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Glasgow Ancients 2025
Apr 12, 2025 · Scotland, In person · BP
Motions from this series
Glasgow Ancients 2025 (2025)7 motions
- Round 1This House Supports the US Democratic Party prioritising the nomination, at all levels of government, of candidates who favour more radical changes to existing policies and structures over more moderate candidates.
- Round 2This House Would allow authors to make legally binding declarations prohibiting some or all of their unpublished works from being published posthumously.
- Round 3This House Prefers a World where ECOWAS follows the doctrine of effective control.
- Round 4This House Hopes that the next Pope is Cardinal Tagle rather than Cardinal Ambongo.
- Round 5This House Opposes the shift away from deep global economic integration towards protectionism (e.g. increased tariffs, subsidies for domestic companies, etc.).
- SemifinalsThis House Regrets the use of ‘right to privacy’ arguments to advance social causes (e.g. abortion rights, LGBT rights).
- Grand FinalThis House Believes That the entity to which the AI is ultimately answerable ought to be a jury of randomly selected ordinary people rather than a panel of the three most intelligent moral philosophers in the world.
Glasgow Ancients 2024 (2024)7 motions
- Round 1THR the rise of finfluencers
- Round 2This house hopes for the message to confirm the existence of a deterministic universe
- Round 3THP a world without professional interpretations of art (e.g. art critics, tastemakers, gallery label descriptions etc.)
- Round 4THO New Atheism
- Round 5THP a world in which postcolonial African states had prioritised achieving economic and land reparations (e.g. active land redistribution, quotas, cash transfer programmes) over enshrining civil and political rights (e.g. rights to protest, vote, free speech, form associations, etc.)
- SemifinalsTHBT the Two-Pillar Solution will do more harm than good
- Grand FinalTHS the use of necro-resistance as a form of protest
Glasgow Ancients 2023 (2023)7 motions
- Round 1THP individualist feminism to social feminism
- Round 2THR these amendments made to the Children's fiction.
- Round 3TH, as an aspiring porn artist would focus on creating solo-cam porn career over entering the traditional porn industry.
- Round 4In times of significant instability in financial markets, THS partially state funded bank mergers.
- Round 5THBT professionals and disability activists should heavily prioritize the practices and narratives derived from the medical as opposed to the social model.
- SemifinalsTHS the existance of Hospital X
- Grand FinalThis House Would Abolish the British Monarchy
Glasgow Ancients 2022 (2022)7 motions
- Round 1THW abolish grades in elementary/primary schools
- Round 2THBT companies should adopt the practice of Radical Transparency
- Round 3THS the use of capital controls by developing economies
- Round 4This house supports first generation immigrants to Western Europe encouraging their children to fully assimilate and identify with the local culture
- Round 5THBT social media has done more harm than good
- SemifinalsTHBT countries transitioning to democracy should implement a "Pact of Forgetting"
- Grand FinalTHW NOT publish this information
What gets set here
Economics21%
Social & Identity18%
Politics14%
Law & Crime7%
Religion7%
Technology7%
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Practice Economics motions ›Read: Generating arguments ›Breaking here
17% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 80.4.
Last edition: 8 of 52 teams broke.
- 202212 pts · 79.1 speaks8/46
- 202310 pts · 80.3 speaks8/40
- 202411 pts · 81.4 speaks8/49
- 202511 pts · 81.0 speaks8/52
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Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇮🇪 Shane T. | MO | This House Hopes that the next Pope is Cardinal Tagle rather than Cardinal Ambongo. | 89 |
| 🇬🇧 Jamie B. | DLO | This House Would allow authors to make legally binding declarations prohibiting some or all of their unpublished works from being published posthumously. | 88 |
| 🇮🇪 Jack W. | PM | This House Would allow authors to make legally binding declarations prohibiting some or all of their unpublished works from being published posthumously. | 86 |
| 🇬🇧 Zainab S. | LO | This House Would allow authors to make legally binding declarations prohibiting some or all of their unpublished works from being published posthumously. | 86 |
| Naomi A. | PM | This House Hopes that the next Pope is Cardinal Tagle rather than Cardinal Ambongo. | 85 |
| 🇮🇪 Andy C. | OW | This House Hopes that the next Pope is Cardinal Tagle rather than Cardinal Ambongo. | 85 |
| 🇬🇧 Joshua L. | DPM | This House Hopes that the next Pope is Cardinal Tagle rather than Cardinal Ambongo. | 85 |
| Jack S. | LO | This House Supports the US Democratic Party prioritising the nomination, at all levels of government, of candidates who favour more radical changes to existing policies and structures over more moderate candidates. | 84 |
| Naomi A. | GW | This House Prefers a World where ECOWAS follows the doctrine of effective control. | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Sachin T. | DLO | This House Supports the US Democratic Party prioritising the nomination, at all levels of government, of candidates who favour more radical changes to existing policies and structures over more moderate candidates. | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Olivia A. | PM | This House Hopes that the next Pope is Cardinal Tagle rather than Cardinal Ambongo. | 84 |
| 🇮🇪 Shane T. | PM | This House Opposes the shift away from deep global economic integration towards protectionism (e.g. increased tariffs, subsidies for domestic companies, etc.). | 84 |
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