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KCL Open 2021
2021-06-19 · BP
Motions
KCL Open 2021 (2021)12 motionsCA: 🇮🇪 Lucy M., 🇨🇦 Ruth S., 🇵🇭 Mikko V., 🇭🇷 Vladimira Š., 🇲🇾 Ploopy
- Round 1THBT developing states should place significant caps on the construction of high-rise residences in urban areas
- Round 2THBT the Biden administration should adopt a diplomatic rather than an antagonistic approach to Russia
- Round 3THBT capitalism brings more harm than good for disenfranchised groups.
- Round 4In countries with private healthcare, THS the creation of hospitals with free healthcare where there’s a random chance patients participate in government research trials in addition to receiving treatment.
- Round 5THBT it is in the interest of independent secessionist movements to prioritize creating autonomous zones within preexisting countries over full on statehood.
- Open Partial OctofinalsTHBT NGOs in developing countries should prioritize advocacy for changing institutional norms (e.g. transparency, democracy) over advocacy for tangible goods (e.g. building water systems, raising incomes by set amounts).
- Open QuarterfinalsTHO the use of the "it gets better" narrative by queer organisations and movements in the developing world
- ESL SemifinalsTHO the use of the "it gets better" narrative by queer organisations and movements in the developing world
- Open SemifinalsTHS the use of extraction rights to natural resources as a form of collateral for external debt
- ESL FinalsTHP a world where people believe that judgment and entry into the afterlife happens through a metric of peer review versus a metric that takes into account the net sum of your actions on the world.
- Pro-Am FinalTHP a world where the government made public a list of individuals and their niche.
- Grand FinalTHS a widespread implementation of San Pedro's prison structure
What gets set here
Economics25%
International Relations17%
Politics17%
Social & Identity17%
Health & Medicine8%
Comedy & Novelty8%
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27% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.2.
Last edition: 25 of 91 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break25 teams
- ESL break18 teams
- Pro-Am break7 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Joseph L. | GW | THBT the Biden administration should adopt a diplomatic rather than an antagonistic approach to Russia | 86 |
| 🇮🇪 Jack S. | OW | THBT developing states should place significant caps on the construction of high-rise residences in urban areas | 86 |
| 🇺🇸 Enshia L. | DPM | In countries with private healthcare, THS the creation of hospitals with free healthcare where there’s a random chance patients participate in government research trials in addition to receiving treatment. | 85 |
| 🇮🇪 Caoimhin H. | MO | THBT developing states should place significant caps on the construction of high-rise residences in urban areas | 85 |
| 🇺🇸 Vivian Z. | PM | In countries with private healthcare, THS the creation of hospitals with free healthcare where there’s a random chance patients participate in government research trials in addition to receiving treatment. | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Xiao L. | DLO | THBT the Biden administration should adopt a diplomatic rather than an antagonistic approach to Russia | 84 |
| Muhammad L. | DPM | THBT capitalism brings more harm than good for disenfranchised groups. | 84 |
| 🇮🇪 Caoimhin H. | MG | In countries with private healthcare, THS the creation of hospitals with free healthcare where there’s a random chance patients participate in government research trials in addition to receiving treatment. | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Ron L. | MG | THBT the Biden administration should adopt a diplomatic rather than an antagonistic approach to Russia | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Muhammad Z. | PM | THBT capitalism brings more harm than good for disenfranchised groups. | 84 |
| 🇭🇷 Tin P. | LO | THBT the Biden administration should adopt a diplomatic rather than an antagonistic approach to Russia | 84 |
| 🇭🇷 Tin P. | MO | In countries with private healthcare, THS the creation of hospitals with free healthcare where there’s a random chance patients participate in government research trials in addition to receiving treatment. | 84 |
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