T – Conditional CP’s
A. Interpretation: Conditional CPs are unfair.
B. Violation: The CP is conditional.
C. Standards:
Strat and Time Skew: The AC is forced to defend against multiple worlds since he gets to defend both the
status quo and the CP. This means I’m forced to overallocate on both, else he can just go for the one that I
undercovered. Also, since he has total discretion over how the CP will function in later speeches, the CP
creates a moving target because any offense I generate will inevitably just be hit or miss. He can sever out
of any offense I put on the CP by kicking, nullifying all the time I spent making turns. Strategy skew
destroys fairness because I need a coherent understanding of what’s going on to have a chance to win; also,
equitable time is key to fairness since time is necessary to generate offense.
D. Voter: Fairness is a voter because the ballot makes debate a competition that must be constrained by rules as
people only compete with the understanding that they have an equal chance of winning. Further, it precedes
an accurate evaluation of the resolution; you must first ensure the debate is fair before evaluating anything
post-theory else that evaluation will arbitrarily be skewed toward the unfair debater.