PICs….. In spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!

 Cp text  Net benefit  Must be competitive ◦ Uniquely beneficial ◦ Mutually exclusive

 Write before the round  Grammar  does it accomplish what I need the CP to accomplish?  How could the aff permute the cp text?  How could the aff create a solvency deficit?

 Internal net benefit  Independent disad  Case turns the cp avoids

 The CP by itself must be better than the plan or any combination of the plan and all or part of the CP  Uniquely beneficial -CP must do something good or avoid something bad that the plan can’t.  Mutually exclusive -the aff and the cp can not happen at the same time

 Tests competition of the CP  must have plan first, unaltered in content and timeframe  Many variations on permutations  Even if the perm works, the cp can still function if it is uniquely beneficial (perm still links to politics)

 Conditionality  Dispositionality  unconditionality

 Can kick the cp whenever you want  Still have to answer theory  Aff can still try to leverage offense  Very common  Strategic flexibility  Conditionality is okay, multiple contradictory conditional worlds is problematic

 Can kick the cp unless it is straight turned  Only impact turns, link turns, or theory  Conceding permutations, link or impact defense will make the CP go away  Not much strategic value  Difficult to run with other worlds

 Will go for in the 2NR  Can’t kick under any circumstances  Good to run 1 off  Everything in 1NR should work together

 PIC  Consult  Condition  Advantage  Agent  This list is not exhaustive

 Plan Inclusive Counterplan  Does part of the plan  Removes part of the action or replaces a word  Word PICs  Generally accepted as legitimate

 Conditions plan action on an additional prior act  “USFG will do X if PRC will do Y”  Theoretically questionable  Strategically sound since it should suck up the affs offense

 Does an alternative action that seeks to solve one of the advantages of the plan  Puts offense on advantages not solved by the cp  Valuable for affs with 2 or 3 advantages

 Is also a PIC  Does the plan through an alternative agent (XO, Courts)  Plan action is a good idea, just need to use different actor  Politics is a common NB  agent powers or legitimacy can also be NB

 Consults another actor on the plan action  Often has relations NB  Theoretically shady, lots of judges hate it  Strategically strong since it literally does all of the aff

 Permutation  Solvency deficit  Add-ons  Theory  Disads to the cp  Turning the NB