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  • This house prefers a cost-capped Formula 1 to an open-budget Formula 1

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    Formula 1 (F1) competitions includes the design, build, and innovation of the car in addition to driver skill. In recent years, there have been criticisms of the sport due to the richest teams constantly winning races. The current seasonal cost-cap is $135 million dollars, adjusted for inflation. This includes the cost of replacing cars for different races, tire replacements, car development and salaries. This September, at the Singapore Grand Prix, Lando Norris racing for McLaren won with a +20 second gap and a car that cost $12-15 million dollars Formula 1 (F1) competitions includes the design, build, and innovation of the car in addition to driver skill. In recent years, there have been criticisms of the sport due to the richest teams constantly winning races. The current seasonal cost-cap is $135 million dollars, adjusted for inflation. This includes the cost of replacing cars for different races, tire replacements, car development and salaries. This September, at the Singapore Grand Prix, Lando Norris racing for McLaren won with a +20 second gap and a car that cost $12-15 million dollars. --- Formula 1 (F1) competitions includes the design, build, and innovation of the car in addition to driver skill. In recent years, there have been criticisms of the sport due to the richest teams constantly winning races. The current seasonal cost-cap is $135 million dollars, adjusted for inflation. This includes the cost of replacing cars for different races, tire replacements, car development and salaries. This September, at the Singapore Grand Prix, Lando Norris racing for McLaren won with a +20 second gap and a car that cost $12-15 million dollars. ---

    Queens's Holiday Open 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-12-14

  • This house prefers a cost-capped Formula 1 to an open-budget Formula 1

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    Formula 1 (F1) competitions includes the design, build, and innovation of the car in addition to driver skill. In recent years, there have been criticisms of the sport due to the richest teams constantly winning races. The current seasonal cost-cap is $135 million dollars, adjusted for inflation. This includes the cost of replacing cars for different races, tire replacements, car development and salaries. This September, at the Singapore Grand Prix, Lando Norris racing for McLaren won with a +20 second gap and a car that cost $12-15 million dollars Formula 1 (F1) competitions includes the design, build, and innovation of the car in addition to driver skill. In recent years, there have been criticisms of the sport due to the richest teams constantly winning races. The current seasonal cost-cap is $135 million dollars, adjusted for inflation. This includes the cost of replacing cars for different races, tire replacements, car development and salaries. This September, at the Singapore Grand Prix, Lando Norris racing for McLaren won with a +20 second gap and a car that cost $12-15 million dollars. --- Formula 1 (F1) competitions includes the design, build, and innovation of the car in addition to driver skill. In recent years, there have been criticisms of the sport due to the richest teams constantly winning races. The current seasonal cost-cap is $135 million dollars, adjusted for inflation. This includes the cost of replacing cars for different races, tire replacements, car development and salaries. This September, at the Singapore Grand Prix, Lando Norris racing for McLaren won with a +20 second gap and a car that cost $12-15 million dollars. ---

    Queens's Holiday Open 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-12-14

  • This house regrets the emphasis of rivalries in women's sports (e.g. Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese, Maria Sharapova and Serena Williams, Alina Zagitova and Evgenia Medvedeva, etc)

    Asia Pacific WSDC 2024 · Quarterfinals · 2024-12-14

  • If given an ultimatum, This house, as Zeus, would choose to drop from professional play for one season rather than continue to pursue his contract with Hanwha Life Esports.

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    Zeus is currently a rising star for T1’s league of legends team. In the span of his career, he’s never missed a finals appearance in Worlds (LOL’s biggest international stage) and he has won two world championships with his current team. In a recent contract controversy involving a disagreement on how much you should be paid, your agent blocks communication between you and T1. In the midst of this your agent gets you a salary offer of 7.9 billion won from Hanhwa Life, but accepting would mean detaching from the roster that you’ve been with since the start of your career and ending your relationship in bad terms.

    2nd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · Round 3 · 2024-12-01

  • This house believes that emerging women's sports leagues (e.g. PWHL, WNBA) should be majority-owned by fans

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    Sports teams may be fan owned. For example, in the German Football League, the 50+1 rule requires a parent club to own at least 50% plus one additional share of a football company, ensuring that the club's members (fans who pay a membership fee) hold a majority of voting rights.

    Canadian Universities Debating Championship 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-11-22

  • This house would abolish all anti-tampering rules in sports.

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    Anti-tampering rules in professional sports prevent teams from contacting players and persuading them to join their team without the player's current team's knowledge and / or permission. Tampering can include: a team member speaking to a player on a rival team to lure them to join their team, publicly showing interest in acquiring a player, approaching a player's agent about a possible trade.

    2024 CUDS YUU KNC · Round 3 · 2024-11-15

  • This house would fire Checo

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    You are the team principal of the Red Bull Formula 1 (F1) team. You have won several championships and currently employ the reigning multi-world champion, Max Verstappen. The second driver that you employ, Sergio ""Checo"" Perez, is sponsored by big name corporations, such as: Disney, Telcel, Mobil, Claro, Nescafe, and Kitkat. The money that Checo's sponsors bring to the team allow you to afford employing Max. However, in the current 2024 F1 Season, Checo has been underperforming and has costed millions of money for car repairs. This has led to Red Bull getting closer to F1's cost cap. As a consequence, Red Bull is limited in implementing upgrades on the car and is vulnerable to falling behind other competitors who can afford to spend on upgrades throughout the remainder of the season. In response, different managerial and rank-and-file employees in the team have tried to push you to fire Checo, and replace him with a more promising younger driver. However, the sponsors who have backed Checo, have threatened to pull out their funding for Red Bull if Checo was fired. Despite the rest of the team’s frustration, Max has worked well with Checo for the past 3 seasons together.

    National Debate Championship Hermosa 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-11-13

  • This house prefers a world where the guest of honour throws the last pitch of the game instead of first pitch (last pitch meaning any pitch that could potentially end the game, such as a 2 strike count on 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth)

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    The "ceremonial first pitch" is a common baseball ritual involving a guest of honour (commonly a celebrity, president, or former player) who pitches a ball from the mound to end pregame festivies and start the game.

    CP Panda 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-11-12

  • This house opposes the singular focus of the basketball community on Caitlin Clark

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    **The WNBA is the world 's premier women's basketball league which has struggled for the past two decades, forcing it to take funding and sponsorship from the much larger male NBA. The salary disparity is a result of this, as the WNBA's best player still makes far less than the NBA's youngest rookie \- the league justifies salary gaps due to fractional viewership as compared to the NBA, where the WNBA is still unable to turn around a profit on its own. Caitlin Clark is a rookie in the WNBA with unmatched skills and hype surmounting a lot of male NBA players. The fame she brought to the league was so incredible, that her own team's merch and ticket sales shot up exponentially, with overall WNBA viewership following suit. Despite this turnaround, Clark has faced unparalleled criticism from past & present WNBA legends, media houses, sports analysts, and fans alike. Much of it narrows down to Clark being a white woman, being heralded as the face of a black- dominated league. While Clark can be credited with much of the league's growth, she also owns a majority of sponsorships signed this year. Despite overall WNBA viewership shooting up, it did dropped signficantly once Clark's team was knocked out of the playoffs \- showing the gravity she already holds as a rookie.**

    Athena: The Fundraiser Debate · Round 4 · 2024-11-08

  • This House would pursue a career as a professional sports player

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    You are the child of a professional sports star who is considered the greatest of all time in their sport. You have shown aptitude and skill in the same sport, to the degree that you could sustain your own professional career.

    BDC-NSU Pro Ams 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-11-07

  • This house supports a significant increase in the number of sports and disciplines for future editions of the Olympics

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    There are 28 “core sports” at the Olympics and new Olympic sports may be added to the program by the International Olympic Committee (the IOC). The Paris Olympics 2024 saw athletes compete in 32 sports.

    Manchester Novices 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-11-02

  • This house would actively disincentivizes Dinos from competitive debating.

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    For the purposes of this debate, a Dino refers to a debater who has been debating for a very prolonged amount of years and refuses to retire from competitive debating. They are still seen frequenting debate tournaments either locally and/or internationally.

    Emirate Word War VI · Round 1 · 2024-11-01

  • This House Prefers the separate model to the concurrent model of women's sports

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    In the 'separate' model of women's sport, women's sporting events run at a completely separate time and/or venue to the men's (e.g. the men's Premier League football team plays on different days to the women's Super League football team). In the 'concurrent' model, women's and men's games happen one after the other at the same ground on the same day (e.g. Wimbledon, Rugby sevens).

    England BP 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-10-26