by Jeremiah Mosbey | Jan 5, 2022 | Counterplans, From Advanced to National-Class, Team Policy
https://pixabay.com/photos/achieve-woman-girl-jumping-running-1822503/ There has been no shortage of content covering counterplans over the years, but unfortunately there has been a lack of resources for those who already understand the theory. If you are one of those...
by Anthony Severin | Jul 11, 2021 | Advocacy, Counterplans, Fiat, From Advanced to National-Class, Negative, Uncategorized
What must an affirmative team do to win a policy debate round? The affirmative should win if they convince the judge that the audience and the debaters are better off if the judge votes affirmative. Conversely, the negative should win if they convince the judge that...
by Ben Brown | Dec 10, 2020 | Counterplans, From Advanced to National-Class, From Intermediate to Advanced, Negative, Team Policy
A few months ago, for the first time in my Team Policy career, I wrote a Negative brief which centered around a topical counterplan. Having never attempted this before, I had to sit down for a good while and think through the theoretical justifications for such...
by Harrison Durland | Feb 14, 2018 | Counterplans, Negative
This post is a continuation of last week’s discussion on Alternate Actor Counterplans. Read Part 1 here. You can also find differing views on Counterplan theory here. Why not just “no fiating the object”? Ethos has explained the “object fiat” concept in more...
by Harrison Durland | Feb 10, 2018 | Counterplans, Negative
Editor’s Note: There are a variety of views on the issue of Alt-Actor Counterplans. Check out some of our other posts dealing with counterplans for more information. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just snap our fingers and other people would do our work for us?...
by Harrison Durland | Jan 27, 2018 | Counterplans, From Advanced to National-Class, Negative, Strategy
Counterplans. I can’t think of a more divisive issue in policy debate. Recently, Joshua decided to brave these controversial waters, writing an article about some of the major generic counterplans you can run. In doing so, he prompts a very important follow up: how...