Scarsdale ZS
Hi, I'm Zach. I debated for Scarsdale High School '21 and broke at the TOC as a junior and senior. As the Scarsdale team worked together to develop many positions, I just posted what I most directly worked on. My senior year wiki can be found here.
Feel free to contact me with any questions!
JF21
ACs
File:JF21 - AC - Intuitions.docx
This was the main aff that I read during TOC. Though many people thought that the framework was silly, I thought it was actually a very strategic aff. There were many different spins you could put on the framework depending on how your opponent responded that made it very versatile. For instance, the meta-ethic was an easy way to win the framework but it was certainly viable to concede the metaethic is wrong but still win through other justifications.
As an aside, I had an unbroken Existentialism AC that I never got to read at TOC, but I decided not to post it here since I didn't write most of it.
This was the aff to read against kritiks before the TOC.
File:JF21 - AC - Virtue Ethics.docx
This was another option of an aff to read for JanFeb.
NCs
File:JF21 - NC - Contracts.docx
This was a fun NC. You could go for it in the 2NR as a framework or easily trigger skepticism which was useful because the offense wasn't the strongest.
File:JF21 - NC - Determinism.docx
My favorite tricky position of my career. Determinism is very hard to respond to, and it won me too many rounds.
Standard Hobbes NC.
Standard Kant NC.
Though Levinas AC was far more popular this topic, I think it actually negated. I don't believe I ever got to break this NC though.
File:JF21 - NC - Pragmatism.docx
Here was a simpler NC that I could read during some rounds for variety. This framework isn't probably as robust against stronger frameworks, though.
LARP
This was possibly the strongest position I cut during my career.
ND20
ACs
File:ND20 - AC - Existentialism.docx
This aff was used against kritiks.
File:ND20 - AC - Virtue Ethics.docx
I read this aff frequently most rounds.
NCs
Your standard Hobbes NC.
Your standard Kant NC.
SO20
ACs
File:SO20 - AC - Virtue Ethics.docx
This aff, I read pretty much every round in SO. It did pretty well against util and other phil, but poorly against kritiks.
File:SO20 - AC - Pragmatism.docx
This aff, I believe, was not broken. But, I wrote it in case I needed to read it against various kritiks in important rounds.
NCs
Your standard Hobbes NC.
Your standard Kant NC.
JF20
ACs
Yes, a lot of the cards in this aff were taken from other people, but I spent many hours frontlining it and cutting cards on my own. Too bad I never read it at TOC.
CD20 - AC - Existentialism.docx
I read this aff all rounds at TOC. Lots of fun. I also included different versions of the aff based on the anticipated style of my opponent.
NCs
This NC I also read a decent amount at TOC. My favorite strat was to go NC AC (which I think is strategic in general). It also includes a nice brief section explaining what constitutes the original position.
ND19
ACs
Here is a showcase of my (in)ability to cut a policy position.
SO19
ACs
I tried.
My first attempt at a phil AC.
NCs
Worse-than-standard Hobbes NC.