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  • This house supports the academisation of creative arts

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    The academisation of the creative arts refers to an increase in the proportion of workers in creative art fields (television, films, publishing etc) who hold university degrees in the creative arts (e.g. Masters of Fine Arts), as well as an increase in people holding such degrees more generally.

    ANU Spring 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-15

  • This house regrets the shift from imaginative play to goal-oriented play

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    Imaginative play refers to open-ended activities that encourage creativity and self-directed exploration - for instance building freely with LEGO, playing pretend, or creating original stories and worlds. Goal-oriented play refers to structured activities with pre-set objectives, narratives, or progression systems - for instance, story-driven video games, franchise-based toys (like Marvel or Star Wars sets), or games where success is measured by winning or completing specific missions.

    Hart House Autumn Split 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-15

  • This house believes that history is thick rather than thin

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    A thick view of history holds that that the macro state of society at a given point is largely determined by overwhelming structural forces which made that state close to inevitable. A thin view of history holds that it is largely as a result of a small number of factors (e.g. events, people or processes) which could easily have been different and lead to different outcomes, making that state subject to a substantial degree of randomness.

    ANU Spring 2025 · Novice Final · 2025-11-15

  • This house, as Veronica, would accept the offer.

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    Veronica is a typical "nerd" in a big American high school. Veronica and her two best friends spend their time working hard at school, pursuing geeky extracurriculars (chess, Math Olympiad, debate...), and getting constantly bullied by the school's popular kids. One day, after saving the Prom Queen from being run over by a bus, she offers Veronica to join the popular group, as long as long as she cuts off her friends and quits her geeky extracurriculars.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · U-19 Quarterfinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house supports intellectual banality as a key principle in the academic approach.

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    Intellectual banality, in this debate, is defined as a principle that states the practices and habits of academia should make intellectual discourse (e.g., debates, lectures, academic forums) and academic products (e.g., journals, theses, dissertations, papers, etc.) more banal, meaning simple and easily understood by the general public, both in terms of substance and communication.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · U-19 Semifinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events.

    Infoslide

    As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the debating community shifted its activities online, with the vast majority of trainings, coaching, and tournaments (including majors such as WUDC, ABP, or EUDC) being held on various online platforms such as Zoom or Discord. With the end of the pandemic, much of debating has begun to revert to offline events (e.g. the past three iterations of WUDC were held in-person), although online debating has not completely died out.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-10

  • This house believes that European states should pursue a state-led innovation model

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    A state-led innovation model involves the government playing a central role in guiding and facilitating technological innovation. This includes but is not limited to: setting national priorities for technological developoment, investing heavily in research alongside private companies, and creating national research institutes

    Cambridge Intervarsity 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-08

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

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    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, as the Jewish American student, Would join the encampment.

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    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 would invest in long-term debate classes for their child

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    You are the parent of a young child currently in middle school who has never displayed interest in debate before. You would like your child to become a good debater as you have become aware that it is very helpful for university applications and general success.

    Australasian Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-02

  • This house opposes the focus on colonial determinism in Philippine academia.

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    Determinism is the view that all events/situations at a given point in time are determined completely by previously existing causes. Colonial determinism refers to the notion that conditions within postcolonial countries are entirely determined by their colonial past.

    Parliamate British Parliamentary 2025 · Highschool Finals · 2025-11-01

  • THR the establishment of independent religious schools in multi-religious societies

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    For the purposes of the debate, an "independent religious school" is a religious school owned and ran by members of the local religious community. Examples include traditional Muslim schools in India (madrassas), Malaysia (pondok schools) and Indonesia (pesantren), or the international seminary education system of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon church). Independent religious schools are distinct to formal education institutions where students may study theology as part of a larger national curriculum (e.g. the Islamic Theology subject in Malaysian secondary schools) or where students may earn an accredited academic qualification in theology (e.g. secular universities offering degrees in theology).

    DTU Pre-Worlds 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-01