Marcus,+Eric

**Pine Crest Class of 2014** **Emory Class of 2018**

**General things:** Tech over truth Prep time ends when you are ready to put the speech on the flash drive I’ve been both a 2A and 2N in high school, so I won’t be more inclined to vote aff than neg or vice-versa I will vote on any argument, but winning on certain arguments gets you lower speaker points than others (ex: a-spec) I won’t call “clear” unless I simply cannot get the tags down, so if I call “clear”, don’t ignore it If you cheat, you will lose and receive the lowest speaker points allowed by the tournament

**Topicality:** Topicality is not a reverse voting issue Saying “no in-round abuse” is a waste of time

**DA’s:** There can be zero risk of a DA If uniqueness is something that is probabilistic/constantly changing, the link controls the direction of the DA Politics DA’s are probably good for debate, but a well-articulated politics theory argument can still take out the DA

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">**CP’s:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Theory issues relating to CP’s (other than conditionality) are reasons to reject the argument <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Well-researched advantage CP’s > generic process CP’s <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">It shouldn’t be that hard to beat process CP’s on the perm and theory, but you have to do the work <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I won’t kick the CP for you unless it is an explicitly stated 2NR option and the aff doesn’t do enough work explaining why judge kick is bad

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">**K’s:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">The only K’s where I would describe my background knowledge as average or better are Derrida-style K’s, Afro-pessimism, security, and capitalism <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I need to understand what the alt does and why it solves to vote neg, otherwise try-or-die framing will be very persuasive <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">If the alt is do nothing, you have to win a robust framework argument <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Contextualize the link to the aff, or I won’t be very receptive to certain turn’s case arguments <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">If you want to go for arguments like “fiat illusory”, I need to know how it interacts with the way I frame my overall view of the flow

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">**K Aff’s/Framework:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">If you choose not to defend a hypothetical government action, you should still at least talk about the topic <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Whoever wins that their method provides the best training for the real world will win the round <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">If the K aff has a plan that you state in cross-x that you will defend, I won’t view aff arguments about discourse/things other than the plan as important.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">**Cross-x:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Cross-x is binding. If you somebody asks you what arguments were made somewhere, and you leave out an argument, that left-out argument is no longer part of the debate (there are exceptions to this rule) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">If your partner answers all of your cross-x questions, you will receive lower speaker points.