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  • This House Believes That the Martin family should go to London over Tanzania.

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    The Martin family lives in London Ontario. It is comprised of William Martin, 44, a civil engineer who enjoys craft beer, history, and golf, Jane Martin, 42, a pediatrician who enjoys hiking, photography, and enjoys planning detailed itineraries, Rose Martin, 13, who is artistic, shy, and loves K-pop, and Logan Martin, 9, who is energetic, an animal lover, and a huge fan of soccer. The Martin family is upper middle class and hasn’t gone on a family vacation since COVID. After thinking through their options, they have come down to London (UK) or Serengeti National Park Tanzania

    Unity Cup 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-10-25

  • This house believes that CJ Opiaza should not accept the crown

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    In pageantry, "in the case that the winner failed to fulfill her duties, the first runner-up will take her position." Recently, Miss Grand International dethroned their reigning Miss MGI 2024 Rachel Gupta of India for her inability and unwillingness to fulfill her responsibilities. Gupta gave her own statement accusing that the organization has mistreated her, the org was quick to deny this. CJ Opiaza is the first runner-up and is set to be the first MGI titleholder from the Philippines.

    3rd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · Round 2 · 2025-10-25

  • This house believes that the US should curb the rapid growth of data centers

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    Data centers are crucial physical infrastructures which stores large amounts of digital information that fuel emerging technologies such as AI and the Internet of Things. Currently, there are over 5000 data centers across the United States which are primarily developed for Big Tech companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon. While data centers have brought billions of dollars in investments and created thousands of jobs, they are extremely energy-intensive and use immense amounts of local resources especially water.

    3rd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · Round 3 · 2025-10-25

  • This house supports the use of 'political knifing' of the Visayas regions against the imperial Manila narrative

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    "Political knifing" can refer to the figurative use of damaging political tactics. Figuratively, it describes using political maneuvering, backstabbing, or sabotage to undermine opponents.

    3rd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · High School Semifinals · 2025-10-25

  • This house believes that the belief in Tadhana has no place in modern-day Philippine society

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    Tadhana is the Filipino belief in fate or destiny where outcomes in life are pre-determined by some divine entity.

    3rd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · Round 4 · 2025-10-25

  • This house believes that the Filipino belief in "Gaba" has done more harm than good

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    "Gaba" is loosely used to determine person's fate and destiny according to the actions they commit. It is the karmic justice that says people who do good will be rewarded and people who do bad will be punished.

    3rd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · Open Finals · 2025-10-25

  • From behind the veil of ignorance, this house would allow humans to allocate their stat points prior to being born.

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    In video games, stat points (short for statistic points) represent a character’s core attributes or abilities — such as strength, speed, luck, or intelligence. Stat points typically have a maximum value of 10 per category. For this debate, each participant has access to 50% of the total available stat points, meaning it is not possible to max out every category. Once allocated, stat points cannot be changed or reassigned, and no additional points can be earned later.

    Hugill Western Canadian Debating Championship 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-25

  • This house believes that individual awards should carry greater weight than team championships when evaluating all-time great athletes.

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    In competitive sports, an all time great athlete's legacy includes both individual awards (MVPs, Scoring Records, Ballon d'Ors) and team championships (NBA Championship, Stanley Cup, World Cup, World Series).

    Hugill Western Canadian Debating Championship 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-25

  • This house prefers a world where a small robot flies beside everyone’s head and scolds people if they violate utilitarian ethics.

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    Utilitarians believe that the purpose of morality is to make life better by increasing the amount of good things (such as pleasure and happiness) in the world and decreasing the amount of bad things (such as pain and unhappiness).

    Hugill Western Canadian Debating Championship 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-10-25

  • This house welcomes the rise of corporate-controlled cities in the Global South

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    Corporate-controlled cities such as private and charter cities are self- governing cities within a developing country where a guarantor, usually by corporations from developed countries, are granted political and economic autonomy. The guarantor controls the city including the creation of legal codes, laws, courts, immigration and economic policies. Examples include Prospera backed by Silicon Valley-based investors in Honduras, Bitcoin City in El Salvador and Silicon Zanzibar in Tanzania

    3rd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · Open Quarterfinals · 2025-10-25

  • This house prefers a world in which individuals gain access to the Dreamscape for one month if they are handed a Coke with their name on it.

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    'Share a Coke' has been a multi-national marketing campaign by Coca-Cola since 2011. It replaces the traditional Coke logo from one side of the bottle with the phrase "Share a Coke with" followed by a person's name. For the purposes of this debate, individuals cannot order these Coke bottles online; the bottles can only be found by accident during an unrelated shopping trip. (2/2) The Dreamscape is a finicky new invention that has the capacity to bring any and all sentient beings from an individual’s dreams into reality. Individuals do not get to choose which beings from their dreams are manifested — they only get to choose to use the machine. These beings only survive as long as the individual has access to the Dreamscape. Once created, these beings retain their physical characteristics & supernatural powers, should they possess any. For example, if someone dreams of a strong giant, this giant will retain its size and strength upon entering reality. Most of the time, these beings will pursue socially good objectives, albeit imperfectly — e.g., a giant may be unnecessarily destructive; a shaman may accidentally turn water into wine, etc. Some of the time, these beings will pursue socially bad objectives.

    Hugill Western Canadian Debating Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-25

  • This house believes that the Evidential Problem of Evil means that a benevolent God does not exist

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    The 'Evidential Problem of Evil' can be described as follows: Premise 1: There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented. Premise 2: Such a being would prevent any such suffering if it existed.

    Hugill Western Canadian Debating Championship 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-10-25