| 1 | 4 Teams in debate:
La Verne A (OG)
WLS A (OO)
Witwatersrand A (CG)
Cape Town A (CO) | 3 | | | Richard BoltizarⒸ , Connor Mui , Kenneth Newby , Shaurya Upadhyay | THBT the United States of America should fund moderate Madrassas (schools of Islamic study) throughout the Islamic world | |
| 2 | 3 Teams in debate:
Cape Town A (OG)
Harvard A (OO)
Queen's B (CG)
Binus A (CO) | 5 | | | Paul KarpⒸ , Othandoh Refilwe Seitei , Paul Smith , Tarit Mukherjee | THW allow first-time offenders to, with the consent of the victims, pay compensation to them in place of a prison sentence | |
| 3 | 4 Teams in debate:
HH B (OG)
Cape Town A (OO)
Bombay B (CG)
UTM A (CO) | 8 | | | Manos MoschopoulosⒸ , Chin Yi Chinny Chow , Stephanie White | TH regrets the rise of a 'hookup culture' (one which accepts and encourages casual sexual encounters focused on physical pleasure, without necessarily including emotional bonding) | |
| 4 | 3 Teams in debate:
Brandeis A (OG)
Cambridge B (OO)
Canterbury A (CG)
Cape Town A (CO) | 10 | | | Lewis IwuⒸ , Buzz Klinger , Zalami Attarpoor , Noreen Alaree DaleyⓉ | THBT developing countries should ban members of political dynasties from standing for elected office | |
| 5 | 4 Teams in debate:
Monash A (OG)
Yale C (OO)
Cape Town A (CG)
Ateneo A (CO) | 13 | | | Michael BaerⒸ , Marko Cirovic , Muqriz Bin Mustaffa Kamal , Ritika AjitsariaⓉ | THBT the Trans-Pacific Partnership is in the interests of the small and medium-sized negotiating countries | |
| 6 | 3 Teams in debate:
Cambridge A (OG)
Cape Town A (OO)
Monash C (CG)
Harvard A (CO) | 15 | | | Paul KarpⒸ , Aditi Chalisgaonkar , Diana Li | THW make the receipt of welfare payments to raise children conditional on the use of long-term, but reversible, contraception | |
| 7 | 1 Teams in debate:
Cape Town A (OG)
Harvard A (OO)
BPP A (CG)
Sydney B (CO) | 15 | | | Mary NugentⒸ , Ben Gladnikoff , Justin Lin , Katherine Fu | THBT government agencies that regulate drugs should only test whether a drug is safe, not whether it is effective, before approving it for public use [info slide: http://goo.gl/gomgDI] | |
| 8 | 1 Teams in debate:
Yale A (OG)
Ateneo A (OO)
Cape Town A (CG)
McGill A (CO) | 15 | | | Jonathan Leader MaynardⒸ , Milan Vignjevic , Nandini Thogarapalli , Roger Bent | THBT NATO should unconditionally offer membership to the states of the former Soviet Union, excluding Russia | |
| 9 | 3 Teams in debate:
SMU A (OG)
Cape Town A (OO)
Monash C (CG)
Belgrade C (CO) | 17 | | | Steve WhittingtonⒸ , Patricia Johnson-Castle , Rishada Cassim , Syed Sarosh ShsanⓉ | TH regrets the commodification of indigenous cultures | |
| 10 | 2 Teams in debate:
Bates A (OG)
Cape Town A (OO)
New South Wales A (CG)
Monash C (CO) | | | | Clive EleyⒸ , Andrew Bell , Nate Blevins , Simone van Elk , Steve Whittington | THW abolish gated communities in the developing world | |
| 11 | 1 Teams in debate:
Cape Town A (OG)
McGill A (OO)
LSE B (CG)
Monash C (CO) | | | | Rosie UnwinⒸ , Aislin Flynn , James Dixon , Paul Gross , Tim Blair | THBT Japan should shame its soldiers who participated in WWII, including those who did not commit war crimes themselves | |