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By Lincoln Garrett in Debate Musings Archive — Mar 26, 2020

Best New 1AC Game--And The Best 1AC is...

NTMs! The math:

Who submitted what:

Article IX—Kentucky (Truf)

aff_1---article_ix

aff_1---article_ix.docx

Bogota—Dartmouth (Raam)

Commercial RPO's (Marban)

aff_3---commercial_rpos

aff_3---commercial_rpos.docx

Cyber—Northwestern (Joey)

aff_7---cyber.docx

Hyersponics—George Mason AH

aff_2---hypersonics

aff_2---hypersonics.docx

Lunar Arachaeology—Dartmouth (Raam)

aff_8---lunar_archaeology

aff_8---lunar_archaeology.docx

Lunar Heritage—Northwestern (Teja)

aff_6---lunar_heritage

aff_6---lunar_heritage.docx

MMT—Michigan (Hirn)

aff_4---mmt.docx

NTM—Emory

aff_5---ntm.docx

NTP—Dartmouth (Raam)

Solar Shield—Berkeley (Fleming)

solar_shield.docx

Space Elevators—Kentucky (Truf)

space_elevators

space_elevators.docx

There is a lot of craft in designing a new Aff. A lot of tedious work. A beautiful thing when done well.

Interesting NTM's won. I would say it was one of the more known quantities. Overall innovativeness of the selections could have been higher. Possible people were running on fumes for ideas given the subject matter.

The fact that Article IX lost, really demonstrates the fact that we cannot have nice things.