Motions

Grand Finals

  • This house would make all court trials incorporeal
  • Novice Grand Finals

  • The motion for this round has not been released.
  • Semifinals

  • Assuming that a road accident featured the decision to collide into an elder or into a baby, this house believes that self-driving algorithms should always prioritise sparing the youngest possible victim
  • Novice Semifinals

  • This house regrets the expansion of NATO membership to post-Soviet states
  • Quarterfinals

  • This house would compel all nations whose national sports teams include players with direct origins traceable to any former colony, to pay 'sorting dividends' to said former colony
  • Novice Quarter Finals

  • This house, as a recent graduate, would embrace overemployment as opposed to a career trajectory
  • Octofinals

  • THBT developing nations should sell the 'Right to Pollute' to foreign companies facing restrictions in their home countries.
  • Round 4

  • This House believes that minority parents should discourage their children from pursuing careers in the field of state security (e.g. the military, police, border control)
  • Round 3

  • This House opposes the practice of granting political power to violent insurgent groups in developing nations (examples include but are not limited to FARC in Columbia, Hamas in Palestine, Taliban in Afghanistan)
  • Round 2

  • This House supports democracies passing constitutional reforms through nation-wide referenda
  • Round 1

  • This house regrets the narrative that universities should focus on preparing students for the workforce.