatic pursuit of legislative ways to solve society’s problems ignores the psychological structure that produces those problems in the first place – the death drive.  The death drive is based on an inner enjoyment that can only be sustained through perpetual loss.  Their ignorance of the drive dooms the Affirmative to cycles of policy failure – forever pursuing a brighter future while it is that very pursuit that keeps it out of reach.

McGowan 13 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
The death drive is ... to their good.

The root cause of their harms is the perception that there is a brighter future on the horizon, but something is standing in the way of that future – an “other” figure that operates as the external limit to our enjoyment – for Nazi Germany it was the Jews, for Stalin it was political dissidents.  The pursuit of a better future thus necessitates the silencing of the other – this is the root cause of censorship and violence.  Outweighs and turns the Aff, their pre-fiat representations perpetuate the utopian logic that justifies censorship.

Continued failure to recognize the death drive not only turns case but results in extinction – fundamentally rethinking our politics is key.

McGowan 3 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
Unlike Herbert Marcuse, ... of progress altogether.

Thus the alt is psychoanalysis—examining the structure of desire and enjoyment rather than projecting better political worlds is the only means of channeling the death drive away from catastrophe.

McGowan 4 (Todd. Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln, U of Nebraska P, 2013.) WC
There is no ... it remains lost.

The alt is a prerequisite to the Aff – the death drive inevitably undermines their pursuit of freedom.

Roch, Aleksandra. "Turning negative into positive- duality of the 'death drive' and its influence on art." Academia.edu, 2008, www.academia.edu/9958823/ Turning_negative_into_positive-_duality_of_the_death_drive_and_its_influence_on_a rt?auto=download. Accessed 21 Jan. 2017.  WC
The desire that ... the primary object.

Tournament: Young Lawyers | Round: Quarters | Opponent: West MT | Judge: Panel
This is a critique, not of the Affirmative’s argument but of their performance.

Contention 1: Ethical Debate

The use of speed is a way to dodge true debate – hiding behind a meaningless game of dropped arguments destroys the integrity of debate as a medium where clash allows for meaningful discourse over competing ideas.

Talley, James. "Why Speed Kills." Debate Central, Oct. 1996, debate.uvm.edu/NFL/ rostrumlib/cxtalley1096.pdf. Accessed 24 Sept. 2016. WC
Since its beginning… in the debate. 

This is a voting issue for quality of debate. All constructive components of debate, including fairness, education, and activism, stem from having an ethical debate space that’s conducive to such benefits.  

Contention 2:Portable Skills

Spreading kills any real-world benefits of debate and turns it into a bizarre, useless game.  The K is key to making debate an educational space.

Modde, Douglas. "THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES, OR, WHAT IS WRONG WITH SPEED DEBATE." Debate Central, Oct. 1996, debate.uvm.edu/NFL/rostrumlib/ cxmodde1096.pdf. Accessed 24 Sept. 2016. WC
I have been … end our shame.

Contention 3: Ableism

Spreading excludes certain people with disabilities from the debate space – a slow processing speed goes hand in hand with certain attention issues, and makes my opponent’s performance inaccessible.

Kelly, Kate. "Processing Speed: What You Need to Know." January 16, 2015. Understood: For Learning and Attention Issues, www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/ child-learning-disabilities/information-processing-issues/ processing-speed-what-you-need-to-know. Accessed 24 Sept. 2016. Kate Kelly has written 19 books on such family-related topics as child rearing, home renovation, family finance, and organization. She has been a guest on ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, ABC's Good Morning America, ABC's The View, NBC's Weekend Today Show, CBS's The Early Show, CNN, MSNBC, and the Fox News Network. She attended Smith College. WC
Processing speed is … well they’re doing.

Spreading is a form of ableist exclusion that denies certain people the right to participate in debate – this justifies the silencing of the disabled experience and fosters real world exclusion.

Zelinger 7/7 (Julie Zeilinger: a freelance author from the Barnard College class of 2015. Mic.com: “6 Forms of Ableism We Need to Retire Immediately” published July 7th, 2015. Accessed July 24th, 2015. http://mic.com/articles/121653/6-forms-of-ableism-we-need-to-retire-immediately)TheFedora
Nearly 1 in …  in our society."

Perpetuating ableist stigmas excludes disabled bodies – this translates into real-world suffering.
Stevens 7/24 (Danielle Stevens is co-founder and editor-in-chief of This Bridge Called Our Health, an online healing space for women and femmes of color. For Harriet: “We Must Change the Ableist Language Surrounding Sandra Bland's Death” published July 24th, 2015. Accessed July 25th, 2015. http://www.forharriet.com/2015/07/we-must-change-ableist-language.html#axzz3gw69D8jc)TheFedora
The impact of … to seek treatment.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 4 | Opponent: Palo Alto BH | Judge: Li-Ren Chang
Interpretation: The Aff should disclose their 1AC prior to the round.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 4 | Opponent: Palo Alto BH | Judge: Li-Ren Chang
A. Interpretation 

 The aff should win if the hypothetical implementation of a topical plan is better than the status quo or options – the USFG should implement the plan.
    2. Engagement in this resolution implies government action, which the Aff does not advocate.
B. Reasons to prefer

 A real-world analysis of the topic is key, ignoring it kills productivity.
Steinberg and Freeley 13, * David, Lecturer in Communication studies and rhetoric. Advisor to Miami Urban Debate League. Director of Debate at U Miami, Former President of CEDA. And  Austin, attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, JD, Suffolk University, Argumentation and Debate, Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making, 121-4
Debate is a … the following discussion.
    2. Predictable limits: The topic produces a stable locus of clash, key to Neg ground, predictability, and ensuring in-depth, educational debate.
    3. Topic education: Res is key to learning how to solve real-world problems.

    4. Aff conditionality: Without a plan text the Aff can shift justifications for the 1AC – this disadvantages the Neg, makes the Aff a moving target.

    5. Engagement with hegemonic institutions is necessary to create actual change and avoid right wing takeover.  
Mouffe 2009 (Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, “The Importance of Engaging the State”, What is Radical Politics Today?, Edited by Jonathan Pugh, pp. 233-7)
In both Hardt … of radical politics. 

    6.  The state is inevitable – policymaking is the only way to create change, all other narratives get co-opted.
Coverstone 5 Alan Coverstone (masters in communication from Wake Forest, longtime debate coach) “Acting on Activism: Realizing the Vision of Debate with Pro-social Impact” Paper presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference November 17th 2005
An important concern … in America today.

    7.  The role of the judge is to vote for the team with the best policy option.  Prefer this because it forces both sides to make actual arguments that can be applicable in the real world.  You have to transform systems from the inside out-otherwise rhetoric changes but not policies.
McCormack, PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster, 2010
(Tara, Critique, Security and Power: The political limits to emancipatory approaches, pg 59-61)
In chapter 7 … of the time.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 2 | Opponent: Quarry Lane SK | Judge: Jeff Joseph
A. Interpretation 

1.  The aff should win if the hypothetical implementation of a topical plan is better than the status quo or options – the USFG should implement the plan.
       2. Engagement in this resolution implies government action, which the Aff does not advocate.

B. Reasons to prefer

1.  A real-world analysis of the topic is key, ignoring it kills productivity.
   Steinberg and Freeley 13, * David, Lecturer in Communication studies and rhetoric. Advisor to Miami Urban Debate League. Director of Debate at U Miami, Former President of CEDA. And  Austin, attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, JD, Suffolk University, Argumentation and Debate, Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making, 121-4
   Debate is a … the following discussion.
       2. Predictable limits: The topic produces a stable locus of clash, key to Neg ground, predictability, and ensuring in-depth, educational debate.

    3. Topic education: Res is key to learning how to solve real-world problems.

    4. Aff conditionality: Without a plan text the Aff can shift justifications for the 1AC – this disadvantages the Neg, makes the Aff a moving target.

    5. Engagement with hegemonic institutions is necessary to create actual change and avoid right wing takeover.  
Mouffe 2009 (Chantal Mouffe is Professor of Political Theory at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, “The Importance of Engaging the State”, What is Radical Politics Today?, Edited by Jonathan Pugh, pp. 233-7)
In both Hardt … of radical politics. 

    6.  The state is inevitable – policymaking is the only way to create change, all other narratives get co-opted.
Coverstone 5 Alan Coverstone (masters in communication from Wake Forest, longtime debate coach) “Acting on Activism: Realizing the Vision of Debate with Pro-social Impact” Paper presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference November 17th 2005
An important concern … in America today.

    7.  The role of the judge is to vote for the team with the best policy option.  Prefer this because it forces both sides to make actual arguments that can be applicable in the real world.  You have to transform systems from the inside out-otherwise rhetoric changes but not policies.
McCormack, PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster, 2010
(Tara, Critique, Security and Power: The political limits to emancipatory approaches, pg 59-61)
In chapter 7 … of the time.