1 | 3 Teams in debate: Rochester 4 (OG) Cornell 6 (OO) Berkeley 5 (CG) JHU 1 (CO) | 6 | | | Benny NicholsonⒸ , Rishi Hazra , Mia CiminoⓉ | THP hiring external professionals (such as business executives and politicians) to work as Senior Administrators at universities rather than the promotion of faculty members to those posts | |
2 | 4 Teams in debate: Berkeley 5 (OG) Bates 1 (OO) Cornell 9 (CG) UCLA 2 (CO) | 12 | | | Drew HarringtonⒸ , Molly Callaghan , Neerusha PhuyalⓉ | TH, as a left-of-center majority government, would aggressively relax regulations on the construction of new infrastructure (e.g., environmental reviews, hiring and procurement rules, zoning restrictions, mandatory comment periods) | |
3 | 3 Teams in debate: Yale 3 (OG) Berkeley 5 (OO) Wisconsin 1 (CG) Dartmouth 1 (CO) | 16 | | | Pranav AnandⒸ , Dane Sprague , Joe Gantt | | |
4 | 2 Teams in debate: USC 2 (OG) Harvard 5 (OO) UPenn 1 (CG) Berkeley 5 (CO) | 17 | | | Jevon HenryⒸ , William Berry , Basil BobⓉ | THR the reliance on technology (such as video-assistant referee, decision review systems, goal line technology) in sports to supplement officiating | |
5 | 2 Teams in debate: HWS 2 (OG) Stanford 2 (OO) Berkeley 5 (CG) Cornell 2 (CO) | 18 | | | Diggory WaddleⒸ , Austin Thoma , Molly Callaghan | Assuming feasibility, THP a world where the norm became that human fetuses are gestated outside of the womb from start to finish. | |
6 | 3 Teams in debate: Princeton/PDP 4 (OG) Cornell 2 (OO) Harvard 1 (CG) Berkeley 5 (CO) | 20 | | | Devesh KodnaniⒸ , Audrey Melody , Natalie Pemberton | THS advanced economies’ recent emphasis on “resilience” over “efficiency” in large-scale economic policy reforms (e.g., semiconductors in the CHIPS Act, green technology in the Inflation Reduction Act, etc.) | |
7 | 1 Teams in debate: Stanford 2 (OG) Berkeley 5 (OO) Stanford 3 (CG) HWS 2 (CO) | 20 | | | Rohan KapoorⒸ , Juan de Maqua , Laura Zhang | Among films depicting relations between oppressed groups and their oppressors, THP films that focus on revenge (e.g., Django Unchained, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, etc.) over ones that focus on reconciliation (e.g., Glory, Green Book, etc.) | |
8 | 2 Teams in debate: Yale 1 (OG) Princeton/PDP 2 (OO) Berkeley 5 (CG) Bard 1 (CO) | 21 | | | Pranav AnandⒸ , Genevieve Moore , Mateu Healey-Parera | THBT it is in the interests of India to abandon strategic ambiguity in international relations | |
13 | 1 Teams in debate: UCLA 2 (OG) Bates 2 (OO) Berkeley 5 (CG) Bard 1 (CO) | | | | Gaveal FanⒸ , Daksha Pillai , Ethan Park , Laura Zhang , Molly Callaghan | THS making the Belief Machine widely available for use by the public | |