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Introduction to Policy Debate

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The basics of counterplan competition have been covered in the introductory section of this chapter.  Two things are worth emphasizing.  One, in order to win that a counterplan is better than the plan you have to win that it is net-beneficial to do only the counterplan as compared to the plan and a combination of all of the plan and part of the counterplan. Counterplan competition is fundamental – No judge will accept a counterplan unless the judge determines that it is competitive.

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