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  • 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.

    Hart House Inter-Varsity 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-10-18

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of English football to find Manchester City guilty

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    Manchester City, the most successful English football team of the last decade, is owned by Sheikh Mansour, the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates, and vice chairman of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund. The club has been charged with 115 counts of fraud due to violating financial fair play regulations, including allegations of financial misreporting, undisclosed remuneration, and lack of cooperation with the investigation. If the club is found to be guilty, they will be stripped of all their championships and might also get demoted to the second tier of English football. The UAE government is believed to have lobbied the UK government to acquit Manchester City of the charges

    LUMS Asians 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-10-12

  • This House would prefer to be in the Glee Club rather than the Cheerios

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    _Glee_ (TV Series) The Glee Club at McKinley High School primarily exists to enter competitive national show choir competitions where members sing and dance. Glee Club members are often subject to social exclusion by their peers, including receiving 'slushie facials' when walking the halls of McKinley. The Cheerios are McKinley High's award-winning cheerleading squad, coached by Sue Sylvester, who is notorious for her demanding coaching style. (_In-Universe_ rules apply)

    UQ Fictional IV 2024 · Semi Final · 2024-10-12

  • This house, as a professional wrestling fan, Opposes the continuing trend of professional wrestlers seeking to debut in Hollywood

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    Since the 1990s several top-level professional wrestlers, mainly from the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) the world's largest wrestling promotion, have transitioned into acting roles in Hollywood. Many of them have begun acting despite remaining physically able to continue professional wrestling, taking time off from active Wrestling contracts. The most notable include Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, John Cena, and Dave Bautista. More recent top level stars who have taken time off for film and TV production include Roman Reigns and Maxwell Jacob Friedman (MJF - from the All Elite Wrestling promotion)

    LUMS Asians 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-10-12

  • This house prefers smaller and more competitive major international sports tournaments over larger and more inclusive ones. (e.g. a 32 team World Cup over a 48 team World Cup)

    LUMS Asians 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-10-12

  • This house supports the introduction of Enhanced Games

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    "The Enhanced Games are an Olympic-style competition where athletes can take performance-enhancing drug. At the Enhanced Games, the “couple of hundred” competitors will be able to take any performance-enhancing substances they like from anabolic steroids to growth hormones, testosterone replacement therapy etc. "

    Debutant 9.0 Freshers APD 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-10-09

  • This House opposes the naturalisation of foreign athletes to represent a country's national team.

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    Naturalisation refers to the process by which a non-citizen may obtain citizenship in a country they were not born in. In sports, nations often employ the strategy of naturalising foreign athletes to compete for their nation. E.g. half of the Malaysian National Football Team being naturalised citizens, US-born Eileen Gu & South Korea-born Lee Hyo-jun represented China in the Olympics,..

    Asian Online Debating Championship Junior 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-10-05

  • This house, as Lewis Hamilton, would boycott F1 races in countries that criminalize homosexuality

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    Lewis Hamilton is a popular and influential F1 driver that has won 7 World Driver's Championships and is chasing his 8th WDC. However, he has also been a staunch advocate for LGBTQ\+ rights, equal opportunity, and diversity (among other advocacies). In 2023, he publicly criticized the anti-gay measures in the state of Florida and criticized the state's controversal Dont Say Gay Law.

    Oragon Debate Cup 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-10-05

  • This house believes that there should only be one host city for all the succeeding Olympics instead of electing different host cities for each Olympics

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    The host of the Olympics is elected by the members of the International Olympic Commission (IOC) through a secret ballot from the countries that submit their bids. Different countries bid for different Olympics. For example, Paris was elected as the host city for the 2024 Summer Olympics last 2017 while Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy was selected to host the 2026 Winter Olympics last 2019.

    Taiwan Schools Debate Challenge 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-10-05

  • This house supports direct registration of athlete participation in international tournaments based on world rankings, instead of a system that requires registration through federations. "The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)."

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    BWF requires players to register for international tournaments through their national federations. Each country has its own badminton federation. Federations are given the prerogative right to appoint athlete representatives they wish to submit as participants in international tournaments, typically with the requirement of undergoing national training camps and going through a formal selection process. Without the selection role of federations, international tournaments typically accept athlete participation based on world rankings.

    KDMI Tingkat Nasional 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-10-02

  • This house regrets the NFL's decision to allow Private Equity firms to invest in teams

    UCLA IV 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-09-28

  • Motion: This house would fully legalize the usage of performance enhancement drugs in all sports

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    Info slide: Performance enhancement drugs are substances (such as an anabolic steroid, human growth hormone, or erythropoietin) that are used illicitly to improve athletic performance.

    Istanbul Open 3.0 · Round 3 · 2024-09-20