HWS Round Robin 2025

1. Round 1-AThis house prefers that progressive journalists focus their efforts on working within and reforming mainstream news platforms, as opposed to establishing their own platforms.Practise this motion
2. Round 2-AThis house regrets the Indian Premier League.Practise this motion
3. Round 3-AThis house believes that breaking up large meat companies is in the interests of animal welfare.Practise this motion
4. Round 4-AThis house prefers a world where genius only develops after adulthood (so that there are no child prodigies).Practise this motion
5. Round 5-AThis house believes that East African national governments should prioritize investments in agriculture (e.g., irrigation, R&D, and inputs like fertilizer) over accelerating industrialization (e.g., building infrastructure, export promotion).Practise this motion
6. Grand FinalAssuming a peaceful and democratic transition, this house supports the United States of America being separated into several, more politically-homogeneous, sovereign states.Practise this motion

1. Round 1THBT the UK should have provided extensive military support to the independent state of Biafra.Practise this motion
2. Round 2THP the establishment of an inclusive literary canon to the elimination of any literary canon.Practise this motion
3. Round 3THBT social policies should be decided by mini-publics.Practise this motion
4. Round 4THW choose to be born on North Sentinel Island over being born randomly somewhere else in the world.Practise this motion
5. Round 5Assuming it is possible to safely and easily move fetuses into safe artificial wombs, THBT womxn should not have the right to an abortion.Practise this motion
6. Round 6THW break up the largest asset management firmsPractise this motion
7. Round 7THR the glorification of ethno-nationalist figures associated with pro-democracy movements (e.g. Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, Alexei Navalny in Russia, Sirimavo Bandaranaike in Sri Lanka, etc.)Practise this motion
8. Round 8THR the predominance of romantic love in popular culture.Practise this motion
9. Round 9THP a world where post-colonial states adopted and use Interlanguages over the usage of colonial languages (e.g. English, French, etc.)Practise this motion
10. SemifinalsTHBT it is in the Houthis' interest to attack ships in the Red Sea.Practise this motion
11. Grand FinalTH, as the chemist, would take the chemical weapons jobPractise this motion

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