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Speaker: Antonucci
• Functional competition
o Post-plan function
o Different function of CP
• Textual competition
o Derived from a word or some aspect of the plan text
o Certain words will be changed in the CP text
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• Common competition debates
o We either get functional or textual competition
o Neither team should defend
o Should defend statements that endorse either or both of those
o Textuality is a higher standard – competes on level of function as well
o CP should be either functional or textual competition
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• Competition should be textually derived – more than dropping a single plan out of plan text or
o Most obvious way to generate CPs if aff use USFG – change out “actor”
o Hooch water to the poor aff – CP give schmita filters
o “nearly all” CPs
Contact nucc for cites
o Artificial competition
Take out unnecessary words “the” and
find synonyms
Reverse bi-conditional: do plan but only if x does y
Opposite of plan if and only if opposite of condition
• We will stay in Iraq if and only if (double negative)
General aff response to XO v. USFG
• Aff has the right to define where the plan comes from
o Allows aff to requalify words later on
• Aff has right to define
• Language happens because people make it up
o Both teams have right to advance reasonable interpretation of what words mean
o Talk about different words, smart evaluation of evidence
o Set theory is ridiculous because the distinction of a noun category does not define
Set qualifier like all or every
Vagueness
In absence of quantifier any absence of noun identification
Whether or not there is an implied quantifier doesn’t make a difference
• Cp only one variation of plan
• Debate vagueness separately, don’t do it covertly
Have right to pick elements of a given noun category
• Language is a socially determined construct
o Biographical to formal literary criticism
o Language determines how people think
• Perm pull out of Iran – legalistic rambling
• Perm do cp: call them out
• Difference between textual competition and actual
o Legitimacy of word PICs
Given word has a rhetorical effect – word way of explaining an action
Not functionally competitive
Focus on what the word’s actions denote
Different connotation of a given word
Difficult to sort out difference between both
• Difficult defense – revolves around a particular view of what the plan is
All PICs are word PICs – all have to look at plan text to see what aff is
Define rhetorical choice
Aff: plan is a blueprint, not a public statement
• Competitive to do both : pass blueprint, but choose rhetoric of PIC in public statement
• All PICs are word PICs, PICs good – process of melding substance and theory
• Generate genuine topic relevance
• Not difficult to defend the words of your plan text
• Whether or not rhetoric is a question best answered with specific evidence
• Teams not good about floating pics
• Bad impact of reps
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