Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship 2026

1. Round 0THS the rise of the peptide biohacking culture.Practise this motion
2. Round 0THW impose significant financial penalties on hospitals with high rates of nosocomial infections.Practise this motion
3. Round 0THR the normalization of Filipino culture-bound syndromes.Practise this motion
4. Round 0THO the use of forward guidance by the central banks of developing countries.Practise this motion
5. Round 0THBT large firms with two consecutive quarters of stock price decline should be prohibited from labor hoarding.Practise this motion
6. Round 0THS the declining dominance of US-led multilateral lending institutions (e.g., IMF, World Bank)Practise this motion
7. Round 0THBT Victor Magtanggol's bad CGI is due to underpaid and overworked Filipino VFX artists.Practise this motion
8. Round 0THR the rise of themes of adultery and cheating on Filipino telenovelasPractise this motion
9. Round 0THW implement a limit of TV show episode of one per week.Practise this motion
10. Round 1TH, as a new mother in a traditional Filipino community, would actively adopt gentle parenting practices in raising their child.Practise this motion
11. Round 1THBT pakikipamuhay should become a dominant norm among privileged Filipinos.Practise this motion
12. Round 1THBT the concept of maratabat has done more harm than good to Filipino Muslim families.Practise this motion
13. Round 2THS the rise of the peptide biohacking culture.Practise this motion
14. Round 2THR the normalization of Filipino culture-bound syndromes.Practise this motion
15. Round 2THW impose significant financial penalties on hospitals with high rates of nosocomial infections.Practise this motion
16. Round 3THP vertical disintegration over vertical integration in the Philippine fashion industry.Practise this motion
17. Round 3THBT the BCDA has done more harm than good.Practise this motion
18. Round 3THP the American over the Japanese housing model.Practise this motion
19. Round 4THO the growing emphasis on ideological purity within the Democratic Party (i.e. shaming politicians that accept corporate PAC funding, heightened pressure to adopt more hostile rhetoric on Israel, the overall disavowal of candidates perceived as establishment-aligned).Practise this motion
20. Round 4THP that electorates in developing countries primarily vote egotropically rather than sociotropically.Practise this motion
21. Round 4THS liberal parties in highly competitive democracies engaging in constitutional hardball.Practise this motion
22. Round 5THBT the Filpino trans community should embrace the "cybora" archetype.Practise this motion
23. Round 5THS the rise of aesthetic masculinity.Practise this motion
24. Round 5TH, as a Filipina baby drag queen, would prioritize creating politicized over politically neutral forms of entertainment.Practise this motion
25. Round 6THBT former French colonies in Africa should aggressively dismantle Françafrique-era relationships.Practise this motion
26. Round 6THO Rwanda’s international peacekeeping operations.Practise this motion
27. Round 6THBT Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s “Medemer” project is in the best interest of Ethiopia.Practise this motion
28. Round 7THR the transformation of cultural food into a luxury experience (e.g., halo-halo, tacos, mango sticky rice).Practise this motion
29. Round 7THW ban food delivery platforms from using dynamic pricing.Practise this motion
30. Round 7THBT the expansion of supermarket chains has done more harm than good in developing countries (e.g., 7-Eleven, Walmart, SM Markets).Practise this motion
31. Open Partial Double OctofinalsTHBT the anti-AI movement should prioritize using a firm-centric critique of AI adoption rather than a worker-centric critique.Practise this motion
32. Open Partial Double OctofinalsTH predicts that open-source technologies will have a greater global impact than proprietary technologies within the next decade.Practise this motion
33. Open Partial Double OctofinalsTHBT the large-scale shift from ownership to subscription-based models for digital media has done more harm than good.Practise this motion
34. Open OctofinalsTH, as Uruguay, would prioritize Asia-Pacific trade integration over Mercosur.Practise this motion
35. Open OctofinalsTHP a world where the dominant approach to international relations is realism rather than liberalism.Practise this motion
36. Open OctofinalsTHS Laos's pursuit of the strategy of becoming the "Battery of Southeast Asia."Practise this motion
37. Open QuarterfinalsTHBT feminist movements in the Global South should actively reject the binary of feminized and masculinized labor.Practise this motion
38. Open QuarterfinalsTHBT feminist movements should reject media that celebrate female characters who pursue power at the expense of others (e.g., Shiv Roy in Succession, Lydia Tár in Tár, Alicent Hightower and Rhaenyra Targaryen in House of the Dragon).Practise this motion
39. Open QuarterfinalsTHBT the feminist movement should prioritize dismantling 'tiis femininity' over changing male expectations of women's tolerance.Practise this motion
40. Sinag SemifinalsTHS the declining dominance of US-led multilateral lending institutions (e.g., IMF, World Bank)Practise this motion
41. Sinag SemifinalsTHO the use of forward guidance by the central banks of developing countries.Practise this motion
42. Sinag SemifinalsTHBT large firms with two consecutive quarters of stock price decline should be prohibited from labor hoarding.Practise this motion
43. Open SemifinalsTHS the rise of community churches.Practise this motion
44. Open SemifinalsTH predicts that the major global decline of organized religion will be driven more by loss of institutional trust than by rejection of religious teachings.Practise this motion
45. Open SemifinalsTHBT it is in the interest of Muslim communities to embrace wide-scale Ijtihad.Practise this motion
46. Sinag FinalsTHO the expansion of the MTRCB into digital media.Practise this motion
47. Sinag FinalsTHBT rising Filipino artists in the mainstream should prioritize strengthening their local fanbase over expanding their global fanbase.Practise this motion
48. Sinag FinalsTHBT minority writers in post conflict states should prioritize reconciliation narratives over resistance narrativesPractise this motion
49. Open FinalsTHP the discovery that we are not alone over the discovery that we are.Practise this motion
50. Open FinalsTHP a world of immanent justicePractise this motion
51. Open FinalsTHBT our world contains more meaning than Paraiso.Practise this motion

1. Round 1TH believes that, in their educational curricula, primary schools should heavily prioritize lessons that aim to validate and legitimize emotions that are dominantly perceived to be negative (e.g., anger, resentment, selfishness, etc.)Practise this motion
2. Round 1TH believes that the 1% should be compelled to send their children to public schoolsPractise this motion
3. Round 1TH, as the Philippine government, would require all graduates bound by RSAs to pursue a profession that is directly linked to their degree when tendering return service (e.g., BS Biochemistry scholars working as biochemists, engineering scholars working in an engineering field, etc.)Practise this motion
4. Round 2TH would prioritize producing art that aims to highlight unified struggles against the colonizers over art that emphasizes only the specific struggles of your ethnic minority during colonizationPractise this motion
5. Round 2TH would ban performance art that involves physically-harming the artist, regardless of who inflicts it (e.g., Marina Abramovic's "Rhythm 0", where strangers used objects to do anything to her as she sat motionless, Adrian Parsons's "Shrapnel", where he did self-circumcision, etc. )Practise this motion
6. Round 2TH believes that it is in the interest of creative professionals to embrace the use of artificial intelligencePractise this motion
7. Round 3In disaster-prone developing countries, TH prefers a debureaucratized implementation of infrastructure projects specifically designed to mitigate impacts brought about by natural disasters (e.g., typhoons, earthquakes, etc.)Practise this motion
8. Round 3TH supports the creation of an executive department for water resource management in the PhilippinesPractise this motion
9. Round 3TH regrets the establishment of the COPPractise this motion
10. Round 4TH, as a married same-sex couple in a religious community, would choose to not have a childPractise this motion
11. Round 4TH, as the drag queen, would lean towards conventional drag as opposed to sticking with alternative dragPractise this motion
12. Round 4TH, as the LGBTQ+ movement in a developing country, would focus its queer tourism initiatives towards local and indigenous forms of queerness (e.g., Babaylans in the Philippines, Hijras in India, Kathoey in Thailand, etc.)Practise this motion
13. Round 5TH regrets the digitalization of laborPractise this motion
14. Round 5TH would heavily tax companies with low employee satisfactionPractise this motion
15. Round 5TH supports the establishment of an international body to create and enforce a global minimum wage for offshore employers (e.g., foreign subsidiaries, remote work, etc.)Practise this motion
16. Round 6TH supports the sensationalization of queerplatonic relationshipsPractise this motion
17. Round 6TH, as a Gen Z, would deviate from the relationship escalatorPractise this motion
18. Round 6TH embraces the pivot towards detachment in relationshipsPractise this motion
19. Round 7TH believes that leftist groups in the Philippines should actively refrain from publicly criticizing current and former political opposition figures in the countryPractise this motion
20. Round 7TH, as the MAKABAYAN Coalition, would pursue active efforts to partner with other opposition figures and parties as opposed to fielding a full slate in the upcoming 2025 Senatorial ElectionsPractise this motion
21. Round 7TH believes that the pink revolution should have ended after the 2022 presidential electionsPractise this motion
22. Partial Double-OctofinalsIn states where abortion is illegal, TH supports the progressives' dominant portrayal of women who undergo abortions as victimsPractise this motion
23. Partial Double-OctofinalsTH regrets the commercialization of reproductive laborPractise this motion
24. Partial Double-OctofinalsTH believes that the feminization of survival has done more harm than goodPractise this motion
25. OctofinalsTH, as the CCP, would significantly allocate military budget to the People's Liberation Army Aerospace ForcePractise this motion
26. OctofinalsTH believes that Paetongtarn's decision to recommit to ASEAN's Five-Point Consensus is not within the interest of ThailandPractise this motion
27. OctofinalsTH believes that the further alignment of the Common Agricultural Policy with the European Green Deal will do more harm than goodPractise this motion
28. QuarterfinalsTH regrets the rise of specialty centers in developing countriesPractise this motion
29. QuarterfinalsTH condemns the de-emphasis on end-of-life care made by the medical communityPractise this motion
30. QuarterfinalsAssuming feasibility, TH would sue the National General HospitalPractise this motion
31. SemifinalsAssuming feasibility, TH would allow the consensual transfer of sufferingPractise this motion
32. SemifinalsTH prefers a world where individuals are strongly predisposed to unselfPractise this motion
33. SemifinalsTH would move to the better universePractise this motion
34. Grand FinalTH laments the immortalization of the Philippines' colonial pastPractise this motion
35. Grand FinalTH regrets the dominant narrative that to be a Filipino activist is to aspire for revolutionPractise this motion
36. Grand FinalTH believes that Filipino parents should raise their children to have a pessimistic stance towards Philippine societyPractise this motion
37. Sinag Cup SemifinalsTH prefers religions that teach apotheosis as the end goal for the human soulPractise this motion
38. Sinag Cup SemifinalsTH, as the Catholic Church, would embrace interpretations of Biblical figures in progressive contexts. (e.g., Mary as a feminist icon, Jesus as an anti-capitalist/anti-establishment, Jesus and Judas having potentially-queer relations, etc.)Practise this motion
39. Sinag Cup SemifinalsTH prefers a world where the Philippines actively pursued the revival and normalization of precolonial and unconventional spiritualities (e.g., Animism, Paganism, Satanism, etc.) as opposed to adopting Christianity post-Spanish colonizationPractise this motion
40. Sinag Cup FinalsTHBT it is in the best interest of BARMM to abandon all efforts to reinstate Sulu as part of the autonomous regionPractise this motion
41. Sinag Cup FinalsTHBT the Philippine government should exempt protected ancestral lands from the NIPAS LawPractise this motion
42. Sinag Cup FinalsTH regrets the Mandanas RulingPractise this motion

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