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UCLA IV 2025
Sep 28, 2025 · BP
Motions
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.)
What gets set here
Economics20%
Law & Crime20%
Politics20%
Social & Identity10%
History10%
Philosophy10%
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16% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.0.
Last edition: 16 of 97 teams broke.
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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 |
| 🇵🇭 Bea L. | MG | This house prefers a world where post-Revolutionary Haiti pursued the Louverture model instead of the Peasant Smallholding mode. | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Maya A. | MG | THS the Mirziyoyev reforms in Uzbekistan | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 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 |
| 🇦🇺 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 S. | MO | This house regrets the rise of paid consulting industries around personal milestones (e.g., life coaching, college admissions, job-hunting) | 83 |
| 🇧🇬 Biser A. | MG | This house prefers a world where post-Revolutionary Haiti pursued the Louverture model instead of the Peasant Smallholding mode. | 83 |
| 🇧🇬 Maria M. | GW | This house prefers a world where post-Revolutionary Haiti pursued the Louverture model instead of the Peasant Smallholding mode. | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Jordyn G. | DLO | Assuming feasibility, THW ban trait-selective abortion. | 83 |
| 🇸🇬 Rdu D. | DLO | TH, as an up and coming gay Mangaka, would write a Yaoi manga rather than a Bara manga | 82 |
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