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What we are putting on the line
Promises are cheap. These ones cost us money.
Anyone can announce a date and collect a fee. Some conferences never happen and the money quietly stops being anyone's problem. We would rather be held to something specific, in writing, before you have paid us anything.
Three promises, and what happens if we break one
We keep our word,
or we pay for it.
A promise with nothing behind it is just a nice sentence. So we have put money behind three of ours. If we are late, your fee starts earning at 8% a year until we have fixed it, paid into the account it came from, without you having to ask, chase or argue.
We fully intend to keep all three. That is rather the point. But intention is easy and accountability is not, so this is the version we are willing to be held to.
Rates shown for scale only. This is a penalty we pay for our own delay, not a deposit, an investment or a return on your money. We would much rather be the boring option on this chart and simply hit our dates.
If the conference does not happen
Every rupee comes back, and it comes back bigger than it left. Not a credit note, not a rollover to next year, not a voucher you will never use.
Earning from the day your payment clears to the day the refund leaves us.
Study guides on 11 September
All six, published on the same day, at the same time. Miss it by even a day and every delegate registered by then starts earning until the guides are up.
A guide released late is a delegate who prepared badly through no fault of their own.
Allotments in seven working days
Seven working days from the moment your form lands, you will know your committee and your portfolio. Every day past that, the clock runs in our direction, not yours.
You cannot research a country you have not been given.
The small print, because there should be some. Compensation is simple interest at 8% per annum on the delegate fee, worked out on the exact number of days, part days counted in your favour, credited automatically to the account the fee came from. It is a penalty clause on us, not a return on your money. Full mechanics on the terms page.
What happens when a conference lets you down?
Every delegate reading this already knows the answer. Here it is next to ours.
- Study guides land four days before the conference, or never
- You message the page. Seen, no reply
- Allotments arrive the night before and your portfolio is not one you researched
- The venue changes. You find out on Instagram
- It gets postponed. Your fee becomes a credit note for next year
- You post about it. Nothing happens
You give up. Everyone gives up. That is the whole system.
- Study guides on 11 September, all six, same day
- Late by a day and your fee starts earning at 8% a year
- Allotments in seven working days, or the same clock starts
- Conference cancelled and your money comes back bigger than it left
- Compensation is calculated for you and paid to the account you paid from
- You do not have to ask, chase, argue or post about it
You do not give up. You get paid.
How the conference is actually run
The rest of it is not about money.
These are the things that decide whether two days were worth your time, and they are the things nobody puts in writing because nobody can be held to them. We are writing them down anyway.
We are difficult about the Executive Board
Chairs are selected on how they run a room, not on how many conferences they have attended. They are briefed to mark the substance of an intervention rather than its volume, to reward the delegate who drafted the clause the room voted on, and to never let a committee become a performance. A chair who plays favourites does not sit again.
Real committees only
No invented councils, no fantasy crisis rooms, no bodies that do not exist. Every committee here is a real institution with real procedure, because the point of the exercise is to learn how the actual thing works. If it cannot be found in the real world, it is not on our list.
UN4MUN and UNA-USA procedure
We follow published rules of procedure rather than a house variant invented to suit us. UN committees run to UN4MUN and UNA-USA conventions. Indian committees follow the procedure of the houses they simulate. Rules are circulated in advance and the Executive Board is bound by them just as delegates are.
Score sheets published
Seven days after the conference closes, every score sheet goes up. You will be able to see how you were marked, against which criteria, and where you finished. If you disagree with a score you will at least be disagreeing with something visible rather than with a rumour.
Allotments published the day before
The full allotment list goes public one day before the conference. Everybody sees which portfolio sits with which delegate. Nothing is moved on the morning to suit anybody, and nobody discovers on day one that a committee is half the size it was advertised to be.
We do not inflate our numbers
Whatever we report about delegate count, schools represented or reach will be the real figure. If a committee runs smaller than planned we will say so rather than pad it. A first edition that lies about its size has nothing left to trade on in its second.
Not another DJ in a banquet hall.
You have spent nine hours arguing. The standard reward is standing in a dark room where nobody can hear anybody, and going home having met nobody. We think that is a waste of the best part of the weekend.
Food that is actually good
Ahmedabad has opinions about food and so do we. Expect proper street-side flavour rather than a beige buffet, and enough of it that nobody is hunting for a vending machine at ten.
Spice, calibrated
Gujarat runs sweet, the rest of the country does not. There will be a mild lane and a lane that means it, both labelled honestly, so nobody spends day two regretting day one.
Games with a point
Fast, loud, and built so that a first-timer from a school nobody has heard of ends up on a team with someone three years ahead of them. Mixing is the mechanic, not an accident.
Music you can talk over
There will be music. There will not be a wall of sound that makes conversation impossible. Loud enough to feel like an evening, quiet enough to actually meet somebody.
Deliberate introductions
Somebody whose job for the evening is to notice who is standing alone and fix it. Not networking in the corporate sense. Just making sure nobody leaves having spoken to their own delegation all night.
And we will keep changing it
This is Edition One. If any of it lands badly we will say so publicly and rebuild it next year rather than repeating it because it is what we did last time.
Hold us to all of it.
Every commitment on this page is dated and specific for exactly that reason. If we fall short, write to us and quote it back.