Tournament: UCO | Round: 1 | Opponent: Trinity Deshpande-Torres | Judge: Stout
We come to the desert to know the dust, to wear it,
faceless, like gauze, to walk in its blizzard of
particles
until we lose ourselves for a while,
then someone else is there.

We come to the fire to be more like the fire,
to confiscate it,
to conflagrate and sway, to know
what is wild again.

We come to the desert
to build our gods because
what did Emerson say? "If we harbor no gods,
we find none."

Burning Man Poem by Kathy Evans

2 http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182800293/former-air-force-pilot-shines-light-on-drone-program
3 Whittle, Richard “The Man Who Invented the Predator”
4 Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective 1988
5 “Future Matters Technoscience, Global Politics, and Cultural Criticism”2004

Tournament: UTD | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kansas Monaghan-Nelson | Judge: Taylor
I'm just gonna open source it but I don't want to be bothered by Hardy's shaming.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Fresno State Holley-Tate | Judge: DiPiazza
A reading from Button, Button. Matheson, 1970.
"Let it go,"...It's still murder."

Drone testimony
Ebonstorm '13. A Drone Testifies Before Congress. Hub City Blues. 2/7/13. http://hubcityblues.com/2013/02/07/a-drone-testifies-before-congress/
"The double doors"..."low-Earth orbit"

Drone warfare occurs in the context of technological murder—the distance enacted by the mechanics of drone weapons delivery establishes a radical separation of concrete human dimensions of those murderous practices.
Addey et al 11 (Peter Addey, Mark Whitehead, Alison Williams et al.  "Introduction: Air-target Distance, Reach and the Politics of Verticality."  Theory, Culture and Society 28.7-8 2011).  
The target of aerial ... in their articles.

Our celebration of the drone ultimately turns on us, enabling mass surveillance, masking the outcomes of technology and allowing anyone to die at any second.
Evans ’13. Claire. Claire Evans is the editor-in-chief of OMNI Reboot. Big Smart Objects: Drone Culture and Elysium. The Futurist. August 14nth 2013. http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/84138/big-smart-objects-drone-culture-and-elysium
In the canonical ... button pushes you.

Stories can accomplish the goal of a new relationship to drone warfare.
Dunn, Wheeler, and Wolff 2013(David, Nicholas, Stefan. Stefan Wolff is a professor of International Security. “The Political Effects of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on Conflict and Cooperation within and between States.” http://www.stefanwolff.com/files/The20Political20Effects20of20Unmanned20Aerial20Vehicles20on20Conflict20and20Cooperation20within20and20between20States.pdf )

To understand how ...and end conflicts? 

Drone Technology allows for a systematic violence and otherization of its victims and worsen the oppression of those marked as the Other
Wall and Monahan 11 (Tyler and Torin. Dr. Tyler Wall is a professor at the Eastern Kentucky University that specializes in Justice Studies. Torin Monahan is a professor at UNC in communication studies. “Surveillance and violence from¶ afar: The politics of drones and¶ liminal security-scapes.” Theoretical Criminology. Aug 17. )
This phenomenon could ...profiles and probabilities.

This leads reveals the creation and furthering of structural violence in commonly droned areas. The distancing allows for a continuation of the violence and helps mask it from public view.
Booth 2013 (Sebastian. University of York. “Does Distance or Remoteness Affect How Human Beings Use and Respond to Violence?” e-International Relations. February 13.)
On 21 December ... immoral or unfair.