B. Open Extemporaneous Event Prompts
Round 1: 9:30am - Ext Draw 9:15
Speaker 1
- What should California do to curtail the black market for marijuana?
- Will the Kochs’ withdrawal of support for Trump doom his 2024 presidential run?
- Is East Palestine really Chernobyl 2.0?
Speaker 2
- Why is California going it alone in Colorado River talks?
- Will Trump be indicted in Georgia?
- Should law schools abandon the LSAT?
Speaker 3
- How can Los Angeles reform City Hall to reduce future corruption and scandals?
- Should California ban police dogs from arrests and crowd control?
- Will the Major Questions judicial doctrine threaten the Biden administration’s priorities?
Speaker 4
- How can the Section 8 housing voucher program be reformed?
- Should the United States abolish all child labor?
- How will history judge Dianne Feinstein’s tenure as U.S. Senator?
Speaker 5
- Can Republicans present a united front in debt ceiling negotiations?
- Should the U.S. designate the Exide contamination area as a Superfund site?
- Will the American Academy of Pediatrics’ new childhood obesity treatment guidelines do more harm than good?
Speaker 6
- Will over-the-counter Narcan help stem the toll of the opioid crisis?
- Should Congress raise Medicare payments for physicians?
- How will the end of Title 42 affect immigration to the United States?
Round 2: 2:15pm - Ext Draw 2:00
Speaker 1
- What is the most important development from the Munich Security Conference?
- Will South Africa regret joining naval exercises with Russia and China?
- Was Nicola Sturgeon’s tenure a success?
Speaker 2
- Do protests over retiree health insurance changes pose a political threat to the Chinese Communist Party?
- Are the Chagossian people owed reparations from the United States and Great Britain?
- Will Russia destabilize Moldova?
Speaker 3
- What must Germany do to shore up its military?
- Will Kim Ju Ae succeed her father in North Korea?
- What should be done to combat the outbreak of Marburg virus?
Speaker 4
- How will Russia’s heavy losses of battle tanks impact its war against Ukraine?
- Will Modi regret taking a hard line against the BBC?
- Will Air India’s record plane purchases allow it to compete with Gulf carriers?
Speaker 5
- How should the United States respond to Nicaragua’s release of political prisoners?
- Will Spain’s menstrual health legislation be modeled across the EU?
- Will the Japanese government’s measures to increase the fertility rate work?
Speaker 6
- Will Colombia-ELN peace talks succeed?
- What does China’s surveillance balloon say about U.S.-China relations?
- Should France raise its retirement age to 64?
Round 3: 3:45pm - Ext Draw 3:30
Speaker 1
- What are the economic implications of Adani Group’s troubles for India?
- Has the price of California’s cage-free egg requirement grown too high?
- Will Southwest Airlines recover from its holiday meltdown?
Speaker 2
- What impact will Chinese sanctions have on Raytheon and Lockheed Martin?
- Should Bulgaria abandon its efforts to join the Eurozone?
- Will Lyft ever become profitable?
Speaker 3
- What does Tencent’s rebound say about China’s big tech prospects?
- Is the recovery of corporate bond prices sustainable?
- Should Disney reverse its mandate to corporate employees to return to offices?
Speaker 4
- Has Elon Musk irreversibly ruined Twitter?
- What are the economic implications of California’s population shrinkage?
- Can Hasbro capitalize on Magic: the Gathering’s billion-dollar success?
Speaker 5
- Can Bitcoin sustain its recent gains?
- Is Tesla’s full self-driving recall a minor hiccup or a major blow for Tesla?
- What are the economic implications of the record U.S. trade deficit?
Speaker 6
- Are Big Tech layoffs emblematic of larger economic headwinds?
- Should for-profit human subjects research ethics boards be banned?
- Has the streaming bubble popped?
Finals: 6:30pm - Ext Draw 6:15
Speaker 1
- Who should be the next President of the World Bank?
- Will Belarus join Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
- Will the Taliban listen to China and Iran’s calls to ease restrictions on women?
Speaker 2
- Why is President Lula clashing with Brazil’s central bank?
- What should be done to respond to Kenya’s persistent drought?
- Have Western sanctions against Russia worked?
Speaker 3
- What will it take to rebuild Ukraine?
- What should America do regarding the India-China border dispute?
- Will Netanyahu's judicial reforms destroy Israel as we know it?
Speaker 4
- How will Bashar al-Assad benefit from the Turkey-Syria earthquake?
- How can India and Pakistan cooperate to fight smog?
- How will AI change modern warfare?
Speaker 5
- How will Canada’s deployment of naval vessels to Haiti impact the Caribbean region?
- Is the marriage between democracy and capitalism in crisis?
- Can genetically modified trees help solve climate change?
Speaker 6
- What is the significance of Bao Fan’s disappearance?
- Are natural disasters a driver of gentrification?
- Will El Salvador’s state of emergency to tackle gangs help the country?
Speaker 7
- Should the FAA fine SpaceX over its August Starlink launch?
- Why are so few high-skill tech workers unionized?
- Is Gavin Newsom doing enough to support Black K-12 students?