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Colgate Open 2021
2021-06-01 · BP
Motions
Colgate Open 2021 (2021)9 motionsCA: Helena H., 🇨🇦 Patrick C., 🇨🇦 Ruth S., 🇺🇸 Sandy G., 🇬🇧 Umar B.
- Round 1TH, as a minority artist in creative spaces that are widely prejudiced and toxic toward your identity (e.g. LGBT people in hip-hop, women in film directing), would not reference such identity in your art.
- Round 2TH, as Danone, Regrets Faber's removal
- Round 3THW not pursue romantic relationships with non-Reanimationists
- Round 4TH, as a progressive candidate, Would heavily prioritize economic policy over social policy.
- Round 5THBT the international actors who had supported Fayulu should actively support Tshisekedi’s attempts to form a new government.
- QuarterfinalsTHS the narrative that “education is the greatest equalizer.”
- Novice FinalTHBT humans should give up on earth, instead of re-inhabitating it.
- SemifinalsTHBT major pharmaceutical companies should cut off supply of its products to governments that don’t follow the company's protocol around their distribution and usage.
- Grand FinalTHP this world over ours.
What gets set here
Social & Identity22%
Economics22%
Comedy & Novelty11%
Politics11%
International Relations11%
Environment11%
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18% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 77.9.
Last edition: 16 of 88 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
- Novice break8 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kat | MO | TH, as a progressive candidate, Would heavily prioritize economic policy over social policy. | 85 |
| 🇺🇸 Eva-Marie Q. | LO | THW not pursue romantic relationships with non-Reanimationists | 85 |
| Rhys | OW | TH, as a progressive candidate, Would heavily prioritize economic policy over social policy. | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Matt C. | DLO | THW not pursue romantic relationships with non-Reanimationists | 83 |
| 🇬🇧 Matt C. | MG | THBT the international actors who had supported Fayulu should actively support Tshisekedi’s attempts to form a new government. | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Pascal O. | DPM | THW not pursue romantic relationships with non-Reanimationists | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Ted C. | PM | TH, as Danone, Regrets Faber's removal | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Eva-Marie Q. | OW | TH, as Danone, Regrets Faber's removal | 83 |
| Speaker A. | PM | TH, as Danone, Regrets Faber's removal | 82 |
| 🇬🇧 Matt C. | MO | TH, as Danone, Regrets Faber's removal | 82 |
| 🇨🇦 Matt A. | PM | THW not pursue romantic relationships with non-Reanimationists | 82 |
| 🇺🇸 Dennis S. | OW | TH, as a minority artist in creative spaces that are widely prejudiced and toxic toward your identity (e.g. LGBT people in hip-hop, women in film directing), would not reference such identity in your art. | 82 |
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