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Uhuru Worlds 2024
Jun 20, 2024 · BP
Motions from this series
Uhuru Worlds 2024 (2024)11 motionsCA: 🇦🇺 Jessica M., 🇬🇧 Matt C., 🇬🇧 Alishba I., 🇬🇧 Wajeeh M., Estelle F., Ruth A., 🇬🇧 Yeonwoo S.
- Round 1This house, as an aspiring hip-hop artist, would choose to produce conscious* music (Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore, J Cole, Lauryn Hill) rather than mass consumption oriented music (Future, Gunna, Drake, Doja Cat) *Hip-hop which promotes awareness of socio-political, economic and cultural issues.
- Round 2This house prefers draft-based mechanisms of team equalisation to salary cap-based mechanisms
- Round 3This house opposes the romanticisation of adoption
- Round 4This house prefers the confiscation approach to the reinvestment approach
- Round 5This house supports tough on crime laws when combatting organised criminal groups (e.g. gangs, Mafia organisations)
- QuarterfinalsThis house would break up LiveNation
- SemifinalsThis house would grant women, and only women, the right to absolute freedom of movement
- Grand FinalThis house would introduce VatiCoin
- ESL SemifinalsThis house would break up LiveNation
- ESL FinalsThis house prefers a world in which all Artificial Intelligence (AI) research and development was undertaken by a single unified body instead of many different entities
- Schools FinalsThis house prefers a world where all political campaigning and subsequent elections were limited to a single calendar week
Uhuru Worlds (Outrounds) 2022 (2022)9 motions
- Open OctofinalsTHP the queering of popular literature/works of art over the promotion of new queer literature/works of art
- ESL QuarterfinalsTHP a world without political parties* *where all candidates run as independents
- Schools SemifinalsTHS companies (e.g. Google) offering pay cuts based on cost-of-living in exchange for remote working
- ESL SemifinalsTHBT international financial bodies should issue development bonds in low resource countries to fund development projects
- Open QuarterfinalsTHS the adoption of Bitcoin as an additional legal legal tender
- ESL Grand FinalTHBT the introduction of religion into the colony would do more good than harm
- Schools Grand FinalTHBT developing countries should adopt third world alternatives to current international institutions (e.g. African Criminal Court or BRICS Development Bank) instead of remaining in current international institutions (e.g. the International Criminal Court, World Trade Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization)
- Open SemifinalsTH, as the CCP, would abandon all restrictions on internal migration in China
- Open Grand FinalTHS a multi-speed integration of the African Union
Uhuru Worlds (Panthera) 2022 (2022)7 motions
- Round 1THW ban plea bargains
- Round 2THBT environmental movements should advocate for carbon offsetting as a primary strategy for combatting climate change
- Round 3THBT the feminist movement should strongly encourage women to enter traditionally male sectors e.g. STEM, Finance, etc.
- Round 4THBT major technology companies should make all their software open source
- Round 5In countries where first-past-the-post is the voting system, THBT smaller political parties should focus their election campaigns on producing hung parliaments instead of campaigning on positive policy platforms.
- Round 6THBT AUKUS is in the interest of ASEAN
- Round 7THBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings
Uhuru Worlds (Loxodonta) 2021 (2021)5 motions
- Round 1THBT progressive political candidates and parties should refuse to accept donations from corporations and high-net individuals.
- Round 2THS Mafia Association Laws.
- Round 3THW confiscate persistently vacant residential properties to use as social housing.
- Round 6TH as developing states would prefer the use of a neutral aggregate currency to the US Dollar as the global reserve currency
- Round 7THBT settler-states should pursue immigration policies that lead to no cultural or racial group being a majority of the population.
Uhuru Worlds (Outrounds) 2021 (2021)9 motions
- OctofinalsTHS Russian intervention in the Nagorno-Karabakh Region
- QuarterfinalsTH, as a wealthy retired contact sport player, would sue their former teams for health problems obtained during their careers.
- SemifinalsTHR the Mbokodo narrative
- Grand FinalTH, as a fiction author of national importance, would write books that cannot be construed as a "national allegory".
- ESL QuarterfinalsTHBT countries with judicial supremacy should confirm new Supreme Court judges by a nation-wide popular vote requiring a 60% majority.
- ESL SemifinalsTHW grant the River Nile environmental personhood, with rights against pollution and mismanagement sued for in national courts by a set of independent trustees.
- ESL FinalsTHW not induct successful athletes strongly suspected to have used performance enhancing drugs to their sport's Hall of Fame.
- Schools SemifinalsTHW ban the appearance of children on reality television
- Schools FinalsTHW create UN protectorates in failing states.
Uhuru Worlds 2021 Panthera Division (2021)7 motions
- Round 1THBT liberal media organizations should actively glorify political candidates of color.
- Round 2THP a world in which no one sought revenge
- Round 3THS the use of adversity scores in college admission exams
- Round 4THS the rise of the anti-hero in film and television
- Round 5THW abolish the common farming exception.
- Round 6TH, as developing economies, would require international actors to match the financial value of their indirect foreign investment in the form of foreign direct investment as a prerequisite of entry into investment in their stock exchange
- Round 7THBT the queer community should actively promote queer theology at the expense of critique to religion
What gets set here
Economics21%
Politics15%
Social & Identity13%
Law & Crime10%
Media10%
International Relations10%
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11% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 14 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 77.5.
Last edition: 18 of 484 teams broke.
- 202114 pts · 77.6 speaks22/157
- 202114 pts · 77.7 speaks12/104
- 202214 pts · 76.0 speaks13/93
- 202413 pts · 78.5 speaks18/484
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break18 teams
- ESL break13 teams
- Schools break5 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaryan G. | LO | This house prefers draft-based mechanisms of team equalisation to salary cap-based mechanisms | 84 |
| Deeptha V. | LO | This house supports tough on crime laws when combatting organised criminal groups (e.g. gangs, Mafia organisations) | 84 |
| 🇨🇳 Josh K. | PM | This house supports tough on crime laws when combatting organised criminal groups (e.g. gangs, Mafia organisations) | 83 |
| 🇨🇳 Josh K. | LO | This house opposes the romanticisation of adoption | 83 |
| Vineet D. | MO | This house prefers the confiscation approach to the reinvestment approach | 83 |
| Ryan R. | MO | This house supports tough on crime laws when combatting organised criminal groups (e.g. gangs, Mafia organisations) | 83 |
| 🇨🇦 Raymond Q. | DPM | This house prefers draft-based mechanisms of team equalisation to salary cap-based mechanisms | 83 |
| Ebenezer A. | MG | This house, as an aspiring hip-hop artist, would choose to produce conscious* music (Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore, J Cole, Lauryn Hill) rather than mass consumption oriented music (Future, Gunna, Drake, Doja Cat) *Hip-hop which promotes awareness of socio-political, economic and cultural issues. | 83 |
| Josef S. | LO | This house, as an aspiring hip-hop artist, would choose to produce conscious* music (Kendrick Lamar, Macklemore, J Cole, Lauryn Hill) rather than mass consumption oriented music (Future, Gunna, Drake, Doja Cat) *Hip-hop which promotes awareness of socio-political, economic and cultural issues. | 83 |
| Malhaar D. | DLO | This house prefers draft-based mechanisms of team equalisation to salary cap-based mechanisms | 83 |
| 🇨🇦 Annika F. | PM | This house prefers draft-based mechanisms of team equalisation to salary cap-based mechanisms | 83 |
| Ebenezer A. | MO | This house opposes the romanticisation of adoption | 83 |
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