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  • This house prefers remasters to remakes

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    Video game remasters are newly released versions of old games with improved graphics and stability, designed to allow players to relive a classic game. They seek to preserve as much of the experience as possible, applying minimal changes to mechanics, content, and feel. Sometimes they even include the originals exploits, bugs, and backwards mod compatibility. Remakes, in contrast, rebuild the game from the ground up, applying significant changes beyond just updating the graphics, reserving the core themes and characters of the original game while offering a fresh experience. Gameplay mechanics may be modernized or overhauled, and new content such as levels, characters, or quests may be added. Sometimes they even change the story, alter dialogues and change narratives. The market for game remakes and remasters has seen significant growth in recent years, driven by both consumer demand and advancements in technology.

    Zagreb Pre-EUDC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-13

  • This house, as a space miner in 2291, would accept the offer to join the Unreal Tournament

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    You are a young person living in a space colony in 2291. You work as a miner on a grey rocky planet filled with rare minerals. It is hard work, but enough to earn a living in your small community of 10,000 people living inside a terraformed dome. The Unreal Tournament is an intergalactic sports league where humans, robots, and various alien races kill each other for sport. You fight with futuristic weapons, are allowed to use performance-enhancing drugs, and install transhumanist body modifications. Every time you die, your body is respawned in a safe location. There are various game modes such as: capture-the-flag, deathmatch, and team deathmatch. You are approached by a sponsor in the colony, who promises you a large amount of money if you sign a 5-year-long contract to fight in the Unreal Tournament. She claims an advanced AI prediction algorithm predicted you have a high potential to do well.

    Zagreb Pre-EUDC 2025 · ESL Finals · 2025-06-13

  • This house opposes the pursuit of Artificial General Intelligence

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    Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a theoretical AI system that is able to think, learn and understand like a human including the ability to self- teach. Compared to current AI models that function within a set of pre- determined parameters and require substantial machine training, AGI hypothetically has autonomous self-control, a degree of self-understanding, and the ability to learn new skills.

    Santiago Ortega Cup II · Open Octofinals · 2025-06-07

  • This house would prioritize the synthetic creation of novel xenobiological organisms over attempts to de-extinct species

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    Xenobiology refers to the design and synthesis of entirely novel biological systems and organisms that do not naturally exist in the biosphere. These include organisms with non-standard genetic codes, xeno nucleic acids (XNAs), or artificial cellular structures. Such organisms would be used in bioremediation, biosafety, or industrial applications. De-extinction is the process of reviving extinct species through genetic engineering, cloning, or selective breeding, typically with the goal of restoring ecosystems or correcting past human-caused extinctions.

    Santiago Ortega Cup II · Open Octofinals · 2025-06-07

  • This house believes that the Formula 1 should implement Formula 2 regulations

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    <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:" data-sheets-root="1">F2 regulations constitutes that every car participating needs to have the same same chassis, engine, front wing etc. Customization of cars is minimal. <br>F1 regulations is more liberal, allowing teams to have different engines, giving only restrictions on dimensions, weights, etc.<br></span><style type="text/css">td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}</style>

    Rotterdam Pre-EUDC · Novice Final · 2025-06-07

  • Assuming the technology was safe and feasible, This house supports a wide-spread adoption of the severance technology

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    Severance is a painless medical process that allows employees to separate their work-related memories from their personal memories. This is achieved through a cognitive process that selectively 'splits' memories, so that memories created during work hours are not accessible outside of work, and vice versa. The work day ends in a second for your out-of-work self, while your working self lives their whole lives within the office and has no knowledge of the outside world. The process is voluntary and reversible with consent from both the "work-self" and "non-work-self" of an employee.

    South Asian Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-06-06

  • This House Believes That the US Democratic Party should embrace the Abundance Agenda.

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    The “Abundance Agenda” is a political framework that argues the government should address rising costs and shortages by dramatically increasing the supply of essential goods and services. It emphasises reducing regulatory barriers and accelerating innovation and production in key sectors (e.g. easing zoning laws to build more housing, speeding up the development of clean energy infrastructure via the removal of regulations, reforming healthcare and education access, investing in biotech and AI).

    Brazil Open 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-31

  • This house supports the American academic brain drain

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    In recent months, the US government has undertaken a programme of pulling research grants, revoking researcher visas, and planned enormous cuts to the country’s biggest funders of research. 75% of US academics have suggested they are considering leaving the US, and job applications for US researcher positions have declined by 40%.

    Taiwan WSDC 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-05-31

  • This house prefers a world where everyone is equipped with a rePlayer.

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    rePlayer is a technology which records whatever each individual sees for every moment of their lives. If they wish to, every person can download and replay any of their memories on a screen. You can't show these memory recording to anyone else, only play it for yourself.

    Hanoi Debate Tournament 2025 - English Division · Round 3 · 2025-05-31