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The Delhi Debate 2025
Aug 2, 2025 · BP
Motions from this series
Delhi Debate 2025 (2025)8 motionsCA: Ahmad J., 🇲🇾 Shireen A., 🇮🇳 V S., 🇸🇬 Rdu D.
- Round 1THS the right to try.
- Round 2THS state-led bailouts of national champions in sectors facing foreign competition.
- Round 3THW allow public servants to strike.
- Round 4THP mothers teaching daughters to adopt traditionally masculine personality traits (e.g. being authoritative, prioritising logic over emotions, leaning into highly competitive and independent dynamics) even at the expense of the traditionally feminine counterpart traits (e.g. being submissive, prioritising emotions over logic, leaning into compliant community dynamics)
- Round 5THBT workplaces should embrace the "Like A Family" narratives.
- Pre-SemifinalsTHS the creation of "recovery from religion" organizations in majority-religious countries.
- SemifinalsTHW require high-emitting developed countries (e.g., the US, Australia, EU states) to accept a mandatory quota of climate refugees.
- Novice FinalTHW require high-emitting developed countries (e.g., the US, Australia, EU states) to accept a mandatory quota of climate refugees.
Delhi Debate 2024 (2024)10 motionsCA: Pranav K., 🇭🇷 Paula D., 🇦🇺 Ellie S., Minami M., 🇮🇳 Sharun G.
- Round 1This House supports granting autonomous status to regional governments in regions with high levels of tourism (e.g. providing additional control over taxation and finance, granting ability to approve developments, greater control over internal immigration etc.)
- Round 2This House prefers the mobility approach to the tenure approach
- Round 3This House believes that states should only use the public housing policy approach when conducting social housing policy
- Round 4This House prefers the adversarial system to the inquisitorial system
- Round 5THO the premium placed on being content
- Novice Semi-FinalsTHBT governments in developing nations should prioritise increasing foreign tie-ups in public universities, as opposed to allowing foreign universities to set up new branches locally
- Open Quarter FinalsTHBT governments in developing nations should prioritise increasing foreign tie-ups in public universities, as opposed to allowing foreign universities to set up new branches locally
- Open Semi FinalsTHBT the LGBTQ+ movement should emphasise family values as a part of their activism, rather than adopt the view that family values do not matter
- Novice FinalsThis House, as a growing business, would choose a collaborative structure instead of a competitive structure
- Open Grand FinalsTHW allow convicted criminals to opt for the Cognify Prison Model as an alternative to serving their prison sentence
What gets set here
Social & Identity22%
Law & Crime17%
Economics17%
Education17%
Politics11%
Environment11%
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22% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 77.0.
Last edition: 12 of 48 teams broke.
- 202411 pts · 77.3 speaks16/88
- 20259 pts · 76.8 speaks12/48
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break12 teams
- Novice break4 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Dhruv H. | PM | THS the right to try. | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Sam G. | DPM | THS the right to try. | 82 |
| Rishabh G. | LO | THBT workplaces should embrace the "Like A Family" narratives. | 81 |
| Rishabh G. | PM | THW allow public servants to strike. | 81 |
| Himan N. | DLO | THBT workplaces should embrace the "Like A Family" narratives. | 81 |
| 🇦🇺 Sam G. | GW | THS state-led bailouts of national champions in sectors facing foreign competition. | 80 |
| 🇮🇳 Vishwa R. | PM | THS state-led bailouts of national champions in sectors facing foreign competition. | 80 |
| Abel | DLO | THBT workplaces should embrace the "Like A Family" narratives. | 80 |
| Himan N. | DPM | THW allow public servants to strike. | 80 |
| 🇦🇺 Sam G. | MO | THW allow public servants to strike. | 80 |
| Abel | MG | THS state-led bailouts of national champions in sectors facing foreign competition. | 80 |
| Garvit G. | DPM | THW allow public servants to strike. | 80 |
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