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2018 NSDA Nationals HSPF

2016 HWS Round Robin GF (OM) - THBT Governments Should Abandon The Strategy of “Decapitation” in Fighting Terrorism

2016 HWS Round Robin R2 (PM) - THS Filial Responsibility Laws

2020 HWS Round Robin (PM) – THBT Individuals Have A Moral Obligation to Not Have Biological Children

Australs 2021 Final (OW) – That, in countries with a history of ethnic tensions, we would embrace cultural appropriation

Bangladesh UADC 2020 Round 5 (PM)

Bangladesh UADC 2020 Round 6 (PM) – This House regrets Juan Guaidó’s decision to boycott the Venezuelan elections

Cambridge IV 2021 Final (PM) - THO transhumanism

HWS Round Robin 2017 Round 4 (GM)

Indonesia NUDC 2017 Final (DPM) – As citizens, THW primarily base considerations to choose leaders based on “good political characters” rather than on policy

Korea WUDC 2021 Open Grand Final – THS the creation of an international court with a mandate to prosecute leaders for health crimes

Macau Online WSDC 2021 Semi-Final (Canada vs Singapore) – THW nationalise the research, development, and distribution of pharmaceuticals

Oxford IV 2020 Open Finals - THR the narrative that there exists no objective truth

Oxford Online IV 2020 Open Final – THR the narrative that there exists no objective truth

Pre-WSDC 2021 Finals (DLO) – THS the Glorification of the Mediocre Life

Princeton IV 2021 Final (DPM）

WSDC 2019 Grand Final (PM) - THR The Glorification of Soldiers as Heroes

Thailand WUDC 2020 Open Semi-Final (DLO) – This house prefers a “Brave New World” to the status quo in Western Liberal Democracies

Thessaloniki WUDC 2016 Open Finals – THB that the world’s poor would be justified in pursuing complete Marxist revolution

WSDC Canada, WSDC 2020 Finals- THW Choose The Job They Are Passionate About