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Student guide · PDFTrouble in Common / International Relations
Who Gets to Put Pride on the Field?
Who can authorize a match-day display?
Work the news desk for Seattle’s 2026 World Cup match between Egypt and Iran. Follow who can make each decision, weigh competing explanations for what happened, and compare the evidence with the 2022 OneLove armband dispute.
Created by Yoav Duman
- Format
- Solo evidence investigation
- Time to plan
- About 90 min
- What you produce
- A case report with source selections, a travel check, a fact-check, and a Qatar comparison
Play the simulation
The game includes the source cards, match context, and vocabulary. No advance reading is required.
Choose For Class at the start. Enter your name and, if you wish, your class or section. Finish the responses and checks to open your report. To pause or change devices, open Save & resume and download a JSON backup. Use the same activity and mode to restore it.
Choose Download Class PDF in your finished report. If needed, use Print or save as PDF. Open the PDF to check your name and responses, then upload it to Canvas.
What you’ll practice
- Separate local celebrations, stadium access, and approval of what happens on the field.
- Distinguish direct observations, attributed claims, written rules, and records of decisions.
- Compare plausible explanations using evidence that could establish a plan change and what caused it.
- Apply the same evidentiary standard to Seattle and Qatar while comparing institutional leverage.
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Instructor guide
Learning goals, suggested pacing, a rubric, and debrief questions.
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