Advantage (debate)
In competitive debate, an advantage is the way that the affirmative team refers to the positive consequences of adopting their position on the debate resolution. It is an argument structure that seeks to convince the judge that the affirmative plan, if adopted, would result in a net-beneficial improvement to the status quo.Structure
Some variance in the structure of an advantage exists. The following are two of the most common structures:
Method 1
Method 2
- Uniqueness: Claims about the status quo.
- Link: An argument of how/why the plan causes something in the status quo to change.
- Internal Link: How/why the link will result in a particular outcome.
- Impact: The bad things avoided by passing the plan, or the goods things that come to be.
