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Tournament Motions

Elimination Rounds

Round 1: Gender

  • THBT gay rights movements should compel openly gay celebrities to actively support their causes.
  • THBT feminist politics must transition from the halls of Congress to the bedroom.
  • THBT Muslim universities should grant professional subsidies to feminist scholars living in radically conservative Muslim states.

Round 2: Europa

  • THW ban the ownership of multiple properties in land strapped European countries.
  • THBT it is justified for EU countries with bailout responsibilities to excuse themselves with financial commitments to the union.
  • THBT the European Union should subsidize rehabilitation clinics for computer addicts.

Round 3: Culpability

  • THBT sober passengers of a drunk driver should be held criminally liable.
  • THW punish bystanders of a crime.
  • THW allow witnesses of gruesome murders to claim emotional damages against the criminal.

Round 4: Environment

  • TH celebrates the use of emotional blackmail as part of environmental strategies.
  • THBT Earth Hour is a meaningless, faddish, exercise.
  • THW make waste-disposal a mandatory requirement for free trade agreements.

Round 5: Print Media

  • THBT print media is dead.
  • THW ban government officials from obtaining board positions in print media.
  • THW require print media to grant criticized individuals compulsory reply space.

Round 6: Pop Culture

  • THW remove the foreign films category in the Academy Awards.
  • TH regrets the rise of vegetarianism.
  • THW shut down the World Wrestling Entertainment for good.

Round 7: Geopolitics

  • THBT China should revise its amoral foreign policy by sanctioning North Korea.
  • TH regrets Obama's stance of reducing investments for foreign policy initiatives.
  • THBT it's time to grant statehood to Taiwan.

Break Rounds

Octofinals: Local Headlines

  • THB in extending the land distribution program.
  • TH overreacted to Chip Tsao.
  • THBT it is time to shut the doors on visiting forces.

Quarterfinals: Rights

  • THW lift the moratorium on blood donations for men who have sex with men.
  • THBT parents who are minors should be allowed to retain custody of their offspring.
  • TH supports the preferential disclosure of sexual harassment issues to religious leaders over state authorities within some religious communities.

    • Semi-finals: Football

    • TH regrets the recruitment of Third World football players by European football clubs.
    • TH celebrates players walking-off the field in response to racist crowd hooliganism.
    • THBT all players should donate majority of their advertising revenue to league development of the clubs they play for.

    Finals: Education

    • TH celebrates the rise of political activism among students in public universities.
    • THW accommodate student-teacher relationships among consenting adults in universities.
    • THB in mandatory sex education in all religious schools.

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