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Uhuru Worlds (Outrounds) 2022
2022-06-01 · South Africa, Online · BP · Online
Motions from this series
Uhuru Worlds (Outrounds) 2022 (2022)9 motions
- Open OctofinalsTHP the queering of popular literature/works of art over the promotion of new queer literature/works of art
- ESL QuarterfinalsTHP a world without political parties* *where all candidates run as independents
- Schools SemifinalsTHS companies (e.g. Google) offering pay cuts based on cost-of-living in exchange for remote working
- ESL SemifinalsTHBT international financial bodies should issue development bonds in low resource countries to fund development projects
- Open QuarterfinalsTHS the adoption of Bitcoin as an additional legal legal tender
- ESL Grand FinalTHBT the introduction of religion into the colony would do more good than harm
- Schools Grand FinalTHBT developing countries should adopt third world alternatives to current international institutions (e.g. African Criminal Court or BRICS Development Bank) instead of remaining in current international institutions (e.g. the International Criminal Court, World Trade Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization)
- Open SemifinalsTH, as the CCP, would abandon all restrictions on internal migration in China
- Open Grand FinalTHS a multi-speed integration of the African Union
Uhuru Worlds (Loxodonta) 2021 (2021)5 motions
- Round 1THBT progressive political candidates and parties should refuse to accept donations from corporations and high-net individuals.
- Round 2THS Mafia Association Laws.
- Round 3THW confiscate persistently vacant residential properties to use as social housing.
- Round 6TH as developing states would prefer the use of a neutral aggregate currency to the US Dollar as the global reserve currency
- Round 7THBT settler-states should pursue immigration policies that lead to no cultural or racial group being a majority of the population.
Uhuru Worlds (Outrounds) 2021 (2021)9 motions
- OctofinalsTHS Russian intervention in the Nagorno-Karabakh Region
- QuarterfinalsTH, as a wealthy retired contact sport player, would sue their former teams for health problems obtained during their careers.
- SemifinalsTHR the Mbokodo narrative
- Grand FinalTH, as a fiction author of national importance, would write books that cannot be construed as a "national allegory".
- ESL QuarterfinalsTHBT countries with judicial supremacy should confirm new Supreme Court judges by a nation-wide popular vote requiring a 60% majority.
- ESL SemifinalsTHW grant the River Nile environmental personhood, with rights against pollution and mismanagement sued for in national courts by a set of independent trustees.
- ESL FinalsTHW not induct successful athletes strongly suspected to have used performance enhancing drugs to their sport's Hall of Fame.
- Schools SemifinalsTHW ban the appearance of children on reality television
- Schools FinalsTHW create UN protectorates in failing states.
Uhuru Worlds 2021 Panthera Division (2021)7 motions
- Round 1THBT liberal media organizations should actively glorify political candidates of color.
- Round 2THP a world in which no one sought revenge
- Round 3THS the use of adversity scores in college admission exams
- Round 4THS the rise of the anti-hero in film and television
- Round 5THW abolish the common farming exception.
- Round 6TH, as developing economies, would require international actors to match the financial value of their indirect foreign investment in the form of foreign direct investment as a prerequisite of entry into investment in their stock exchange
- Round 7THBT the queer community should actively promote queer theology at the expense of critique to religion
What gets set here
Economics20%
Politics17%
International Relations13%
Social & Identity10%
Media10%
Arts & Culture7%
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13% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 14 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 77.7.
Last edition: 22 of 157 teams broke.
- 202114 pts · 77.6 speaks22/157
- 202114 pts · 77.7 speaks12/104
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break22 teams
- ESL break24 teams
- Schools break11 teams
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