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How to Yield Time in Model UN

The Yielding Rules:

When speaking on the General Speakers List (GSL), if you finish your speech before your allotted time expires, you must yield your remaining time:

  • Yield to the Chair: Returns remaining time to the dais; debate moves to the next speaker immediately.
  • Yield to Questions / Points of Information: Allows delegates to ask questions within your remaining time.
  • Yield to Another Delegate: Passes your remaining seconds to an ally (who must accept, and cannot yield the time again).

(Note: Yields are strictly used during formal GSL speeches, not during moderated caucuses.)

Automated Yield Logic:

Calculating remaining seconds for consecutive yields can burden the dais. The dais management system on MUN-Key.com includes built-in yield workflows that dynamically split, transfer, or close remaining timer allocations with a single click.