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Uhuru Worlds (Panthera) 2022
2022-06-01 · South Africa · BP
Motions from this series
Uhuru Worlds (Panthera) 2022 (2022)7 motions
- Round 1THW ban plea bargains
- Round 2THBT environmental movements should advocate for carbon offsetting as a primary strategy for combatting climate change
- Round 3THBT the feminist movement should strongly encourage women to enter traditionally male sectors e.g. STEM, Finance, etc.
- Round 4THBT major technology companies should make all their software open source
- Round 5In countries where first-past-the-post is the voting system, THBT smaller political parties should focus their election campaigns on producing hung parliaments instead of campaigning on positive policy platforms.
- Round 6THBT AUKUS is in the interest of ASEAN
- Round 7THBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings
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
Social & Identity14%
Politics14%
Law & Crime11%
International Relations11%
Economics11%
Media11%
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13% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 14 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 77.1.
Last edition: 13 of 93 teams broke.
- 202114 pts · 77.6 speaks22/157
- 202114 pts · 77.7 speaks12/104
- 202214 pts · 76.0 speaks13/93
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break13 teams
- ESL break19 teams
- Schools break50 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇮🇪 Gabrielle F. | MO | THBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings | 84 |
| Ain | OW | THBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings | 84 |
| 🇺🇸 Sreyan K. | MG | THW ban plea bargains | 83 |
| 🇮🇪 Dylan C. | OW | THBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings | 83 |
| 🇺🇸 Pranav A. | LO | THBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings | 82 |
| 🇮🇪 Dylan C. | PM | THBT environmental movements should advocate for carbon offsetting as a primary strategy for combatting climate change | 82 |
| 🇮🇪 Dylan C. | LO | THBT the feminist movement should strongly encourage women to enter traditionally male sectors e.g. STEM, Finance, etc. | 82 |
| 🇺🇸 Kayla P. | GW | THW ban plea bargains | 82 |
| Bernard A. | MO | THBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings | 82 |
| 🇮🇳 Ritabrata M. | OW | THBT religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings | 82 |
| Allison L. | MG | THBT major technology companies should make all their software open source | 82 |
| 🇮🇪 Gabrielle F. | DPM | In countries where first-past-the-post is the voting system, THBT smaller political parties should focus their election campaigns on producing hung parliaments instead of campaigning on positive policy platforms. | 82 |
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