DEBATING NEW AFFS

Speaker: Nick Rogan

• Adv. CP, pltx, case – okay strat

• Develop generic but smart strats
• Dividing up the topic:
o Keep track of past affirmatives – build strats around past affs
 Have to stick to resolution, can only get x ground
 Keep T as an option to check against new affs
• Limits amount of research for case neg
 Distinguish between troop affs and base affs
 Have a sense of topic-specific advantages
 Recycled impacts – have impact defense ready (every team should have impact defense file)
 Kritiks, process CPs, intl actor CPs
• K is the new T
• Think about states CP – generic CPs teams won’t be prepped against
• Word PIC dictionary
o Topic words don’t make aff topical
o Look at plan texts on wiki, look for common words
o X word is bad
• Researching word PICs
o Search google
o Include euphemism bad cards – euphs used to sell things that are politically
unpalatable
o “orwell” cards on euphemisms
o Make as specific as possible
o Don’t let word pics be a crutch – words pics are like dessert, they come after the
entrée
o Cites:
 Rank 09 http://websurf.gobst.edu/da/schema/confusion.htm “by words,
the military has downplayed the reality”
 Elias Davidson
o Be able to defend against PICs bad theory
 Uphill battle – have to have very good analysis and cards
 Not be losing a solvency deficit
 Don’t write new case negs for TOC
 Have a new aff toolbox compiled
 You should attempt to get away with murder – new affs = more ground
• New aff = better strats
• New affs bad
• Mechanics/Execution
o Figure out what they’re advocating during CX
o Identify the theme of the affs ie. structural violence
o Process CPs, 1NC should be full (K, 3 CP, DA, etc)
 Heg against aff because you don’t know what is going to happen
 More options to go for – have an idea before though
 Take prep before 1AC CX if needed – plan out CX strategy to set up CP
 Confine yourself to one option to go for – if you need to change, change.
o Beware resources colonialism –
 Jacking mediocre aff’s team
 Focus on the lesser teams as well
  Don’t go off rumors/ lexis searches
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• AFF: Prescriptions of what not to do:
o Bad decisions to read new affs sometimes
o Be careful when you create new aff
o You know your old aff very well – expertise o/w
o Have to have lots of practice rounds/prep on new aff – be an expert
o New aff can’t be stupid
o Must know which way you roll on the K – perms, etc.
o No aff can withstand negative strat
 Have mini debates, practices
 Be prepped against T
 Build year towards summation
• Keep idea open, but save it for the end of the year
o When to break new affs
 Large teams, elims, impact of round
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