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UCLA IV 2025
Sep 28, 2025 · BP
Motions from this series
UCLA IV 2025 (2025)10 motionsCA: 🇺🇸 Will R., 🇺🇸 Belle H., 🇺🇸 Dennis S., 🇭🇷 Tin P.
- Round 1This house regrets the rise of paid consulting industries around personal milestones (e.g., life coaching, college admissions, job-hunting)
- Round 2TH, as an up and coming gay Mangaka, would write a Yaoi manga rather than a Bara manga
- Round 3This house prefers a world where post-Revolutionary Haiti pursued the Louverture model instead of the Peasant Smallholding mode.
- Round 4Assuming feasibility, THW ban trait-selective abortion.
- Round 5THS the Mirziyoyev reforms in Uzbekistan
- QuarterfinalsTHS the privatization of outer space in the US
- SemifinalsTHP a world with strong norms based around Traditional JWT to one with strong norms based on Revisionist JWT
- Grand FinalTHBT the God of Classical Theism (an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent God) is more likely to exist than for no God-like being to exist
- ESL FinalsTHS a right to bear arms
- Novice FinalsTH, as the Democratic Party of the United States, supports the rise of left wing conspiracy theories (eg. that the 2024 election was stolen from Kamala Harris, that Donald Trump is being controlled by Russia, etc.)
UCLA IV 2024 (2024)11 motions
- Round 0THP a world where no one has a desire for external validation
- Round 1THR the depiction of the everyday lives of people with disabilities as inspirational
- Round 2THR the NFL's decision to allow Private Equity firms to invest in teams
- Round 3THP a world where Christianity adopted the Eastern Orthodoxy's conception of sin
- Round 4THS the Democrats blocking the Nippon Steel acquisition of US Steel
- Round 5THR the narrative adults should be independent (i.e. supporting themselves financially, living on their own, being emotionally self-sufficient etc.)
- Pro-am FinalsTH, as a parent, would teach their child to handle their emotions through stoicism, over emotionalism
- Partial QuarterfinalsTHP a world where PsychoPass is used in law enforcement.
- ESL FinalTHP a world where humans had a 'half full' disposition to world where humans have a 'half empty' disposition
- SemifinalsTH, as Iran, would cease all support for militant groups in the Middle East (e.g. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, etc.)
- Grand FinalTHP a world where no one has desire for external validation
UCLA IV 2023 (2023)15 motions
- Round 0This House would abolish timeouts in all team sports
- Round 0This House would make Esperanto mandatory in all schools in the world
- Round 0This House would require every citizen to watch a film produced in their country every year
- Round 0This House would not buy Apple
- Round 0This House would impose trade sanctions on countries that do not use the metric system
- Round 0This House regrets our reliance on the internet
- Round 1THS open borders.
- Round 2THR the narrative that being a parent is fulfilling.
- Round 3THBT sustained global economic growth is preferable to economic stagnation for the interests of nonhuman animals.
- Round 4THS a norm where couples in long-term relationships take regular sabbaticals from the relationship (e.g., stop seeing each other, live separately if living together).
- Round 5THW require companies to hire a significant percentage of employees without university degrees across all levels of their organisation.
- Open QuarterfinalTHP a world where individuals establish personal relationships with religion, rather than seeking divine connection through religious institutions.
- Open SemifinalTHBT West and Central African countries should abandon the CFA franc in favour of establishing their own independent currencies.* *For the purposes of this debate, Government teams have to defend a separate currency for each individual country.
- Open Grand FinalIn Western liberal democracies, THR the queer movement's primary form of collectivization transitioning from riots/protests into pride celebrations/parades.
- Novice FinalsTHBT the Republican nominee for the 2024 US presidential election is likely to win the general election.
What gets set here
Social & Identity25%
Economics17%
Politics8%
Religion8%
Law & Crime6%
International Relations6%
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22% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 78.5.
Last edition: 16 of 97 teams broke.
- 202310 pts · 78.6 speaks16/64
- 202410 pts · 77.9 speaks13/50
- 202511 pts · 79.0 speaks16/97
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break16 teams
- ESL break6 teams
- Novice break4 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Elizabeth L. | PM | Assuming feasibility, THW ban trait-selective abortion. | 86 |
| 🇺🇸 Amitai P. | DPM | Assuming feasibility, THW ban trait-selective abortion. | 85 |
| 🇦🇺 Maya A. | MG | THS the Mirziyoyev reforms in Uzbekistan | 84 |
| 🇵🇭 Bea L. | MG | This house prefers a world where post-Revolutionary Haiti pursued the Louverture model instead of the Peasant Smallholding mode. | 84 |
| 🇧🇬 Biser A. | MG | This house prefers a world where post-Revolutionary Haiti pursued the Louverture model instead of the Peasant Smallholding mode. | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Auguste M. | GW | This house regrets the rise of paid consulting industries around personal milestones (e.g., life coaching, college admissions, job-hunting) | 83 |
| Speaker A. | MO | This house regrets the rise of paid consulting industries around personal milestones (e.g., life coaching, college admissions, job-hunting) | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Jordyn G. | DLO | Assuming feasibility, THW ban trait-selective abortion. | 83 |
| 🇧🇬 Maria M. | GW | This house prefers a world where post-Revolutionary Haiti pursued the Louverture model instead of the Peasant Smallholding mode. | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Elizabeth L. | MO | TH, as an up and coming gay Mangaka, would write a Yaoi manga rather than a Bara manga | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Lachie D. | GW | THS the Mirziyoyev reforms in Uzbekistan | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Eamin A. | MO | This house prefers a world where post-Revolutionary Haiti pursued the Louverture model instead of the Peasant Smallholding mode. | 82 |
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