A. Open Extemporaneous Event Prompts

Round 1 - 11:00am

Speaker 1

  1. Should Ron Desantis drop out?

  2. Is Joe Biden too old to run? 

  3. Is Marjorie Taylor Green effective?

Speaker 2

  1. Should Mike Pence drop out?

  2. Will Hunter Biden bring down his father? 

  3. Is Matt Gaetz effective?

Speaker 3

  1. Should Nikki Haly drop out?

  2. Will the fraud conviction bring down Donald J. Trump?  

  3. Is Jim Jordan effective?

Speaker 4

  1. Should Vivek Ramaswamy drop out?

  2. Was Jack Smith the right pick for Special Council? 

  3. Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez effective?

Speaker 5

  1. Should Chris Christie drop out?

  2. Is Merrick Garland independent enough? 

  3. Is Kamala Harris effective?

Speaker 6

  1. Should Tim Scott drop out?

  2. Does Kari Lake have a shot? 

  3. Is Hakeem Jeffries effective?

Speaker 7

  1. Should Asa Hutchinson drop out?

  2. Is Donald J Trump too old to run?

  3. Is Gavin Newsome effective?

Round 2 - 2:15pm

Speaker 1

  1. Will tension in Nagorno-Karabakh ever be resolved?

  2. Is this North Korea’s moment? 

  3. Rate my job performance: Benjamin Netanyahu 

Speaker 2

  1. Will tension in the South China Sea ever be resolved?

  2. Is this Saudi Arabia’s moment? 

  3. Rate my job performance: António Guterres

Speaker 3

  1. Will tension at the US-Mexico border ever be resolved?

  2. Is this Turkey’s moment? 

  3. Rate my job performance: Giorgia Meloni

Speaker 4

  1. Will tension in Darfur ever be resolved?

  2. Is this Venezuela’s moment? 

  3. Rate my job performance: Xi Jinping

Speaker 5

  1. Will tension between India and Canada ever be resolved?

  2. Is this Taiwan’s moment? 

  3. Rate my job performance: Luiz Lula da Silva

Speaker 6

  1. Will tension in Niger ever be resolved?

  2. Is this India’s moment? 

  3. Rate my job performance: Rishi Sunak

Speaker 7

  1. WIll tensions between Hezbollah and Israel ever be resolved?

  2. Is this Finland’s moment? 

  3. Rate my job performance: Kim Jong Un

Final Round - 5:15pm

Speaker 1
  1. Boom or Bust: Saudi Arabia’s “The Line”

  2. Solar power: Worth it?  

  3. Should “X” (formerly Twitter) survive?

Speaker 2

  1. Boom or Bust:  ChatGPT

  2. Carbon mineralization: worth it?  

  3. Should Fox News survive?

Speaker 3

  1. Boom or Bust: Autonomous Vehicles

  2. Climate Corps: Worth it? 

  3. Should Amazon survive?

Speaker 4

  1. Boom or Bust: Augmented Reality

  2. Desalination Plants: Worth it?

  3. Should TikTok survive?

Speaker 5

  1. Boom or Bust: Mars travel

  2. Electric vehicles: Worth it? 

  3. Should Burning Man survive?

Speaker 6

  1. Boom or Bust:  Blockchain technology

  2. Climate-resilient crops: Worth it? 

  3. Should “Truth Social” survive?

Speaker 7

  1. Boom or Bust: Moon landings

  2. Oil: Worth it?  

  3. Should high interest rates survive?