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Cornell Novice Nationals 2021
2021-06-01 · United States · BP
Motions
Cornell Novice Nationals 2021 (2021)9 motions
- Round 1THBT popular media should portray climate change optimistically, emphasizing progress which has been made over alarming predictions.
- Round 2TH, as a fiction writer during the COVID 19 pandemic, would predominantly write stories about the present crisis, rather than stories about the past, future, or alternate timelines.
- Round 3THBT the United States should criminalize the propagation of conspiracy theories whose adherents have actively threatened or caused harm to public figures (e.g., QAnon, 9/11 trutherism)
- Round 4TH, as a major tech company, would make all of their software open source.
- Round 5THR the narrative that forgiveness is a virtue.
- QuarterfinalsTHP a world in which religions do not emphasize self-deprivation (e.g. ritual fasting, asceticism, voluntary poverty)
- SemifinalsTH, as an industrializing developing country, would impose capital controls and trade tariffs on its economy.
- Grand FinalTHBT the Biden administration should declare and actively pursue a “feminist foreign policy”.
- ESL FinalsIn highly multiethnic states, THP the use of devolved governments as opposed to centralized governments.
What gets set here
Environment11%
Media11%
Law & Crime11%
Technology11%
Social & Identity11%
Religion11%
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Practice Environment motions ›Read: Generating arguments ›Breaking here
20% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 77.3.
Last edition: 16 of 82 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break16 teams
- ESL break5 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇺🇸 Uma M. | DPM | TH, as a fiction writer during the COVID 19 pandemic, would predominantly write stories about the present crisis, rather than stories about the past, future, or alternate timelines. | 82 |
| 🇺🇸 Jasmine Z. | PM | TH, as a fiction writer during the COVID 19 pandemic, would predominantly write stories about the present crisis, rather than stories about the past, future, or alternate timelines. | 82 |
| 🇨🇦 Anais K. | GW | TH, as a major tech company, would make all of their software open source. | 81 |
| 🇺🇸 Harrison C. | MG | THR the narrative that forgiveness is a virtue. | 80 |
| Elyse D. | OW | THBT popular media should portray climate change optimistically, emphasizing progress which has been made over alarming predictions. | 80 |
| 🇨🇦 Anais K. | DLO | THBT the United States should criminalize the propagation of conspiracy theories whose adherents have actively threatened or caused harm to public figures (e.g., QAnon, 9/11 trutherism) | 80 |
| Siddharth G. | LO | TH, as a fiction writer during the COVID 19 pandemic, would predominantly write stories about the present crisis, rather than stories about the past, future, or alternate timelines. | 80 |
| Fiza K. | MO | THBT popular media should portray climate change optimistically, emphasizing progress which has been made over alarming predictions. | 80 |
| 🇨🇦 Tina Y. | OW | TH, as a fiction writer during the COVID 19 pandemic, would predominantly write stories about the present crisis, rather than stories about the past, future, or alternate timelines. | 80 |
| 🇨🇦 Pedro P. | MG | TH, as a major tech company, would make all of their software open source. | 80 |
| Sreeta B. | PM | THR the narrative that forgiveness is a virtue. | 80 |
| 🇺🇸 Manon F. | GW | THR the narrative that forgiveness is a virtue. | 80 |
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