E. Novice IPDA (Sun) Event Prompts

LD/IPDA Round 1 - IPDA Strike in Room at 9:15

  1. Speaker 1


    1. The USFG should ban hydraulic fracturing
    2. The USFG should mandate arts education in schools
    3. The use of AI in the medical field does more harm than good
    4. On balance, the People’s Republic of China is a freer nation than the United States of America
    5. Personalized algorithms on social media do more harm than good

LD/IPDA Round 2 - IPDA Strike in Room at 10:45am

  1. Speaker 1


    1. The USFG should end all military operations in the South China Sea
    2. The State of California should ban tackle football for high schoolers
    3. Open borders are preferable to closed borders
    4. The USFG should implement ranked choice voting in all federal elections
    5. Short-form content on social media has done more harm than good

LD/IPDA Round 3 - IPDA Strike in Room at 12:30pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. The USFG should adopt California’s electric car policy
    2. Nationalizing the US’s airline industry would do more good than harm
    3. The USFG should impose term limits on CEOs of publicly traded corporations
    4. Corporate media is preferable to state media
    5. When in conflict, innovation is preferable to stability 

LD/IPDA Round 4 - IPDA Strike in Room at 2pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. The USFG should sell a significant portion of its student loans to private lenders
    2. Consumers ought not consider the political beliefs of an artist when evaluating an artistic work
    3. Roblox is a better social platform than Fortnite
    4. Artificial intelligence use does more harm than good in education.
    5. Prioritizing resource preservation in environmentally sensitive regions is preferable to promoting economic growth

LD/IPDA Elim 1 - IPDA Strike in Room at 3:45pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. When in conflict, the right to free speech outweighs public safety
    2. Late night television is doomed
    3. Serialized television is superior to episodic television
    4. Physical media is preferable to digital media
    5. The internet was better without advertisers

LD/IPDA Elim 2 - IPDA Strike in Room at 5:15pm

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Jimmy Kimmel Live! should’ve stayed off the air.
    2. The US should block the sale of Electronic Arts
    3. One Battle After Another should win “Best Picture” at the 98th Academy Awards
    4. The Tortured Poet’s Department is Taylor Swift’s worst album
    5. Late night television should abandon its traditional broadcast model and exist solely as a digital content brand.