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Bali United Asian Debating Championships 2026
Jun 2, 2026 · AP
Part of the United Asian Debating Championship (UADC) series →
Motions from this series
Bali UADC 2026 (2026)57 motions
- Round 0THBT China should adopt a fully standardized national Gaokao system
- Round 0THBT college accreditation should focus on output (e.g. learning assessment, graduation rate, earnings) rather than input (e.g. curriculum structure, faculty qualification, governance)
- Round 0THBT China should adopt a fully standardized national Gaokao system
- Round 0THBT college accreditation should focus on output (e.g. learning assessment, graduation rate, earnings) rather than input (e.g. curriculum structure, faculty qualification, governance)
- Round 0TH prefers the grade-specialization model over the cohort-continuity model in secondary education
- Round 0TH prefers the grade-specialization model over the cohort-continuity model in secondary education
- Round 0THBT China should adopt a fully standardized national Gaokao system
- Round 0THBT college accreditation should focus on output (e.g., learning assessment, graduation rate, earnings) rather than input (e.g., curriculum structure, faculty qualification, governance)
- Round 0TH prefers the grade-specialization model over the cohort-continuity model in secondary education
- Round 0THR the use of WLFI as the WLF's primary form of collateral
- Round 0THBT cryptocurrency markets should be regulated under a commodities-market model rather than an investor-protection model
- Round 0THO the tokenization of financial markets
- Round 1TH, as a young adult, would prefer to build our life with a partner who works in the same industry rather than someone with a significantly different career
- Round 1In Asian countries with low birthrates, THS government-run dating services (e.g., FirstDate in Singapore)
- Round 1THS the trend of roster dating
- Round 2THW abolish mega auctions in the IPL
- Round 2TH, as a national team coach, would prioritize intrinsic over extrinsic motivation
- Round 2TH, as a rising player in esports, would prefer to be signed as a support main over a duelist main
- Round 3THBT Bangladesh should grant more autonomy to its local governments
- Round 3THS Pakistan's aggressive security measures against cross-border militancy from Afghanistan
- Round 3THBT the BJP's win is in interest of the citizens of West Bengal
- Round 4THO the rise of minmaxxing
- Round 4THR the stigmatization against being chronically online
- Round 4THR the prevalence of ‘kiasuism’ in Southeast Asia
- Round 5THBT the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) should lower the threshold for mandatory delisting
- Round 5THBT the EU should significantly relax labor regulations (e.g., minimum wage, overtime regulations, severance pay, employee councils’ veto power over firing decisions)
- Round 5THO Project Stargate
- Round 6For weaker states in asymmetric warfare, TH prefers a strategy of prioritising economic resilience over bolstering military strength
- Round 6THBT it is in the interest of Japan to further invest in arms manufacturing and sales to Southeast Asia
- Round 6THBT Operation Epic Fury has done more harm than good to the Trump Administration
- Round 7THBT the popularization of women-made literature (e.g., Heated Rivalry, Fifty Shades of Grey) centered around sexually explicit material has done more harm than good to women
- Round 7THBT the feminist movement should strongly emphasise the "manadult" framework as a standard for male partners
- Round 7THBT the feminist movement should advocate for the feminization strategy over the neutralization strategy
- Round 8TH prefers the Loans Programs Office Model to the Tax Credit Model for Clean Energy Financing
- Round 8THS the ASEAN Power Grid (APG)
- Round 8In times of energy crisis, THS subsidizing energy consumption rather than reducing energy demand (e.g., extend holidays, enforce fuel rationing)
- Pre OctofinalsTH Predicts that Abrahamic religions will be more decentralised over the next 10 years
- Pre OctofinalsTH, as a leader of a small gated religious community, would allow closed-community reality TV to cover their community
- Pre OctofinalsTHBT it is in the interest of Christian churches to prioritise the relational approach over the proclamation approach in evangelism
- OctofinalsTHR the rise of celebrity politicians (e.g. Imran Khan, Shakib Al Hasan, Thelapathy Vijay) in South Asia.
- OctofinalsIn multi-ethnic post-conflict states, TH prefers the implementation of a Presidential form of government over a Parliamentary form of government
- OctofinalsTHBT Singapore should adopt the Kishore approach to foreign policy as opposed to the Bilahari approach
- QuarterfinalsTHP a world where key political and social activists (e.g: Malala) are viewed as ordinary rather than exceptional
- QuarterfinalsTH, as the anti-AI movement, would prioritize existential risks over near-term harms in its messaging
- QuarterfinalsTHBT social movements should engage in restructuring (e.g. limiting expected workloads, rotating leadership and responsibilities, reducing meeting intensity or frequency) in response to activist burnout
- SemifinalsTHR the use of WLFI as the WLF's primary form of collateral
- SemifinalsTHO the tokenization of financial markets
- SemifinalsTHBT cryptocurrency markets should be regulated under a commodities-market model rather than an investor-protection model
- Grand FinalTH Predicts that the global population living in poverty* will increase, rather than decrease, in the next 10 years *living on less than USD4.20 per day adjusted for inflation and purchasing power
- Grand FinalTHR the US Shale Boom
- Grand FinalTH Predicts that international relations will become more liberalist in the next 25 years
- EFL SemifinalsTHBT college accreditation should focus on output (e.g., learning assessment, graduation rate, earnings) rather than input (e.g., curriculum structure, faculty qualification, governance)
- EFL SemifinalsTH prefers the grade-specialization model over the cohort-continuity model in secondary education
- EFL SemifinalsTHBT China should adopt a fully standardized national Gaokao system
- EFL FinalsTHBT it is in ASEAN's interest to recognize the elections in Myanmar
- EFL FinalsTH Regrets Cambodia's invoking of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) compulsory conciliation mechanism
- EFL FinalsTHP a world where Sulu joined the BARMM
Guangzhou UADC 2025 (2025)39 motions
- Round 1THP the university-governance system over the researcher-governance system within universities
- Round 1THW mandate real-term (i.e. adjusted for inflation) funding cuts for tertiary education programmes whose graduates have below-median tax contributions five years after graduation
- Round 1TH, as parents of an academically gifted child, W choose not to grade-skip their child at any grade level
- Round 2THW disallow district level courts from issuing nationwide injunctions in the United States of America
- Round 2THW ban the use of classified intelligence as a basis to justify the denial or delay of habeas corpus proceedings
- Round 2THO litigation finance in class action lawsuits
- Round 3THR the decline of Franchise Loyalty in professional team sports
- Round 3THP a single-league playoff system over the East-West conference model in the NBA
- Round 3THP a world where only one dominant boxing promotion company exists
- Round 4THBT Pakistan should offer the Baloch insurgents full amnesty in exchange for permanently surrendering arms
- Round 4THBT Dissanayake's Government should return back land previously acquired by the Sri Lankan Military after the 2009 liberation war back to the native Tamils (Areas within the Jaffna Peninsula, Trincomalee, Sampur, etc.)
- Round 4THP the sequencing-first model as opposed to the elections-first model of post colonial democratisation in South Asia
- Round 5THO all scientific research efforts to genetically engineer endangered species
- Round 5TH, as the vegan movement, W reject partnerships with lab-grown meat companies in favor of prioritizing investments in whole-food plant-based systems
- Round 5THBT the human obligation to alleviate suffering extends equally to wild animals as it does to pets
- Round 6THW criminalise all cultural practices that obligate women to renounce their inheritance rights (e.g. giving family wealth to the eldest son in some rich European families, taking land from widows in some African communities, Muslim women accepting less inheritance than men, etc.)
- Round 6THO the portrayal of abortion as 'without consequence' within feminist spaces
- Round 6THBT the Japanese feminist movement should support the criminalization of Enjo kōsai
- Round 7THO the European Union's recent anti-trust crackdown on the US Big Tech Giants
- Round 7THBT all private spaceflight companies (SpaceX, Blue Origin, etc) should prioritize consolidating existing exploration efforts on celestial bodies that have already been explored (Moon, Mars, etc.), as opposed to focusing on unexplored celestial bodies (moons of Jupiter and Saturn, etc.)
- Round 7THBT Indonesia should make foreign access to its nickel and rare earth minerals conditional on joint development of green technologies, rather than industrial park based capital-only investments
- Round 8THS parents intervening in subtle social conflicts among children in primary school
- Round 8In multi-cultural societies, THBT first-generation immigrant parents should instill home country values in their children, even if they contradict liberal norms (e.g., not questioning elders authority)
- Round 8THP a world where time-bound family formations (e.g., 25-year co-parenting contracts, renewable spousal units, etc.) is the norm
- OctofinalsTHO the medicalization of gender dysphoria among the queer community
- OctofinalsTHBT queer advocacy groups should prioritize empowering individuals to pursue non-state-dependent relationships (e.g. chosen families, live-in relationships, co parenting, etc.) over campaigning for state-recognized unions (e.g. marriage, adoption, etc.)
- OctofinalsTH, as the South Korean LGBTQIA+ movement, W significantly prioritize provinces outside of Seoul in their advocacy (ie. organizing larger pride parades in provinces, financially supporting provincial queer organizations, etc.)
- QuarterfinalsTHBT it is in the interest of South Africa to rescind the Expropriation Act
- QuarterfinalsTHBT Egypt should accept all refugees fleeing from Gaza
- QuarterfinalsTHBT the TPLF should have actively attempted to establish internal power sharing within its members before signing the Pretoria Agreement
- SemifinalsTHO the Grab-GoTo Merger.
- SemifinalsTHW require the GPIF to significantly increase investments in domestic private equity and venture capital funds, even at the expense of reducing investments in its offshore assets
- SemifinalsTHS the consolidation of fragmented agricultural land holdings through state-directed agrarian restructuring in the Mekong Delta
- Grand FinalIn ethnically-diverse states that have recently decolonised, THBT national militaries should dismantle residual colonial military structures that prioritise selective ethnic recruitment
- Grand FinalTH, as a recently installed dictatorship, W not employ the divide-and-rule coup proofing strategy after overthrowing the previous government
- Grand FinalIn states facing armed insurgencies, THS the deployment of Private Military and Security Contractors (eg. The Wagner Group, Blackwater, G4S, etc.) at all critical resource extraction sites in exchange for joint control
- EFL FinalsTHP a world where the two-kingdoms doctrine was the dominant Christian worldview
- EFL FinalsTHP a world where all major religions did not obligate their followers to go on religious pilgrimages
- EFL FinalsTH, as a sectarian minority leader in an authoritarian Islamic state, would actively encourage their followers to conceal their religious identity even when not under duress
UADC 2024 (2024)42 motions
- Round 1A: THS Bukele's plan to tackle gang violence in El Salvador.
- Round 1B: THW allow private prisons to train prisoners in exchange for a percentage of that prisoner's income (for some time after their release)
- Round 1C: THW ban plea bargains.
- Round 2A: THBT the conservationist movement should prioritise efforts to develop de-extinction technologies over efforts to conserve existing species.
- Round 2B: THW ban oil companies from prospecting for new sources of oil.
- Round 2C: THBT indigenous groups should not be punished for vigilante justice against wildlife poaching, illegal logging, and acts of pollution.
- Round 3A: THBT Ukraine should remove its restrictions on men of fighting age leaving the country.
- Round 3B: TH, as a terrorist organization, would prioritise sporadic lone wolf attacks as opposed to large scale attacks.
- Round 3C: THR the rise of dark tourism.
- Round 4A: THBT it is in the interest of English football to find Manchester City guilty.
- Round 4B: THP smaller and more competitive major international sports tournaments over larger and more inclusive ones. (e.g. a 32 team World Cup over a 48 team world Cup)
- Round 4C: THW ban "national sports scholarships".
- Round 5A: THW revise history curricula to emphasise reproductive labor.
- Round 5B: In states where abortions are legal, THW allow the biological father to opt out of parental responsibilities (including child support) within a certain timeframe of being informed of the pregnancy.
- Round 5C: THS the increasing academisation of the feminist movement.
- Round 6C: THBT governments should heavily subsidise companies that implement the shūshin koyō system
- Round 6A: THBT public hospitals should implement capitation instead of the fee-for-service model
- Round 6B: In post conflict states, THBT public housing should forcibly integrate people of different ethnicities and religions.
- Round 7A: THBT stringent regulations on Macau's casino industry would do more harm than good to Macau
- Round 7B: THBT the criminal conviction of Donald Trump does more harm than good to the USA.
- Round 7C: THBT the demonisation of colonisation in post colonial states has done more harm than good.
- Round 8A: THBT it is in the interest of the Democratic Party to adopt a tougher stance against Israel amidst the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.
- Round 8B: THW ban political parties and require all candidates for national public office to seek election as independents.
- Round 8C: THBT the Selangor state government should have continued seeking UNESCO recognition for Chinese new villages.
- OctofinalsA: TH, as the 14th Dalai Lama, W publicly declare that there will be no 15th Dalai Lama
- OctofinalsB: THS the rise of the New Atheism movement.
- OctofinalsC: TH, as the religious leader, W destroy the test.
- QuarterfinalsA: THS the Speak Mandarin Campaign.
- QuarterfinalsB: THS media embracing Cosmicism
- QuarterfinalsC: THBT young artists from countries with prominent variants of global languages (eg Manglish, Haitian Creole) should aggressively prioritise producing art in their variant languages over the global language.
- SemifinalsTHR the Arab Spring
- SemifinalsWith the benefit of hindsight, THBT we should have abolished NATO after the fall of the USSR
- SemifinalsTH, as Kim Jong-Un, W actively attempt to end the Korean war peacefully
- Grand FinalA: THO Kink at Pride.
- Grand FinalB: THBT the LGBTQ+ movement should abandon their individual labels in favour of the unified term “Queer.”
- Grand FinalC: TH, as the transgender rights movement, W actively deemphasise the importance placed on cis-passing.
- EFL SemifinalsA: THBT the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence will worsen inequality.
- EFL SemifinalsB: THW centralise all space exploration efforts under a single international body and ban all private and unilateral space exploration.
- EFL SemifinalsC: THP a world where SNS was closed from the start.
- EFL FinalsC: THP to be born in this world.
- EFL FinalsA: Assuming feasibility, THP a world where human beings had an innate sense for micromarriages in day-to-day life.
- EFL FinalsB: THS significant state investment into moral bioenhancement technology.
Malaysia UADC 2023 (2023)54 motions
- Round 0THS a widespread adoption of debt-for nature swaps in financially distressed developing countries
- Round 0Olive finance refers to instances of private financial institutions funding renewable projects by companies that are heavily polluting in other parts of their operations i.e. companies that are gradually shifting from brown to green.
- Round 0I) A sustainablity-focused hedge fund pools investor money and uses multiple strategies to maximize the environmental impact of their investments while trying to provide high returns to investors II) Short selling is the act of borrowing shares from others and selling them in the market with a hope that they can be bought cheaper later. It is a strategy that speculates on the decline of the stock's price in order to make a profit.
- Round 0THS a widespread adoption of debt-for nature swaps in financially distressed developing countries
- Round 0Olive finance refers to instances of private financial institutions funding renewable projects by companies that are heavily polluting in other parts of their operations i.e. companies that are gradually shifting from brown to green.
- Round 0I) A sustainablity-focused hedge fund pools investor money and uses multiple strategies to maximize the environmental impact of their investments while trying to provide high returns to investors II) Short selling is the act of borrowing shares from others and selling them in the market with a hope that they can be bought cheaper later. It is a strategy that speculates on the decline of the stock's price in order to make a profit.
- Round 1TH prefers that schools in developing countries focus substantially on teaching pre-colonial history rather than the anti-colonial resistance in history classes.
- Round 1TH supports the media romanticization of Asian students' enrollment in Western universities.
- Round 1THBT liberal art courses in public universities should aggressively restructure their syllabus to prioritize the employability of their graduates, even at the expense of providing holistic and in-depth learning to fulfil the students' academic interests.
- Round 2THBT student unionism should prioritize engaging in the internal affairs of universities rather than mainstream political issues.
- Round 2In countries with emerging economies, TH, as the labour movement, W oppose efforts towards transitioning from an industrial structure centred on the manufacturing sector to one centred on the service sector.
- Round 2THBT feminist movements in the developing world should significantly prioritize being celebratory in their advocacy as opposed to being solemn.
- Round 3THW introduce a luxury tax model on club level football salaries.
- Round 3THW choose to quit competitive chess and become a full-time chess streamer.
- Round 3THBT football clubs should actively disassociate from their 'Ultras'.
- Round 4TH supports widespread adoption of debt-for-nature swaps in financially distressed developing countries.
- Round 4TH opposes Olive finance.
- Round 4TH, as a prominent sustainability-focused hedge fund, W pursue an aggressive short-selling strategy against carbon-intensive stocks (for example, fossil fuels/energy companies etc.).
- Round 5TH opposes the romanticization of youth.
- Round 5TH regrets the narrative that individuals should be wholly resilient against other people's judgements in interpersonal relationships.
- Round 5TH, as a working class individual, W choose to live with a passively nihilistic disposition.
- Round 6THBT all large data AI repositories should be forced to pay companies for training data skimmed from the internet, even in instances where they are typically free for users (e.g. youtube, Reddit, Facebook, CNN, BBC, etc.).
- Round 6THBT that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) should aggressively aim for global expansion.
- Round 6TH, as Roscosmos, W withdraw participation from the International Space Station.
- Round 7THBT India should substantially ease restrictions on Chinese trade and investment.
- Round 7THBT it is in the best interest of the Bangladesh government to dissolve the RAB.
- Round 7TH, as the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM), regrets the Vote of No Confidence.
- Round 8TH regrets the rise of streaming shows at the expense of network shows.
- Round 8TH, as an individual member of the group, W significantly prioritize pursuing solo careers over continuing group activities.
- Round 8THBT artists from minority groups, in order to depict the experiences of their community, should primarily rely on speculative art as opposed to representational art.
- Double-OctofinalsTHBT the queer movements should stray away from emphasizing intra-community struggles towards fostering relatability outside the community (e.g. the message of "No One is Fully Straight).
- Double-OctofinalsTH, as the LGBTQ+ community in the developing world, W prioritize grassroots community building over seeking broad national and legislative changes.
- Double-OctofinalsTHBT the business gay performance in pop culture does more harm than good to the queer rights.
- OctofinalsTH, as NATO, supports Ukraine engaging in aggressive offensive special military operations in Russia (e.g. striking Russian air bases, intercepting infrastructure and logistics chains in sovereign Russian territory, and attempting to target high ranking members of the Russian state).
- OctofinalsTH, as the Biden Administration, regrets the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program.
- OctofinalsIn liberal democracies with an incumbent right-wing populist government, TH prefers that the left-wing coalition elect politician with a radical left-leaning ideology (e.g. Bernie Sanders, Elly Schlein, etc.) rather than centre-left politicians as the leader.
- QuarterfinalsTHBT Southeast Asian economies with a heavy reliance on low-value manufacturing (Vietnam, Indonesia etc.) should prioritize moving up the manufacturing value chain (for example, producing complex product parts as opposed to performing manual product assembly).
- QuarterfinalsTHBT that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) should pursue a strategy of monetary policy tightening.
- QuarterfinalsTHBT Bhutan's efforts towards launching green cryptocurrency mining will do more harm than good.
- SemifinalsTH supports the Philippines' proposal for creation of the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF).
- SemifinalsTHBT Indonesia should implement a closed voting system for the 2024 elections.
- SemifinalsTH, as the Move Forward Party, would abandon attempts to reform Article 112.
- Grand FinalAssuming that God exists, TH prefers a world where human beings were created without epistemic distance from God.
- Grand FinalUnder the veil of ignorance, TH, as an individual, W choose to be born in a religious community with strong communal values as opposed to secular society.
- Grand FinalTH, as major religions, W preach that current global tragedies (e.g. climate change, war, etc.) are signs that we are currently in vicinity of the End Times.
- EFL QuarterfinalsTH supports the increased adoption of algorithm for the analysis of users' matching patterns (e.g. educational background, vocation, etc.) and suggestions of future matches in dating apps.
- EFL QuarterfinalsTH prefers a world where 'artificial encounter' is the dominant norm over 'natural encounter' as a method of starting a romantic relationship.
- EFL QuarterfinalsTH regrets the rise of 'situationship' among GenZ.
- EFL SemifinalsTH, as the Jordanian government, W actively attempt to incorporate refugees into its regular workforce.
- EFL SemifinalsTHBT Taliban should decommission the Kamal Khan Dam.
- EFL SemifinalsTHBT the decision to normalize the relationship with Bashar al-Assad is in the interest of the Arab League.
- EFL FinalsTH prefers a world where the dominant state ideology promotes Confucianism.
- EFL FinalsTH regrets the demonization of Communism in the domestic political discourse of East Asian countries (e.g. Red Scare in Japan, Red Complex in South Korea, etc.).
- EFL FinalsAssuming that this prediction is true, TH supports the Western philanthropic foundations' recent diversion of funding from supporting grass-roots civil societies to pro-democracy movements in China.
Malaysia UADC 2022 (2022)48 motions
- Round 1This house believes that developing countries should implement the Digital Nomad Tax-Free Plan
- Round 1As an aspiring entrepreneur, this house would abandon the pursuit of building an enterprise in favor of working in corporate
- Round 1This house supports the rise of quiet quitting
- Round 2This house believes that the Biden administration has done more harm than good for the Democratic Party
- Round 2This house, as a politician from a minority community in the USA, would prioritize reforming economic policies over social policies.
- Round 2As an up and coming young Republican politician, this house opposes the repealing of Roe vs Wade
- Round 3This house believes that newly-established democracies should have laws restricting academic freedom
- Round 3This house believes that educational models should prioritize intrinsic over extrinsic motivation
- Round 3This house supports Kathmandu Metropolitan City's decision to mandate Nepal Bhasa classes in school
- Round 4This house, as the Indian trans community, would choose to actively disassociate from the mainstream LGBTQ+ movement in India
- Round 4As Black and Latinx queer community, this house regrets the resurgence of house music in modern pop culture
- Round 4As an Asian LGBTQ+ individual, this house regrets the portrayals of the BL genre in Asian media
- Round 5This house supports the rise of all-female e-sports teams
- Round 5This house regrets the prioritization of customary practice in sports
- Round 5This house, as Daniel Ricciardo, would choose to renew his contract with Red Bull
- Round 6This house believes that corporations' focus on ESG has done more harm than good to the environment
- Round 6This house believes that environmental movements should denounce green energy that harms the environment as opposed to supporting all green energy
- Round 6This house believes that Green Parties in Europe should shift to actively supporting the use of nuclear energy
- Round 7This house supports a transition to a federalist government in the Phillippines
- Round 7This house would require a significant portion of Ministers pay in Singapore to be based on their ministerial performance as determined by the citizenry
- Round 7This house opposes the Malaysian Parliament's decision to pass the anti-party hopping law
- Round 8This house supports Relationship Minimalism
- Round 8This house, as a person seeking a long term relationship, would refuse to use dating apps
- Round 8This house supports the rising trend of intellectualizing emotions
- Double-OctofinalsThis house supports a norm where parents are financially transparent to their children
- Double-OctofinalsThis house, as parents in Hong Kong, would encourage their children to develop support for the Chinese government (e.g. enrolling in Mandarin classes, attend universities in the mainland, take part in Chinese cultural celebrations)
- Double-OctofinalsThis house believes that minority parents should primarily practice free range parenting as opposed to helicopter parenting
- OctofinalsThis house regrets feminine anger being seen as justified only in the cases where it is socially productive (e.g. anger during protests), as opposed to being inherently justified independent of outcome
- OctofinalsThis house believes that feminist movements should support femcels
- OctofinalsThis house believes that Western feminists' engagement with protests in Iran has done more harm than good
- QuarterfinalsThis house believes that Japan should actively oppose future iterations of the Ulchi-Freedom Shield initiative
- QuarterfinalsAs Hamas, this house would actively oppose the PIJ
- QuarterfinalsThis house believes that it is in the interest of Saudi Arabia to align with China as opposed to the US
- SemifinalsThis house supports a widespread adoption of intellectual property rights as loan collateral
- SemifinalsIn light of recent increase in energy prices, this house believes that GCC states should aggressively increase government spending.
- SemifinalsThis house supports Dubai's rise as a global financial hub.
- Grand FinalThis house opposes the Arctic Council's decision to suspend joint activities, including scientific and technological research exchanges, with Russia.
- Grand FinalThis house opposes "Sanas"
- Grand FinalThis house supports the concept of a Network State
- EFL QuarterfinalsThis house believes that Japan should actively oppose future iterations of the Ulchi-Freedom Shield initiative
- EFL QuarterfinalsAs Hamas, this house would actively oppose the PIJ
- EFL QuarterfinalsThis house believes that it is in the interest of Saudi Arabia to align with China as opposed to the US
- EFL SemifinalsThis house supports Dubai's rise as a global financial hub.
- EFL SemifinalsThis house supports a widespread adoption of intellectual property rights as loan collateral
- EFL SemifinalsIn light of recent increase in energy prices, this house believes that GCC states should aggressively increase government spending.
- EFL FinalsThis house supports expanding the number of permanent members in the UN Security Council
- EFL FinalsThis house supports the recent resurgence of the 'pink wave' in Latin America
- EFL FinalsThis house prefers a world where political philosophy is predominantly based on pragmatism as opposed to predominantly being based on egalitarianism
UADC 2021 (2021)48 motions
- Round 1This house believes that universities should primarily consider teaching ability and performance rather than research outputs when awarding tenure and allocating academic funding
- Round 1This house believes that universities should not accept research funding and scholarships from corrupted / problematic organizations and donors
- Round 1This house regrets the increasing trend of universities in Asia partnering with global western universities (e.g. Yale-NUS, MIT-SUTD)
- Round 2This house believes that feminist movements in developing nations should deprioritise the strategy of advocating for carceral feminism
- Round 2This house regrets the glorification of women's resilience
- Round 2Assuming the technology exists, this house would allow minority women of colour, with no affinity to their gender and race, to alter their identity to that of the majority gender and race
- Round 3This house regrets western institutions' push for market liberalisation
- Round 3This house would ban collateralized loan obligations
- Round 3This house would ban private sector management of pension funds
- Round 4This house would require social media users to verify their identities before creating an account (e.g. provide proof of identity and documentation)
- Round 4This house regrets the rise of digital currencies
- Round 4Assuming technology exists, this house would operationalize the entire Criminal Justice System (e.g. Judges, Juries etc.) using Artificial Intelligence
- Round 5This house would actively discourage home-ownership
- Round 5This house opposes the norm that individuals should "see the best in others"
- Round 5This house regrets the culture of fearing death
- Round 6This house supports progressives abandoning political moralism
- Round 6This house believes that environmentalists should put a monetary value on ecosystem functions
- Round 6This house, as pride event organizers, would actively work with corporations that adopt rainbow capitalism
- Round 7This house regrets the signing of the AUKUS pact
- Round 7This house believes that the CPTPP should accept China's application
- Round 7This house believes that it is in the interests of India to officially recognize the Taliban regime of Afghanistan
- Round 8This house, as the parents, would not have children
- Round 8In states with failing adoption homes / numbers, this house would put a moratorium on IVF clinics
- Round 8As a parent from a minority community, this house would teach their children to pursue a mediocre but satisfactorily happy life over a life which involves a constant pursuit of excellence and the extraordinary
- Partial Double-OctofinalsThis house regrets China's focus on "Common Prosperity'
- Partial Double-OctofinalsThis house would prohibit provincial and local governments from offering tax credits and other incentives to attract large companies to open business in their regions
- Partial Double-OctofinalsThis house prefers individuals seeking maximum material gain as opposed to meaning / fulfilment from their work
- OctofinalsThis house, as the parent, would not give their consent
- OctofinalsThis house welcomes research that seeks to transfer human consciousness into simulations, computers, and artificial intelligence
- OctofinalsThis house would choose to be born in Fantasia over Earth
- QuarterfinalsThis house believes that the Naftali Bennet administration is in the best interest of the Middle East
- QuarterfinalsThis house supports Gulf States intervening in Ethiopia
- QuarterfinalsAs a prominent Pro-Palestine journalist in the west covering the conflicts in Israel-Palestine, this house would choose not to focus on Hamas' role in the escalation of the conflict
- SemifinalsThis house prefers a world where individuals live in recognition of their moral flaws as opposed to a convenient morality
- SemifinalsThis house opposes fallen soldiers believing their deaths would be meaningful
- SemifinalsThis house supports the narrative that current generations have a duty to protect the rights of future generations who do not exist yet
- Grand FinalThis house prefers a world where religions actively preach the concept of the Divine Gift
- Grand FinalThis house believes that religious leaders should abandon the narrative that difficulties in life are "tests of God"
- Grand FinalThis house believes that moderate Muslims should refrain from attempting to reclaim the term jihad in the aftermath of terrorist attacks
- EFL QuarterfinalsThis house regrets the rise of shows/films which involve mental suffering and self-harm (e.g. Bojack Horseman, Black Swan, 13 Reasons Why)
- EFL QuarterfinalsThis house, as WWE, would induct Chris Benoit in the WWE Hall of Fame
- EFL QuarterfinalsThis house believes that contemporary black film makers should actively create films which embrace blaxploitation
- EFL SemifinalsThis house, as the Catholic Church, would abolish the papal conclave and select its succeeding Popes through an election among all its members (i.e. its religious followers)
- EFL SemifinalsThis house prefers a world where Islam has its own central authority (e.g. The Pope or the Magisterium in Catholicism)
- EFL SemifinalsThis house believes that religious organisations should excommunicate members who commit serious crimes against society
- EFL FinalsThis house supports the strategy of activists publicly shaming those who do not actively denounce problematic individuals
- EFL FinalsThis house believes that it is a legitimate tactic for activists to launch campaigns of personal attacks/insults at the family members of corrupt politicians
- EFL FinalsThis house prefers a narrative of collective blame for ethnic divides within a community, rather than the blame being placed exclusively on institutions or externalities
UADC 2020 (2020)48 motions
- Round 1THBT human beings have a moral responsibility to preserve the ecology of earth, even at the expense of their own survival.
- Round 1In developed countries, THW increase the tax on the use of non-renewable energy sources to be equivalent to the cost of the closest renewable energy source.
- Round 1TH, as a developing country, would choose to deprioritise economic modernisation in favour of the Gross National Happiness Index.
- Round 2This House would make entry into university based on a lottery after passing a basic high school exam
- Round 2THW not allow colleges to recruit students using sports scholarships
- Round 2THW impose a cap on university endowments, in favour of directing the money towards grants given to individual professors/researchers.
- Round 3This House regrets India's withdrawal from the RCEP
- Round 3This House, as India, would aggressively fund the Pakistan Democratic Movement
- Round 3This House, as the Hijra community, would embrace the mythology surrounding them
- Round 4THBT the Democrats in the United States should focus their political efforts into swinging moderate and conservative voters in traditionally 'Red' states (e.g. Arkansas, Utah, Mississippi etc.), as opposed to galvanising their existing voter bases.
- Round 4This House, as the Biden Administration, would continue the trade war with China
- Round 4This House, as the Justice Democrats, would leave the Democrat Party and make their own party
- Round 5This House would subsidize the use and development of psychedelics-based therapy as a treatment to those with prolonged PTSD and depressive symptoms
- Round 5This House, as religious organisations, would actively encourage followers to consume hallucinogens and psychedelics for religious/spiritual/mystical events
- Round 5In areas with significant amount of illegal trade and production of drugs, this House believes that the state should legalise and aggressively produce and sell drugs.
- Round 6This House, as Abiy Ahmed, would abandon attempts at creating the proposed Prosperity Party and reinstate the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)
- Round 6This House regrets Juan Guaidó's decision to boycott the Venezuelan elections
- Round 6This House regrets the rise of the Turkish Pan-Islamist Media
- Round 7This House regrets the feminist cult of personality surrounding female leaders from prominent political families in developing countries
- Round 7This House, as a female executive in a male-dominated industry, would give preferential treatment to female subordinates
- Round 7This House regrets the de-politicization of the drag culture
- Round 8This House believes that the World Bank should hold major government enterprises as collateral while issuing loans to countries who have a track record of corruption
- Round 8This House believes that the post-COVID economic resuscitation plans of Asian countries in weaker economic positions should heavily focus on local production of real sector goods (agriculture and manufacture) instead of on services or international trade
- Round 8In countries with large agricultural sectors, this House believes that the state should impose strict regulations to determine the output and best practices for local farmers
- Open Partial Double OctasThis House would compel giant social media and instant messaging platforms (Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, etc.) to demand a much higher threshold of identification and verifiability from their users
- Open Partial Double OctasThis House regrets the rise of the influencer business model
- Open Partial Double OctasThis House regrets social-media-based self-disclosure groups for mental health
- Open OctofinalsThis House, as Saudi Arabia, would look for stronger ties with China at the expense of USA
- Open OctofinalsThis House believes that closer Arab-Israeli ties are in the best interest of Palestinians
- Open OctofinalsThis House, as the Likud Party, would not field Benjamin Netanyahu in the event of an upcoming election
- EFL QuarterfinalsThis House, as an ordinary believer of a monotheistic religion, would choose to believe in religious pluralism over religious inclusivism
- EFL QuarterfinalsThis House believes that left-wing political movements should heavily support the re-interpretation of religious stories (of prophets, miracles, parables, and verses) to justify pragmatic economic goals such as wealth redistribution
- EFL QuarterfinalsThis House prefers a world in which the conception of sin in Abrahamic religions is entirely a result of human agency as opposed to temptation of the devil
- Open QuarterfinalsThis House, as an ordinary believer of a monotheistic religion, would choose to believe in religious pluralism over religious inclusivism
- Open QuarterfinalsThis House believes that left-wing political movements should heavily support the re-interpretation of religious stories (of prophets, miracles, parables, and verses) to justify pragmatic economic goals such as wealth redistribution
- Open QuarterfinalsThis House prefers a world in which the conception of sin in Abrahamic religions is entirely a result of human agency as opposed to temptation of the devil
- EFL SemifinalsTHP that the main opposition leader in authoritarian countries to be individuals with a strong background in politics and governance over working class commoners
- EFL SemifinalsTHR the use of the narrative of successful colonial resistance by political parties for political gain
- EFL SemifinalsTHBT opposition parties in authoritarian democracies should actively prioritise their militant wings over their political wings
- Open SemifinalsTHP that the main opposition leader in authoritarian countries to be individuals with a strong background in politics and governance over working class commoners
- Open SemifinalsTHR the use of the narrative of successful colonial resistance by political parties for political gain
- Open SemifinalsTHBT opposition parties in authoritarian democracies should actively prioritise their militant wings over their political wings
- EFL Grand FinalThis House believes that progressive movements should opt to aggressively fund think-tanks with the explicit goal of shifting the Overton Window, at the expense of grassroots mobilisation in the form of protests and riots.
- EFL Grand FinalThis House prefers guilt society over shame society
- EFL Grand FinalThis House regrets the pervasiveness of colonial determinism in discourse surrounding African development and politics
- Open Grand FinalIn developing countries with weak civil-military control, THS the use of mandatory conscription.
- Open Grand FinalIn post-colonial states, THS militaries with strong nationalist ideologies over militaries that see themselves as autonomous, professional bodies.
- Open Grand FinalIn countries with weak central governance, THP urban-based civil society-supported military coups.
What gets set here
Social & Identity1%
Politics1%
Economics1%
Sport0%
Video Games0%
International Relations0%
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30% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 6 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 78.5.
Last edition: 28 of 68 teams broke.
- 20206 pts · 78.5 speaks29/107
- 20217 pts · 78.5 speaks28/101
- 20227 pts · 77.8 speaks35/110
- 20237 pts · 78.8 speaks32/117
- 20246 pts · 78.4 speaks16/56
- 20256 pts · 79.2 speaks16/54
- 20266 pts · 78.1 speaks28/68
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Break categories
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- Open break28 teams
- English as a Foreign Language break8 teams
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