2023 Tabor-Venitsky Invitational

Cerritos College - Feb 17-19 | Status: Completed | 9:10 AM Pacific

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  D. Novice IPDA Event Prompts

Round 1: 9:00am

Speaker 1
  1. California’s economy is in trouble.
  2. Machu Picchu should be closed to tourists.
  3. The United States should offer substantial aid to Turkey for holding its June elections.
  4. The current higher education system does not do enough to reduce poverty in the U.S.
  5. The Academy Award for Best Picture should go to _____________.

Round 2: 10:30am

Speaker 1
  1. Direct-to-consumer pharmaceutical advertising should be banned.
  2. The United States should enact a policy to increase housing affordability.
  3. ChatGPT will end higher education as we know it.
  4. Professional football is too dangerous for players.
  5. The worst member of the United States Congress is _____________.

Round 3: 12:15pm

Speaker 1
  1. California should enact a policy to reduce catalytic converter theft.
  2. The retirement age for Social Security and Medicare should be increased to age 70.
  3. Land acknowledgments do more harm than good.
  4. Induction stoves are preferable to gas stoves.
  5. The best class every college student should take is _____________.

Round 4: 1:45pm

Speaker 1
  1. The United States federal government should pass a junk fee prevention act.
  2. Artificial intelligence does more harm than good.
  3. Cancel cruise ships.
  4. Medical schools should eliminate the MCAT admissions test requirement.
  5. The best U.S. airline is _____________.

Bronze: 3:30pm

Speaker 1
  1. The United States should increase funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
  2. Homework grades should be eliminated.
  3. Professional sports franchises are financially overvalued.
  4. The United States should nationalize all U.S. railroads.
  5. The best decade of the 20th century was ____________.

Gold: 5:00pm

Speaker 1
  1. The International Criminal Court should prosecute Russian war criminals.
  2. Boycott Hogwarts Legacy.
  3. Kaiser Permanente is the best model for the U.S. healthcare system.
  4. Digital detoxes are not desirable.
  5. The best forensics event is ____________.