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Imperial Intervarsity 2025
2025-07-26 · BP
Motions from this series
Imperial IV 2025 (2025)7 motionsCA: 🇮🇪 Lucy M., 🇬🇧 Joseph L., Emily F., Maša P.
- Round 1THBT London should secede from the UK
- Round 2This House Would allow people to profit from their own reproductive processes (e.g. sale of oocysts and sperm, commercial surrogacy)
- Round 3This house prefers a World with only one currency
- Round 4THBT, to change the world, it is better for art to be beautiful than present a clear moral message
- Round 5This horse opposes the concept that it is better to let 100 guilty people go free than to jail an innocent person
- SemifinalsThis House Prefers Moral Relativism to Moral Absolutism
- Grand FinalTH, as president Vučić, would allow project Jadar to be realised.
Imperial IV 2024 (2024)7 motionsCA: 🇮🇪 Jack S., 🇬🇧 Taha I., 🇬🇧 Chris C., 🇮🇪 Daniela W.
- Round 1This House Believes That the Jerry Springer Show did more harm than good.
- Round 2This House Believes That the EU should decriminalise human smuggling.
- Round 3This House Prefers painting 'B' (The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci) to painting 'A' (One: Number 31 by Jackson Pollock).
- Round 4This House Would introduce the substance to the global water supply.
- Round 5This House Believes That it is in the interests of the Conservative Party to merge with Reform UK.
- SemifinalsThis House Would ban share buybacks.
- Grand FinalThis House Believes that God exists.
Imperial IV 2022 (2022)11 motionsCA: 🇮🇱 Tamar M., 🇺🇸 Emery T., 🇮🇪 Jack S., Mukhtar T.
- Round 1THS governments measuring the efficacy of charities and stripping those with low social value of their charitable status
- Round 2THBT the creation of new feminist media is better for the feminist movement than feminist remakes of existing media
- Round 3Assuming feasibility, THW determine the percentage of income that an individual pays as tax based on the relative material privilege the individual had during their upbringing (such as private education, parental wealth, childhood home etc.) and not based on their income
- Round 4THO the global rise in semiconductor manufacturing subsidies
- Round 5THBT states should adopt sunset clauses in their constitutions that require them to review and revise/reauthorize them every 50 years
- Partial OctofinalsTHR the glorification of the immediate postcolonial leaders in African states
- QuarterfinalsTHBT that liberal states should sponsor hacking of government infrastructure within authoritarian regimes
- SemifinalsTHBT El Salvador should sell its bitcoin reserves right now
- Grand FinalTHS the legalization of Drift
- ESL SemifinalsTHBT that liberal states should sponsor hacking of government infrastructure within authoritarian regimes
- ESL FinalTHBT El Salvador should sell its bitcoin reserves right now
Imperial IV 2021 (2021)10 motions
- Round 1THBT parents should teach children to choose friendship instead of romantic love as the primary relationship of importance in their life
- Round 2THBT extensive media coverage of high profile criminal trials does more harm than good
- Round 4THR the aesthetisation of suffering
- Round 5THS political parties that exclusively represent women's interests
- Partial OctofinalsTHS the universal adoption of cryptocurrencies as additional legal tender
- QuarterfinalsTHBT increased US political disengagement from Europe is in the interest of the EU
- Pro-Am FinalTHW impose criminal laws to crimes committed by users of avatars in virtual worlds (such as 'Second Life')
- SemifinalsTHR the exclusive focus of modern antitrust regulators on ensuring consumer welfare without promoting structural market reforms (e.g. also taking into account firm size or degree of market consolidation when considering antitrust cases)
- ESL FinalTHW allow the use of MYRAGE
- Grand FinalTHP a world without international law and international multilateral institutions (e.g., the International Criminal Court, World Trade Organization, World Intellectual Property organization, etc.)
What gets set here
Economics26%
Politics14%
Law & Crime11%
Social & Identity11%
International Relations11%
Abstract9%
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Practice Economics motions ›Read: Generating arguments ›Breaking here
22% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 78.8.
Last edition: 8 of 33 teams broke.
- 202110 pts · 77.2 speaks28/105
- 202210 pts · 79.2 speaks24/118
- 202411 pts · 79.7 speaks8/45
- 202510 pts · 79.0 speaks8/33
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Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇮🇪 Dylan C. | LO | THBT, to change the world, it is better for art to be beautiful than present a clear moral message | 86 |
| 🇭🇰 Aniket G. | MG | THBT, to change the world, it is better for art to be beautiful than present a clear moral message | 86 |
| 🇪🇪 Tanel M. | LO | This horse opposes the concept that it is better to let 100 guilty people go free than to jail an innocent person | 86 |
| 🇮🇪 Andy C. | DPM | This House Would allow people to profit from their own reproductive processes (e.g. sale of oocysts and sperm, commercial surrogacy) | 85 |
| 🇪🇪 Kristjan S. | DLO | This horse opposes the concept that it is better to let 100 guilty people go free than to jail an innocent person | 85 |
| 🇬🇧 Gareth Y. | MG | THBT, to change the world, it is better for art to be beautiful than present a clear moral message | 85 |
| 🇮🇪 Oisín B. | DLO | THBT, to change the world, it is better for art to be beautiful than present a clear moral message | 85 |
| 🇬🇧 Fraser M. | MO | THBT, to change the world, it is better for art to be beautiful than present a clear moral message | 85 |
| 🇭🇰 Aniket G. | PM | This house prefers a World with only one currency | 84 |
| 🇮🇪 Andy C. | OW | THBT, to change the world, it is better for art to be beautiful than present a clear moral message | 84 |
| 🇮🇪 Oisín B. | GW | This house prefers a World with only one currency | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Fraser M. | MG | This House Would allow people to profit from their own reproductive processes (e.g. sale of oocysts and sperm, commercial surrogacy) | 84 |
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