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Diliman Pre-UADC 2026
Jun 1, 2026 · AP
Motions from this series
Diliman Pre-UADC 2026 (2026)30 motionsCA: 🇵🇭 Riva F., Banun S., Hinano H., Rushdoon A.
- Round 1THR the emphasis on credentials (e.g. degrees, professional certifications, standardized test scores etc.)
- Round 1THP the trend of having multiple moderately strong friendships over attempting to find a small, extremely close circle of friends
- Round 1THBT academic journals should adopt diversity quotas in peer review
- Round 2THBT the state should pay reparations to individuals convicted in the past for actions that are no longer recognised as crimes
- Round 2As a parent of a marginalised minority community living in the West, THW teach their children to distrust the authorities
- Round 2THBT it is morally wrong to use 'nudging' to push citizens towards socially desirable choices
- Round 3THS the inclusion of Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms in free trade agreements
- Round 3THS the mandatory standardization of technology (e.g. USB-C charging mandates, common AI safety and transparency standards, interoperable messaging/payment systems)
- Round 3THR the growing trend of retail investors buying the dip
- Round 4In multiethnic states, THW constitutionally implement the Ethnic Powersharing Model
- Round 4THP a world where the success of a liberation struggle is attributed to a movement, rather than an individual (e.g. ANC instead of Nelson Mandela)
- Round 4THP a world where states centred their national identities around figures and cult heroes, as opposed to ideologies
- Round 5THS the appeal towards aesthetics, in environmental activism
- Round 5THBT social movements in developing countries should actively utilise narratives intended to evoke extreme guilt, in their advocacy
- Round 5This house believes that minorities should emphasise their conformity with rather than distinctiveness from, the dominant culture as a strategy for improving social conditions
- QuarterfinalsThis house supports the decline of geopolitical alliances based on cultural identity
- QuarterfinalsTHBT the war in Iran is in the interest of the CCP
- QuarterfinalsTHBT Western states should support local rebel groups (e.g. by funding them and giving them intel) as opposed to direct military intervention in other states
- SemifinalsTHO the World Bank's "Climate Smart" Mining Initiative
- SemifinalsTHBT multinational companies should be liable for human rights abuses that occur anywhere in their supply chain
- SemifinalsTHP centralised urban planning system to decentralised urban planning system
- Grand FinalTHP a world where religions were not founded on Holy Books
- Grand FinalTHBT western leftism's prioritisation of deference over scrutiny when addressing Islamic practices and beliefs has done more harm then good
- Grand FinalTH, as the Catholic Church, would abolish sainthoods and canonisation
- Novice FinalsTHR cosmopolitanism
- Novice FinalsThis house, as an average individual in the US, would choose not to have children
- Novice FinalsTHP a world where humanity is risk-averse as opposed to one where they are risk-seeking
- Schools FinalsThis House believes that Southeast Asian nations should actively seek closer ties to China
- Schools FinalsThis House regrets the prevalence of colonial determinism in discourse surrounding African development and politics
- Schools FinalsThis house predicts that the rise of artificial intelligence will make liberal democracies less democratic over the next 10 years
Diliman Pre-UADC 2024 (2024)30 motionsCA: 🇯🇵 Nasa T., Asif A., 🇵🇭 Bea L., 🇸🇬 Shaun L., 🇵🇭 Luigi A.
- Round 1This house regrets the rise of 'Silicon Valley Culture'
- Round 1This house believes that labor unions should have their power suspended during times of economic crisis
- Round 1This house regrets the premium placed on professionalism
- Round 2This house regrets the narrative of "if he wanted to he would"
- Round 2This house believes that feminist movements should campaign to reject masculinity rather than coopt masculinity to serve feminist goals
- Round 2This house supports pre nuptial agreements
- Round 3This house, as a Muslim majority Southeast Asian nation, would reject Saudi Arabian investments in education
- Round 3This house believes that the Obama administration should have intervened with boots on the ground against ISIS
- Round 3This house believes it is in the interest of Xi Jinping to significantly withdraw China's military support for Russia
- Round 4This house believes that Pope Francis has failed the Catholic Church
- Round 4This house believes that it is in the interest of the Catholic Church to abandon the doctrine of "divine inspiration" of the Bible, in favor of one that admits it was written by flawed human beings
- Round 4This house believes that the Philippine Catholic Church should embrace folk Catholicism
- Round 5This house believes that it is in the interest of developing countries to outsource education to private agencies
- Round 5This house would proportionately subsidise (e.g. scholarship and funding) university courses according to the employability of their graduates
- Round 5This house believes that parents of minority children should strongly emphasize the importance of internal validation as opposed to external validation
- QuarterfinalsThis house prefers a world where all social media was demetrified from the beginning
- QuarterfinalsThis house would break up major mass media conglomerates (e.g. Fox, Disney, Sony, Paramount)
- QuarterfinalsThis house believes that the non-English speaking world should oppose the rapid development and adoption of real-time AI translation models
- SemifinalsThis house believes that left-wing political campaigns should heavily prioritize forwarding "firebrand" political candidates
- SemifinalsThis house prefers a cynical and pessimistic perception of democratic politics to an idealistic and optimistic one
- SemifinalsThis house prefers a world where the legacies of violent radical revolutionaries are celebrated more than the legacies of revolutionaries who prioritized nonviolent means of reconciliation
- Grand FinalThis house believes in a universal intergenerational obligation
- Grand FinalThis house believes that parents should not have the right to reject life-saving treatment for their children when recommended by medical professionals
- Grand FinalThis house believes that it is immoral to act against one's conscience
- Novice SemifinalsThis house prefers a world where all social media was demetrified from the beginning
- Novice SemifinalsThis house would break up major mass media conglomerates (e.g. Fox, Disney, Sony, Paramount)
- Novice SemifinalsThis house believes that the non-English speaking world should oppose the rapid development and adoption of real-time AI translation models
- Novice FinalsThis house believes that left-wing political campaigns should heavily prioritize forwarding "firebrand" political candidates
- Novice FinalsThis house prefers a cynical and pessimistic perception of democratic politics to an idealistic and optimistic one
- Novice FinalsThis house prefers a world where the legacies of violent radical revolutionaries are celebrated more than the legacies of revolutionaries who prioritized nonviolent means of reconciliation
What gets set here
International Relations5%
Social & Identity5%
Education3%
Politics3%
Law & Crime2%
Economics2%
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12% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 5 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.0.
Last edition: 9 of 59 teams broke.
- 20245 pts · 79.2 speaks8/83
- 20265 pts · 78.7 speaks9/59
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break9 teams
- Novice break2 teams
- Schools break3 teams
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