Tournament of Champions, Bucharest, Romania, December 7-9 2013

Tournament of Champions, Bucharest, Romania, December 7-9 2013

• R1: This House would legalize the use of baby-boxes all around the EU
• R2: THBT a world in which there is no more sexual instinct and reproduction is only in vitro and through similar technologies is a better world
• R3: This House would grant immediate EU admission to regions like Scotland or Catalonia who choose to declare independence from countries that are already in the EU
• R4: THW eliminate any legal or ethical limitations from the field of genetic research on improving the human body.
• Final: THBT Romania should strengthen its relationship with China, even if that impacts its relationship with the EU

John Smith Memorial Mace Welsh leg, Aberystwyth, Wales, December 7 2013

John Smith Memorial Mace Welsh leg, Aberystwyth, Wales, December 7 2013

• R1: THW legalise euthanasia
• R2: THW provide financial incentives to individuals leading a vegetarian lifestyle
• R3: THBT FIFA should reallocate the 2022 World Cup from Qatar to a country with a superior human rights record
• R4: THBT major Hollywood studios should increase the number of lead roles for female villains substantially in their blockbuster films
• Final: THBT the media should fabricate and publish positive economic stories during prolonged periods of economic recession

Moscow Open, Moscow, Russia, December 6-7 2013

Moscow Open, Moscow, Russia, December 6-7 2013

• R1: THW ban the fur industry
• R2: TH as Ukraine would join Russia led economic bloc rather than the EU free trade account
• R3: THW in the countries that have laws prohibiting discriminatory and hateful language against various groups based on certain characteristics they have, grant overweight people the same protection like other vulnerable groups
• R4: THW require police to wear miniature video cameras at all times whilst on duty
• R5: THBT decisions to allocate funding to scientific research programs should be taken solely by a group of professional scientists
• Semi-finals: TH, as a Russian woman, would rather live in the Soviet Union
• Final: THBT Western Liberal Democracies should boycott the Russian Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi

Sheffield IV, Sheffield, England, December 7 2013

Sheffield IV, Sheffield, England, December 7 2013

• R1: THW aggressively fund art in public places, which depicts struggles on which there is no consensus and of which there are continuing consequences
• R2: THW cut off development aid to countries which willfully neglect to combat terrorism within their own borders
• R3: THW freeze membership of sporting federations of nations that boycott sporting competitions (events, matches, tournaments etc.) for political reasons.
• R4: THW end the prosecution of Troubles-related killings in Northern Ireland
• Final: TH, as the United States, does not regret the dropping of the atomic bomb.

Centrale IV, Paris, France, December 6-7 2013

Centrale IV, Paris, France, December 6-7 2013

• R1: THW Allow athletes to compete in the gender category they self identify with
• R2: THBT Hamid Karzai should sign the Bilateral Security Agreement
• R3: This house would allow the Roma to settle in autonomous communities
• R4: This house believes that developing countries should ban the entry of foreign supermarkets into their markets
• R5: Given that a trade off is required, THBT history education in post-conflict societies should focus on cohesion at the cost of truth
• Final: TH supports FEMEN

Warsaw Open, Warsaw, Poland, December 6-8 2013

Warsaw Open, Warsaw, Poland, December 6-8 2013

• R1: THW eject national sports teams from international competitions if their fans or players are found to have committed racist or fascist acts during matches
• R2: THBT in developed countries the minimum wage should guarantee a middle class lifestyle
• R3: THW stop all research into differences between the male and female brain
• R4: THBT Pope Francis should openly endorse radical left political parties and candidates
• Semi: THW only hold gay pride parades with the consent of the local community
• Final: THW immediately lift all sanctions on Iran

Lund IV, Lund, Sweden, December 6-7 2013

Lund IV, Lund, Sweden, December 6-7 2013

• R1: THBT Facebook, Google+,and other social media platforms should remove all content produced by extremist political parties.
• R2: TH welcomes the presence of gender-neutral schools (+Infoslide)
• R3: THBT is in China’s interest to shoot down foreign military aircrafts that violate the ADIZ (+Info slide).
• R4: Assuming that the death penalty is in use, THW make all executions public.
• SF: THBT the EU should materially support anti-Russian political movements in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
• Novice Final: THBT Schools should raise the expectations of children beyond what they can realistically achieve.
• Grand Final: TH supports armed vigilante groups in high crime areas.

English Cup, Herzliya, Israel, December 1 2013

English Cup, Herzliya, Israel, December 1

• R1: THW classify all organized crime as terrorist organizations
• R2: THBT the education system should promote expectations according to the students’ realistic potential, ability and social status
• R3: This house would hire police personnel in proportion to society’s demography
• Semi: THW, as a western liberal democracy, legalize paid surrogacy
• Final: This house, as China, would legalize gay marriage

Chennai WUDC 2014

PRELIMS:

• Round 1: THBT the United States of America should fund moderate Madrassas (schools of Islamic study) throughout the Islamic world
• Round 2: THW allow first-time offenders to, with the consent of the victims, pay compensation to them in place of a prison sentence
• Round 3: TH regrets the rise of a 'hookup culture' (one which accepts and encourages casual sexual encounters focused on physical pleasure, without necessarily including emotional bonding)
• Round 4: THBT developing countries should ban members of political dynasties from standing for elected office
• Round 5: THBT the Trans-Pacific Partnership is in the interests of the small and medium-sized negotiating countries [info slide: http://goo.gl/qTTLth]
• Round 6: THW make the receipt of welfare payments to raise children conditional on the use of long-term, but reversible, contraception
• Round 7: THBT government agencies that regulate drugs should only test whether a drug is safe, not whether it is effective, before approving it for public use [info slide: http://goo.gl/gomgDI]
• Round 8: THBT NATO should unconditionally offer membership to the states of the former Soviet Union, excluding Russia
• Round 9: TH regrets the commodification of indigenous cultures

EFL:

• EFL Semi-Finals: THBT the gay rights movement should abandon the claim that sexuality is not a choice
• EFL Final: THBT multinational companies should be liable for human rights abuses that occur anywhere in their supply chain

ESL:

• ESL Quarter-Finals: THW remove all copyright protection for material deemed to be morally objectionable
• ESL Semi-Finals: THBT Pope Francis should publicly encourage Catholics to support radically redistributive government policies
• ESL Grand Final: THW allow countries to pay other countries to settle asylum-seekers who reach their borders

OPEN BREAKS:

• Open Partial Double Octo-Finals: THW abolish gated communities in the developing world
• Open Octo-Finals: THBT Japan should shame its soldiers who participated in WWII, including those who did not commit war crimes themselves
• Open Quarter-Finals: THW auction off the long-term right to govern bankrupt cities for profit
• Open Semi-Finals: THBT women should reject practices that alter the appearance of their genitalia, such as waxing and labiaplasty
• Open Grand Final: THBT India should pursue aggressive economic policies

MASTERS':

• Masters' Round 1: THB that the feminist movement should actively fight to liberate men from their prescribed gender roles
• Masters' Round 2: THW redraw the borders of Africa
Masters' Grand Final: This House would never categorize people on their race.

National Taiwan University Intervarsity December 2013

R1. THBT children are better served by having working mothers. 

R2. THBT Western universities should not establish campuses in authoritarian states. 

R3. THW automatically dismiss all appointed government officials with a higher disapproval rate than 75 percent. 

R4. THBT developing countries should embrace slum tourism. 

R5. THBT states should actively promote transparency and the free flow of information on the Internet. 

R6. THBT people running for public office should be exclusively and equally funded by the state. 

SF. THS the appointment of openly gay police and military commanders, when competent, in Taiwan. 

F. THW fund the separatist movement in Tibet.

China University of Petroleum, Beijing Fall Intramural Tournament -- Saturday, December 7, 2013

Round 1: The USA should criminalize the private ownership of handguns.

Round 2: Publicly funded scientific agencies in highly developed countries should have a moral obligation to always make their scientific findings accessible to the entire world's community of scientists.

Round 3: Graduate students (age 23 or older) and their university professors should be free to engage in consensual romantic relationships.

Final Round: China should ban pre-employment physical health checks in order to end discrimination in hiring against individuals who are positive for Hepatitis B.

Submitted by: J. Scott Rodriguez, Director of Debate, CUPB

1st Hangzhou Winter BP Debate Open, 13th to 15th December 2013

1st Hangzhou Winter BP Debate Open 2013, 13th to 15th December, Hangzhou, China

Round 1: The Zombie Apocalypse is starting in Beijing. There are some infected, some immune, and some uninfected in the city. You are President Xi Jinping,THBT You should bomb the city.

Round 2: In Rural China, to promote gender equality, THW pay families to raise daughters up to the age of 18.

Round 3: THBT China should disallow the remaking of Chinese classical stories (Journey to the West, Tree Kingdoms, White Snake, etc) into movies by Hollywood directors.

Round 4: THB in an Olympics where athletes represent themselves instead of their countries.

Round 5: THBT Sinopec should be denationalized (privatized).

Round 6: THW mandate all citizens, after the completion of a medical degree, to serve in a state run hospital.

Quarter Finals: THBT the state must seek the approval of local communities whose life and environment will be affected by national infrastructural projects (Three Gorges Dam, High Speed Railways, and Nuclear Power Plant).

Semi Finals: THBT the artistic community (artists, writers, film makers, musicians and etc.) have the social obligation to forward social movements' interests such as LGBT rights, women empowerment, ethnic diversity and etc. in the work they produce.

Grand Finals: TH prefers a world without pain and suffering.

Adj Core: Loke Wing Fatt (Singapore), Samuel Chan (Hong Kong), George Chen (China) and Mark Escay (Philippines)

Oxford IV, Oxford, England, November 8-9 2013

Oxford IV, Oxford, England, November 8-9

• R1: THW provide mobile teachers for the compulsory education of the children of travelling communities (e.g. Roma and Irish Traveller)
• R2: THBT developed economies should collectively agree to impose radically redistributive tax codes
• R3: THW ban the gender testing of athletes in sports
• R4: THW require major polluters to open their borders to environmental refugees
• R5: THBT national war memorials should commemorate the casualties on all sides of the conflict
• Novice Final: THBT when courts sentence offenders, they should give considerable weight to the views of the victims
• Quarter: THW, as a liberal democracy, restrict coverage of small-scale terrorist attacks
• ESL Semi: THBT political parties should adopt non-hierarchical organisational structures
• Semi: THBT identity-based social movements should not include in their movements allies who are not part of the identity group in question
• ESL Final: THBT liberal democracies should cut all economic and military ties with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Final: THBT the United States should dissolve its offensive military capabilities

UK Debate Challenge, Nottingham, England, November 9-10 2013

UK Debate Challenge, Nottingham, England, November 9-10

• R1: THBT feminists should oppose restrictions on the wearing of the burkha and the hijab
• R2: THW remove all non-military sanctions on Iran
• R3: TH regrets the portrayal of the developing world in the fundraising campaigns of charitable organisations
• R4: THBT state schools should instil in children the belief that anyone can succeed through hard work, regardless of their background
• R5: THBT artists from dominant cultural majorities should not seek to portray minority cultures
• Novice Final: You are a government employee who has found evidence that your state is carrying out actions you personally believe to be gravely immoral. You have no cause to believe these actions are illegal.Motion: THW leak the evidence directly to the press
• Semi: THW abolish private property
• Final: THBT The US should end the War on Terror

Bogwall, Edinburgh, Scotland, November 15 2013

Bogwall, Edinburgh, Scotland, November 15

• R1: THBT the (same-sex couples) Marriage Bill 2013 should remove the right of religious institutions to refuse to perform same-sex marriages
• R2: THBT past colonial empires should pay reparations to their former colonies who are still classed as developing
• R3: THBT feminist political activists should form a separate political party based on feminist ideology, rather than joining existing parties
• R4: THW Pay Additional Benefits to Families on Welfare Whose Children are Excelling in School
• Semi: THBT America should refuse to engage with any attempts to end cyber warfare
• Final: Info: You are Sherlock Holmes, pursuing your arch nemesis, Moriarty. Moriarty is an elusive criminal mastermind with a global network. This network is responsible for countless murders, extortions and a number of other large-scale criminal acts. You have captured Moriarty’s henchman and have enough evidence to convict him of a number of charges, including murder. Before you take him to the police, the henchman offers to give you vital information about Moriarty’s plans and whereabouts which MAY lead you to finally catch him and foil his plans for evil- in exchange for letting the henchman go free. Your deductive reasoning tells you that this is not a trap. Motion: TH, as Sherlock Holmes, Would accept the henchman’s offer.