Lansing After School Event
2023 — Lansing, KS/US
Novice Debate Paradigm List
All Paradigms: Show HideHi my name is Atlas Bell, and I’ll be your novice debate judge.
About me:
I use they/them pronouns
if you are upset or have questions about my ballot, decisions, or my paradigm PLEASE email me at atlas.bell.debate@gmail.com
I am a 4th year debater at Lansing high school. i am extremely familiar with speech and debate.
a little bit about my speech and debate record; i was at CFL nationals for Poetry and prose last year and I have been at state for debate every year of my career.
i have very little tolerance for logical fallacies and even less tolerance for verbal abuse. Be kind to your opponents and have respect for your judge. we are all here to learn and have fun so don't ruin it by getting way to heated over something trivial.
Resolved: The United States Federal Government Should Significantly Strengthen Its Protection Of Domestic Intellectual Property Rights In Copyright, Patents, And Trademarks.
Stock:
- it think there is something quite charming about doing stock correctly.
- the five stock issues are Solvency, Harms, Inherency, Topicality, and Significance. If either team drops any of these they lose on the flow, IMO.
counterplans:
- counter-plans can be good, I'm waiting for them to be great. i HATE conditionality, go for dispositionality. its WAYY better.
- kicking the counter-plan just because makes me upset and sad.
- "Dispositional-status of a counterplan that would allow the negative to only kick the counterplan if the affirmative team has made defense arguments only (including but not limited to a permutation, solvency deficits, or theory arguments)." - NSDA definition of a dispositional counterplan
Disads:
- for a disad, you must have uniqueness, a link, and an impact. without any of these parts i will not consider the DA in my decision.
Kritiks:
- i love a good Kritik or non-linear disad, but it has to be done RIGHT.
- explain how the alt solves, without alt extension and a proper link chain i will not weigh the K.
I Debate/ Forensics at Lansing High School
I use they/them
Idc if you say judge
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POLICY
I’ll give you 0.5-1.5 if you make a good joke in round / if your chill with the other team, I think competition sometimes ruins the community aspect.
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If your disrespectful to your opponent I’ll dock points
Pre-round disclosure is good, especially if it’s on the wiki. If not you better make a good argument for it.
Please give me judge instruction, if you say to vote on something and it’s not contested I will, judge instruction is the quickest way to my ballot on face level.
Arguments I won’t evaluate: Non-domestic Terror impacts, Spark, Heidegger, Deleuze.
Other then that I’m good for anything, if you think an argument is violent or problematic tell me why, if you win it I’ll vote on it.
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Tech/Truth
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Tech over Truth unless ethics get involved, if you’re being problematic I’m VERY inclined to vote on procedurals.
Disads
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Underrated, there can be very great Aff specific disads that are often thrown to the side for generics. Just do impact calc and link work, if you win it I’ll vote on it.
Counterplans
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I’ll vote on a PIK.
I don’t see why the CP has to solve for the entire Aff, BUT you do have to win a reason why you don’t need to.
Kritiks/K-Affs
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I do K debate and read a K Aff.
Kritiks I've read: Liberal militarism, Ableism, Oreintalism, Queer Desire, Growth Rhetoric, Trans K.
Kritiks I've help people with: Muslim Oreintalism, Latin SetCol.
I’m a huge link lover, I think if you don’t win a link the K is pretty much useless. With that said I also need a clear explanation on the ROTJ, ROTB, & what the Alt does (not just the name, that’s not an extension)
T-FW/Framework
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FW IS UNDER UTILIZED, if you win the ROTJ &/or ROTB with me all you have to do is win better solvency then the other team.
PLEASE actually clash on FW don’t just extend you FW tell me WHY the other teams is worse then yours, bc if there’s no clash I’ll just go off my opinion.
Topicality
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For K Aff: Tbh I don’t like the “we can’t engage” argument as a part of T, I would much rather you use T as a turn against the Aff. This is especially great if you use it as a solvency deficit to the Aff.
For Policy: Tbh against Policy I love T, since they are “trying” to be topical I think it’s fun to have a definitions debate and I’m down for it. I like additional impacts other than Clash, and Education. For some ideas try Educational Access, Civic Duty, Community, and other fun stuff. Just be careful on T bc there is a lot that can go wrong so be sure not to drop anything!
SILLY ARGUMENTS
I ❤️ SILLY / UNIQUE ARGUMENTS
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Public Forum Debate
I did PFD since Freshman year and qualified in it for NCFL my sophomore year.
Some quick thoughts,
I think the role of each side is to convince me of one thing, Yes or No. Nothing else.
I DO NOT think that the Pro defending one plan means that the Con gets every other alternative.
IF YOUR OPPONENT ASKS FOR YOUR SPEECH YOU SEND IT, idc if it’s not a “rule” if you want my ballot it is
If you say "They dropped the 1ac" in your second Pro speech I will dock you 2 speaker points for not knowing how PFD works
If you read critical lit in PFD thats hype asf.