Layering the round

 Balance the tactics the and strategy

 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’