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Diliman Pre-UADC 2024
May 17, 2024 · AP
Motions
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
Social & Identity7%
International Relations3%
Religion3%
Education3%
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10% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 5 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.2.
Last edition: 8 of 83 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break8 teams
- Novice break4 teams
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