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The 1ar: Debate’s Paramedic

The 1ar: Debate’s Paramedic. Get the patient to the hospital…alive. Why is the 1ar Hard?. http://debate.uvm.edu/NFL/rostrumlib/CheshierJan%2700.pdf Many would say the 1ar is the hardest speech in debate…Why? They get 13 minutes, you get 5 2nc 1nr 1ar 8 mins 5 mins 5 mins.

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The 1ar: Debate’s Paramedic

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  1. The 1ar: Debate’s Paramedic Get the patient to the hospital…alive

  2. Why is the 1ar Hard? • http://debate.uvm.edu/NFL/rostrumlib/CheshierJan%2700.pdf • Many would say the 1ar is the hardest speech in debate…Why? • They get 13 minutes, you get 5 • 2nc 1nr 1ar 8 mins 5 mins 5 mins

  3. Why is the 1ar hard? • You can’t over-explain • Wide variety of arguments to deal with • The 2ar can’t make new arguments The 2ar can’t be new You must save prep time for your partner

  4. What do I have to do in the 1ar? • 1) Answer any “voting issues” • 2) Generate some offense • 3) Play defense against their arguments • Voting issues: topicality, theory, anything labeled a voting issue • Offense: Arguments that prove your plan is good (advantages, add-ons, solvency deficits to counterplans, turns to disads/kritiks) • Defense: Arguments that prove your plan is “not bad” (no link to their disad, no impact to their disad, etc.)

  5. What should I do in the 1ar? Time Map Increased Efficiency Make Choices Extend what your partner needs to win TIME is the key to the 1ar…

  6. Time Mapping • A time map is a guide to how long you should spend on each argument • Before the speech begins, take 15 seconds with your partner and decide how long to spend on each piece of paper

  7. Time Mapping • Write down what the timer will say… • Put important arguments top of the order: • #1 rule: Off-case theory (Topicality, ASPEC, etc.) The clock is ticking • Their major off-case positions • (Counterplans, Kritiks, Disads) • Your case advantages

  8. Pragmatic Advice on Time Mapping 1) Watch the clock 2) Follow your time map 3) Have your partner call time at :30 intervals Help the 1ar watch the clock

  9. Increased Efficiency The error people make is to assume that you have to be fast instead of efficient. Ways to increase efficiency: 1) Group things: Not so fast… “Extend the 2ac #1: Uniqueness—group their answers—my 1 is, my 2 is…” “Group the advantage…” 2) Say things in the least amount of words

  10. Embedded Clash • 3) Embedded clash • Embedded clash means that you answer arguments without specifically identifying that you are… • The usual rule is “repeat and defeat” the 1ar is just “defeat” • Example: • “Literature doesn’t exclude us, because the 1ac proves we’re in the literature • Reasonability outweighs competing interpretations because competing interpretations creates a race to the bottom”

  11. Make Choices • The negative has issue selection, the affirmative has argument selection • Two kinds of choices: • 1) Extend select answers on a disadvantage • 2) Kick advantages

  12. Selective Answers • Selective Answers • Do: • 1) Pick the best answers • 2) Pick answers they under-covered/dropped • 3) Pick answers they mis-understood • 4) Pick answers where your evidence is really good • 5) Pick stuff your partner likes • Don’t: • Pick the top answer • Pick answers on ideology

  13. Kick Advantages • The 1ar should triage advantages that are going poorly • To “kick” an advantage means to no longer defend it. • Kicking an advantage: • Identify that you are kicking it • Concede their arguments to kick it • Explain why any turns are gone

  14. Extend what your partner needs to win Three things: 1) The 1ar extends previous arguments 2) The 1ar should provide 2-3 answers per position 3) 2ar controls the ship 4) Use the whole flow after the block to write out your answers

  15. Advanced Tips 1) Ju-jitsu: use their arguments against them. 2) Light fires: make the 2nr go places they didn’t want to go 3) Prep efficiency: 2nc prep, cross-x of the 2nc 4) Reference the 2ac cross-x of the 2nc: makes your job easier 5) 1ar blocks: your best friend

  16. Activities Try and predict which answers the 1ar should go for How can the 1ar frame their arguments? Break into 3 groups Do 3 1 minute 1ar’s

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