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Imperial IV 2023
2023-06-01 · England · BP
Motions from this series
Imperial IV 2022 (2022)11 motionsCA: 🇮🇱 Tamar M., 🇺🇸 Emery T., 🇮🇪 Jack S., Mukhtar T.
- Round 1THS governments measuring the efficacy of charities and stripping those with low social value of their charitable status
- Round 2THBT the creation of new feminist media is better for the feminist movement than feminist remakes of existing media
- Round 3Assuming feasibility, THW determine the percentage of income that an individual pays as tax based on the relative material privilege the individual had during their upbringing (such as private education, parental wealth, childhood home etc.) and not based on their income
- Round 4THO the global rise in semiconductor manufacturing subsidies
- Round 5THBT states should adopt sunset clauses in their constitutions that require them to review and revise/reauthorize them every 50 years
- Partial OctofinalsTHR the glorification of the immediate postcolonial leaders in African states
- QuarterfinalsTHBT that liberal states should sponsor hacking of government infrastructure within authoritarian regimes
- SemifinalsTHBT El Salvador should sell its bitcoin reserves right now
- Grand FinalTHS the legalization of Drift
- ESL SemifinalsTHBT that liberal states should sponsor hacking of government infrastructure within authoritarian regimes
- ESL FinalTHBT El Salvador should sell its bitcoin reserves right now
Imperial IV 2021 (2021)10 motions
- Round 1THBT parents should teach children to choose friendship instead of romantic love as the primary relationship of importance in their life
- Round 2THBT extensive media coverage of high profile criminal trials does more harm than good
- Round 4THR the aesthetisation of suffering
- Round 5THS political parties that exclusively represent women's interests
- Partial OctofinalsTHS the universal adoption of cryptocurrencies as additional legal tender
- QuarterfinalsTHBT increased US political disengagement from Europe is in the interest of the EU
- Pro-Am FinalTHW impose criminal laws to crimes committed by users of avatars in virtual worlds (such as 'Second Life')
- SemifinalsTHR the exclusive focus of modern antitrust regulators on ensuring consumer welfare without promoting structural market reforms (e.g. also taking into account firm size or degree of market consolidation when considering antitrust cases)
- ESL FinalTHW allow the use of MYRAGE
- Grand FinalTHP a world without international law and international multilateral institutions (e.g., the International Criminal Court, World Trade Organization, World Intellectual Property organization, etc.)
What gets set here
Economics29%
Social & Identity19%
International Relations19%
Politics14%
Abstract10%
Media5%
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24% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 78.2.
Last edition: 24 of 118 teams broke.
- 202110 pts · 77.2 speaks28/105
- 202210 pts · 79.2 speaks24/118
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break24 teams
- ESL break12 teams
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