Fall 2025 Competition

As per Ryan's email, sent 09/26/2025

• 2-4 meetings a week; ~8-9 total hours of work per week, until November 15th.

• Meetings Tuesday/Thursday, 6PM-8PM

• Team meetings for an additional 2 hours a week.

• A commitment to go to the all-day competition on Saturday, November 15th.

• 10 participation points per week, plus 10 for the competition. I will assume that you are present and engaged at meetings unless I hear otherwise.

• 2 “case briefs” worth 10 points each. Your team can decide on the exact format, but I want to see pro and con positions with stakeholders, interests, arguments, objections, etc. These would be due by November 15th.

• A-F grading on a standard 100-point scale. 

From the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl Wikipedia Page :
While the organization of Ethics Bowl tournaments can vary from region to region, single rounds generally follow a given format. Four to six weeks before the date of the competition, the competing teams, judges, and moderators are given a packet of case studies that present ethical issues to study.[10] The goal for the teams is both to do research on the cases and to formulate well structured, logical answers to questions asked about the cases.

In each round, the first team gets one of twelve to fifteen cases randomly assigned plus a question from the moderator. The first team then has ten minutes to present the central moral issues of the cases, as well as alternative points of view. The responding team then comments for five minutes on the first team's analysis, and the first team then responds to these comments for five minutes. Finally, a panel of judges asks questions of the first team for ten minutes. The judges then pause to evaluate the first teams' response and the second team's comments.[11] The round then repeats this format with the second team receiving a question about a different case.

In the national competition of the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, during the first evening, each team competes in two rounds against different teams. Two more rounds commence the next morning, and then the top eight teams continue on to the last rounds, all of which are single-elimination: quarter finals, semi finals, and lastly, the final round where the two remaining teams compete to determine the winner.[12]