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  • This house believes that it is in the interest of the environmental movement to shift its flagship species from charismatic animals (e.g., pandas, elephants) to ecologically-important insects (e.g., ladybugs, parasitic wasps)

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

  • This house opposes horse-race reporting.

    Infoslide

    In Korea, recent election coverage has been dominated by horse-race style reporting, a style of political reporting that focuses on the competitive aspect of elections, campaigns, and politics such as polls and fundraising as opposed to focusing on policy issues. Election turnout hit a new high in Korea this year at 79.5 percent.

    South Asian Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Octofinals · 2025-06-06

  • That, as the EBU, we would expel Israel from Eurovision

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    The Eurovision Song Contest is an international music competition organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), a coalition of public service broadcasters from across Europe and neighbouring regions. Participation in Eurovision is open to active EBU members, and the EBU has full discretion over which broadcasters are eligible to compete. In 2022, following public and institutional pressure, the EBU banned Russia from participating due to its invasion of Ukraine and later suspended Russian broadcasters from its membership. In recent years, several national broadcasters, including those from Ireland, Iceland, and Spain, have publicly questioned Israel’s continued participation in light of its military operations in Gaza, urging the EBU to take similar action.

    USU Pre-Australs 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-01

  • This house would choose to reveal this information to the public

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    You are a famous independent political journalist with a significant degree of influence in both international and domestic media, and your stories have been able to cause massive traction​​, especially in the political scene of your country. It is currently election season, and the most promising candidate is a young progressive politician who has done a lot of good for the welfare of the country and has promised big things like reducing wealth inequality and more social programmes for the needy. One fine day, you are sent an anonymous package filled with very strong evidence that proves that this candidate is part of a secret conspiracy organisation called the Illuminati, who are planning to rule most state governments within the shadows, and the organisation has been tied to the assassination of a few key political players in your country. Your journalistic influence has the capability to credibly expose both the candidate and the existence of the organisation.

    Northern Luzon Intervarsity 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-05-31

  • This house believes that award-giving bodies should recognize male and female talents under a singular award category.

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    In the film and television industry, award-giving bodies often recognize outstanding cast performances with awards such as Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Child Actor, and Best Child Actress, with "actors" referring to male talents and "actress" referring to female talents.

    Northern Luzon Intervarsity 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-31

  • This house would abolish the MTRCB

    Infoslide

    The Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) is a government agency responsible for the review and classification of movies and television programs in the Philippines. The agency uses a rating system to establish a minimum age requirement to watch each movie and television program (e.g., PG-13, R-16, R-18, X) which must be determined before public release. Due to this, movies and television programs rated X cannot be legally distributed in the Philippines, among other distribution regulations depending on the classification.

    Northern Luzon Intervarsity 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-31

  • This house regrets the norm of loose adaptations of source material in popular media

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    “Loose Adaptation” refers to producers adapting existing source material into movies/TV series and significantly changing details from the source (characters, story plots, contexts) to create an entirely new story. Examples of this include Zack Snyder’s DC’s movies and the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

    Northern Luzon Intervarsity 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-31

  • This house opposes the rise of dystopian narratives about technological progress.

    Infoslide

    Dystopian narratives about technological progress depictinnovation (particularly in areas such as Al, automation, and biotechnology) as a source of large-scale harm, instability, orexistential threat. This framing is prevalent in popular media(e.g. Black Mirror, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Arcane) and insegments of public discourse,including among environmental degrowth advocates and Al safety researchers.

    2025 Spring NHSDLC BP Open · Novice Finals · 2025-05-30

  • This house opposes the rise of dystopian narratives about technological progress.

    Infoslide

    Dystopian narratives about technological progress depictinnovation (particularly in areas such as Al, automation, and biotechnology) as a source of large-scale harm, instability, orexistential threat. This framing is prevalent in popular media(e.g. Black Mirror, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Arcane) and insegments of public discourse,including among environmental degrowth advocates and Al safety researchers.

    2025 Spring NHSDLC BP Open · Open Grand Final · 2025-05-30