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  • This house would allow effort optimization strategies in American professional sports leagues

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    In many American professional sports leagues, teams have considered using "effort optimization strategies" to gain strategic advantages by not putting full effort into matches. These strategies primarily include "throwing" (intentionally underperforming during a match), "load management" (unnecessarily resting or benching key players), and "strategic forfeits" (conceding defeat before a match). Most leagues have implemented rules to ensure full effort in every match, such as discouraging throwing, fining teams for load management, and banning strategic forfeits.

    Dartmouth United States Universities' Debating Championships 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-03-01

  • This House Would require Premier League players to randomly rotate between teams every two years.

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    For the purposes of this debate, a player rotation system entails rotating players between teams every two years. The players do not get to choose a team, and it takes place on a staggered basis (ie not all players rotate on the same year).

    Manchester IV 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-02-22

  • This House believes that successful female athletes should express their adverse experiences in the sports arena rather than describing their positive experiences as women.

    RDS Ramadan Open 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-02-20

  • This house would abolish the RFA(Restricted Free Agent) policy in major American Sports Leagues (NBA, NFL, etc.)

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    The Restricted Free Agent (RFA) system is a contractual mechanism used in major professional sports leagues such as the NBA, NHL, and NFL to regulate player movement after their initial contracts expire. Under this system, a restricted free agent can negotiate with other teams, but their original team has the right to match any offer the player receives, allowing them to retain the player under the same terms and restricting the player's ability to move. If the original team declines to match, the player is free to sign with the new team.

    HYDS Pro-Am 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-02-19

  • This house believes that Singapore should prioritise the development of the S. League over the national football team.

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    The S. League is a professional football league, constituting the highest level of men's football in the Singaporean league system.

    NUSPA 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-02-15

  • This house, as the boxer, W agree to fight Jake Paul

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    You are a retired professional boxer, renowned for an illustrious career and regarded as one of the sport’s greats. Though past your prime, your name still commands respect and admiration within the boxing world. Jake Paul, a significantly younger and controversial socia media influencer turned boxer, has gained attention by fighting and winning against high-profile opponents. Jake Paul offers you a lucrative opportunity to fight him.

    Korea University Mini Tournament 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-02-09

  • This house would professionalise the GAA, LGFA & The Camogie Association.

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    Gaelic games (organised under the convening bodies of the GAA and, for womens' leagues, LGFA & The Camogie Association) are a set of sports played widely throughout Ireland and include Gaelic football, hurling & camogie, Gaelic handball, and rounders. Gaelic games are Ireland's most popular sport. Players and supporters represent their clubs first (which are often tied to traditional parishes) and later their counties. Players, even at the highest level, do not receive payment for playing and the volunteer ethos remains an important aspect of Gaelic Games, however, managers and directors are often paid at both a club and inter-county level.

    Trinity College Dublin's Intervarsity Debating Competition 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-02-08

  • This house supports the player empowerment era in the NBA.

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    The "player empowerment era" refers to a period in professional sports, most notably in the NBA, where star players have significantly more leverage and agency to influence their careers by demanding trades, choosing where they want to play during free agency, and essentially dictating team direction to a greater extent than in previous eras, often highlighted by the actions of players like LeBron James and Kevin Durant. This trend is generally considered to have started around 2010 with LeBron.

    Ottawa IV 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-02-01

  • This house, as the WNBA, will heavily influence the decrease of premium branding of Caitlin Clark (e.g. encourage sponsors to model other players, ban the zone defense to highlight taller players, decrease national television appearance of Clark, hire more Clark-critical columnists etc.)

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    The world's top women's basketball league, the WNBA, has been struggling for the last 20 years and has had to rely on the much bigger male NBA for sponsorship and finance. As a result, the WNBA's top player continues to earn significantly less than the NBA's youngest rookie. The league has justified wage disparities by pointing to the WNBA's minuscule audience in comparison to the NBA, which is still unable to produce a profit on its own. Then Caitlyn Clark entered the league. With unrivaled skills and more hype than many male NBA players, Caitlin Clark is a rookie in the WNBA that specializes in the 3-point area. Because of her extraordinary impact on the league, her own team's merchandise and ticket sales skyrocketed, and the WNBA's general viewership followed suit. Despite this improvement, Clark has received unheard-of criticism from media outlets, sports experts, fans, and former and current WNBA legends. Although she is largely responsible for the league's expansion, Clark is also the owner of the majority of this year's sponsorship deals. Even while WNBA viewership increased overall, it significantly decreased after Clark's team was eliminated from the playoffs.

    Kamalig Novice Asian Parliamentary 2 · Round 3 · 2025-01-25

  • This house, as the rookie, would choose to join Redbull Racing.

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    You are a young, and extremely talented driver in motorsports, coming from a middle class background. You have always had ambitions of racing in formula 1 and becoming a future world champion, despite knowing that oftentimes success in the sport is more likely when you have money. You currently hold an offer from a midfield team in f1 which, in recent years, has not been hugely competitive but has a rich past and a supportive work culture. 'Red Bull Racing' is a very successful and well-equipped team whose top driver, Max Verstappen, has won the last three world championships. Red Bull has a reputation for being cut-throat, harsh, and cutting drivers contracts with little notice, sometimes mid season, when they do not measure up to being a strong team mate for their star driver and winning points. Red Bull wants to fire their second driver Checo, and have made you an offer to race for them next season.

    Birmingham Pro-Am 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-01-25

  • This house believes that the NBA should replace the Borda Count Voting system with the Statistical Points Framework.

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    For the purposes of this debate, a Statistical Points framework is a statistic-based metric on awarding players of the Most Valuable Player award, Defensive Player of the Year award, the Mythical-Five etc. in basketball leagues. Most often, the framework follows this scoring system for awarding MVPs: 1 point for each point scored in the game, 1.5 points, for each rebound, assist, steal, and block, 10 points for each game won in which he plays, 10 points if his team enters the semifinals, 10 points, if his team enters the finals, 10 points if his team wins the championship. While this is the scoring system in awarding the Defensive Player of the Year: 1 point, for each defensive rebound. 2 points, for each steal and block. 5 points, for each game won in which he plays. However, the scoring system varies per basketball league and can be tweaked based on the plans of league commissioners and players’ associations, but the key concept of the framework is to base all awards on the statistics of players each game. Currently, the biggest basketball league in the world, the NBA, is using a Borda Count Voting system where the awards are decided by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada, ranking players from 1st to 5th, and each place corresponds to points.

    Kamalig Novice Asian Parliamentary 2 · Round 3 · 2025-01-25

  • This house regrets the shift towards the code of points in artistic sports (eg. figure skating, rhythmic and artistic gymnastics)

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    Over the past decade, figure skating and gymnastics have adopted the code of points system that assigns values to individual elements based on their difficulty. This replaced the previous scoring systems (from 2006 onwards) which awarded scores to routines holistically considering the technical merit of the routine and its artistic elements based on composition, originality, style, and expression.

    The 17th Christ University Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-01-17

  • This house regrets the shift towards the code of points in artistic sports.

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    Over the past decade, figure skating and gymnastics have adopted the code of points system that assigns values to individual elements based on their difficulty, with minimal rewards for artistic virtues. This replaced previous scoring systems which awarded scores to routines holistically considering the technical merit of the routine and its artistic elements based on composition, originality, style, and expression.

    AIS Debating Championship 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-01-03