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HWS Round Robin 2025
2025-04-05 · BP
Motions from this series
HWS Round Robin 2025 (2025)6 motions
- 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.
- Round 2-AThis house regrets the Indian Premier League.
- Round 3-AThis house believes that breaking up large meat companies is in the interests of animal welfare.
- Round 4-AThis house prefers a world where genius only develops after adulthood (so that there are no child prodigies).
- 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).
- Grand FinalAssuming a peaceful and democratic transition, this house supports the United States of America being separated into several, more politically-homogeneous, sovereign states.
HWS Round Robin 2024 (2024)11 motions
- Round 1THBT the UK should have provided extensive military support to the independent state of Biafra.
- Round 2THP the establishment of an inclusive literary canon to the elimination of any literary canon.
- Round 3THBT social policies should be decided by mini-publics.
- Round 4THW choose to be born on North Sentinel Island over being born randomly somewhere else in the world.
- 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.
- Round 6THW break up the largest asset management firms
- 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.)
- Round 8THR the predominance of romantic love in popular culture.
- Round 9THP a world where post-colonial states adopted and use Interlanguages over the usage of colonial languages (e.g. English, French, etc.)
- SemifinalsTHBT it is in the Houthis' interest to attack ships in the Red Sea.
- Grand FinalTH, as the chemist, would take the chemical weapons job
What gets set here
Social & Identity35%
Politics18%
Economics18%
Media12%
International Relations12%
Sport6%
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26% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 21 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 81.5.
Last edition: 4 of 16 teams broke.
- 202022 pts · 81.6 speaks4/16
- 202122 pts · 80.9 speaks4/16
- 202222 pts · 81.6 speaks4/16
- 202324 pts · 82.0 speaks4/16
- 202417 pts · 81.2 speaks8/28
- 202520 pts · 81.4 speaks4/16
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Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anders W. | LO | — | 85 |
| 🇬🇧 Aidan W. | LO | — | 85 |
| 🇨🇦 Jacob S. | DPM | — | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Helen W. | OW | — | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Max R. | DPM | — | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Max R. | OW | This house regrets the Indian Premier League. | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Lucie S. | DPM | This house prefers a world where genius only develops after adulthood (so that there are no child prodigies). | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Max R. | OW | — | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Sophie H. | MO | This house regrets the Indian Premier League. | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Elena R. | DLO | — | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Jacquelynn L. | PM | — | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Amitai P. | OW | — | 84 |
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