Topicality A) Definition Here you will provide a definition for a word from the resolution B) Violation Here is why specifically how the affirmative plan does not meet your defintion. ©) Standards These are reasons you give as to why your definition is good, why itis the best one for that word. D) Voter These are reasons you give for why the judge should vote negative on topicality. vantage A) Uniqueness This states what is happening right now in. status quo, B) Link This tells how the disad is specific to the aff'case and what the affirmative does that leads to the impacts, C) Impacts Here You explain exactly what bad things will happen because of the affirmative plan action, and why those bad things are so very bad. Counter Plans Text Here you will provide an actual plan text as to what your counterplan is going to do. Observation Non Topical Here you tell why the counterplan is non topical, and thus doesn’t take aff ground. Observation Competition Here you explain why the counterplan cannot be passed at the same time as the affirmative, in the real world Observation 3: Superior Solvency Here you give specific reasons why the counterplan solves better than the aff plan. Kritiks A) Uniqueness ‘What is happening in status quo. B) Link What exactly the affirmative does that links to the Kritik, or leads to the implications. ©) Implications The impacts to a Kritik. Why linking to the Kritik is so bad. D) Alt. Here you will provide an alternative to the affirmative plan. This is a mini- counterplan, a way to go about avoiding the Kritik.