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  • This house believes that the maximum foreign player quota of the Singapore Premier League should have stayed at 4.

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    The Singapore Premier League is Singapore's only professional football league. It comprises eight teams with extreme variance in financial resources, with the top two qualifying for the second-tier continental club competition ACL2 (in addition to playing in the SPL). In 2023, the SPL limited teams to fielding 4 foreign players at any one time in matches. This was increased to 6 in 2024-25, and 7 for the 2025-26 season. There are no maximum foreign player limits in continental competition. In the 2024-25 season, the Lion City Sailors became the first Singapore club in history to reach the final of the ACL2, starting 7 foreign players in the final. Singapore clubs do not currently qualify for the top-tier continental club competition ACL Elite, and will need to repeatedly achieve similar results in the next few years to qualify for the top-tier. The Singapore national team comprises Singaporean players who play in SPL clubs and overseas leagues. It only competes against other national teams.

    Singapore Polytechnic Debate Open 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-07-25

  • This house regrets the rise of welfare-centric tuition centres.

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    Welfare-centric tuition centres are tuition centres that offer welfare for their students, often as motivators during examination seasons or as rewards for academic achievement. Examples of these welfare incentives range from bubble tea treats, to cohesion trips to theme parks.

    Singapore Polytechnic Debate Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-07-25

  • This House Believes That Portugal should prioritize supply-side interventions over demand-side interventions to combat the housing crisis.

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    Supply driven interventions in the housing market are interventions aimed to increase the supply of housing and they include easing and incentivising private construction, easing zoning restrictions, easing the restoration of old and abandoned housing and investing in public housing. Demand side interventions in the housing market are interventions that aim to decrease demand for housing and they include curbing foreign or tourist real estate demand through greater restrictions on short-term rentals (e.g. increased taxation or area-based caps), removing tax benefits for foreign remote workers, and capping multiple property ownership of land and residential properties.

    International Debate Camp 2025 · Rodada 3 · 2025-07-19

  • This House supports countries relaxing anti-trust policies for industries experiencing significant decline

    Ottawa Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-07-19

  • This house would heavily subsidize organic food

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    Organic food refers to food produced through specific agricultural practices that avoid the use of synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and prioritizes sustainable farming. It emphasizes natural substances and physical, mechanical, or biologically based farming methods.

    MID YEAR DEBATE INVITATIONALS 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-07-19

  • This house would acquire full national ownership over the Buhawind Offshore Windfarm

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    Ilocos Norte is home to three of Southeast Asia’s largest wind farms: the Bangui, Burgos, and Caparispisan (North Luzon Renewables) wind farms. All were developed through foreign partnerships (primarily with a Danish company called Vestas) and are now majority- or fully-owned by major private corporations—primarily AC Energy (Ayala Group), which owns the Bangui and Pagudpud wind farms, and the Lopez Group's EDC, which owns the Burgos wind farm. These supply power to the Luzon grid, cover nearly half of Ilocos Norte’s electricity needs, and are major tourist destinations. A new project, the Buhawind Offshore Wind Farm, is a joint venture between Copenhagen Energy (Denmark) and PetroGreen Energy (a Southeast Asian MNC). It plans to install large floating turbines off the coasts of Bangui, Burgos, and Pagudpud, potentially becoming the largest of its kind in the country. Local fisherfolk have expressed strong opposition, citing threats to fishing access, damage to marine ecosystems, and a lack of direct community benefit—especially amid ongoing high electricity rates and frequent outages under private energy control.

    North Luzon Invitational Debates 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-07-19

  • This house believes that the trend of Reshoring is in the best interest of the developing world

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    Reshoring is the trend where countries and companies move manufacturing and critical supply chains back home. This trend has been accelerated in the past few years due to COVID-19’s disruption of the global supply chain, rising geopolitical tensions, and Industrial Policy in the US – which has led companies and countries to believe that the risk in having manufacturing away from home is too large and that, thus, a reliance on a global supply chain is too risky – pushing them to move for a stronger domestic supply chain.

    North Luzon Invitational Debates 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-07-19

  • This house supports the adoption of the 'Flexicurity Model' of employment across Europe.

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    The 'Flexicurity model' is the Danish labour market model. It combines easy hiring and firing for employers with social protections for workers. Under this model employers can hire and fire at will. Employees who voluntarily join and pay a subscription fee to an unemployment insurance fund can receive upto two years of unemployment benefits.

    Glasgow Summer Cup 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-07-19

  • This house believes that countries with low natural population growth should introduce radical financial incentives* for parents *e.g. tax breaks for prospective parents, help buying houses, free childcare, etc.

    Split Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-07-19

  • This house believes that countries with low natural population growth should introduce radical financial incentives* for parents *e.g. tax breaks for prospective parents, help buying houses, free childcare, etc.

    Split Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-07-19

  • This house would break up conglomerates dually operating as a private distributing utility and a RE supplier under GEOP (e.g., MERALCO & MGen Renewable Energy, Inc., Aboitiz Group's Davao Light and Power Co. & AboitizPower)

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    In the Philippines, the Green Energy Option Program (GEOP) allows electric consumers with higher-than-most energy consumptions (i.e, at least 100 kilowatt monthly peak demand) to voluntary select a Renewable Energy (RE) supplier as their source of power. Some RE suppliers in the Philippines are owned or controlled by large conglomerates which also own or control for- profit private distribution utilities.

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · Round 4 · 2025-07-18