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Chanakya NLU PD (16th) 2025
2025-09-26 · India, In person · AP
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Chanakya NLU PD (16th) 2025 (2025)51 motions
- Round 0THW take official efforts to make contact with the Sentinelese trib
- Round 0THO Lee Kuan Yew’s cult of personality
- Round 0This House Would teach and encourage emotional regulation over expressiveness in schools and workplaces.
- Round 0THW take official efforts to make contact with the Sentinelese trib
- Round 0THO Lee Kuan Yew’s cult of personality
- Round 0This House Would teach and encourage emotional regulation over expressiveness in schools and workplaces.
- Round 0THW accept the offer
- Round 0Assuming the switch will never be discovered, This house will tell the poor couple their baby died and hand the surviving baby over to the wealthy couple.
- Round 0TH prefers cosmopolitanism to more limited identity constructs (for example nationalism)
- Round 0THW accept the offer
- Round 0Assuming the switch will never be discovered, This house will tell the poor couple their baby died and hand the surviving baby over to the wealthy couple.
- Round 0TH prefers cosmopolitanism to more limited identity constructs (for example nationalism)
- Round 0THBT anti-skilled immigration policies is in the interest of the U.S. middle class
- Round 0THO the norm of a bias towards mental accounting
- Round 0THP a world where currencies were continued to be pegged to the gold standard
- Round 0THBT anti-skilled immigration policies is in the interest of the U.S. middle class
- Round 0THO the norm of a bias towards mental accounting
- Round 0THP a world where currencies were continued to be pegged to the gold standard
- Round 0Assuming fan satisfaction and artistic vision are in conflict, TH, as a director of a popular long running show, would prioritize fan satisfaction over their personal artistic vision for a series finale.
- Round 0This house prefers LGBTQ+ art and media that are celebratory (e.g., Heartstopper, Rookie, Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan) over ones that are tragic (e.g., A Little Life, Call Me by Your Name, Take Me to Church by Hozier)
- Round 0THO TV shows glorifying the "winning at all cost" mentality (e.g. Suits, Whiplash, etc.)
- Round 0Assuming fan satisfaction and artistic vision are in conflict, TH, as a director of a popular long running show, would prioritize fan satisfaction over their personal artistic vision for a series finale.
- Round 0This house prefers LGBTQ+ art and media that are celebratory (e.g., Heartstopper, Rookie, Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan) over ones that are tragic (e.g., A Little Life, Call Me by Your Name, Take Me to Church by Hozier)
- Round 0THO TV shows glorifying the "winning at all cost" mentality (e.g. Suits, Whiplash, etc.)
- Round 0Assuming fan satisfaction and artistic vision are in conflict, TH, as a director of a popular long running show, would prioritize fan satisfaction over their personal artistic vision for a series finale.
- Round 0This house prefers LGBTQ+ art and media that are celebratory (e.g., Heartstopper, Rookie, Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan) over ones that are tragic (e.g., A Little Life, Call Me by Your Name, Take Me to Church by Hozier)
- Round 0THO TV shows glorifying the "winning at all cost" mentality (e.g. Suits, Whiplash, etc.)
- Round 1TH, as a middle class African-American parent, given the choice between an under-performing but predominantly African American school and a high performing but predominantly white school, would choose to send our children to the predominantly African-American school.
- Round 1THBT feminist movement should fight the social norms that stigmatises paying for sexual services.
- Round 1TH, as a dual income working couple, would send their child to boarding school
- Round 2This House Supports the adoption of the The Constitution (130th Amendment) Bill
- Round 2THBT developing nations should place limits on internal migration to Megacities (e.g., Delhi, Lagos, Jakarta)
- Round 2THW impose stricter marketing and credit-card regulations* to curb compulsive buying. *(This includes but is not limited to banning techniques that guilts consumers into buying or spending more, mandatory debt warnings on credit card applications, imposing progressive interest rates on credit card users who spend beyond a set monthly limit)
- Round 3Assuming fan satisfaction and artistic vision are in conflict, TH, as a director of a popular long running show, would prioritize fan satisfaction over their personal artistic vision for a series finale.
- Round 3This house prefers LGBTQ+ art and media that are celebratory (e.g., Heartstopper, Rookie, Pink Pony Club by Chappell Roan) over ones that are tragic (e.g., A Little Life, Call Me by Your Name, Take Me to Church by Hozier)
- Round 3THO TV shows glorifying the "winning at all cost" mentality (e.g. Suits, Whiplash, etc.)
- Round 4This House Would teach and encourage emotional regulation over expressiveness in schools and workplaces.
- Round 4THW take official efforts to make contact with the Sentinelese tribe
- Round 4THO Lee Kuan Yew’s cult of personality
- Round 5THR the involvement of the church, its leaders and the language of religion in truth and conciliation processes.
- Round 5In countries where gay marriage has been legalised, THBT religious institutions should be compelled to conduct gay wedding ceremonies.
- Round 5THBT atheists should fund research that is likely to expose as false historical claims made by religions (for example, the claim that a religious figure existed in a certain place and time in history).
- Open Semi FinalsTHBT anti-skilled immigration policies is in the interest of the U.S. middle class
- Open Semi FinalsTHO the norm of a bias towards mental accounting.
- Open Semi FinalsThis House Prefers a world where currencies were continued to be pegged to the gold standard.
- Novice FinalsTHW accept the offer.
- Novice FinalsAssuming the switch will never be discovered, This house will tell the poor couple their baby died and hand the surviving baby over to the wealthy couple.
- Novice FinalsTH prefers cosmopolitanism to more limited identity constructs (for example nationalism)
- Open Grand FinalsTHW Not Shoot the Naked Soldier
- Open Grand FinalsAssuming the technology exists, THW forcibly return his memories.
- Open Grand FinalsTHBT the dead are the property of the State.
What gets set here
Abstract6%
Social & Identity2%
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21% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 4 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 75.4.
Last edition: 4 of 19 teams broke.
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Break categories
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- Open break4 teams
- Novice break2 teams
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