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Parlance 2025
Oct 18, 2025 · AP
Motions
Parlance 2025 (2025)33 motionsCA: Aarohi B., Rishabh G., 🇲🇾 Rashrvin P., Archit L., Aneesh B.
- Round 1This House believes that major US college athletes should be classified and paid as university employees.
- Round 1This house opposes the centrality of sport to national identity
- Round 1THBT India Should Heavily Invest in Local Sports Over Global Sports
- Round 2This House would require that technologies relevant to de-extinction be open source
- Round 2THBT the environmental movement in the US should focus on Climate Realism advocacy
- Round 2This house prefers a world where all environmental action pushed solely for carbon reductions rather than carbon offsets
- Round 3THBT the feminist movement should portray men as the victims of the patriarchy rather than as the beneficaries of the patriarchy
- Round 3THBT the feminist movement should support the usage of women-only safety apps
- Round 3TH as the feminist movement in Japan Supports Sanae Takaichi's election as Japan's new PM
- Round 4THW liberalize India's passenger aviation industry
- Round 4This House believes it is in India’s interest to reject the US demand rather than pursue a compromise strategy in the November 2025 trade negotiations
- Round 4This House Would prioritise insurgent planning over state-led planning for housing in developing countries.
- Round 5THBT heads of local police departments should be selected via a cyclic election of 5 years in US
- Round 5This House, as France, would abolish the BAC (Brigade Anti-Criminalité) plainclothes units.
- Round 5This House Would Significantly Reduce the Union Rights of Police Officers in the United States.
- Open Pre-Quarter FinalsTHS the rise in AI tools in media productions (e.g. image and video generation, actor deepfakes, voice replication, content creation etc.)
- Open Pre-Quarter FinalsTHBT the rise of gonzo journalism has done more harm than good
- Open Pre-Quarter FinalsTHO the idolization of "Power Fantasy" characters
- Open Quarter FinalsThis House as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community would search for one’s “true love” over sustaining a High-Effort driven relationship
- Open Quarter FinalsThis house believes that queer advocacy groups should prioritize empowering individuals to pursue non-state-dependent relationships (e.g. chosen families, live-in relationships, co parenting, etc.) over campaigning for state-recognized unions (e.g. marriage, adoption, etc.)
- Open Quarter FinalsThis house would include openly LGBTQIA+ villains in your movies instead of queer coded heroes
- Novice Semi FinalsThis house believes that educational models should prioritize intrinsic over extrinsic motivation
- Novice Semi FinalsTHS academic streaming
- Novice Semi FinalsThis house believes that in areas of socio-economic deprivation, schools should train students in vocational skills at the expense of the liberal arts
- SemifinalsTHBT the shutdown is in the interests of the Republican Party
- SemifinalsThis House Opposes Civilian-Led Humanitarian Missions to Challenge Blockades in Conflict Areas
- SemifinalsThis House, as ECOWAS would abandon its current policy of sanction and isolation toward the AES and instead pursue a policy of formal reintegration.
- Novice FinalsThis House supports the unionization of content creators on major digital platforms (e.g., YouTube, TikTok, Twitch).
- Novice FinalsThis House Would grant certified private corporations the right to engage in active cyber defense, including "hacking back" against their attackers.
- Novice FinalsThis house regrets the rise in models of game development which rely on free-to-play models of revenue.
- Grand FinalTH, as Marcus Aurelius, would organise the assassination of Commodus
- Grand FinalThis House, as the Divine Locus, would choose the Federation's offer over the Hegemony's offer
- Grand FinalTH as Andy would take the offer
What gets set here
Politics6%
Education6%
Sport3%
Technology3%
Social & Identity3%
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21% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 4 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 76.1.
Last edition: 12 of 57 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break12 teams
- Novice break6 teams
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