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McGill IV 2025
Mar 14, 2025 · Canada, In person · BP
Motions from this series
McGill IV 2025 (2025)9 motions
- Round 1This House regrets the recent rise of works about radical class subjugation
- Round 2This House would require medical centers to document and publish the findings from their morbidity and mortality conferences
- Round 3This House, as Alberta, prefers a world where Quebec successfully seceded from Canada in 1995
- Round 4This House regrets the shift in consumption from offline, single-player video games (e.g., God of War, Grand Theft Auto V, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim) to online, multiplayer video games (e.g., Rust, Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto Online)
- Round 5This House believes that the United States should legalize cocaine
- QuarterfinalsThis House prefers the fundholder-owned model to the shareholder-owned model in investment management firms
- Semifinals[Redacted]
- Grand FinalThis House believes that it would be unethical for you to press the button
- Novice FinalsThis House regrets the trivialization of young love
McGill IV 2024 (2024)9 motions
- Round 1This House opposes the stigmatisation of esotericism (e.g. tarot reading, astrology, witchcraft).
- Round 2This House believes that governments should introduce the “Zombie Voting System” for firms that receive significant assistance during financial crises.
- Round 3This House regrets the addition of Prolonged Grief Disorder to the DSM.
- Round 4This House opposes the expectation of prominent Muslims in Western Liberal Democracies (WLDs) to condemn problems in Muslim countries e.g. terrorism, women's rights, LGBT discrimination.
- Round 5This House believes that peak globalization has already been reached.
- QuarterfinalsAssuming feasibility, This House prefers a world with the TrustHuman system.
- SemifinalsThis House prefers atomic communitarianism to contemporary liberal democracy.
- Grand FinalThis House believes that a US-recognized independent Palestinian state will exist within 15 years.
- Novice FinalsThis House believes that all legal proceedings (both civil and criminal) directly involving Donald Trump should be televised.
What gets set here
Social & Identity22%
Economics17%
Health & Medicine11%
Politics11%
Law & Crime11%
Comedy & Novelty11%
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21% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 78.7.
Last edition: 16 of 68 teams broke.
- 202411 pts · 79.2 speaks16/85
- 202510 pts · 78.2 speaks16/68
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break16 teams
- Novice break7 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇨🇦 Max W. | MG | This House believes that the United States should legalize cocaine | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Annushka A. | GW | This House believes that the United States should legalize cocaine | 84 |
| Nicholas A. | GW | This House believes that the United States should legalize cocaine | 84 |
| Neil H. | OW | This House regrets the recent rise of works about radical class subjugation | 83 |
| 🇨🇦 Adam B. | DLO | This House believes that the United States should legalize cocaine | 83 |
| 🇨🇦 Urfaan S. | MO | This House regrets the recent rise of works about radical class subjugation | 83 |
| 🇸🇬 Neo D. | OW | This House regrets the recent rise of works about radical class subjugation | 82 |
| 🇨🇦 Max W. | MO | This House, as Alberta, prefers a world where Quebec successfully seceded from Canada in 1995 | 82 |
| 🇨🇦 Sherry S. | MG | This House believes that the United States should legalize cocaine | 82 |
| Neil H. | DLO | This House, as Alberta, prefers a world where Quebec successfully seceded from Canada in 1995 | 82 |
| 🇺🇸 Annushka A. | PM | This House would require medical centers to document and publish the findings from their morbidity and mortality conferences | 82 |
| 🇨🇦 Hidden debater · 1pv8 | LO | This House, as Alberta, prefers a world where Quebec successfully seceded from Canada in 1995 | 82 |
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