B. Open Extemporaneous Event Prompts

Round 1: 9:30am - Ext Draw 9:15

  1. Speaker 1


    1. What should California do to curtail the black market for marijuana?
    2. Will the Kochs’ withdrawal of support for Trump doom his 2024 presidential run?
    3. Is East Palestine really Chernobyl 2.0?
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Why is California going it alone in Colorado River talks?
    2. Will Trump be indicted in Georgia?
    3. Should law schools abandon the LSAT?
  3. Speaker 3


    1. How can Los Angeles reform City Hall to reduce future corruption and scandals?
    2. Should California ban police dogs from arrests and crowd control?
    3. Will the Major Questions judicial doctrine threaten the Biden administration’s priorities?
  4. Speaker 4


    1. How can the Section 8 housing voucher program be reformed?
    2. Should the United States abolish all child labor?
    3. How will history judge Dianne Feinstein’s tenure as U.S. Senator?
  5. Speaker 5


    1. Can Republicans present a united front in debt ceiling negotiations?
    2. Should the U.S. designate the Exide contamination area as a Superfund site?
    3. Will the American Academy of Pediatrics’ new childhood obesity treatment guidelines do more harm than good?
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Will over-the-counter Narcan help stem the toll of the opioid crisis?
    2. Should Congress raise Medicare payments for physicians?
    3. How will the end of Title 42 affect immigration to the United States?

Round 2: 2:15pm - Ext Draw 2:00

  1. Speaker 1


    1. What is the most important development from the Munich Security Conference?
    2. Will South Africa regret joining naval exercises with Russia and China?
    3. Was Nicola Sturgeon’s tenure a success?
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Do protests over retiree health insurance changes pose a political threat to the Chinese Communist Party?
    2. Are the Chagossian people owed reparations from the United States and Great Britain?
    3. Will Russia destabilize Moldova?
  3. Speaker 3


    1. What must Germany do to shore up its military?
    2. Will Kim Ju Ae succeed her father in North Korea?
    3. What should be done to combat the outbreak of Marburg virus?
  4. Speaker 4


    1. How will Russia’s heavy losses of battle tanks impact its war against Ukraine?
    2. Will Modi regret taking a hard line against the BBC?
    3. Will Air India’s record plane purchases allow it to compete with Gulf carriers?
  5. Speaker 5


    1. How should the United States respond to Nicaragua’s release of political prisoners?
    2. Will Spain’s menstrual health legislation be modeled across the EU?
    3. Will the Japanese government’s measures to increase the fertility rate work?
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Will Colombia-ELN peace talks succeed?
    2. What does China’s surveillance balloon say about U.S.-China relations?
    3. Should France raise its retirement age to 64?

Round 3: 3:45pm - Ext Draw 3:30

  1. Speaker 1


    1. What are the economic implications of Adani Group’s troubles for India?
    2. Has the price of California’s cage-free egg requirement grown too high?
    3. Will Southwest Airlines recover from its holiday meltdown?
  2. Speaker 2


    1. What impact will Chinese sanctions have on Raytheon and Lockheed Martin?
    2. Should Bulgaria abandon its efforts to join the Eurozone?
    3. Will Lyft ever become profitable?
  3. Speaker 3


    1. What does Tencent’s rebound say about China’s big tech prospects?
    2. Is the recovery of corporate bond prices sustainable?
    3. Should Disney reverse its mandate to corporate employees to return to offices?
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Has Elon Musk irreversibly ruined Twitter?
    2. What are the economic implications of California’s population shrinkage?
    3. Can Hasbro capitalize on Magic: the Gathering’s billion-dollar success?
  5. Speaker 5


    1. Can Bitcoin sustain its recent gains?
    2. Is Tesla’s full self-driving recall a minor hiccup or a major blow for Tesla?
    3. What are the economic implications of the record U.S. trade deficit?
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Are Big Tech layoffs emblematic of larger economic headwinds?
    2. Should for-profit human subjects research ethics boards be banned?
    3. Has the streaming bubble popped?

Finals: 6:30pm - Ext Draw 6:15

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Who should be the next President of the World Bank?
    2. Will Belarus join Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
    3. Will the Taliban listen to China and Iran’s calls to ease restrictions on women?
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Why is President Lula clashing with Brazil’s central bank?
    2. What should be done to respond to Kenya’s persistent drought?
    3. Have Western sanctions against Russia worked?
  3. Speaker 3


    1. What will it take to rebuild Ukraine?
    2. What should America do regarding the India-China border dispute?
    3. Will Netanyahu's judicial reforms destroy Israel as we know it?
  4. Speaker 4


    1. How will Bashar al-Assad benefit from the Turkey-Syria earthquake?
    2. How can India and Pakistan cooperate to fight smog?
    3. How will AI change modern warfare?
  5. Speaker 5


    1. How will Canada’s deployment of naval vessels to Haiti impact the Caribbean region?
    2. Is the marriage between democracy and capitalism in crisis?
    3. Can genetically modified trees help solve climate change?
  6. Speaker 6


    1. What is the significance of Bao Fan’s disappearance?
    2. Are natural disasters a driver of gentrification?
    3. Will El Salvador’s state of emergency to tackle gangs help the country? 
  7. Speaker 7


    1. Should the FAA fine SpaceX over its August Starlink launch?
    2. Why are so few high-skill tech workers unionized?
    3. Is Gavin Newsom doing enough to support Black K-12 students?