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Thessaloniki WUDC 2016
December 2015 · Thessaloniki, Greece · BP
Part of the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) series →
Motions from this series
Malaysia WUDC 2015 (2015)9 motions
- Round 1This House Regrets the decline of tightly integrated families
- Round 2This house believes that environmental movements should support climate engineering that fundamentally alters the environment, in an attempt to combat Global Warming.
- Round 3This House believes that in areas of socio-economic deprivation, schools should train students in vocational skills to the exclusion of the Liberal Arts.
- Round 4This House would prohibit the media from reporting on the mental illness of those accused of crimes.
- Round 5This House belives that the international community should cut off internet access in Syria.
- Round 6This House believes that developing countries should adopt economic development policies that heavily disincentivise urbanisation.
- Round 7This House would ban the research and production of moral enhancement drugs.
- Round 8This House believes that the United States and the European Union should seek to promote peace by heavily subsidising Israeli businesses who invest in the Palestinian territories.
- Round 9This House, as a medical professional employed by the United States military or security services, would, and would encourage others, to refuse orders to provide medical treatment to individuals undergoing “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”.
Chennai WUDC 2014 (2014)19 motions
- Round 1THBT the United States of America should fund moderate Madrassas (schools of Islamic study) throughout the Islamic world
- Round 2THW allow first-time offenders to, with the consent of the victims, pay compensation to them in place of a prison sentence
- Round 3TH regrets the rise of a 'hookup culture' (one which accepts and encourages casual sexual encounters focused on physical pleasure, without necessarily including emotional bonding)
- Round 4THBT developing countries should ban members of political dynasties from standing for elected office
- Round 5THBT the Trans-Pacific Partnership is in the interests of the small and medium-sized negotiating countries
- Round 6THW make the receipt of welfare payments to raise children conditional on the use of long-term, but reversible, contraception
- Round 7THBT government agencies that regulate drugs should only test whether a drug is safe, not whether it is effective, before approving it for public use [info slide: http://goo.gl/gomgDI]
- Round 8THBT NATO should unconditionally offer membership to the states of the former Soviet Union, excluding Russia
- Round 9TH regrets the commodification of indigenous cultures
- Open Partial Double-Octo-FinalsTHW abolish gated communities in the developing world
- Open Octo-FinalsTHBT Japan should shame its soldiers who participated in WWII, including those who did not commit war crimes themselves
- Open Quarter-FinalsTHW auction off the long-term right to govern bankrupt cities for profit
- Open Semi-FinalsTHBT women should reject practices that alter the appearance of their genitalia, such as waxing and labiaplasty
- Open FinalsTHBT India should adopt aggressive free market policies, including but not limited to deregulating of labour markets, allowing foreign investment and privatising state owned enterprises
- ESL Quarter-FinalsTHW remove all copyright protection for material deemed to be morally objectionable
- ESL Semi-FinalsTHBT Pope Francis should publicly encourage Catholics to support radically redistributive government policies
- ESL FinalsTHW allow countries to pay other countries to settle asylum-seekers who reach their borders
- EFL Semi-FinalsTHBT the gay rights movement should abandon the claim that sexuality is not a choice
- EFL FinalsTHBT multinational companies should be liable for human rights abuses that occur anywhere in their supply chain
What gets set here
Social & Identity25%
International Relations25%
Health & Medicine11%
Economics7%
Law & Crime7%
Politics7%
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13% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 18 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 80.3.
Last edition: 48 of 398 teams broke.
- 201418 pts48/342
- 201618 pts · 80.3 speaks48/398
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break48 teams
- ESL break16 teams
- EFL break8 teams
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