The Harvard Westlake Debates

2018 — Los Angeles, CA/US

LD AC/NC Disclosure Policy

DISCLOSURE

We agree with St. Marks that "We agree with Greenhill 'that a willingness to take part in a collective case list – in both spirit and in practice – is an essential characteristic to accepting the invitation to our event" in policy and LD debate.

What must be disclosed?

All debaters must upload constructive speech documents (aka Open Source) to the wiki.

All teams (in LD that is each debater - even in novice) must disclose constructive speech documents (affirmative and negative) on the NDCA wiki, and must remain up during the duration of the tournament.

Here are examples of Affirmative and Negative wikis with proper disclosure:

Affirmative: https://hsld.debatecoaches.org/Harvard+Westlake/Nayar+Aff

Negative: https://hsld.debatecoaches.org/Harvard+Westlake/Nayar+Neg



To clear-up some pre-round confusion that people always seem to play games with:



* 25 minutes before the scheduled start time, affirmatives must disclose which affirmative case they will be running, unless it is new. Affirmatives should have any case they have run on the wiki. If there are going to be changes, they should simply say that it is X case, but we’ve changed X. You don’t need to say what you’ve changed it to.

* Negatives do not need to say what they are planning on running (since that can change based on cx questions, etc). However, all NC speech docs should be on the wiki.



There is no excuse for not disclosing immediately following your round. If you are having trouble, please see one of the HW debaters.