Every motion, both sides.
Real motions in the phrasing tournaments actually use. Each one carries what the motion is asking, the case on both sides with claim, warrant, and impact, the clash the round turns on, and the mistakes that lose it. Then you run it against an AI opponent and get a ballot.
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Parliamentary / APDA · 10
This house would ban billionaires.
A wealth-cap motion that turns on whether extreme fortunes are a political problem or an economic signal.
Parliamentary / APDA · Medium
This house would abolish the electoral college.
A first-principles democracy motion where the real fight is over what a presidential election is supposed to represent.
Parliamentary / APDA · Intro
This house would make voting compulsory.
A classic liberty-versus-participation motion where the size of the fine decides how much of the case survives.
Parliamentary / APDA · Intro
This house believes the ends justify the means.
A pure ethics motion that is won on the framework, not on examples.
Parliamentary / APDA · Hard
This house would abolish prisons.
An abolition motion that Prop loses by refusing to answer the violent-offender question and Opp loses by pretending the status quo works.
Parliamentary / APDA · Hard
This house supports universal basic income.
The funding question decides this round. Teams that skip it lose to teams that do not.
Parliamentary / APDA · Medium
This house would lower the voting age to 16.
A franchise motion where the consistency attack on the age line does most of the work for Prop.
Parliamentary / APDA · Intro
This house believes AI development should be paused.
A moratorium motion where enforcement, not risk, is the actual battleground.
Parliamentary / APDA · Medium
This house would abolish legacy admissions.
One of the few motions where Prop has both the fairness argument and the empirics, so Opp has to get creative.
Parliamentary / APDA · Intro
This house would mandate organ donation upon death.
A bodily-autonomy motion where Prop should be careful not to take more than they need.
Parliamentary / APDA · Medium
British Parliamentary · 5
This House would abolish the filibuster.
An institutional-design motion that rewards teams willing to argue against their own party's short-term interest.
British Parliamentary · Medium
This House would break up Google.
An antitrust motion that turns on whether the harm is monopoly power or something structural breakup cannot reach.
British Parliamentary · Medium
This House would nationalise frontier AI labs.
A high-ceiling motion where the best teams argue about who ends up controlling the technology, not about whether AI is dangerous.
British Parliamentary · Hard
This House would seize frozen Russian state assets to fund the reconstruction of Ukraine.
A motion about legal precedent, not about whether Russia deserves it. Teams that miss that lose.
British Parliamentary · Hard
This House would ban political advertising on social media.
A speech-regulation motion where the definition of political advertising decides half the round.
British Parliamentary · Medium
Asian Parliamentary · 3
This House, as ASEAN, would adopt a binding South China Sea code of conduct.
An actor motion. You are ASEAN, so every argument has to run through what ASEAN can actually do.
Asian Parliamentary · Hard
This House, as India, would scrap caste-based affirmative action.
A reservation motion that requires actual knowledge of how Indian reservations work. Generic affirmative-action arguments do not survive contact.
Asian Parliamentary · Hard
This House would pay couples in aging East Asian economies to have children.
A pronatalist motion where the evidence base cuts against Prop and Prop has to know that going in.
Asian Parliamentary · Medium
World Schools · 4
This House would ban homework for K-12 students.
A good first motion. Accessible on both sides, and it rewards teams that split primary from secondary school.
World Schools · Intro
This House supports open borders.
The largest-magnitude motion in common circulation, and the one where Prop most often forgets to defend the actual policy.
World Schools · Hard
This House would ban factory farming.
A motion where Prop has three independent routes to the ballot and often tries to run all of them badly instead of one well.
World Schools · Medium
This House would ban smartphones in schools.
An accessible motion with unusually good evidence on both sides, which makes it a fair test of who researched.
World Schools · Intro
Lincoln-Douglas · 2
Resolved: A just society ought not use the death penalty.
A values resolution. The value and criterion do more work than any contention, and most rounds are decided there.
Lincoln-Douglas · Medium
Resolved: Civil disobedience in a democracy is morally justified.
The words "in a democracy" carry the whole resolution. Neg wins by making Aff explain why legal channels are insufficient.
Lincoln-Douglas · Medium
Public Forum · 2
Resolved: On balance, the benefits of social media for adolescents outweigh the harms.
An on-balance resolution, so the weighing mechanism is the round. Both sides will have evidence; the winner explains why theirs matters more.
Public Forum · Intro
Resolved: The United States should adopt a single-payer universal healthcare system.
A policy resolution in a PF frame. The transition, not the steady state, is where rounds are won.
Public Forum · Medium
Policy · 1