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Drexel Debate Open 2024
Jun 14, 2024 · BP
Motions
Drexel Debate Open 2024 (2024)9 motionsCA: 🇬🇧 Max R., 🇺🇸 Jane M., 🇺🇸 Tejas S., 🇬🇭 Kelvin D., Tanay P.
- Round 1This House opposes the narrative that travel experiences lead to a meaningful understanding of other nations.
- Round 2This House believes that political risk insurance should be mandatory for all foreign direct investments in developing countries.
- Round 3This House would allow class actions against governments for policy decisions that harm specific groups.
- Round 4This House supports the narrative that people ought to be agnostic to the social background (e.g. race, class, religion) of the people they date.
- Round 5This House would ban members of political families from running for elected office
- QuarterfinalsThis House believes that states should support the creation of grey-hat hacking protections (e.g. offering licensed grey-hat hackers legal immunity, arbitration of acceptable compensation).
- SemifinalsThis House believes that it is in the interest of the Chinese Communist Party to introduce a property tax and significantly raise income taxes.
- Grand FinalThis House believes that AI technologies will be on net beneficial for animal welfare.
- Novice FinalsThis House believes that it is in the interest of the US to prioritize partner-led missions (e.g. Kenyan-led mission in Haiti) over direct US involvement in post-conflict states.
What gets set here
Social & Identity22%
Economics22%
Politics22%
Technology22%
Law & Crime11%
Environment11%
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38% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 9 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 78.4.
Last edition: 18 of 48 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break18 teams
- Novice break7 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Dennis S. | OW | This House would allow class actions against governments for policy decisions that harm specific groups. | 83 |
| 🇨🇦 Lily M. | LO | This House would ban members of political families from running for elected office | 82 |
| 🇺🇸 Ethan J. | PM | This House supports the narrative that people ought to be agnostic to the social background (e.g. race, class, religion) of the people they date. | 82 |
| Nicholas A. | OW | This House opposes the narrative that travel experiences lead to a meaningful understanding of other nations. | 82 |
| 🇬🇧 Ryan T. | MO | This House would allow class actions against governments for policy decisions that harm specific groups. | 82 |
| 🇨🇦 Daniel S. | OW | This House supports the narrative that people ought to be agnostic to the social background (e.g. race, class, religion) of the people they date. | 82 |
| 🇨🇦 Anais K. | MO | This House supports the narrative that people ought to be agnostic to the social background (e.g. race, class, religion) of the people they date. | 82 |
| Liv M. | DLO | This House supports the narrative that people ought to be agnostic to the social background (e.g. race, class, religion) of the people they date. | 82 |
| 🇺🇸 Elizabeth L. | MG | This House would ban members of political families from running for elected office | 82 |
| 🇺🇸 Adi R. | LO | This House would ban members of political families from running for elected office | 82 |
| Jackie H. | MG | This House would allow class actions against governments for policy decisions that harm specific groups. | 82 |
| 🇨🇦 Anders W. | DLO | This House would ban members of political families from running for elected office | 82 |
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