The document provides guidance on layering arguments in a debate round. It recommends balancing tactics and strategy, avoiding excessive or "blippy" arguments from the 1NR, generating enough arguments to still win if the NC is kicked, and debating in four layers: theory, pre-standards, value and standard, and contention-level arguments. It also advises either debating definitions or conceding them, and avoiding "briteline arguments" that stifle discourse.
The document provides guidance on layering arguments in a debate round. It recommends balancing tactics and strategy, avoiding excessive or "blippy" arguments from the 1NR, generating enough arguments to still win if the NC is kicked, and debating in four layers: theory, pre-standards, value and standard, and contention-level arguments. It also advises either debating definitions or conceding them, and avoiding "briteline arguments" that stifle discourse.
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The document provides guidance on layering arguments in a debate round. It recommends balancing tactics and strategy, avoiding excessive or "blippy" arguments from the 1NR, generating enough arguments to still win if the NC is kicked, and debating in four layers: theory, pre-standards, value and standard, and contention-level arguments. It also advises either debating definitions or conceding them, and avoiding "briteline arguments" that stifle discourse.
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Don’t use a lot of blippy arguments Don’t use 1NR cross applying things from the NC Generate enough arguments/turns that you can kick the NC and still win
The layers of the round
1) Theory 2) Pre-standards 3) Value and Standard 4) Contention level arguments
How do debate framework:
1) Debate the definitions or concede them
‘Not every single word we say, can we define defintivly. No briteline arguments stifle discorse’