counterplan

After a long period of normal progress, Jefri had come back with a counterplan.

Until I could devise a definite counterplan, there seemed no choice but to keep watch, after all.

The negative proposes a counterplan that is competitive with the affirmative's plan.

He was leading the forces of life into disaster-and he had no counterplan.

Functional competition evaluates the function of the plan and counterplan rather than their text.

This type of counterplan provides very clear competition with the affirmative plan simply because the two are mutually exclusive.

The judge must choose either plan or counterplan.

A perm is a way to test whether or not the counterplan and plan are mutually exclusive.

Zeus laid out their counterplan, suggested the details of the partition.

An exclusionary counterplan only enacts certain parts of the Affirmative plan.

The neg will most likely give a few reasons why they think their counterplan is mutually exclusive to plan.

Textually Competitive (the text of plan and counterplan do not work together)

A counterplan must 'compete' with the affirmative plan in order to be considered a reason to reject the affirmative.

Upon the negative running a counterplan, most debates boil down to the solvency of the affirmative case, and the disadvantages.

But those could be defined as the breakdown of the plan, the replacement of the plan by a violent counterplan.

In the summer, President Mubarak of Egypt proposed a generally constructive 10-point counterplan.

Neither did Pete Stanford, and they had agreed earlier that the J-3 would launch the counterplan.

Policymaker: At the end of the round, the judge compares the affirmative plan with either the negative counterplan or the status quo.

Could not that other power simply be using the Pug-Boos as the medium whereby its will or plan, or counterplan, was put to action?

A counterplan is a component of debate theory commonly employed in the activity of parliamentary and policy debate.

There is some dispute about whether the negative can ultimately advocate the alternative vision of a Kritik if it has already run an unconditional counterplan.

The neg would argue that their counterplan, made impossible by the aff's plan, will garner more benefits than plan.

The perm demonstrates that the counterplan is not an opportunity cost to plan, and therefore does not garner any benefits for neg.

Time Frame - Do the plan, and do the counterplan later (or vice-versa)

Usually run as part of a strategy containing a counter-advocacy to the affirmative, in the form of a counterplan, kritik, or even negative performance.