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Asian British Parliamentary Championship 2020
2020-06-01 · BP
Motions
ABP 2020 (2020)13 motionsCA: 🇦🇺 Connor O., 🇧🇩 Sourodip P., Khalis K., 🇸🇬 Nar M., Inna F., Piali B.
- Round 1THBT historically discriminated groups should abandon narratives of historical redress in their campaign for equality.
- Round 2THBT the Democratic Party leadership should publicly commit to using 'procedurally activist' congressional tactics to pursue their policy objectives.
- Round 3THW grant the WHO, in times of crisis, coercive powers to gather information about suspected infectious disease outbreaks and to enforce its policy recommendations.
- Round 4THBT investors should be required to invest a significant proportion of their portfolios in the real economy.
- Round 5THBT Southeast Asian nations should actively move towards the consolidation of a regional alliance at the expense of seeking stronger ties with non-regional allies (e.g. by forming closer intra-ASEAN defence ties, increasing ASEAN economic integration etc).
- Round 6THW legalise and actively incentivise the use of university bonds.
- Partial OctofinalsIn areas characterized by significant ethnic and religious cleavages, THP a system of delegative democracy over a system of collusive democracy
- OctofinalsTH, as a Muslim majority SEA nation, would reject Saudi Arabian investments in education
- QuarterfinalsTH, as an altruistically-minded graduate, would follow the 80,000 Hours approach to their professional career rather than joining an altruistic organisation
- SemifinalsTHR the "quantitative turn" in the social sciences
- Grand FinalTH, as the feminist movement, would advocate for aggressive government intervention to counteract behaviours which the feminist movement determines are predominantly the outcome of adaptive preference
- EFL SemifinalsTHBT first generation immigrants should raise their children to fully integrate into their new country, and completely abandon attempts to establish links to their country of origin
- EFL FinalsTHR the US' declining relative influence over global governance
What gets set here
Social & Identity38%
International Relations23%
Politics15%
Health & Medicine8%
Economics8%
Education8%
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30% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 78.2.
Last edition: 48 of 162 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break48 teams
- EFL break11 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇮🇳 Jaymal L. | DLO | THW grant the WHO, in times of crisis, coercive powers to gather information about suspected infectious disease outbreaks and to enforce its policy recommendations. | 86 |
| 🇮🇳 S. S. | DPM | THW grant the WHO, in times of crisis, coercive powers to gather information about suspected infectious disease outbreaks and to enforce its policy recommendations. | 86 |
| 🇵🇭 Mikko V. | DLO | THBT investors should be required to invest a significant proportion of their portfolios in the real economy. | 86 |
| 🇲🇾 Kimberley | MG | THW legalise and actively incentivise the use of university bonds. | 85 |
| 🇮🇳 Pushkar M. | LO | THW grant the WHO, in times of crisis, coercive powers to gather information about suspected infectious disease outbreaks and to enforce its policy recommendations. | 85 |
| 🇲🇾 Kuberan K. | GW | THW legalise and actively incentivise the use of university bonds. | 85 |
| 🇵🇭 Ignacio V. | LO | THBT investors should be required to invest a significant proportion of their portfolios in the real economy. | 85 |
| 🇲🇾 Naveen | MO | THBT Southeast Asian nations should actively move towards the consolidation of a regional alliance at the expense of seeking stronger ties with non-regional allies (e.g. by forming closer intra-ASEAN defence ties, increasing ASEAN economic integration etc). | 85 |
| 🇵🇭 David A. | MG | THW legalise and actively incentivise the use of university bonds. | 85 |
| 🇲🇾 Ploopy | OW | THBT Southeast Asian nations should actively move towards the consolidation of a regional alliance at the expense of seeking stronger ties with non-regional allies (e.g. by forming closer intra-ASEAN defence ties, increasing ASEAN economic integration etc). | 84 |
| 🇵🇭 Ignacio V. | MO | THW legalise and actively incentivise the use of university bonds. | 84 |
| 🇮🇳 Jaymal L. | GW | THBT investors should be required to invest a significant proportion of their portfolios in the real economy. | 84 |
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