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  • This house believes that food tourism centered on the Michelin Guide does more harm than good.

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    The Michelin Guide is one of the world’s most prestigious restaurant evaluation systems. Each year, anonymous Michelin inspectors review restaurants and award select establishments one to three Michelin stars, with stars being gained or lost in subsequent editions. The Guide also publishes additional recommendations that influence dining trends worldwide.

    Shanghai WSDC Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-09-12

  • This house prefers a world where all individuals believe in Karmic reincarnation

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    Karmic reincarnation is the belief that what you do in this life decides what happens when you are born again in your next life. When you do good things, you get good karma and this leads to being born into a better life (e.g., if you help others and are kind, you might be born as a human again). When you do bad things, you get bad karma and this leads to being born into a worse life (e.g., if you hurt people and commit crimes, you might be born as an animal or have a harder life).

    Shanghai WSDC Open 2025 · Round 6 · 2025-09-12

  • In secular states with religious diversity, this house believes that states should aggressively support religious reinterpretative groups

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    Religious reinterpretative groups are movements, organizations, or schools of thought within a religion that reinterpret existing religious texts, doctrines, or traditions. Examples include Liberation Theology, Islamic Feminism, Arya Samaj* etc. *Arya Samaj is an Indian Hindu reform movement that rejects hereditary caste and untouchability as later distortions, advocating for a merit-based social order

    IIUM KUANTAN ABP · Round 5 · 2025-09-12

  • This house believes that Lotso was justified in preventing the toys from leaving Sunnyside Daycare to find an owner.

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    In the Toy Story movie franchise, toys are sentient beings whose purpose is to bring joy and happiness to the children in Sunnyside Daycare. However, these toys wish to have their own personal owner. Lotso is the main villain in Toy Story 3. He controls and rules the other toys in Sunnyside Daycare and tells them that they are "destined to be thrown away" and that "no owners means no heartbreak." Lotso's main goal is to keep the toys from escaping the daycare. Lotso's outlook stems from being abandoned and replaced by his owner Daisy.

    Beijing International Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-09-05

  • With Hindsight, This house as a football fan prefers the heartbreak of watching its own team lose over the pain of an unsuccessful hate watch.

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    Hatewatching in football is an informal tradition where fans of a team closely follow rival clubs just to see them fail, often celebrating their losses more than their own team’s victories.

    Oratorical Arena 2.0 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-09-05

  • This House believes that in rhythmic gymnastics, figure skating, and synchronized swimming, judges should primarily score on the basis of technicality over the basis of artistry.

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    In the 2022 Beijing Olympics, Anna Shcherbakova won the gold medal in figure skating over Alexandra Trusova due to a higher PCS (Program Component Score), despite a lower TES (Technical Element Score) than Alexandra Trusova. A PCS values artistry, performance, composition, and interpretation, while a TES values technical difficulty and execution quality. Alexandra Trusova is known as "the Quad Queen," and became the first woman to land five quads in a single Olympic Program in the Beijing Olympics. A "quad" in figure skating is a jump where a skater completes four full rotations in the air before landing. These jumps are extremely difficult, requiring immense speed and spin to achieve the necessary height and rotation within the few tenths of a second they are in the air.

    Beijing International Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Pre- Semi Finals · 2025-09-05

  • This house believes that societies should embrace many coexisting narratives (multicultural pluralism) over promote a shared meta-narrative (France’s "laïcité" or Singapore’s communitarian story)

    Connections IV 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-08-30

  • This House Opposes the rise of Universes Beyond inside of Magic: the Gathering

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    "Magic: the Gathering is a popular competitive trading card game created in 1993, with around 50 million players worldwide. Players build decks of cards to compete against one another in a variety of different formats. Some formats rotate, only allowing the use of cards from the last few years. New cards are released as part of themed sets that are usually self-contained stories in their own worlds, with new sets of ~300 cards being released 4-5 times a year. The theming of Magic: the Gathering is reminiscent of classic high fantasy media such as Dungeons & Dragons or Lord of the Rings, with the players representing powerful wizards who can travel across the different worlds sets are contained on. Sets rarely deviated from this theme, with those taking place in cyberpunk or steampunk settings being few and far between. Universes Beyond was announced in 2024 as a way to bring new players into Magic: the Gathering by having 1-2 sets per year based on third-party IPs. So far, full sets based on Final Fantasy, Spiderman, and Avatar: the Last Airbender have been announced, with cards from these sets being fully legal in all formats of play."

    Connections IV 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-08-30

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of feminist movements to aggressively advocate for the normalization of alternative families.

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    An "alternative family" refers to a family structure that differs from the traditional nuclear family model of a married heterosexual couple with biological children. Examples include, but are not limited to single-parent families, cohabiting partners without legal marriage, blended families formed after divorce and remarriage, same-sex parent families, child-free couples, or even chosen families composed of close friends or community members who take on familial roles.

    India ABP Fundraiser 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-08-30