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Colgate Open 2025
Apr 12, 2025 · BP
Motions from this series
Colgate Open 2025 (2025)6 motions
- Round 1In post-conflict states, This house would fabricate history to establish narratives and evidence of a shared history (i.e. different communities having lived peacefully in the past, successes achieved together).
- Round 2This house believes that progressive news media should push the narrative of state capture in the United States.
- Round 3Behind the veil of ignorance, this house, as a superhero, would prefer to exist in the Incredibles model of superhero regulation to the Sokovia accords.
- Round 4𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 the Trump Administration’s Tariffs will bring more harm than good for China.
- Round 5This house believes that progressive social movements should heavily prioritize non-state based solutions.
- Grand FinalWhen responding to civilian casualties, this house believes that military action taken does not have to meet the principle of proportionality.
Colgate Open 2024 (2024)6 motions
- Round 1THBT US colleges should have a 'public school' quota in college admissions equivalent to the percent of students that attend public school in the US.
- Round 2In western liberal democracies, THBT feminist messaging should emphasize that women are more competent than men rather than just as skilled as men.
- Round 3This house believes that developing countries should adopt economic development policies that heavily incentivise urbanisation
- Round 4THP religious doctrines that teach that people are inherently good to religious doctrines that teach that people are inherently sinful
- Round 5This House Believes that progressive political parties should adopt Shorism.
- Grand FinalTHR the narrative that self-sacrifice is a virtue
Colgate Open 2023 (2023)8 motionsCA: 🇺🇸 Sreyan K., 🇺🇸 Meg K., 🇺🇸 Pranav A., Ruth A.
- Round 1THR the commercialization of social movements (e.g. the inclusion of pop cultural icons, financial and corporate sponsorship etc.)
- Round 2TH, as ASEAN, would afford freedom of movement to all nationals of its member states.
- Round 3THW only subsidize art that has been judged by a panel of civilians
- Round 4THBT India should lease Protected Areas to local residents
- Round 5THBT developing countries should actively discourage the formation of primate cities
- SemifinalsTHBT the UBS purchase of Credit Suisse is bad for the global financial system
- Grand FinalTHS the creation of an open marketplace for the buying and selling of luck between individuals.
- Novice FinalsTHS the narrative that all people are reedemable
Colgate Open 2021 (2021)9 motionsCA: Helena H., 🇨🇦 Patrick C., 🇨🇦 Ruth S., 🇺🇸 Sandy G., 🇬🇧 Umar B.
- Round 1TH, as a minority artist in creative spaces that are widely prejudiced and toxic toward your identity (e.g. LGBT people in hip-hop, women in film directing), would not reference such identity in your art.
- Round 2TH, as Danone, Regrets Faber's removal
- Round 3THW not pursue romantic relationships with non-Reanimationists
- Round 4TH, as a progressive candidate, Would heavily prioritize economic policy over social policy.
- Round 5THBT the international actors who had supported Fayulu should actively support Tshisekedi’s attempts to form a new government.
- QuarterfinalsTHS the narrative that “education is the greatest equalizer.”
- Novice FinalTHBT humans should give up on earth, instead of re-inhabitating it.
- SemifinalsTHBT major pharmaceutical companies should cut off supply of its products to governments that don’t follow the company's protocol around their distribution and usage.
- Grand FinalTHP this world over ours.
What gets set here
Social & Identity24%
Economics21%
International Relations10%
Politics7%
Environment7%
Comedy & Novelty7%
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21% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 77.8.
Last edition: 4 of 24 teams broke.
- 202110 pts · 77.9 speaks16/88
- 202310 pts · 79.9 speaks8/28
- 202410 pts · 76.2 speaks4/21
- 202510 pts · 77.0 speaks4/24
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Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Bilal N. | MG | This house believes that progressive social movements should heavily prioritize non-state based solutions. | 81 |
| 🇺🇸 Bilal N. | MO | Behind the veil of ignorance, this house, as a superhero, would prefer to exist in the Incredibles model of superhero regulation to the Sokovia accords. | 80 |
| 🇺🇸 Angela Z. | DPM | 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 the Trump Administration’s Tariffs will bring more harm than good for China. | 80 |
| 🇺🇸 Dylan B. | MO | 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 the Trump Administration’s Tariffs will bring more harm than good for China. | 80 |
| 🇨🇦 Anais K. | MG | This house believes that progressive social movements should heavily prioritize non-state based solutions. | 79 |
| 🇺🇸 Maeve G. | LO | This house believes that progressive social movements should heavily prioritize non-state based solutions. | 79 |
| 🇺🇸 Lesley M. | DLO | This house believes that progressive social movements should heavily prioritize non-state based solutions. | 79 |
| 🇺🇸 Lesley M. | OW | This house believes that progressive news media should push the narrative of state capture in the United States. | 79 |
| 🇺🇸 Angela Z. | DLO | This house believes that progressive news media should push the narrative of state capture in the United States. | 79 |
| 🇺🇸 Coston A. | PM | 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 the Trump Administration’s Tariffs will bring more harm than good for China. | 79 |
| 🇺🇸 James C. | OW | In post-conflict states, This house would fabricate history to establish narratives and evidence of a shared history (i.e. different communities having lived peacefully in the past, successes achieved together). | 79 |
| 🇺🇸 Bilal N. | DLO | 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 the Trump Administration’s Tariffs will bring more harm than good for China. | 79 |
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