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Manila Intervarsity XIV
Apr 11, 2026 · Philippines · AP
Motions
Manila IV XIV (2026)24 motions
- Round 1This house, as the queer community, would aggressively resist narratives that frame aro-ace individuals through romantic compromise
- Round 1This house, as Jianna, would wait for a more stable time rather than come out and transition now.
- Round 1This house prefers framing trans advocacy around inclusion within the gender binary, over disrupting it.
- Round 2This house believes that public health campaigns should employ stigma as a strategy to discourage health behaviors that significantly harm others
- Round 2This house would heavily restrict the expansion of pharmaceutical companies into the research and production of medicine for non-pathological conditions (e.g., anti-aging drugs, cognitive enhancers for healthy individuals, mood enhancers, recreational libido enhancers, etc.)
- Round 2This house believes that developing countries should prioritize funding for diseases affecting children and adolescents (e.g., congenital disorders, pediatric cancers, infectious childhood diseases) over those affecting adults (e.g., cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, occupational illnesses)
- Round 3In times of economic crises, this house prefers imposing windfall taxes on excess profits as opposed to imposing price caps
- Round 3This house supports China's transition from a manufacturing-led economy to a service-driven economy
- Round 3This house believes that developed countries should aggressively adopt abundance liberalism as a core economic strategy
- Round 4This house opposes the glamorization of the "quarter-life crisis"
- Round 4In family conflicts, this house prefers a norm where spouses actively expose their partner’s faults and flaws to their children
- Round 4This house believes that middle-class parents should prioritize providing their children with significantly better opportunities at the expense of their own future security
- Open QuarterfinalsThis house supports Kenya opening the Somalian border
- Open QuarterfinalsAssuming Viktor Orban wins the 2026 elections, This house believes that EU should suspend Hungary's voting rights
- Open QuarterfinalsThis house believes that it is in the interest of ASEAN to recognize the legitimacy of the newly elected Myanmar parliament
- Open SemifinalsThis house supports major economic powers implementing a carbon border tax
- Open SemifinalsThis house opposes the demonization of AI by environmental activists
- Open SemifinalsThis house supports the cancellation of the Masungi Georeserve Joint Venture Agreement
- Open FinalsThis house celebrates the dominant emphasis on success in narratives surrounding Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)
- Open FinalsThis house regrets the Atong Paglaum v. COMELEC ruling
- Open FinalsThis house, as ABS-CBN, would abandon attempts to secure a broadcasting franchise
- Dr. Elmer Cruz Cup FinalsTH, as EU states, would boycott matches held in the US for the 2026 FIFA World Cup
- Dr. Elmer Cruz Cup FinalsThis house believes that major sporting events should allow all political messaging as opposed to prohibiting all political messaging
- Dr. Elmer Cruz Cup FinalsThis house believes that sports governing bodies should be subject to judicial review
Breaking here
28% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 4 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 77.7.
Last edition: 8 of 29 teams broke.
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Break categories
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- Open break8 teams
- Dr. Elmer Cruz Cup break2 teams
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