In This Round (Grand Final)

The round begins at 15:27

Adjudicators: Fiachra Nolan Ⓒ, Priya Shukla, Stuart Johnson, vivek raj

Motions

1. This house, as McNulty, would fabricate the murders. View Info Slide

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   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. After the death of Amon, this house prefers an Avatar world with a significant Equalist movement presence. View Info Slide

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   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. This house, as Shiv, would choose Option 1. View Info Slide

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   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.