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Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship 2024

What it took to break at this edition, what was set and who set it.

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Fri 6 Sep 2024

From 1 tab, newest Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship 2024.

How many points did it take?

6points were safe
in 2024

The last team in averaged 77.1 speaks in 2024.

Every year

What will they set?

Out of 42 past motions with a topic, from 1 edition.

Practise Philosophy motionsLesson: Weighing arguments

How many teams, and how many break?

24of 63 teams made the open break
in 2024

Past motions

1 edition with motions on record, newest first.

Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship 202442 motions
  1. Round 1TH believes that, in their educational curricula, primary schools should heavily prioritize lessons that aim to validate and legitimize emotions that are dominantly perceived to be negative (e.g., anger, resentment, selfishness, etc.)Practise this motion
  2. Round 1TH believes that the 1% should be compelled to send their children to public schoolsPractise this motion
  3. Round 1TH, as the Philippine government, would require all graduates bound by RSAs to pursue a profession that is directly linked to their degree when tendering return service (e.g., BS Biochemistry scholars working as biochemists, engineering scholars working in an engineering field, etc.)Practise this motion
  4. Round 2TH would prioritize producing art that aims to highlight unified struggles against the colonizers over art that emphasizes only the specific struggles of your ethnic minority during colonizationPractise this motion
  5. Round 2TH would ban performance art that involves physically-harming the artist, regardless of who inflicts it (e.g., Marina Abramovic's "Rhythm 0", where strangers used objects to do anything to her as she sat motionless, Adrian Parsons's "Shrapnel", where he did self-circumcision, etc. )Practise this motion
  6. Round 2TH believes that it is in the interest of creative professionals to embrace the use of artificial intelligencePractise this motion
  7. Round 3In disaster-prone developing countries, TH prefers a debureaucratized implementation of infrastructure projects specifically designed to mitigate impacts brought about by natural disasters (e.g., typhoons, earthquakes, etc.)Practise this motion
  8. Round 3TH supports the creation of an executive department for water resource management in the PhilippinesPractise this motion
  9. Round 3TH regrets the establishment of the COPPractise this motion
  10. Round 4TH, as a married same-sex couple in a religious community, would choose to not have a childPractise this motion
  11. Round 4TH, as the drag queen, would lean towards conventional drag as opposed to sticking with alternative dragPractise this motion
  12. Round 4TH, as the LGBTQ+ movement in a developing country, would focus its queer tourism initiatives towards local and indigenous forms of queerness (e.g., Babaylans in the Philippines, Hijras in India, Kathoey in Thailand, etc.)Practise this motion
  13. Round 5TH regrets the digitalization of laborPractise this motion
  14. Round 5TH would heavily tax companies with low employee satisfactionPractise this motion
  15. Round 5TH supports the establishment of an international body to create and enforce a global minimum wage for offshore employers (e.g., foreign subsidiaries, remote work, etc.)Practise this motion
  16. Round 6TH supports the sensationalization of queerplatonic relationshipsPractise this motion
  17. Round 6TH, as a Gen Z, would deviate from the relationship escalatorPractise this motion
  18. Round 6TH embraces the pivot towards detachment in relationshipsPractise this motion
  19. Round 7TH believes that leftist groups in the Philippines should actively refrain from publicly criticizing current and former political opposition figures in the countryPractise this motion
  20. Round 7TH, as the MAKABAYAN Coalition, would pursue active efforts to partner with other opposition figures and parties as opposed to fielding a full slate in the upcoming 2025 Senatorial ElectionsPractise this motion
  21. Round 7TH believes that the pink revolution should have ended after the 2022 presidential electionsPractise this motion
  22. Partial Double-OctofinalsIn states where abortion is illegal, TH supports the progressives' dominant portrayal of women who undergo abortions as victimsPractise this motion
  23. Partial Double-OctofinalsTH regrets the commercialization of reproductive laborPractise this motion
  24. Partial Double-OctofinalsTH believes that the feminization of survival has done more harm than goodPractise this motion
  25. OctofinalsTH, as the CCP, would significantly allocate military budget to the People's Liberation Army Aerospace ForcePractise this motion
  26. OctofinalsTH believes that Paetongtarn's decision to recommit to ASEAN's Five-Point Consensus is not within the interest of ThailandPractise this motion
  27. OctofinalsTH believes that the further alignment of the Common Agricultural Policy with the European Green Deal will do more harm than goodPractise this motion
  28. QuarterfinalsTH regrets the rise of specialty centers in developing countriesPractise this motion
  29. QuarterfinalsTH condemns the de-emphasis on end-of-life care made by the medical communityPractise this motion
  30. QuarterfinalsAssuming feasibility, TH would sue the National General HospitalPractise this motion
  31. SemifinalsAssuming feasibility, TH would allow the consensual transfer of sufferingPractise this motion
  32. SemifinalsTH prefers a world where individuals are strongly predisposed to unselfPractise this motion
  33. SemifinalsTH would move to the better universePractise this motion
  34. Grand FinalTH laments the immortalization of the Philippines' colonial pastPractise this motion
  35. Grand FinalTH regrets the dominant narrative that to be a Filipino activist is to aspire for revolutionPractise this motion
  36. Grand FinalTH believes that Filipino parents should raise their children to have a pessimistic stance towards Philippine societyPractise this motion
  37. Sinag Cup SemifinalsTH prefers religions that teach apotheosis as the end goal for the human soulPractise this motion
  38. Sinag Cup SemifinalsTH, as the Catholic Church, would embrace interpretations of Biblical figures in progressive contexts. (e.g., Mary as a feminist icon, Jesus as an anti-capitalist/anti-establishment, Jesus and Judas having potentially-queer relations, etc.)Practise this motion
  39. Sinag Cup SemifinalsTH prefers a world where the Philippines actively pursued the revival and normalization of precolonial and unconventional spiritualities (e.g., Animism, Paganism, Satanism, etc.) as opposed to adopting Christianity post-Spanish colonizationPractise this motion
  40. Sinag Cup FinalsTHBT it is in the best interest of BARMM to abandon all efforts to reinstate Sulu as part of the autonomous regionPractise this motion
  41. Sinag Cup FinalsTHBT the Philippine government should exempt protected ancestral lands from the NIPAS LawPractise this motion
  42. Sinag Cup FinalsTH regrets the Mandanas RulingPractise this motion

The break, year by year

The points that were safe, the last team in and how many broke, at each edition with results.

Every break in 2024

  • Open break24 teams
  • Sinag Cup break17 teams

How speakers score here

Speaker averages and what finishing high has taken.

average speaker score, 1 edition
76.4
where most speakers land
75.1 to 77.7

What finishing high has taken

  • Top speaker79.3
  • 10th speaker78.4
  • 20th speaker78.0

Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.