Counterplans The Negative’s Best Friend The Affirmative’s Worst Nightmare

 What Are Counterplans?  What is Counterplan Competition?  What does “Status” Mean?  What Types of Counterplans are there (on this topic)? Lecture Overview

 Indirect Cost (Opportunity Cost)  Hypothesis Testing  Logical Policymaking What is a Counterplan

 Fundamental Negative Burden  Reason to reject the plan  Mutually Exclusive  Net Beneficial  Textual Competition  Functional Competition  Resolutional Burdens Counterplan Competition

 Why a reason to reject?  Cannot Occur with Plan  Ex. Ban Space Weapons CP v. Space Weapons Aff Mutual Exclusivity

 Why a reason to reject?  Should not occur with plan  Ex. Awards CP v. Asteroid Mining aff  Internal  Japan CP w/ Japan Soft Power  External  Awards CP w/ Politics Disad Net Benefits

 The Text of the Counterplan must not include the Text of the Plan  Counterplans which include the affirmative plan are not competitive  Ex. Referendum CP  Plan Inclusive CPs Textual Competition

 The Function of the Counterplan must preclude the possibility of the aff  Ex. Awards CP  Agent CPs Functional Competition

 Counterplans which disprove the wording of the resolution disprove by extension the Affirmative Plan.  Resolved: Fixed Course of Action  Should: Certain, Immediate  Ex. Conditioning CP v. Space Weapons Aff  All CPs that compete based on Certainty Resolutional Burden

 What is the “Status” of a Counterplan?  Unconditional  Dispositional  Conditional Counterplan Status

 Permutations  Solvency Deficits  Net Benefit Responses  Add-Ons/Disadvantages  Theory Affirmative Answers

 Test Competitiveness  Mutual Exclusivity  Net Benefits  Textual Competition  Functional Competition Permutations

 Solvency Deficits  Ex. CP not solve Heg v. Ban Space Weapons CP  Add-Ons/Disadvantages  Ex. Aerospace Add-On v. Ban Space Weapons CP  Net Benefit Responses  CP Links to Politics Substantive Answers

 Status Theory  Conditionality Bad  Mechanism Theory  Counterplan Fiat is unfair  Competition Theory  Counterplan generates competition unfairly Theoretical Answers

 Advantage CPs  Agent CPs  Process CPs  International CPs Types of Counterplans

 Purpose: Solve an Affirmative Advantage  Ex. Bio-Terrorism Preparedness CP v. Bio-Terror Adv.  Why Reason to Reject? Advantage CPs

 Perm Do Both  Double-Solvency Answering Advantage CPs

 CP that uses an alternative agent  Purpose: Avoid a disad to the aff agent  Politics  Budget  Space Topic  DoD  Private Actor (Google) Agent CPs

 Perm Do CP  CP Doesn’t Solve  CP Links to Net Benefit  Theory  Agent CPs Bad  Private Actor Fiat Bad Answering Agent CPs

 Purpose: To implement the plan via a different process.  Compete based on the certainty of the plan.  Space Topic  Ex. Threaten to build Space Weapons unless Russia agrees to  Ex. Consult NATO on whether we should do________.  Reason to Reject?  Leads to the Plan, avoids a net benefit. Process CPs

 Perm Do CP  Process Fails  Russia Says Yes  NATO Says No  Delays the plan  Unconditional Plan Axn Key  Net Benefit Ans.  Process Doesn’t Solve Net Benefit Answering Process CPs

 Purpose: Solves Aff, avoids a net benefit.  Ex.  China  Russia  India  Japan  Mozambique International CPs

 Perm Do Both  Solves Net Benefit (Japanese Soft Power)  Solvency Responses  Add-Ons  Theory  International Fiat Bad A2 International CPs