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  • In countries with a high percentage of the population employed in agriculture, This house prefers heavy investment by the state in increasing the productivity of the agricultural sector over expanding other economic sectors

    RML PD 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-03-02

  • This house regrets the decline of class as the primary organizing political identity for Indigenous peoples in Latin America

    Infoslide

    Between the 1950s and 1970s, many Indigenous peoples across Latin America were integrated into peasant unions, socialist parties, and Marxist guerrilla movements, viewing their struggles primarily through the lens of economic exploitation. Particularly in the 1980s, many Indigenous peoples shifted away from class as a primary organizing political identity, instead placing a stronger emphasis on territorial autonomy, environmental justice, and their ethnic and cultural identities.

    Dartmouth United States Universities' Debating Championships 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-03-01

  • This house believes that ECB should adopt the dual mandate

    Infoslide

    The European Central Bank (ECB) single mandate on keeping inflation under control. The US Federal Reserve (Fed) operates under a dual mandate, which seeks to achieve both full employment and low inflation. These mandates determine how and when a central bank responds to changes in economic conditions.

    St Andrews Open 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-03-01

  • This house would allow effort optimization strategies in American professional sports leagues

    Infoslide

    In many American professional sports leagues, teams have considered using "effort optimization strategies" to gain strategic advantages by not putting full effort into matches. These strategies primarily include "throwing" (intentionally underperforming during a match), "load management" (unnecessarily resting or benching key players), and "strategic forfeits" (conceding defeat before a match). Most leagues have implemented rules to ensure full effort in every match, such as discouraging throwing, fining teams for load management, and banning strategic forfeits.

    Dartmouth United States Universities' Debating Championships 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-03-01

  • This house regrets the rise of 24 hour culture in cities.

    Infoslide

    A 24-hour city is an urban city that remains active and accessable around the clock, with businesses, public transport, entertainment, and essential services operating 24/7 with a focus on the night time economy. Examples of these cities are New York City or Tokyo.

    Queen Mary IV 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-03-01

  • This house prefers a world where severance is universally implemented

    Infoslide

    Severance is a procedure that separates memory based on location. After taking the procedure, when leaving the work place you hold no memories of what happened there. Likewise, when you are at work, you hold no memory of your life external to the workplace. Severance ensures that your work-self retains basic knowledge (general information about the world, what your name is, how to read write shit etc) but not any personal information (family, hobbies etc).

    St Andrews Open 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-03-01

  • In white collar sectors, This house prefers companies using qualitative measures rather than quantitative measures when assessing employee performance

    Infoslide

    A white-collar worker is a professional who works in an office setting, performing administrative or managerial tasks. There are two key methods to assess employee performance in white collar sectors. Qualitative measures include customer satisfaction reviews, peer feedback, and effort monitoring, among others. This contrasts from quantitative measures which includes revenue generated, hours worked and errors made, among others.

    European Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-02-28

  • This house would aggressively prioritize scholarships for technical vocational and agriculture-related courses in Cagayan at the expense of scholarships for other courses (e.g. construction, caregiving, electronics, food and beverage services, etc.)

    Athena Debate Championship 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-02-22

  • This house, as Filipino contractual workers, should walkout

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, contractual workers include any person working under short-term renewable contracts of service or job orders. A walkout refers to the collective and deliberative act of halting all labor by leaving the workplace.

    Athena Debate Championship 2025 · Quarter Finals · 2025-02-22

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of BLACKPINK to prioritise their solo career over group activities

    Infoslide

    BLACKPINK is a female K-Pop group composed of 4 members. Debuting in 2016, the group quickly rose to prominence locally and internationally, becoming one of the best-selling girl groups of all time, with the most-subscribed and viewed artist channel on YouTube. After their contract expiry in 2023, all 4 members of BLACKPINK renewed their contracts with YG Entertainment for group activities; each member has since signed with a different record label for solo activities. Prior to 2023, BLACKPINK primarily focused on creating, promoting, and touring their music as a group. However, since the contract renewal, every member has prioritised their solo career (eg. starring in acting roles, releasing albums under their own name, creating a brand image based on individual identity), with group reunions being minimal.

    Novice World Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-02-22

  • This House Would require Premier League players to randomly rotate between teams every two years.

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, a player rotation system entails rotating players between teams every two years. The players do not get to choose a team, and it takes place on a staggered basis (ie not all players rotate on the same year).

    Manchester IV 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-02-22

  • This house would abolish the RFA(Restricted Free Agent) policy in major American Sports Leagues (NBA, NFL, etc.)

    Infoslide

    The Restricted Free Agent (RFA) system is a contractual mechanism used in major professional sports leagues such as the NBA, NHL, and NFL to regulate player movement after their initial contracts expire. Under this system, a restricted free agent can negotiate with other teams, but their original team has the right to match any offer the player receives, allowing them to retain the player under the same terms and restricting the player's ability to move. If the original team declines to match, the player is free to sign with the new team.

    HYDS Pro-Am 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-02-19

  • This house prefers the Divergent world to ours

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, the Divergent world behaves in the following way: society is divided into different factions based on key personality traits like bravery, intelligence, kindness, honesty etc... These factions form separate communities, often acting as sub-federal authorities (they function like a municipality or district). Each faction has a specific role: Bravery focuses on defense, Intelligence on education and research, Kindness on healthcare and community, and Honesty on law and justice. When adolescents reach the age of maturity, they take a test to determine their strongest trait and are assigned to the corresponding faction. Once assigned, individuals cannot change factions and must commit to their role.

    Serious IV 2025 · Novice Grand Final · 2025-02-18

  • In a hypothetical socialist country, EC prefers the self-management model over the planned model.

    Infoslide

    IS 1: The planned economic model was adopted in the Soviet Union and exported to most socialist experiments. This model consists of an economy organized, controlled, and distributed by the State, which sets goals, priorities, and how the resources produced are allocated. IS 2: Meanwhile, the self-management model was implemented in Yugoslavia and transferred the organization of the means of production and economic targets to workers’ councils, which self-managed in their workplaces, encouraging competition and removing the State as an active entity, leaving it instead as the manager of the capital produced and organized autonomously by the councils.

    IV Campeonato Sul-Brasileiro de Debates · Rodada 5 · 2025-02-17

  • This house would drastically reduce the use of government scholarships in the public service

    Infoslide

    Currently, Singapore relies on various government scholarships as a major source of talent for the public service. In exchange for university tuition fees and allowances, students must serve the public service after graduation for around 4-6 years. Scholars in the public service tend to get promoted at a faster pace than non-scholars, with many prominent public servants such as senior civil servants (e.g. permanent secretaries, chief executives, etc) and political officeholders (e.g. ministers) being previous scholarship recipients.

    NUSPA 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-02-15