Oldham Cup 2025

2025 · AP

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50 teams (This edition), 46 teams (2024)

Oldham Cup 2025 (2025)8 motionsCA: 🇸🇬 Rdu D., 🇸🇬 Ian C., 🇺🇸 Pan H., Isaiah H., 🇬🇧 Bharath A.

Round 1After minimum requirements are met, THBT universities should process admission applications for oversubscribed courses via a lottery system.
Round 1Assuming feasibility, THBT the UN should form a standing global army
Round 1Assuming feasibility, THBT the UN should form a standing global army
Round 1THW make the use of moral enhancement drugs mandatory
Round 1In highly polarized societies, THBT the media should be barred from revealing the minority status of those accused of crimes.
Round 1THP a world in which all sports leagues adopted the relegation and promotion model over the franchise model
Round 1THBT nations should actively disincentivise external tourism and instead promote the visiting of national and domestic places of interest
Round 1THW ban the research, production, and use of lethal autonomous weapons

Round 0This House would require all world maps to be drawn using equal-area projections
Round 1TH, as a vegan advocacy group, would focus advocacy on the environmental impacts of eating meat rather than on animal suffering.
Round 2THS the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) being used in the criminal justice system.
Round 3THS the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) being used in the criminal justice system.
Round 4THBT developing countries should adopt English as the primary language of instruction in schools
Round 5THBT governments should be able to access all encrypted user communications and data on tech platforms (e.g., Google, Apple, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc.)
Round 6In authoritarian countries, THBT opposition movements should work within the system to reform the regime (e.g., lobbying, vote-trading, introducing court challenges), as opposed to working towards regime change (e.g., publicly criticising the government, engaging in mass protests, military coups).
Round 7THP a world where 'black and white' children's media is predominant, over a world where 'grey' children's media is predominant.
Round 8THO the aggressive adoption of free market policies in developing countries (e.g., removal of import tariffs, removal of protectionist policies for local industries, incentives for foreign companies to enter the country).

International Relations18%

Education12%

Law & Crime6%

Media6%

Sport6%

Economics6%

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T-7Read the roomGo through this page once so nothing on the day surprises you.
T-6Work through "Generating arguments"Foundations for International Relations motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-6Work through "Linear flow"Foundations for Law & Crime motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-5Prep sprint: one International Relations motion, 15 minutes, full caseMechanism, actors, weighing. Time it like the real thing.Pull a motion ›
T-4Case-prep past motions this tournament actually setStart with: Assuming feasibility, THBT the UN should form a standing global armyMotion archive below ›
T-3One practice round with a partner or clubmateAsk for a International Relations motion and your weaker bench.
T-2Second sprint: Law & CrimePull a motion ›
T-1Light review and logisticsReread the numbers above, check the schedule, sleep. No new material the night before.

70.5 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 69.3 and 71.8.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 73.3

Top-10 pace 72.4

Top-20 pace 72.0

Median average speaks at each finishing spot, across 2 editions.

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