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  • THW prefer to live an average*, long life over a extremely succesful**, short life. *i.e. middle income, functional family, meeting your basic material needs **i.e. very high income, regarded and respected by family and peers, access to extremely prestigious spaces

    India WUDC Fundraiser · Semifinals · 2025-09-26

  • This house supports the idea of "derusting".

    Infoslide

    Derusting is a debate term which refers to experienced debaters masquerading to debate in high school tournaments, often breaking and at times even failing to break. They argue that they want to use it as a platform to improve themselves but also give value to tournaments. However, students argue that they are traumatized by the existence of such speakers.

    Oratorical Arena 2.0 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-09-05

  • This house opposes norms that impose narrative coherence on people's life experiences

    Infoslide

    Norms that impose narrative coherence on life are widespread cultural ideas that portray life as intrinsically ordered or authored. Common phrases that echo these norms include 'everything happens for a reason', 'what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger', or 'the night is darkest before the dawn'. These norms suggest that events in life are part of a coherent story with direction, resolution, or moral significance, rather than being random, fragmented, or senseless.

    Cambridge Union Schools Debating Championship Australia New Zealand Round 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-08-30

  • This House Regrets, the prominence of "Saiwengshima" in Asian societies

    Infoslide

    "Saiwengshima" is a Chinese fable and narrative which encourages individuals to retain optimism in difficulty due to the unpredictability of life.

    VDC Contentions 2025 (English) · Semifinals · 2025-08-28

  • This house opposes the resurgence of 'emo culture' in the entertainment industry

    Infoslide

    “Emo culture” is a style of music and fashion that became popular in the 2000s, with bands like My Chemical Romance leading the trend. It often focuses on themes of sadness, heartbreak, and self-expression, and was also seen in Malaysia through bands like Bunkface and Hujan. While many young people embraced it as an outlet for their feelings, others criticized it for being too dark. Today, with emo bands making a comeback, this culture is resurfacing in the entertainment industry.

    Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Grand Final · 2025-08-18

  • This house supports the rise of ROMO among the youth

    Infoslide

    Reality of Missing Out (ROMO) generally refers to the feeling of content with not personally knowing or not personally being part of something, even to the extent of being relieved from being detached or not involved in certain public events or online trends.

    Orgullo Intervarsity 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-08-16

  • This House, as Mahito, would accept the reins of the otherworld from his granduncle

    Infoslide

    Mahito is a young boy in wartime Japan who loses his mother in a hospital fire and struggles to adapt after his father remarries his aunt and relocates the family to his late mother’s rural estate. He shares a loving but somewhat distant relationship with his father, while being deeply cherished by his aunt and cared for by her maids. At the estate, Mahito encounters a talking grey heron that leads him into a magical, otherworldly realm connected to his family’s past. This realm opens its doors to those in great distress and is inhabited by spirits and fantastical creatures—among them, the souls of those awaiting rebirth into the real world, and predatory pelicans that consume these spirits to survive. Within this realm, Mahito meets his granduncle, the creator and caretaker of this alternate world. Weary and nearing the end of his life, the granduncle offers Mahito the reins of this seemingly perfect world. However, if Mahito accepts this offer, he will never be able to return to the real world.

    BRAC Genders 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-15

  • The chamber believes that glorifying the concept of work-life integration brings more positive impacts than negative ones.

    Infoslide

    Work-life integration is a concept that rejects the rigid separation between professional and personal life, aiming to blend the two flexibly and simultaneously. It serves as a middle ground between work-life balance, which builds clear dividing walls, and hustle culture, which demands sacrificing one's life for work.

    Gadjah Mada Intervarsity 2025 - Divisi Bahasa Indonesia · Round 1 · 2025-08-13

  • This House Prefers a world where SKIP technology exists and is widely accessible

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, the SKIP technology is a remote that allows a user to fast-forward through real-life events. When a user activates the technology, they are placed on ‘autopilot’ for the duration of the skipped time. While on autopilot, the individual's body continues to perform necessary, routine, and habitual actions, such as walking, driving a familiar route, or completing basic tasks. However, the person has no consciousness, emotional experience, or memory of the skipped period. They are physically present and functional, but they cannot engage in complex decision-making, creative thought, or meaningful interaction. This technology allows the user to make a deliberate choice to bypass specific situations and jump directly to a desired point in time.

    PKU Pro-Am 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-09

  • This house prefers the medical conception of mental health over the humanistic conception

    Infoslide

    There are two major conceptions of mental health. The first is the medical conception, emphasising the role of "objective" factors, such as biochemical and genetic risk factors, in mental disorders. The second is the humanistic conception, which emphasises the role of "subjective" factors, such as economic and social conditions and personal relationships.

    PKU Pro-Am 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-08-09

  • 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).

    Mastermind Chronicles 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-08-08