1 | 2 Teams in debate: Brown B (OG) Venezuela 1 (OO) UADS 2 (CG) Habib A (CO) | 1 | | | Klaudia MaciejewskaⒸ , Lawrence Neequaye , Lina SalemⓉ | TH, as South Korea, would aim to significantly increase its cross-border economic cooperation with North Korea |
2 | 4 Teams in debate: BDU1 (OG) PKU 1 (OO) QU 2 (CG) Brown B (CO) | 4 | | | Lucie SlamovaⒸ , Hizkia Nogie Runkat , Musfira Khurshid | THW ban social media companies from independently deplatforming politicians |
3 | 2 Teams in debate: ILNU-A (OG) Ateneo 4 (OO) Brown B (CG) UT MARA B (CO) | 5 | | | Stefan SiridzanskiⒸ , Carolina Barrios Martínez , Settanant Thanakitkoses | TH prefers environmental movements heavily prioritizing a local agenda over a global one (e.g., focusing on local pollution rather than climate change) |
4 | 2 Teams in debate: St Petersburg 1 (OG) Brown B (OO) President A (CG) Belgrade B (CO) | 6 | | | Hadar GoldbergⒸ , Jun Ming Goh , Matthew Fricker , Muhammad Bakhtiar | TH opposes the glorification of professional e-sports players |
5 | 1 Teams in debate: KNUST C (OG) NLIU (OO) UST 1 (CG) Brown B (CO) | 6 | | | Namita PandeyⒸ , Daria Chill , Q Anh Cao , Stephanie Werner | TH opposes the general approach of companies to grow by massively sacrificing short-term profitability with the hope of gaining a large portion of the market*
*e.g. the original business model of companies such as Uber or Amazon |
6 | 4 Teams in debate: Parahyangan 1 (OG) Brown B (OO) QU 2 (CG) W&M 2 (CO) | 9 | | | Nir KligsbergⒸ , Fiifi Buabeng-Baiden , Polina Pashintceva | THBT it is in the interest of the Catholic church to officially recognize Folk Saints |
7 | 4 Teams in debate: KNUST B (OG) NNU 1 (OO) Brown B (CG) Indonesia 2 (CO) | 12 | | | Brent SchmidtⒸ , Rahul Datta , Siddharth Soneja | THBT pursuing strong expansionist policies* in the Arctic region is in the Russian interest
*Including but not limited to: building artificial islands in order to claim additional territory, trying to significantly limit foreign presence, stationing warships and troops |
8 | 2 Teams in debate: Brown B (OG) CU A (OO) BUET A (CG) Wits 1 (CO) | 13 | | | Tom ManorⒸ , Hamzah Mahmood | TH opposes the academisation* of social justice movements
*The increasingly significant presence of academics and academic terminology, processes and structures in many parts of the world |
9 | 3 Teams in debate: XU 2 (OG) Leiden B (OO) Brown B (CG) USP (CO) | 15 | | | Shudipto R. AhmedⒸ , Minseob Lee , Travis Barton | THBT states should classify organized crime syndicates as terrorist groups*
*classification as a terrorist group would legally allow law enforcement to pursue tactics such as targeted extra-judicial killings, reducing barriers to law enforcement gathering evidence, using military forces, criminalizing membership, etc |