How the Country Draft Works
Each year, high schools in the Gateway Model United Nations "draft" or select
the countries which they will represent. In 2003, the draft will be held on
September 20 at Crossroads School from 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM. We will
probably finish the draft prior to 11:00 AM, so we will have time to address
other questions about Civitas U.N. and also to have a discussion session.
Here is how the draft works:
- The name of each participating school in the Model U.N.
will be written on a piece of paper and placed in a hat.
- A "distinguished" member of our secretariat (staff) will
draw a piece of paper from the hat.
- The name of the school on that piece of paper will be
the school that has the first draft pick of the day.
- The staff member will continue to pull pieces of paper
out of the hat and the drafting order will be determined by the order in which
the names are pulled.
- The first round of the draft will then take place. In
the first round, all schools will be allowed to select a country that will be
on the Security Council. Since there are only fifteen members on the real
Security Council (five permanent and ten non-permanent), we will allow other
countries to serve on the Security Council so that there will be one for each
school. After the first fifteen real Security Council members are taken, we
will then work to maintain a geographical balance of the other new members.
List of 15 Security Council members.
List of 191 General Assembly members.
- After the first round, the order of selection will be
reversed in the second round. This is to minimize the "penalty" on schools
that drafted late in the first round.
- The drafting order will be reversed in each subsequent
round.
- Each school selects countries for as many rounds as it
wants countries. In each subsequent round, only the schools wanting more
countries will select.
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