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Re: Names/War Story

I don't know who backchanneled Doyle, but his post brought to my mind a
funny trade topic war story which I have a great desire to share.  I
remember debating a team from Trinity, exactly who I don't recall at the
moment, round eight of the navy tournament.  They were running some Taiwan
affirmative, which like so many cases that year and other years, we (Anand
and I) had no evidence on.  I remember that we wanted to run some abusive
counterplan but it was topical since it changed trade policy toward
Taiwan.  In their 1AC they had some
card that talked about how the United States was this big hegemon who
could do anything it wanted and any country would go along with anything
the US said.  In the CX they were eager to talk on and on about the
unlimited power of the United States.  In our counterplan Anand and I (I
really don't remember whose idea this was) ran our counterplan and
included a plank to have the United States change Taiwan's naime to Taiwan
squared), using the US can do anything card for the solvency for this part
of the counterplan.  This, of course, made our counterplan non-topical.  I
don't remember much else of the debate other than that the 2AC exhausted
much of his prep
time trying to come up with answers to this totally idiotic counterplan
and that Doug Frye eventually agreed with Pittsburgh that it was the
superior policy option.



On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Doyle Srader wrote:

> Another good topic wording that a friend <who may wish to remain
> nameless> backchanneled to me:
> 
> >Resolved, that the United State should change the names of all the
> >countries in South East Asia.
> 
> Doyle Srader
> University of Georgia
> <706> 548-9938
> 
>
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