How To Debate Disadvantages Presentation
How To Debate Disadvantages Presentation
How To Debate Disadvantages Presentation
Disadvantages
Selecting disadvantages
to run
Be strategic in selecting thema few
things to remember
Dont run multiple disadvantages with the
same terminal impact
Try and find a DA with an impact that turns
the case
Running a DA because its new usually is
a bad reason to run it.
Read it
Highlight it
Practice read it
Write the key warrants of each card in
the margins
Overviews
Should be prewritten and ready to go before the
round starts
Overview components
-Short description of the DA story
-Probability analysis
-Timeframe analysis
-Magnitude analysis
-How does the DA turn the case?
Answering Disadvantages
read it
Yes, read their evidence for the DA.
Frequently it wont be the best evidence
ever.
Maybe their evidence is over tagged as
well
Point out missing internal links
Answering Disadvantages
have a frontline
Pre round preparation can save a lot of
pain and mistakes. You should compose
your 2AC frontlines before the rounda
few reasons.
-reduces prep time usage
-reduces your stress level
-usually produces better frontlines than
on the fly
Answering Disadvantages
being strategic in the 1AC
If you have good intelligence on what your
opponents like to runthen prepare your
1AC accordingly.
-This means reading advantages that solve
for the DA impact
-This means reading pre-empts to the DA
in the 1AC.
-This means reading some type of moral
obligation advantage in the 1AC.
Answering Disadvantages
Generic Impact Takeouts
You dont have to have specific answers to every
impact out theregoing generic can work and
save time.
U.S. economy isnt key to the world economy
U.S. economy is resilient
Recessions dont cause wars
Declines in hegemony dont cause wars
Great power wars wont happen
Deterrence checks any risk of nuclear conflict
This strategy works better with small affirmatives.
Answering Disadvantages
Using Impact Calculus
Moral obligation to solve for AIDS,
womens rights, disease, outweighs the
DA impact
Judge shouldnt evaluate low probability
impacts
Affirmative shouldnt be held responsible
for the actions of intervening actors
Answering Disadvantages
Diversity is good
Make a diverse set of arguments in the
2AC. Read non uniques, no links, no
impact, turns, case outweighs, ect
Have a mix of cards and smart analytical
arguments in the 2AC frontline
Answering Disadvantages
using uniqueness to take out
impacts
Its easy to have uniqueness to take out
generic impacts, like U.S. hegemony low
now or U.S. economy in the tank now, or
U.S. is losing the WOT now.
Might even want to place some in the
1AC if time allows.
Answering Disadvantages
case outweighs
You should always make case outweighs
analysis on the DA. If you win that the case
outweighs the DA, then you could be losing the
DA 100% but it doesnt matter. Thats a good
place to be in. Consists of three things
FirstMagnitudethe case impacts are larger
than the DA impacts. Its all about the body count.
SecondTimeframethe case impacts come
before the DA impacts. Quicker is sicker.
ThirdProbabilitythe case impacts are more
likely to occur than the DA impacts.
Answering Disadvantages
Dont just impact or link turn!
It may seem tempting to do sobut 99%
of the time its the wrong way to go. Why?
Its a numbers game. You probably have
around 2 minutes to answer the DA in the
2AC, while your opponents have 13
minutes in the block to answer it. If the
negative is smart, theyll put out so many
answers that the 1AR cant catch up.
Answering Disadvantages
More key information
Uniqueness overwhelms the linkuniqueness
evidence is so good that theres no way the
plan can overcome it
In cross examinationfocus on one area of the
DA to destroy and take out. Dont forget to then
make these arguments in the 2AC.
Read your best answers first. Time is always
short in the 2AC, and you might not have time
to get beyond your first six answers. Ive seen
this happen way too often.