2026 Fall Blumer at CSU Fullerton
2026 — Fullerton, CA/US
CARD
Event Description:
The debate topic is:
Resolved: The United States should reduce its security cooperation, including substantially restricting arms transfers, with one or more treaty allies or security partners in the Indo-Pacific region.
Please note the following helpful guidelines for this year:
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Topic Filter: This topic is focused on the provision of security assistance and arms transfers that are intended to balance and/or counter China’s military capabilities within the region.
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This season, all teams at all levels should focus on a specific country in the Indo-Pak, but because of the topic filter in place for the rez and the subsequent make-up of the library, most of the debates have focused on Taiwan and China.
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Students can have specific plans. For example, some teams affirm using the AECS to approve arms sales, a different team affirms reducing all arms sales to the region, another defends eliminating corporate arms sales while maintaining state-to-state arms sales. Whatever the library will support is on the table.
You can find the library of approved articles on the CARD website. Only cards drawn from these articles are allowed (except DEBATERS FROM ARGUMENTATION CLASSES who are not on a team ARE NOT LIMITED TO CARDS EVIDENCE) (still working on this)
The CARD website also has information on the governing rules of the activity, which the tournament will enforce.
The speaking times are as follows:
20 mins - pre-round prep
1AC - 6 minutes
CX - 3 minutes
1NC - 6 minutes
CX - 3 minutes
2AC - 6 minutes
CX - 3 minutes
2NC - 6 minutes
CX - 3 minutes
1NR - 4 minutes
1AR - 4 minutes
2NR - 4 minutes
2AR - 4 minutes
Post-round discussion: 15 minutes, which will be enforced. Start and end the round on time!
Debate Evidence and Ethics
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Evidence used in the debate should come from the CARD library*.
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Exception: DEBATERS FROM ARGUMENTATION CLASSES who are not on the college team ARE NOT LIMITED TO CARDS EVIDENCE.
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Teams must reveal any evidence used in the debate to their opponent upon request. Judges will determine the appropriate speaker point penalty for debaters that cannot provide evidence upon request.
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Fabricating evidence will result in an automatic loss. Ellipses in evidence are prohibited.
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Debaters are expected, at a minimum, to orally deliver the following when introducing evidence into the round: primary author(s) last name and the year or publication.
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Debaters are permitted to paraphrase evidence if the speaker orally delivers a source and can provide the text of the evidence upon opponent request.