The CP

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The CP
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What is a counterplan?

• A negative proposal for action to solve the
  problem forwarded by the affirmative.
• They demonstrate some reason why the affirmative
  is a bad idea.
• The negative team has to defend that the
  counterplan will solve, is superior to the plan,
  and is fair.

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Why run a counterplan?

• You want an option other than the status quo to
  defend.
• You dont have answers or feel comfortable
  answering certain affirmative advantages.
• To generate uniqueness for your disads.

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Initial burdens

• Be different from the plan.
• Be competitive.
• Solve for the affirmative harms.

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Competition

• Mutual exclusivity the counterplan and the plan
  cannot exist / happen at the same time
• Net benefits The counterplan alone has more
  benefits than plan alone or plan combined with
  counterplan.

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How to Determine Competition

• Functional competition evaluates the
  feasability of combining the actions of the plan
  and cp
• Textual competition evaluates whether or not
  the texts can co-exist. Is it textually plan
  plus?

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What does it look like?

• Text
• Solvency evidence / advocate
• Net benefit
• Competition
• Theoretical legitimacy (fairness)

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ExampleYou want to spend more time with your
best friend.

• The plan Go to your favorite restaurant at 7 pm.
  
• The counterplan Go to the movies at 7 pm.

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• Text You and I will go to the movies at 7 pm.
• Mutually exclusive we cant be at the movies
  and at our favorite restaurant at the same time.
• Theoretically legitimate (fair)
• Solves better for our lack of time together.
• Williams 06
• Going to the movies is a great way to reconnect
  with your best friend. You can visit before the
  movie, laugh together during, and have lots of
  stuff to talk about after.
• D. Net benefit We can enjoy a film and eat
  something at the movies. At the restaurant we
  can only eat, not enjoy a film.

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Counterplans and Topicality

• Non-topical Negative team must negate the
  resolution whether they chose to defend the
  status quo or a cp.
• Topical counterplans (plan-plan) Aff should
  defend that their plan is the best under the
  resolution. The cp is competitive as long as it
  has a net benefit.

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Types of Counterplans(Theory)

• Plan Inclusive Counterplan (PIC) Counterplan
  includes all or part of the affirmative plan.

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Types of PICs

• Plan Plus Adds some action to the plan to garner
  the net benefit.
• Plan Minus Does almost all of the plan and
  claims a net benefit from the exclusion of some
  usually small aspect of plan.

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Types of PICs

• Consult Gives another entity input before
  passing the plan. The net benefit comes from
  cooperation with that entity.
• Agent Uses a different actor to do affirmative
  plan. Net benefit comes from better solvency or
  an actor-specific disad.
• Actor Specifies beyond USFG or chooses a
  different actor within USFG.

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The Non-PIC

• Ban / Exclude Counterplan
• Does not use the affirmative plan in any way to
  solve
• Always mutually exclusive

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Counterplan Status

• The set of conditions that define the negatives
  ability to run the counterplan. Under what
  circumstances the negative can choose to defer
  back to defending the status quo.
• Defined by the negative, then the affirmative
  decides whether or not it is fair.

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Counterplan Status

• Unconditional The negative will defend the
  counterplan through the entire round.
• Conditional Little or no limitations on the
  negatives ability to revert back to the status
  quo.
• Dispositional The negative will continue to
  defend the counterplan absent any permutations or
  theory arguments made by the affirmative.
  (Straight turn)

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Answering counterplans

• 1. Theory not fair
• 2. Competition
• Not mutually exclusive
• Not net beneficial
• Permutations
• 3. Solvency
• 4. Disadvantages

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Permutations

• Test the competition of the counterplan.
  Can they be done at the same time?
  Is the combination as good or better
  than counterplan alone? (Are there
  any disads to the perm?)
• All of the plan plus all or part of the
  counterplan.

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Types of Perms
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Types of Perms

• Do both All of the plan plus all or part of
  the counterplan.
• Severance Only part of the plan, plus all or
  part of the counterplan.
• Intrinsic Adds something not in the plan or the
  counterplan to solve for the net benefit.
• Time frame / Delay Plan and counterplan are
  sequenced. The net benefit comes from not doing
  plan immediately.

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Popular Counterplans for this Topic

• Courts
• Has the court rule on the issue and claims net
  benefit from not using executive.
• Usually political net benefit or court action
  good.
• Lower courts is also an option.

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Popular Counterplans for this Topic

• States
• Claims that the states, not the USFG, should
  enact the plan. Claims net benefit by proving
  disadvantages to federal action / the rights of
  states to act on their own (federalism).

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Popular Counterplans for this Topic

• Re-allocation
• Moves funding from an existing program to the
  plan. Claims net benefits from one program
  losing money or by running a spending disad.

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Popular Counterplans for this Topic

• Consult NATO
• Asks NATO if it wants the US to do the plan.
  Claims international net benefits, like US
  leadership.

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Popular Counterplans for this Topic

• Consult EU
• Asks the EU if the US should do the plan. Claims
  international net benefits, like US-EU relations.

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Popular Counterplans for this Topic

• Military Reform
• Has the US change some aspect of the military.
  Derives net benefit from that change.
• May even go as far as ban the military.