C. Open IPDA Event Prompts

Round 1 - Prep @ 10:00am/Speak @ 10:30am

  1. Speaker 1


    1. When in conflict, progress is preferable preservation.

    2. The USFG should do more to protect the environment.

    3. Another pandemic is inevitable.

    4. Mindfulness apps do more harm than good.

    5. The USFG ought to pay reparations.

Round 2 Prep @ 11:15am/ Speak @11:45

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Carbon trading is not sustainable long-term.

    2. All salaries should be public information.

    3. Ethical concerns are more important than economic concerns.

    4. When in conflict, honesty is preferable to loyalty. 

    5. College education should be free.

Round 3 - Prep @ 12:45pm/ Speak @ 1:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Collaboration ought to be valued over efficiency.

    2. Healthcare in the US should be universal. 

    3. When in conflict, accountability is more important than harmony. 

    4. The UN should eliminate veto power in the Security Council. 

    5. The War on Drugs is over.

Round 4 - Prep @2:30 / Speaker @ 3:00pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. The USFG should do more to limit poverty amongst its citizens.

    2. Politicians ought to value representation of constituents over personal principle. 

    3. The US is no longer the world’s greatest power. 

    4. The electoral college should be abolished. 

    5. Use of drone strikes is immoral.

Open Quarters/C.C. Final -Prep@4:00pm/Speak@4:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. All felons should have the right to vote in the US.

    2. When forced to choose one over the other, creativity is preferable to practicality. 

    3. Use of eminent domain is unjust. 

    4. Nuclear warfare will never happen again. 

    5. The USFG should reform its disaster preparedness programs.

Semi-Finals - Prep @5:15 / Speak @ 5:45

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Cities should value public health above all else.

    2. US foreign policy ought to change radically.

    3. When in conflict, quality of life is preferable to the presence of life.

    4. More should be done to ensure fair and free elections in the US.

    5. Streaming services are becoming cable.

Open Finals - Prep @6:15/ Speak @ 6:45

  1. Speaker 1


    1. All permanently inhabited US territories should receive statehood.

    2. Judicial activism is always immoral. 

    3. In the US, for-profit prisons should be abolished. 

    4. Personal freedom should be valued above all else. 

    5. Superbugs are the greatest threat to human life.