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  • This house would ban athletes using national and international sporting events (e.g. the Olympics, FIFA World Cup, NFL) as platforms for protest.

    Auckland Schools' Debating Impromptu Cup 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-08-05

  • This house, as an athlete in their early teens, would specialise in the sport they show the most aptitude for rather than playing many different sports.

    Auckland Schools' Debating Impromptu Cup 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-08-05

  • This house believes that successful female athletes should significantly empasize their negative experiences as a woman in the sport's industry, rather than emphasizing the positive ones

    Princeton IV 2023 · ESL Finals · 2023-08-05

  • This house, as parents of an extraordinarily talented (academic, sport, art etc.) child with financial limitations, would push their child to pursure their talent over letting them find their own path

    Rahat Fundraiser Parliamentary Debate 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-08-04

  • This house supports fairness regulations

    Infoslide

    In recent times, regulatory sports bodies have increasingly stepped in to ensure the competitiveness of their respective sport (e.g. budget limits on car development in F1, Limitations on player transfer fees in Football & testosterone limits in athletics). These regulations can be called "fairness regulations".

    Southern Africa National Universities Debate Championships 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-07-27

  • This House regrets the professionalisation of sports.

    Infoslide

    <p><span style="font-size:24.0pt;font-family:&quot;Comic Sans MS&quot;; mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color:black;mso-font-kerning:0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-ansi-language:EN-SG; mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">For the purposes of this debate, professionalisation refers to the process by which organisations, systems, and participation transform from a volunteer driven to an increasingly business-like phenomenon.</span><br></p>

    World Schools Debating Championship 2023 · Round 6 · 2023-07-18

  • THW retire from the NFL

    Infoslide

    You are a married 35-year-old Quarter-Back in the NFL (American Football League) with 2 children. Your NFL career started from childhood, with a dream to win the NFL Championship. This year, your dream has finally come true, and you won the NFL Championship

    The Earlsfort Open 2023 · No Round · 2023-07-08

  • This house would join Bluelock.

    Infoslide

    You are a promising young japanese football player who has just graduated highschool and is touted as one of the best prospects in the country. You're expected to make the U-20 Japanese national team in the next year and have a bright future ahead of you. You are approached by a man named Jinpachi Ego who has designed a program called bluelock, where he's made an agreement to have 300 of the most promising young talents in japan be coached by him in a cutting edge facility to become the best striker in the world. His philosophy is based around producing strikers who are selfish and hungry for goals and doing it through cut-throat competition, where people are tested and eliminated constantly. The catch is that if you are eliminated from bluelock you forefit the right to ever play for the Japanese national team.

    Habib University Debating Championship 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-07-07

  • That, as a (Manchester United) fan who grew up in Manchester, would prefer the Sheikh Thani bid.

    Infoslide

    Manchester United is currently owned by the Glazers family, who are known to take out high amounts of dividends from the club, pile up more debt, and not invest much in club infrastructure. They have announced their interest in selling the club and there are currently two bids: one of Sheikh Jassim Al Thani from Qatar and Sir Jim Ratcliffe from England. Sheikh Jassim Al Thani promises to buy the entire club, get rid of its debts and invest heavily in facilities and player transfers. Sir Jim Ratcliffe wants to buy 51% of the club (while the rest of the shares stay publicly traded in NYSE and partially owned by the Glazers family) and has an experience of owning Nice Football Club in France and is a minority shareholder of Mercedes AMG Petronus Formula One team. He (Sir Jim Ratcliffe) also pledged a fan centric approach to governing the club.

    Krabi Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-07-01

  • That it is in the best interest of (Formula One) to continue pursuing aggressive commercial expansion even at the expense of sporting integrity.

    Infoslide

    Formula 1 has been trying to aggressively expand commercially even at expense of sporting integrity. The commercial expansion strategy includes partnering with Netflix to produce the Drive to Survive documentary which has been known to overdramatize the events in the sport, prioritising commercially lucrative countries (such as the US - thrice in 2023) for hosting rights, making drivers do more fan service than they are comfortable, and interpreting and implementing regulations to get more viewership at the expense of precedence and norms.

    Krabi Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-07-01

  • That we should ban gambling companies sponsoring (esports) teams and leagues

    Krabi Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-07-01

  • That we oppose the merger of the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

    Infoslide

    LIV Golf is a Golf tour financed by Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund that was set up in 2021 to rival the established PGA Tour, offering some players as much as US$150 million to play in the LIV series instead of the PGA Tour. In June 2023, LIV Golf and the PGA Tour announced that they would pool their commercial rights into a new for-profit venture, which will be funded by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.

    UNSW Pre-Australs 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-06-25

  • That, as the management of a professional sports club, we would heavily prioritise issuing incentive-based contracts rather than heavily prioritising issuing fixed-price contracts

    Infoslide

    A fixed-price contract pays an athlete a set salary regardless of their performance. In comparison, an incentive-based contract contains a guaranteed minimum salary that is less than its fixed-price counterpart,. However, if an athlete performs well, an incentive-based contract will pay them more than its fixed-price counterpart as reward.

    UNSW Pre-Australs 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-06-25

  • This house believes that FIFA should enact financial fair play regulations as part of their regulations

    Infoslide

    Financial Fair Play refers to a set of regulations established to prevent professional football clubs spending more than they earn in the pursuit of success, and in doing so not getting into financial problems which might threaten their long-term survival.

    Protea Pre-WSDC 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-06-23

  • This house would choose to quit competitive chess and become a full-time chess streamer.

    Infoslide

    I) Competitive chess follows a ranking system which divides players into tiers based on their rating. The 3 highest tiers of chess are Grandmaster (attained by roughly 1% of all chess players), followed by International Master (roughly 5%) and then FIDE Master (roughly 15% of all chess players). II) You are a male professional chess player in your mid-thirties who has achieved FIDE Master status. Despite multiple attempts to advance further you have been unsuccessful in attaining an International Master (IM) status. III) You also run a relatively well-known chess channel on social media platforms (Youtube, Twitch etc.) which has become increasingly hard to manage given your preparation for competitive chess.

    Malaysia United Asian Debating Championship 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-06-16

  • This house believes that football clubs should actively disassociate from their 'Ultras'.

    Infoslide

    I) In club football, 'Ultras' refer to a long-standing group of institutional fans renowned for their fanatical support. They are membership-based organizations that aim to create an atmosphere which intimidates opposing teams/fans through the use of verbal support, flares, banners etc. In some cases, Ultras have been associated with violent altercations with rival fans during games. II) While Ultras are not directly associated with the football club, they organize meetings with the staff/coaches and have reserved seats in stadiums. III) Many Ultras also engage in political activism across the spectrum. Examples include Indonesian club Persebaya's Ultras (the Bonek) campaigning against FIFA corruption, Turkish club Beşiktaş’ “Çarşı”protesting against president Erdogan's repression and Inter Milan's Curva Nord supporting right-wing Italian politics.

    Malaysia United Asian Debating Championship 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-06-16