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Cambridge IV
Nov 8 - 9 2025 · In-Person · BP
Motions from this series
Cambridge IV 2024 (2024)10 motionsCA: 🇷🇴 Ana C., 🇬🇧 Max R., 🇧🇩 Sourodip P., 🇮🇱 Ayal M., 🇦🇺 Isabella F.
- Round 1This House would prohibit elected officials from pursuing defamation lawsuits against media organisations.
- Round 2This House would legalise paternity tests in France.
- Round 3This House prefers a world where archaeological artifacts were primarily displayed in their original sites of discovery (such as temples, ruins, or archaeological digs).
- Round 4This House prefers a collegiate model of university governance over a centralised model.
- Round 5This House would mandate the inclusion of ‘right to regulate’ clauses in all ISDS provisions.
- QuarterfinalsThis House believes that the interim government of Bangladesh should ban the Awami League and preclude its previous leaders from running for office.
- Novice FinalThis House opposes the narrative that “everyone has their own truth.”
- SemifinalsThis House believes that feminist groups should refrain from claiming that women who oppose feminism are operating under false consciousness.
- ESL FinalThis House, as a young adult in a developed East Asian country, would embrace Bai Lan.
- Grand FinalThis House believes that it is in the UK’s interest to immediately commence the process of rejoining the EU.
Cambridge IV 2023 (2023)8 motionsCA: Klaudia M., 🇵🇪 Mauricio C., 🇬🇧 Geneva R., Banun S.
- Round 1THS people adopting an indifferent approach to news
- Round 2THS the use of the Ludovico Treatment for violent prisoners
- Round 3This House opposes the use of nostalgia* in political campaigning (*nostalgia refers to sentimental feeling of affection for a period of the past)
- Round 4This House would continue to keep his identity a secret
- Round 5THW break up banks* considered "Too Big to Fail" *Such as but NOT limited to Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and HSBC
- SemifinalsThis House believes that it is in the best interest of Arab states to sever ties with the Israeli government
- Grand FinalTHP a world where religions adopted the concept of "God's light"
- ESL FinalsTHP a world where people do not strive to leave behind a legacy
Cambridge IV 2022 (2022)10 motionsCA: 🇭🇷 Tin P., 🇬🇧 Jason X., 🇷🇸 Marta V., 🇬🇧 Isabelle S., Harish N., 🇸🇬 Nar M.
- Round 1THB the mainstream media should have covered the Hunter Biden emails
- Round 2THS the antiwork movement
- Round 3THBT Xi Jinping's consolidation of power is in the interest of the Chinese people
- Round 4THBT the general approach of environmentally conscious large investors should be to sell their stakes in environmentally damaging companies rather than engage in shareholder activism
- Round 5THS Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter
- ESL SemifinalsTHB that international pro-democracy organisations should provide material support to feminist groups that aim to challenge non-democratic regimes (e.g. the Women's Organisation of Iran, Tehran Youth, Seminario de Estudios Sociólogics sobre la Mujer in Franco's Spain)
- ESL FinalsTHP a world with rational egoism as the dominant outlook on life
- QuarterfinalsTHBT majority liberal supreme courts should actively misinterpret constitutions in order to advance progressive rights
- SemifinalsTHBT advanced economies should focus on rapid increases in growth, even at the expense of significantly higher rates of inequality
- Grand FinalTH supports Iran’s extension of the Sharia principle of “an eye for an eye” to the victims of acid attacks
What gets set here
Social & Identity18%
Law & Crime14%
International Relations14%
Politics11%
Media7%
Economics7%
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20% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.8.
Last edition: 18 of 86 teams broke.
- 202211 pts · 80.2 speaks16/72
- 202311 pts · 80.2 speaks8/45
- 202411 pts · 79.1 speaks18/86
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break18 teams
- ESL break7 teams
- Novice break6 teams
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