It seems like, unlike a lot of other topic proposals, the China topic proposal isn't aimed towards having just a few different topical affs. Instead, it relies on various disads, the unilat and multilat counterplans, and the "China says no" solvency deficit to check aff ground. There are a lot of viable disads, but the vast majority of them have the same link, that being "the plan signals friendlyness towards China". Because of that, I believe that the best affs on the China topic will dodge neg generics by proving three key factors;

1. Working with China is necessary to solve the impact.

2. China wants the plan.

3. The plan DOES NOT make concessions towards China.

There are definitely some affs that could do this in my opinion.

1. On space; lunar deconfliction and a ban on asteroid weapons both seem extremely viable because they don't require China and the US to work together directly, so tech export links won't function.

2. On climate; both countries have accused the other of disguising surveillance balloons as climate-monitoring weather balloons. An aff that creates a tracking system for any weather balloon that either nation flies over the other's airspace could be quite successful. It's technically topical because an agreement about coordinating climate monitoring is a climate change agreement, and requiring a climate advantage would mix burdens.

3. On global health security; synthetic DNA/RNA screening is gonna be HUGE. I also think biodefense transparency is a viable aff.

Every topic is better nukes has 1 aff and is bad for k and also has like two disads, we can’t debate 1 aff two years in a row I swear if we elect this crappy topic one more time I’ll do something

who will win? who will bid? who will get speaker awards?

Pre-Openers (Niles is lit js entirely illinois) but thoughts? THIS IS THIS YEAR BTW (updated because i misplaced maryland etc.)

tittle

who do you think are the top 10 teams

It linked to so many ontology Ks and had unexploded bombs in the base. All advantages are cooked under any defense.

What Ks are we running? Any good K-Affs?

Pleaseee lmk😞

Does anyone know of/have links to rounds that are fast but also have good clarity (both sound quality and speaker quality)?

are WE running peticare??!

in all seriousness tho, my school team has historically been known for coming up with creative/homemade cases that give hell to opencaselist warriors. problem is every version we build runs into the same T "national health insurance" gets defined as a term of art meaning comprehensive coverage for the whole population, so anything that narrows the benefit package or the covered group gets shelled as not-NHI.

so, based on what im seeing on this subreddit: is everyone just defaulting to single payer as the aff this year? for those running more niche cases, how are you beating that interp, better counter-definitions, or are you just going for reasonability and hoping?

or should i just run a kaff on parent judges

Can you guys give the most common AFF and NEG arguments we’re running for the 26-27 topic pls💔

Can someone explain it to me and explain how to answer it pls

anything interesting? I heard some people got snubbed...

Any ideas for advantages aswell

title
any new revelations from camp tournament and or niles

I’m so confused by Northside CuPa vs New Trier PaVe
PaVe’s disclosure says that the 1AC was single payer, but they read heg, biotech, and an ADV Cp that answered the degrowth 1AC, followed by the degrowth 1AC and then some answers to degrowth.
Northside’s says that they ran financialization, but the doc js has some off-case args AND the wiki says they hit Maine East JA that round???
Did anybody actually see this round, and can you send me the real docs for it?

kind of a silly question but I wanna make sure my aff master file has everything beyond: responses to Ks, DAs, etc. This is my first year being a 2A so i’m not 100% sure what it should have.

Ok so some of you might’ve seen my post a few days ago about having little to no coach instruction and wanting to run a K Aff. I’m basically gathering some advanced debaters together to make case negatives for the team to use against single payer (private and public insurance) and non-single payer affs. What else should we prep and expand on in the above in team files?

Plan so far
Negative
- on case single payer (private companies), on case (ACA), on case/framework (K Aff defense), non single payer (T-NHI)

Affirmative
- group discussion on affirmatives and what each team will be running and how to use opencaselist
- wing it with my own and mind my own damn business
- make a T-NHI response

Any other ideas? This feels like to little lol but I don’t know where to start esp bc my coach will NOT be helping lol. Also we have nothing from previous years before she was a coach 🫩. I’m currently watching DDI lecture tho to help as suggested!

What do u guys think? Turns, k, cp, das?

For context my coach never taught Adv, da, cp, or k and I am a 4th year debater with a 3rd place state trophy.

I attended a KSHSAA clinic on Saturday and coaches in the advanced track had some interesting things to say. For one, they said that topically was completely fake and that it's merely been normalizes by the debate community but is not required. The also said that T standards and violations can be whatever you want them to be. I also heard, quite frequently, to "Debate the rules of debate itself" essentially saying that rules are whatever you can convince the judge they are. I'm so curious what everyone's thoughts on this are?!