1: Agent McNulty is a detective who has worked for years on taking down the organized drug crime ring in the city of Baltimore. He has a strong conviction that he can obtain evidence that can finally bring down one of the the biggest drug kingpins (Marlo Stanfield) as well as most of his top lieutenants. However, the city mayor has decided to cut the police budget significantly due to a budget deficit and has decided to prioritize other concerns within the city. He would need resources for wiretaps, manpower, and other requirements to collect evidence.

McNulty discovers a series of dead bodies in abandoned areas which have likely died in a nonviolent nature. In order to add political pressure and restore public interest in the police, he considers manipulating the bodies and fabricating evidence to make the deaths appear to be murders, and uses similar techniques for all bodies (e.g. tying a ribbon, adding bite marks) to feign the appearance that a lone serial killer is responsible for the killings.

2: The world of Avatar features benders who can control one of the four elements (fire, earth, water, air), the Avatar who can control all of them, and nonbenders who are unable to control any of them. Although divided into Four Nations, benders of different elements and nonbenders alike would eventually integrate into the diverse Republic City.

The Equalist movement, formerly led by Amon, recognized the disparity between the lives of benders and nonbenders. Their ideology believed that bending was used as a tool of oppression and was the cause of conflict. Amon sought a world where all bending was taken away from benders, a technique he learned because he was exposed as a bender himself. This power was used to target notable benders, whether the heads of criminal groups or the Avatar herself. The movement also uses mecha technology as well as chi-blocking to block the abilities of a bender when in combat. Amon was eventually defeated by Avatar Korra and died from an explosion, but the movement remains despite not being as significant as before.

3: Waystar Royco is a news company that was started by the father of the Roy dynasty, Logan Roy. At the conclusion of Succession, Shiv Roy is faced with two options. Option 1 is to sell Waystar Royco to Swedish tech giant GoJo for 46 billion USD. Despite initially being promised CEO, she finds right before the vote that the CEO job has been given to her husband Tom, behind her back. Shiv and Tom’s relationship has recently been extremely turbulent. Option 2 is to keep Waystar Royco in the family, with her brothers Kendall and Roman, with Kendall to become CEO. Shiv’s relationship with her brothers has always been rocky, and they often undermine her abilities because she is a woman.

2: You are in a four year long relationship with a hot hunk of your dreams. You are deeply in love, really want to get married as soon as possible and you are expecting your man to propose. Recently, your sex life has gone downhill, he has become addicted to the video game Genshin Impact, only eats microwaved ready meals from Aldi, and when you subtly alluded to a possible proposal, he mumbled and offered you a slice of his Hawaii pizza. You are getting frustrated.

The Ultimatum is a reality show ran by two unbelievably uncharismatic hosts. This show features couples, where one of the partners wants to marry the other, and the other does not. The partner who wants to get married issues an ultimatum, giving the other partner eight weeks to decide whether they will get married, or break up forever. During these eight weeks, the original couples will split and trial ‘marry’ one of the other contestants, to test whether their original partner is indeed the one.They then decide to marry their original partner, marry their new partner from the trial marriage or break up.

3: The philosophy behind the creation of MMA was to maximize the effectiveness of combat by giving fighters the freedom to incorporate techniques from a wide range of martial arts with few rules and regulations. Because of this no-holds-barred origin of MMA, it was perceived as a violent and brutal sport in its early days. On the other hand, hardcore fans of the sport supported this approach to fighting.

During the early years of mixed martial arts, there was a noteworthy lack of rules and regulations regarding drug testing. Many MMA champions, including Cro Cop, Jon Jones, and Anderson Silva were found to use performance-enhancing drugs during their careers.

In 2015, the UFC implemeted a stricter system of testing with features like random year-round tests for fighters, which reduced the number of doping incidents in the sport.

1: You are a rat named Remy. Your rat colony was destroyed recently and you have saught refuge with a trainee chef named Linguini. Over the last few weeks, you have been hiding in Linguini's chef hat and controlling his movements like a puppet master, as without you, he is a terrible chef. You have an incredible talent for cooking, and as a result, everyone in the restaurant Linguini works at belives that he (Linguini) is a culinary genius. The restaurant is more successful now than it has been in years. This debate takes place before it has been revealed to the world that Linguini is being controlled by you.

2: You are given two pills. The red pill would transport you to a universe where everyone had sausages for fingers. The blue pill would transport you to a universe where everyone is a rock. Rocks can communicate with eachother. You must swallow one.

3: BLACKPINK (composed of Jisoo, Jennie, Rosé, Lisa) is a Kpop group currently signed under YG Entertainment, also home to acts such as Bigbang, WINNER, IKON, Treasure, and Akdong Musician among others. As a group, BLACKPINK has found immense success and broken multiple records—however, much of their past experience has primarily been in individual endeavors (e.g. modeling, solos) rather than group performances, instigating rumors that the group may potentially disband. Their contract as a Kpop group under YGE ends in 2023.

1: For this debate, cordyceps brain infection (CBI) is a fungal infection that effectively turns humans into zombies upon the infliction of a wound, inhalation of iinfected spores, or death. CBI has caused the collapse of humanity, with only areas under strong military control and survivalist groups (such as the Fireflies) having been able to live functionally.

Joel is a lone survivor, but he encounters a Firefly who tasks him to escort a teenage girl named Ellie to the other side of the US in exchange for weapons and supplies. Ellie is immune to CBI, and there is strong conviction from the Firefles that a cure can be developed by running scientific experiments on her. While escorting her, Joel develops a strong bond with Ellie, who reminds him of his own daughter who he lost to CBI years earlier. Upon arrival at their destination hospital, it is revealed to Joel (and not Ellie) that although a cure can be developed, Ellie would die in the process.

Joel instead chooses to save Ellie by violently rampaging through the hospital, extracting Ellie while she is unconscious, and driving away to a remote location. Ellie is unaware of what had happened, and to avoid survivor's guilt, Joel lies and says they were unable to find a cure.

2: Thedas is a typical dark fantasy universe. People live in medieval Kingdoms, each governed by different laws, religions, and philosophies.

One such philosophy is the Qun. It is posits that each individual should have a fixed role in society (such as farmer, fighter, or trader) based on their nature. The priesthood of the Qunari raise children communaly and determine their role in society based on various aptitude tests.

While highly authoritarian, the Qunari strive to meet the basic material needs of every adherent to the Qun.

3: “Respawn” technology allows for the bodies of individuals to be instantly recreated in a safe location after death. The Unreal Tournament is a competition in which individuals kill each other for sport and then subsequently respawn.*

There are different game modes within the Unreal Tournament, centering around different weapons (unarmed, swords and shields, modern warfare) and different objectives (deathmatch, capture the flag, team deathmatch).

Performance-enhancing drugs and transhumanist body modifications are legal and implemented as power-ups within the sport. Participants in the Unreal Tournament are similar to professional athletes, competing in front of a public audience and compensated for their work.

*For the purposes of this debate, respawn technology cannot be used outside The Unreal Tournament

After the Battle of Earth, Wanda Maximoff used her powers to transform a town called Westview into a sitcom-themed false reality, and created another version of Vision (her partner), whom she planned to live her ideal life with. At first, Westview functioned just like a real town, with neighbourhoods and community groups operating functionally. However, slowly the outside world began to realise what was happening, and the citizens of Westview began to realise they were in a simulation, and cracks in this world began to appear. Ultimately, Wanda had to destroy Westview. In doing this, she also destroyed the secondary version of Vision, and the children they had together in Westview. She can now only access this world by travelling through the multiverse.