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  • This house would ban social media companies from research and development of large multimodal models.

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    Multimodal models refer to large neural network models like chatGPT, Gemini, etc. that can work with both language and images. Over the past three years, several social media companies have started building them. For e.g., Meta has built the Llama models, X (previously twitter) has built the Grok models. These models tend to often be trained on data collected from the social media, albeit with user consent.

    IUBDC presents Bangladesh Flood Fundraiser 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-08-30

  • This House, as a talented professional tennis player born in 1990, regrets the dominance of the Big Three.

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    For the last twenty years three men known as “the Big Three” - Roger Federer of Switzerland, Rafael Nadal of Spain and Novak Djokovic of Serbia - have dominated men’s tennis. 80% of the Grand Slam tournaments held since 2003 (when Federer won his first title) have been won by one of the Big Three. Considered the three best tennis players of all time, they hold the top three places in all time records for Grand Slam titles, finals, semifinals, quarterfinals and total match wins. The most successful contemporary of the Big Three is Andy Murray who won 3 grand slams in his career; the Big Three each won 20+ grand slams. Federer, now 42, retired in 2022. Nadal, 38, is expected to retire in the next twelve months due to accumulated injuries but won Roland Garros (a Grand Slam tournament held on his preferred surface, clay) as recently as 2022. Djokovic, 37, won the Olympic gold medal in men's tennis at the Paris Olympics.

    ANU Equinox 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-08-30

  • This house, as the actor, would quit the Valorant professional scene and prioritize content creation.

    Infoslide

    You are a professional Valorant player and a well-established and popular streamer. You are also above the average age of the current league. In 2021 and 2024, you won the global championships and are regarded as one of the best players of all time. In the next two local qualifiers, your team, the same team you had in the 2024 global championship, did not qualify for the next round and was eliminated in the preliminaries. One of your teammates, also one of the youngest players in the league currently, is surpassing your KDA (Kill- Death-Assist) statistics. The next season's qualifiers will start December this year.

    National Asians High School Debate Championship 2024 · Round 7 · 2024-08-27

  • This house prefers a price increase in AAA games over $60 AAA games with microtransactions

    Infoslide

    The term "AAA Games" is a classification used within the video gaming industry to signify high-budget, high-profile games that are typically produced and distributed by large, well-known publishers. These games often rank as “blockbusters” due to their extreme popularity. In recent years, longer development times and increased costs have pushed AAA publishers to introduce microtransactions such as paid extra content (or DLCs), cosmetics, and lootboxes in games to increase profit while maintaining the industry-standard $60 cos t.

    National Asians High School Debate Championship 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-08-27

  • This house believes that the P-pop industry should prioritize the survival show model as the primary way of forming and debuting groups.

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    A survival show is a reality show and competition that typically features over 100 trainees from a variety of companies, who then compete in singing, dancing and more to showcase their skills. They begin with auditions where contestants are selected based on their performance skills (e.g., singing, dancing, rapping), followed by rigorous training and various challenges. Contestants face eliminations through judges' scores and public voting until a final group is formed. The remaining contestants debut as a new KPop group. Examples of groups created through survival shows are TWICE, BIGBANG, and Enhypen. The alternative means of forming a group is through entertainment labels selecting the top performers from their own set of trainees. All decisions regarding the formation of the group are made solely by the company. Examples of groups created through this model include TxT, Seventeen, and Black Pin k.

    National Asians High School Debate Championship 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-08-27

  • This house would choose to stay in the show

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    You are a man in your mid-30s. You work for a job that you love, are married to a woman you love, and have a supportive community of friends. One day, you drive to work, and you accidentally deviate from your typical route, which exposes radio transmissions that comment on your every move. Freaked out, you entered a random building, and saw the backstage of a TV set. You start to become suspicious of everything, including the relationship you have with your wife and friends. When you lashed out at your wife, she mistakenly admits she and every person around you are paid actors and actresses. At this point, the director of the TV show approaches you and explains the situation you are in. From the moment of your birth, you have been the star of a famous and globally-recognized TV show based on your life without your knowledge. There is a group of writers who predetermine every important event in your life. All of the people you've interacted with are paid actors. Your so-called community turns out to merely be a TV set. The director gives you a choice: to stay in the TV show, or experience the outside world for the first time. If you decide to leave, as part of the deal with the director, you must forego all ability to sue or gain compensation from the company, and you are required to rename yourself, change your appearance, and live in a remote community as an average person. If you decide to stay, you must sign a contract that puts you in this job forever.

    National Asians High School Debate Championship 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-08-27

  • This house, as an up-and-coming young game designer, W rather work in an indie studio rather than a triple A studio

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    Indie game studios are video game studios that are newer and more independent in comparison to larger video game developers, also known as ‘triple A studios’. Examples of triple A studios include Sony, Nintendo, or Ubisoft. Indie game studios have produced commercially successful games, such as Minecraft, Limbo and Undertale.

    Sunway Debate Open 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-08-24

  • This house believes that the feminist movement should actively support depictions of reverse sexism in the media

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    Reverse sexism is the practice of flipping sexist behaviours that typically apply to one gender so that they are instead applied to another (e.g., Barbieland's matriarchy in Greta Gerwig's "Barbie", Anne Hathaway playing an older woman in a romance with a much younger man in "The Idea of You", Sandra Oh's onscreen husband in "Killing Eve" playing a gender inverted "nagging wife" who no one will listen to and Eve treats with contempt)

    Seasons World Schools Debating Championships 2024 · Open Grandfinals · 2024-08-24

  • This house would actively disincentivize the production of art that glorify acts that are considered morally reprehensible (e.g. Lolita, Breaking Bad)

    Accra Open X · Round 6 · 2024-08-22

  • This house opposes Philanthro-tainment.

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    Philanthro-tainment is a form of online content that is centered around charity work, including but not limited to giving money away to people, gameshow competitions, and social experiments. Prominent examples are MrBeast, ZHC Crafts, and VitalyzdTV.

    UT MARA Interschool Debating Championship 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-08-17

  • This house prefers the enemies-to-lovers trope over friends-to-lovers in fiction.

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    Enemies-to-lovers is a trope where a character, typically the protagonist, eventually develops a romantic relationship with their antagonist over the course of a plot (e.g. Jon and Ygritte in Game of Thrones, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice). Friends-to-lovers features characters that have a pre-existing platonic relationship that eventually becomes romantic (e.g. Harry and Ginny in Harry Potter).

    CUSID High School Nationals 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-08-17

  • This house regrets the cult of personality surrounding athletes.

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    Cults of personality form around athletes when their fame, charisma, and media presence elevate them to a status where they are almost worshiped by fans, the media and sometimes even by commercial organization or governments.

    UT MARA Interschool Debating Championship 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-08-17

  • This house, as a progressive social movement, W predominantly use media which expresses sincerity and emotional vulnerability to advocate for social change rather than media which utilizes irony and parody to critique harmful societal institutions.

    Svirsky Cup 2024 · Partial Quarterfinals · 2024-08-10

  • This house opposes the trend of modern triple-A video games maintaining politically neutral stances

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    In the video game industry, triple-A refers games made by major video game publishers with significantly higher budgets (ex. Call of Duty and Activision, Electronic Arts and Battlefield) compared to indie, or independent, games.

    CUSID Semi-Random Pro-Am 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-08-10