PICs….. In spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!
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Cp text
Net benefit
Must be competitive
◦ Uniquely beneficial
◦ Mutually exclusive
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Write before the round
Grammar
does it accomplish what I need the CP to
accomplish?
How could the aff permute the cp text?
How could the aff create a solvency deficit?
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Internal net benefit
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Independent disad
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Case turns the cp avoids
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The CP by itself must be better than the plan
or any combination of the plan and all or part
of the CP
Uniquely beneficial
-CP must do something good or avoid
something bad that the plan can’t.
Mutually exclusive
-the aff and the cp can not happen at the
same time
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Tests competition of the CP
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must have plan first, unaltered in content and
timeframe
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Many variations on permutations
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Even if the perm works, the cp can still
function if it is uniquely beneficial (perm still
links to politics)
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Conditionality
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Dispositionality
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unconditionality
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Can kick the cp whenever you want
Still have to answer theory
Aff can still try to leverage offense
Very common
Strategic flexibility
Conditionality is okay, multiple contradictory
conditional worlds is problematic
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Can kick the cp unless it is straight turned
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Only impact turns, link turns, or theory
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Conceding permutations, link or impact
defense will make the CP go away
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Not much strategic value
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Difficult to run with other worlds
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Will go for in the 2NR
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Can’t kick under any circumstances
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Good to run 1 off
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Everything in 1NR should work together
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PIC
Consult
Condition
Advantage
Agent
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This list is not exhaustive
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Plan Inclusive Counterplan
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Does part of the plan
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Removes part of the action or replaces a word
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Word PICs
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Generally accepted as legitimate
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Conditions plan action on an additional prior
act
“USFG will do X if PRC will do Y”
Theoretically questionable
Strategically sound since it should suck up
the affs offense
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Does an alternative action that seeks to solve
one of the advantages of the plan
Puts offense on advantages not solved by the
cp
Valuable for affs with 2 or 3 advantages
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Is also a PIC
Does the plan through an alternative agent
(XO, Courts)
Plan action is a good idea, just need to use
different actor
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Politics is a common NB
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agent powers or legitimacy can also be NB
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Consults another actor on the plan action
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Often has relations NB
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Theoretically shady, lots of judges hate it
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Strategically strong since it literally does all of
the aff
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Permutation
Solvency deficit
Add-ons
Theory
Disads to the cp
Turning the NB