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a
  • Adaptation (or "Judge Adaptation")
  • Affirmative
b
  • Ballot
  • Barracking
  • Bench
  • Burden of Proof
  • Burden of Rejoinder
  • Burden
c
  • Chair
  • Claim
  • Clash
  • Comparative Advantage (or "Relative Advantage")
  • Con
  • Concede (or "Concession")
  • Conclusion
  • Consequentialism
  • Constructive
  • Content
  • Contention
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Countermodel
  • Counterplan
  • Criterion (or "Criteria")
  • Cross-Examination (or “Cross-Ex”, “CX”)
  • Crossfire
  • Crystallize
d
  • Defense (or "Defensive Argument")
  • Deputy Leader of the Opposition (or "DLO")
  • Deputy Prime Minister (or "DPM")
  • Differentiation
  • Disadvantage
  • Double Turn
e
  • Empirical (or "Empirics")
  • Ethos
  • Evidence
  • Extension (or "Extending")
  • Eye Contact
f
  • Final Focus
  • Flow Judge (or "Experienced Judge")
  • Flowing
  • Framework
g
  • Gestures
  • Golden Rule of POIs
  • Government Whip (or "GW")
  • Government
  • Grace Time
  • Grand Crossfire
h
  • Hypothetical (or "Hypothetical Scenario")
i
  • Impact Turn
  • Impact Weighing
  • Impact
  • Impromptu Motion
  • Inherency (or "Inherent Barrier")
  • Internal Link
  • Introduction
j
  • Justification
k
  • Knifing
l
  • Leader of the Opposition (or "LO")
  • Likelihood
  • Line-By-Line
  • Linearity (or "Linear Impacts")
  • Link Turn
  • Link
  • Logical Fallacy
  • Logos
m
  • Magnitude
  • Mechanism
  • Member of the Government (or "MG")
  • Member of the Opposition (or "MO")
  • Mini-Debate
  • Mitigation (or "Mitigatory Argument")
  • Modelling
  • Motion
n
  • Negative
  • Nonverbal communication
o
  • Offense (or "Offensive Argument")
  • Opposition (or "Opp")
  • Opposition Whip (or "OW")
  • Overview
p
  • Paradigm (or "Judging Philosophy")
  • Pathos
  • Point of Clarification (or "POC")
  • Point of Information (or "POI")
  • Point-By-Point
  • Prep Time
  • Prepared Motion
  • Prime Minister (or "PM")
  • Pro
  • Probability
  • Proof
  • Proposition
  • Protected Time
r
  • Re-Dos (or "Speech Re-Dos")
  • Reason for Decision (or "RFD")
  • Rebuilding
  • Rebuttal
  • Reconstruction
  • Refutation
  • Reply
  • Resolution
  • Rhetorical Question
  • Role Fulfilment
s
  • Scope
  • Severity
  • Signposting
  • Solvency
  • Source
  • Speaker Points
  • Stance
  • Status Quo
  • Strategy
  • Style
  • Substantives
  • Summary
  • Switch-Side Debate
t
  • Terminal Impact
  • Theme
  • Time Limits
  • Timeframe
  • Topic
  • Topicality (or "T")
  • Truth vs. Tech
  • Turn
u
  • Underview
  • Uniqueness
v
  • Value
  • Voting Issues
w
  • Warrant
  • Weighing Mechanism
  • Whip

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