And the Best New 1AC is...

NTMs! The math:

Who submitted what:

Article IX---Kentucky (Truf)
Bogota---Dartmouth (Raam)
Commercial RPO's (Marban)
Cyber---Northwestern (Joey)
Hyersponics---George Mason AH
Lunar Arachaeology---Dartmouth (Raam)
Lunar Heritage---Northwestern (Teja)
MMT---Michigan (Hirn)
NTM---Emory
NTP---Dartmouth (Raam)
Solar Shield---Berkeley (Fleming)
Space Elevators---Kentucky (Truf)


There is a lot of craft in designing a new Aff. A lot of tedious work. A beautiful thing when done well. 

Interesting NTM's won. I would say it was one of the more known quantities. Overall innovativeness of the selections could have been higher. Possible people were running on fumes for ideas given the subject matter. 

The fact that Article IX lost, really demonstrates the fact that we cannot have nice things.