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  • This house believes that the prevalence of survival shows in creating K-pop bands has had a negative impact

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    A trainee is a person who is training in a company to be able to debut in a K-pop group. Survival shows (e.g. <i>Boy’s Planet</i>’s creation of <i>Zerobaseone</i>) are reality competitions in which trainees from many agencies participate to gain visibility where the members with the most votes form a new K-pop group. Places in the final group are decided through audience votes. The final contestants are generally chosen regardless of nationality, affiliation with an agency, or prior experience and professional history as a singer.<br><br>

    Colonel By Novice Debate Tournament 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-10-05

  • This house, as game developer, W introduce purchasable randomized loot boxes (i.e. gacha style) rather than direct purchasing for in-game content (i.e. shop style)

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    Games like _Genshin Impact_ and _Counterstrike: Global Offensive_ have players buy virtual items through randomized rewards, often by spending real or in- game currency. In this Gacha-style system, players purchase a randomized loot box with a chance to receive various items of varying rarity. Games like _Valorant_ and _Clash of Clans_ have players buy specific in-game items directly at a fixed price. In this shop-style system, players choose and purchase individual items or bundles with clear prices.

    Colonel By Novice Debate Tournament 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-10-05

  • This house would pursue the relationship

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    You are a timid young adult who has had great difficulties in forming romantic relationships. Recently, you met a romantic interest, and already know you are deeply in love with them. You stumble upon proof that you will have a long- term relationship with that romantic interest, but that you two will eventually split up permanently. You may decide if you want to end the relationship or continue to pursue it. In both cases this knowledge will be erased from your memory upon following through with your decision.

    Western Intervarsity 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-10-05

  • This house would stop consuming the concotion

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    You are Dr. Jekyll living in early 19th century Edinburgh. You find Victorian society, and its standards of moral deceny (eg. Evangelicalism, high work ethic, extreme prudeness, etc.) to be stifling and tedious. In response, you have conditioned yourself to be soft-spoken, humble, prudish, and demure. You no longer have the skills or confidence to express your feelings and desires to be arrogant, passionate and sexual. You have invented a chemical concoction which eliminates the conditioning you have placed on yourself. It temporarily gives you with the confidence and skills you were lacking. You privately tested it in small dosages, but it often leaves you feeling uneasy and nauseous. This concotion transforms you into a dashing handsome figure which no one recognises as Dr. Jekyll. One day, under the influence of the concoction, you see a ghost and realise you can communicate with them.

    Edinburgh Cup 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-09-28

  • This house, as a parent, would teach their child to handle their emotions through stoicism, over emotionalism

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    With regard to emotional regulation, Stoicism attempts to teach people to ‘domesticate’ their emotions. It suggests individuals should accept the things they cannot change and avoid letting their emotions control them. Emotionalism, for the purpose of this debate, teaches people to embrace their emotions. It suggests emotions are a natural and healthy part of human life, and that people should not try to suppress them.

    UCLA IV 2024 · Pro-am Finals · 2024-09-28

  • This house prefers a world where humans had a 'half full' disposition to world where humans have a 'half empty' disposition

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    For the purpose of this debate, humans can have two dispositions when imagining how things could be different. The 'half empty' disposition involves imagining that things could be better. The 'half full' disposition involves imagining that things could be worse. These dispositions do not solely apply to how things could change in the future, but also to potential counterfactuals. E.g., if they were imagining how their phone might be different, a 'half empty' person would imagine that it could be faster or have better battery life. A 'half full' person would imagine that it could break or be a less technologically advanced model.

    UCLA IV 2024 · ESL Final · 2024-09-28

  • THS the rise of health and wellness influencers on social media.

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    Health and wellness influencers are individuals who use digital platforms (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, blogs, etc) to share content related to physical and mental well-being, diet, fitness, beauty, personal growth, and overall lifestyle choices.

    Penn Pre-WUDC 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-09-24

  • THP a world with mood meters

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    A mood meter is a number that can be publicly seen above every single person's head, indicating their mental wellbeing on a scale of 1-10. Mood meters can fluctuate over time but cannot be concealed, hidden, or changed consciously.

    Penn Pre-WUDC 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-09-24

  • This House, as a contestant entering this reality TV show, Would choose to portray themselves as a villain rather than a hero.

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    You are a 27-year-old male reality TV show contestant who is entering a popular reality TV show in your country. The show goes on for 10 weeks and it focuses on the household drama that unfolds. The audiences vote on who gets eliminated at the end of every week.

    The 14th NALSAR Debating Championship 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-09-22

  • This house regrets the rise of Internet "aesthetics."

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    An internet aesthetic is a subculture that starts on the Internet and is defined by physical and social similarities including but not limited to clothing style, hobbies and music taste (ie. clean girl, 2020 alt…)

    Counterfactual HST 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-09-21

  • This house prefers the narratives of disability which focuses on the positives of the condition (e.g. 'ADHD is a superpower', 'Your disability does not define who you are'), as compared to narratives of disability which focuses on the struggles of those with the condition.

    Taylor's Debate Open 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-09-21

  • This house would significantly re-allocate funding from police systems to community-based intervention programs (e.g. identifying young men susceptible to gun violence and providing them with cognitive-behavioral therapy; hands-off strategies involving initiatives like training 911 call receivers or engaging local community members to intervene in conflicts before they escalate into violence).

    Princeton IV 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-09-21

  • This house would live a life "Selagi Mampu"

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    "Selagi Mampu" is a Malay phrase that roughly translates to "as far as I am able". The phrase signifies the willingness to perform something as long as capacity of the individual exists (be it physical, emotional, financial etc.) as opposed to definitive planning and objective metrics.

    Taylor's Debate Open 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-09-21