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  • This house supports the growing role of private equity in online content creation

    Infoslide

    Private equity refers to a class of businesses which buy and invest in private companies (companies which are not publically listed on stock exchanges). In recent years an increasing percentage of Youtube channels have been purchased by private equity firms including CocoMelon, Veritasium, and Game Theory. The nature of these contracts is often undisclosed, but typically involves the private equity firm keeping on the original creators as part owners or employees who are paid a fixed salary or percentage of revenue.

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-11-08

  • This House, as the Jewish American student, Would join the encampment.

    Infoslide

    The UCLA Gaza Solidarity Encampment was a pro-Palestine protest established on campus lasting from April 25th to May 2nd, 2024 as part of a nationwide student movement calling for divestment of university funds from Israel due to their actions in Gaza. It drew significant attention after violent clashes between protesters, counterprotesters, and police led to injuries and numerous arrests. You are a Jewish-American UCLA student with progressive politics coming from a middle-class background in Los Angeles. You are on campus during the time of the encampment.

    USC Mini 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-08

  • This house believes that the Democrats should fight dirty (e.g. rezoning electoral districts in their favour, frequent filibustering, initiating politicised investigations against opponents, etc.)

    Cambridge Intervarsity 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-08

  • This house believes that developing countries should actively encourage the development of sin cities

    Infoslide

    "Sin Cities" refers to cities where criminalized/heavily regulated vices (prostitution, gambling, illicit drugs) are legalized. Examples include Amsterdam, Macau, Tijuana.

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-08

  • In partnerships without equal affection, this house would prefer to be the more loving one in a relationship

    Infoslide

    A pegged currency is one in which the exchange rate between two currencies is fixed to a set rate (ex. the Danish krone (DKK) is pegged to the euro at a central rate of 746.038 kroner per 100 euro, with a 'fluctuation band' of +/- 2.25 per cent). A government maintains a peg by buying and selling foreign reserves to ensure a set price. A floating exchange rate is one in which the relative exchange rate of currencies is determined entirely by the supply and demand of the currency on the open foreign exchange market. The Canadian dollar was previously pegged to the US dollar from 1962 to 1970

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-08

  • This house regrets the decline of Catholicism in Latin America

    Infoslide

    In Latin America, Catholicism has declined from 90% of the population in 1970 to 65% today. At the same time, the number of non-affiliated people has quadrupled from 4% to 16% from 1996 to 2020 and Evangelicalism has risen from 10% in 2002 to 20% today.

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-08

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of the EU to significantly invest in becoming militarily independent of the United States within the next decade

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, "EU military independence" is defined as the ability of EU nations to coordinate and execute complex defence and security operations without reliance on the United States for military resources, strategic guidance, operational support, or security guarantees.

    USC Mini 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-08

  • This house prefers for queer narratives in popular media to primarily center around the present (ex. Heartstopper, Bottoms, Love, Simon, Twinless) rather than the past (ex. Boots, Queer, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Brokeback Mountain).

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-08

  • This house supports the rise of educational flexibility in K-12 education

    Infoslide

    Educational flexibility refers to the adaptability and openness of educational institutions and their practices. This may involve reducing the emphasis on exams, minimizing lecture hours, increasing project-based learning, and individual learning plans.

    USC Mini 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-08

  • This House Prefers Legal Formalism over Legal Realism when interpreting laws

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    Legal formalism holds that law is a set of coherent and autonomous rules, and that its correct application depends on a strict interpretation of the letter of the law, without considering social, political, or economic factors. Legal realism holds that law cannot be separated from social and political realities, and that judges inevitably make decisions influenced by context, practical consequences, and social values.

    Santa Fe Open 2025 · Semifinals Novice · 2025-11-07

  • This house prefers Disney optimism to Ghibli optimism

    Infoslide

    For the purpose of this debate, there are two tropes in children's media. "Disney optimism" presents a world with clear good and evil characters wherein good always triumphs. "Ghibli optimism" presents a world with no true evil.

    Cambridge WGM 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-07

  • This House, as Kvothe, would face the invaders as a diplomat rather than a warrior.

    Infoslide

    You are Kvothe, once a celebrate general, and still regarded as one of the best warriors/strategists in the world. Thirty years ago, your orders led to a civilian massacre, a trauma you erased from your memory with the help of an ancient god. 30 years later you are a controversial diplomat scorned as a hypocrite, who has been struggling in uniting different kingdoms for years. Now, as a powerful overseas nation invades, that forgotten massacre violently returns to your mind, forcing you to choose between uniting the kingdoms as a diplomat or taking up your sword as a warrior once more.

    Santa Fe Open 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-07

  • This House Supports direct cash transfer programs as a tool of social and economic policy in Mexico.

    Infoslide

    In Mexico, recent governments have implemented large-scale direct cash transfer programs. Examples include scholarships for students, payments for unemployed youth in training, and monthly support for elderly citizens. These programs provide individuals and households with regular cash payments, often without conditions beyond basic eligibility.

    Santa Fe Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-07

  • This house supports Milei's austerity plans in Argentina

    Infoslide

    Javier Milei became the president of Argentina in late 2023. He has since introduced a series of austerity policies which, among others, include cutting funding for public services and devaluing the Peso.

    Cambridge WGM 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-07

  • This House Regrets the rise of the cultural obsession with uncovering one's "true self"

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    The modern cultural obsession with uncovering one's true self refers to the growing emphasis in contemporary society on discovering and defining a supposedly authentic inner identity. This trend is visible in the popularity of therapy and self-help practices aimed at self discovery, personality frameworks (e.g., Myers-Briggs Enneagram), tracking apps, online micro- identities and similar introspective tools.

    Santa Fe Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-07

  • This House Opposes the Rise of Sorority as a Strategy to Promote Feminist Ideals.

    Infoslide

    In feminism, sorority is a concept that recognizes the importance of empathy, solidarity, and connection among women to confront patriarchal oppression and build networks of mutual support. In many contemporary practices, sorority is presented by imposing standards of conduct, loyalty, and forms of interaction on women, seeking specific behaviors and modes of belonging within the movement.

    Santa Fe Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-07