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Kasiyana Open 2025
Aug 16, 2025 · Philippines, In person · BP
Motions
Kasiyana Open 2025 (2025)10 motions
- Round 1TH celebrates the decline of the kuripot lifestyle
- Round 2TH believes that it is in the interest of the Filipino Middle Class to withdraw from state-run insurance and social programs e.g. PhilHealth, Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), Pag-IBIG Fund, and Social Security System (SSS)
- Round 3TH believes that major global climate summits should be led by a citizens' assembly as opposed to world leaders
- Round 4TH regrets the dominant portrayal of long-distance relationships as doomed to fail
- QuarterfinalsTH, as a state combating an ethno-nationalist insurgency, prefers to face a geographically clustered insurgent movement over a geographically concentrated one.
- SemifinalsThis house, as the next generation of Maranao entrepreneurs, would transition from traditional clan-based high-trust networks to a Western-style formal business model
- Grand FinalThis house believes that feminism should embrace queer temporality
- Novice SemifinalsTH prefers a world where territories and borders were drawn based purely on ethnic lines
- Novice FinalsTH believes that the Philippines should extend its anti-discrimination laws to include political affiliations as a protected attribute
- High School FinalsTH supports the reframing of historical tragedies as entertainment (e.g., Dahmer, Chernobyl, Oppenheimer, etc.)
What gets set here
Social & Identity30%
Economics20%
International Relations20%
Environment10%
Law & Crime10%
Media10%
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Practice Social & Identity motions ›Read: Generating arguments ›Breaking here
21% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 9 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 75.4.
Last edition: 16 of 77 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break16 teams
- Novice break15 teams
- High School break12 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| John N. | MO | TH believes that major global climate summits should be led by a citizens' assembly as opposed to world leaders | 79 |
| Joriz B. | MO | TH regrets the dominant portrayal of long-distance relationships as doomed to fail | 79 |
| Michael L. | OW | TH believes that it is in the interest of the Filipino Middle Class to withdraw from state-run insurance and social programs e.g. PhilHealth, Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), Pag-IBIG Fund, and Social Security System (SSS) | 79 |
| Neil I. | MG | TH believes that it is in the interest of the Filipino Middle Class to withdraw from state-run insurance and social programs e.g. PhilHealth, Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), Pag-IBIG Fund, and Social Security System (SSS) | 78 |
| Ann | MO | TH believes that it is in the interest of the Filipino Middle Class to withdraw from state-run insurance and social programs e.g. PhilHealth, Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), Pag-IBIG Fund, and Social Security System (SSS) | 78 |
| Solace | DLO | TH believes that it is in the interest of the Filipino Middle Class to withdraw from state-run insurance and social programs e.g. PhilHealth, Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), Pag-IBIG Fund, and Social Security System (SSS) | 78 |
| Nikki | DLO | TH celebrates the decline of the kuripot lifestyle | 78 |
| Pong | GW | TH believes that major global climate summits should be led by a citizens' assembly as opposed to world leaders | 78 |
| Fernando T. | OW | TH believes that major global climate summits should be led by a citizens' assembly as opposed to world leaders | 78 |
| Andrei D. | OW | TH regrets the dominant portrayal of long-distance relationships as doomed to fail | 78 |
| Pong | DLO | TH celebrates the decline of the kuripot lifestyle | 78 |
| Speaker S. | PM | TH believes that major global climate summits should be led by a citizens' assembly as opposed to world leaders | 78 |
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