Motion Analysis Category
WUDC Semifinals 2025 Motion: THW militarily intervene in Sudan Results: OO and OG advanced Video attachment: This speech is transcribed by Arnav Agarwal for the Debating404 project. DLO: Ryan Lafferty Opening: Opening government has no case Their aim is to displace the RSF from Sudan. Problem. Who governs Sudan post the UN leaving? The likely…
Manya Gupta, WSDC 2019 Grand Final Check the video here. Opening Fractured bones become fractured communities. When you can’t call out a soldier that sexually assaulted you in Iraq, can’t call out a general who may have ordered this as a war tactic In a world where you think soldiers get everything right, that’s when everything…
Info Slide: In the context of anti-terrorism, “decapitation” refers to the strategy of targeting terrorist leaders for assassination. Dan Lahav, 2016 HWS Round Robin GF Check the video here. Opening Let’s be sharp on burdens. The fact that you have F16 in an army doesn’t mean you’re going to automatically always use your F16s when…
Or ignore the first part of the wording of the motion, in order to make interpreting this debate more simply. …or maybe not. …..but maybe also yes. So, “This House Believes That It Is Illegitimate for Western States to Limit Immigration from Developing-World Countries” and let’s do the motion dissection. First, illegitimate means illegal. But…
Let’s do the motion dissection by focusing on the different aspects of the wording, one at a time. First, “granted on the basis of past colonial exploitation”. In order to help the understanding of that, let us deliver it to you this way: “you are going to base debt relief grants, ONLY on past colonial…