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100
This historically successful NFL coach recently lost his job after posting two seasons without a playoff appearance. 
Who is Bill Belichick. 
100

This book series regarding Greek Mythology has recently had a successful Netflix adaptation.

What is Percy Jackson? (insert names)

100

This person recently had a close showing in New Hampshire for the republican nominee.

Who is Nikki Haley?

100

This economic sector in china is currently "unstable and uneven" due to years of government backed projects that often were not completed or finished haphazardly. 

What is the real estate sector. 

100

If the affirmative and the negative are both abusive, who wins the round?

What is the negative?

200

This college football coach is currently one of the hottest commodities for NFL teams looking to hire a new NFL head coach as a result winning the College Football Playoffs.

Who is Jim Harbaugh?

200
This director was considered by many to have been snubbed by the Oscars for best director. 

Who is Greta Gerwig?

200

This particular amendment has been used as justification for removing Donald Trump from their presidential ballot in Colorado and Maine

What is the 14th amendment?

200

This terrorist organization has recently came into significant power by attacking trading vessels in the Red Sea.

Who are the Houthis?

200

This is the term that is used to describe a situation when the affirmative responds to the negative arguments by saying that it does not fit into their framework.

What is in-round abuse?

300
This NFL rookie phenom is currently projected to win this year's Rookie Of The Year Honors despite losing to the Ravens in last week's playoffs. 

Who is C.J. Stroud?

300

This company recently signed a contract with the WWE to exclusively host the show on their platform for 10 years.

What is Netflix?

300

This permanent policy issue has recently become the center a for bipartisan policy.

What is immigration?

300

This country was home to a recent drone attack that killed 3 US troops and injured dozens others at a US outpost.

What is Jordan?
300

This is the term used when using your own arguments to directly contend with your opponents arguments. 

What is cross-applying?

400

This multiple time Pro Bowl center is contemplating retirement despite still being one of the best players in his respective decision.   

Who is Jason Kelce?

400

Coming off of the recent success of the Barbie movie, Mattel is looking to catch lighting in the bottle twice with this animated movie featuring the main character by the name of Roberto.

What is Bob The Builder.

400

This current US senator has implied that they would be willing to run as president as an independent in 2024 and was considered one of the biggest obstacles to overcome for the passing of the infrastructure bill. 

Who is Joe Manchin?

400

This international body, formed in 2002, consists of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.

What is the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)?

400

This is the name given to an argument that must be answered before engaging in any of the proceeding arguments. Often, a Kritik is a form of the argument.  

What is an a priori issue?

500

Ferrari, the organization best known in the world of sports for their F1 foray, has currently announced that they are venturing into this sporting championship.

What is sailing?

500

Despite not having any standards for this, AI companies will now have to report what to the government?

What are safety tests?

500

This type of election system would allow electorate votes to go to the candidate in relation to the percentage of votes gained rather than the winner takes all system that currently exist. 

What is proportional democracy (representation)?

500
This is the rule, as charted by the international committee, that allows military forces to launch attacks that will likely harm a civilian population so long as the military benefits that derive from the attack are deemed in excess of the civilian harm caused.

Principle of Proportionality.

500

These are 4 out of the 8 categories that make of speaker points on the back of the ballots.

What is delivery, logic, appropriate tone, courtesy, refutation, Cross-examination, organization, support?

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