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Round 1

1. The United States federal government should significantly increase its investment in carbon capture technology.

2. The United States should ban GMO foods.

3. The right to bear arms does more harm than good.

4. The use of artificial intelligence by law enforcement does more good than harm.

5. Daylight Savings does more harm than good.

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Round 2

1. The United States federal government should significantly increase its military presence in the Arctic.

2. The United States federal government should require proof of identification to access the internet.

3. United States counterterrorism efforts have done more harm than good.

4. Expanding worker rights does more harm than good for the economy.

5. China has surpassed the United States as the primary global superpower.

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Round 3

1. California should significantly reduce its regulation of single use plastics.

2. The United States federal government should establish a Universal Basic Income.

3. GLP-1 medications do more harm than good.

4. Andy Beshear is preferable to Gavin Newsom as a presidential nominee.

5. Third parties in American politics do more harm than good.

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Round 4

1. The United States federal government should significantly restrict the use of drones by the United States military.

2. California should eliminate its state income tax.

3. The abolition of prisons would do more harm than good.

4. Electric vehicles are preferable to internal combustion engine vehicles.

5. Vampires are cooler than werewolves.

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Round 5

1. The United States federal government should develop a Liquid Natural Gas pipeline in Alaska.

2. The United States should terminate all arms transfer agreements with Israel.

3. Wildfires are a greater threat to California than earthquakes.

4. On balance, gain of function research is more of a threat than a benefit.

5. Offensive realism is preferable to defensive realism.

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Round 6

1. California should eliminate plea bargaining.

2. The United States federal government should abolish presidential pardon power.

3. Marco Rubio is preferable to JD Vance as a presidential nominee.

4. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution does more harm than good.

5. Time is an illusion.

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Bronze

1. New York should eliminate all SEQRA restrictions on housing development.

2. California should substantially increase restrictions on water usage for industrial agriculture.

3. Early childhood educators are more valuable to society than computer scientists.

4. The Warner Brothers-Paramount merger would do more good than harm.

5. The United Nations does more harm than good.

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Gold

1. California should enact SB 875 (2025-2026) to assist municipalities' withdrawal from Pacific Gas and Electric.

2. The United States federal government should eliminate its corn subsidies.

3. Climate adaptation measures ought be prioritized over environmental conservation.

4. The Affordable Care Act has done more harm than good.

5. Trump's plan to release reserves from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve would do more harm than good.