Mutual Exclusivity NiB: | Files

Interp: When the aff passes a fiated policy option, all negative advocacies must be mutually exclusive.- Clarification: This means that the advocacy must compete through being functionally and textually competition.#### Violation: If there is a violation it will happen in the LOC but be articulated in the MG. #### Standards:- Perms don’t check - Completion: They are only tests of competition, not advocacies, which means that a tiny net benefit can take out a perm even if the neg isn’t mutually exclusive, forcing debates about tiny issues and linking into all our standards. - Violation: This means if there is an advocacy that the negative reads that the aff is able to perm then that is proof of a violation. Clash - Extra T: Non-exclusive advocacies encourage affs to be extra-topical to pre-empt neg ground, and encourage the neg to do the same thing as the aff with a tiny net benefit- No Clash: Without clash, both teams go for the same impacts instead of weighing diverse impacts against each other- Impact calc is key to decision making because in RW decisions there are both pros and cons to each decision and we need to learn how to weigh them- Debate is UQ key to clash: you can get other portable skills from reading books or doing IEsEducation - MG Skew: The MG only has 20 minutes to try and write answers to every possible advo the NEG could read – infinite neg options makes predictions in prep impossible- Bad MG: This makes answers in the MG generic and bad, and encourages MG theory – lack of predictability kills depth of education since we can’t prep as good of answers Voters:

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A. Judge intervention: minimizing judge intervention is key because it allows debaters to control the rules of the game they play and stops judges from imposing outside biases.

B. Aff Interps: Prefer affirmative interpretations because neg can adapt easily to the AC interpretation, and they are already at a structural advantage due to the 12 to 5 minute block/PMR rebuttal skew.

This also means theory is a priori; it is necessary to know the rules of the game first, and debaters should be the ones making them, not judges.