1 | 1 Teams in debate: YSU (OG) NNU 1 (OO) HUJI A (CG) Vellore A (CO) | | | | Katharina Margareta JansenⒸ , Chisato Hashima , Jonathan Tuliao | TH, as South Korea, would aim to significantly increase its cross-border economic cooperation with North Korea |
2 | 1 Teams in debate: Karlsruhe A (OG) UTech Ja. B (OO) Cambridge FM (CG) YSU (CO) | | | | Djordje JovicevicⒸ , Carolina Barrios Martínez , Keerthivasan Srinivasan | THW ban social media companies from independently deplatforming politicians |
3 | 2 Teams in debate: UFRJ A (OG) YSU (OO) UCEMA (CG) SdDUFC 1 (CO) | 1 | | | Kiana Saint-MacaryⒸ , Bilal Moin , Sarthak Yadav | TH prefers environmental movements heavily prioritizing a local agenda over a global one (e.g., focusing on local pollution rather than climate change) |
4 | 1 Teams in debate: NNU 1 (OG) Yale 3 (OO) YSU (CG) KOREA A (CO) | 1 | | | Zahari NikolaevⒸ , Samia Tabassum Nidhi , Sharath Nambiar | TH opposes the glorification of professional e-sports players |
5 | 4 Teams in debate: TSUL 1 (OG) Solbridge 3 (OO) DAE2 (CG) YSU (CO) | 4 | | | Aléxia EngelⒸ , Bronwyn McDonald , Syauqi Shuhaimi | 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 | 2 Teams in debate: UNTAR (OG) WCMQ 1 (OO) YSU (CG) UTech Ja. B (CO) | 5 | | | Katherine HarrisⒸ , Alex Lovell , Dilys Wang , Max XuⓉ | THBT it is in the interest of the Catholic church to officially recognize Folk Saints |
7 | 2 Teams in debate: MUIC 1 (OG) YSU (OO) DAE1 (CG) BUP 1 (CO) | 6 | | | Edgar EmpeñoⒸ , Eza Qamar , Kevin Zhang , Vioni Daffa Ghaisani | 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 | 1 Teams in debate: SUDS 52 (OG) Coimbra 2 (OO) UNRI 2 (CG) YSU (CO) | 6 | | | Verse AbellanedaⒸ , Kit Wa Victoria Fong , Raymond Chuma-Onwuoku , Khairul AshrafⓉ | 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 | 1 Teams in debate: YSU (OG) Karlsruhe A (OO) SUDS 52 (CG) (UYII, COMSU) (CO) | 6 | | | Sarthak YadavⒸ , Afia Foriwaa , Ayman Zaman | 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 |