Lord Hugill Cup - Western Canadian BP Championships 2026

1. Round 1THP to be born as an average golden retriever over an average human.Practise this motion
2. Round 2THP the creation, subsidization, and maintenance of wildlife areas within major cities (e.g. Stanley Park, River Valley, Fish Creek Park), as opposed to outside of major cities (Widgeon Valley National Wildlife Area, Banff National Park, Jasper National Park).Practise this motion
3. Round 3THR the Siamese reforms.Practise this motion
4. Round 4TH hopes for the dominance of horror, instead of the dominance of comedy, in popular movies.Practise this motion
5. Round 5TH predicts that the average therapist's inflation-adjusted salary will be lower in 2036 compared to 2026Practise this motion
6. SemifinalsTHW implement a lottery wild card system for the break at debate tournaments.Practise this motion
7. Grand FinalTHW take the deal.Practise this motion
8. Novice FinalsTHW Take the DealPractise this motion

1. Round 1TH, as a millennial politician, W use brain rot in their political messaging.Practise this motion
2. Round 2From behind the veil of ignorance, THW allow humans to allocate their stat points prior to being born.Practise this motion
3. Round 3THBT individual awards should carry greater weight than team championships when evaluating all-time great athletes.Practise this motion
4. Round 4THW implement a mandatory 4-year rest period after high school before students are permitted to attend post-secondary institutions.Practise this motion
5. Round 5THBT it is in the interest of the Quebec separatist movement to align itself with the Alberta separatist movement.Practise this motion
6. SemifinalsTHBT the Evidential Problem of Evil means that a benevolent God does not existPractise this motion
7. Novice FinalsTHP a world where a small robot flies beside everyone’s head and scolds people if they violate utilitarian ethics.Practise this motion
8. Grand FinalTHP a world in which individuals gain access to the Dreamscape for one month if they are handed a Coke with their name on it.Practise this motion

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1. Round 1THBT LeBron James is the GOAT.Practise this motion
2. Round 2TH, as an aspiring hacker who has discovered a computationally efficient algorithm to break RSA, would release the algorithm on 4chan.Practise this motion
3. Round 3TH, as the Alberta provincial government, would radically refuse to cooperate with federal immigration restrictions (Eg., issuing permanent provincial residency permits, open borders, establish competing border agencies, set independent immigration targets, etc…).Practise this motion
4. Round 4THP a world in which spirits of the dead return to the real world through a spirit medium as opposed to a world where spirits return as ghosts.Practise this motion
5. Round 5THP a world where all large companies are worker cooperatives instead of traditional shareholder corporations.Practise this motion
6. Semi FinalTHP the use of cluster sampling to stratified random sampling by Statistics Canada.Practise this motion
7. Novice FinalsTH would pull the lever.Practise this motion
8. Grand FinalsTHBT Bruce Wayne will complete the journey in 22 years and return to Gotham City in time to defeat The Joker.Practise this motion

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1. Round 1This house believes that the IWW should actively support and encourage prisoners to unionize (including but not limited to providing funding to unions, giving advice on strategies etc.)Practise this motion
2. Round 2This house prefers a world with "closure-at-first-sight"Practise this motion
3. Round 3TH, as the environmental movement, would actively endorse RECs.Practise this motion
4. Round 4THP a world in which human beings have their physical characteristics randomly swapped with other humans at one-month intervals.Practise this motion
5. Round 5THBT it is in the interests of pro-democracy groups in eSwatini to run candidates in eSwatini’s next parliamentary election.Practise this motion
6. Open FinalsThis house believes that it is in the interest of religions that believe in an omnibenevolent deity (e.g. Islam, Christianity) to abandon the practice of proposing and using theodicies in order to argue for the plausibility of their God.Practise this motion

Open the Hugill Western Canada BP Championships 2023 prep page

1. Round 1TH, as the animal rights movement, would prioritize direct action (e.g., rescuing animals from factory farms, building animal sanctuaries, etc…) over indirect action (e.g., advertising campaigns, media appearances, lobbying, protests, etc…).Practise this motion
2. Round 2In Brazil, THS the creation of institutions with the power to ban anti-democratic political actions and speechesPractise this motion
3. Round 3For the issuance of C-band spectrum licenses, THS the use of “comparative hearings” as opposed to “spectrum auctions.”Practise this motion
4. Round 4THR the trend towards "women on the edge" in contemporary literaturePractise this motion
5. Round 5THW pull the leverPractise this motion
6. SemifinalsTHP the widespread adoption of the PFL’s model to the widespread adoption of the UFC's model for MMA.Practise this motion
7. Grand FinalTHBT that the US should covertly fund 'X' to launch a cyberattack against Russia.Practise this motion

Open the Hugill 2022: Western Canadian Championship prep page

1. Round 1THP Sudbury SchoolsPractise this motion
2. Round 2THS the gamification of the workplacePractise this motion
3. Round 3THW repeal the Johnson AmendmentPractise this motion
4. Round 4THS the Implementation of Performance Based Funding Metrics for Public UniversitiesPractise this motion
5. Round 5THBT that women belonging to privileged backgrounds should actively decline positions of power within the Feminist movementPractise this motion
6. SemifinalsTHBT Central Banks should act to financially disempower and disincentivize practices that worsen climate change.Practise this motion
7. Grand FinalTHR the use of war-like terminology in the combating of coronavirusPractise this motion

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