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| Date | Tournament | Round | Motion |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | TH, as the North of England, would violently secede from the UK. |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THW allow people to ascertain their lifespan via the 'Bethesda' device. |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | In a Battlestar Galactica-themed scenario (where humanity is drifting in space), THW ban abortion. |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | TH supports feminist vigilante groups in India. |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THBT when secession referenda are called, the nation that is being seceded from should get a chance to vote the smaller country out |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THW create a market in internal organs |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THBT all erroneous information used in debates should be penalised by judges |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | TH, as a wizard, would create a horcrux |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THW force countries to invest in a global space program |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THW require all businesses to be owned and run as cooperatives |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THW ban the production, sale, and use of Poké Balls |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THW enter the Matrix |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | TH supports unmanned aerial vehicles in warfare |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THW introduce a UK constitution giving courts more power. |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THBT parents should advise daughters against heavy drinking to avoid sexual assault. |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THW eliminate copyright and patenting |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | TH, as Germany, would ban all emission vehicles by 2020 |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THW disproportionately teach colonialism in schools |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | TH regrets the rise of drinking initiations in universities |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | TH supports the marriage of Ron and Hermione |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | THW allow "Just following orders" as a defence |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | THW ban advertising |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | THW forcibly plug everyone into Nozick's experience machine |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | TH does not regret internet piracy |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | It is 2017. This house is the Out campaign. THW spread hyperbolised information and lies about the EU in order to win the referendum |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | THBT colonialism caused more good than harm |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | THW force men and women to take equal maternity and paternity leave |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | TH, as Marcus Brutus, would participate in the conspiracy to kill Caesar |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | TH prefers 'an eye for an eye' in modern society |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | TH welcomes the advent of emerging genetic enhancements on the human body |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | THBT feminists should oppose global capitalism |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | It is 1951, during the Korean War. TH, as the US, would aggressively nuke China |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | THW tie minimum wage increases to increases in the income of the 1% |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | THW institute a lottery system whereby Olympic ticket purchasers may be drafted in as athletes |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | In a world with superheroes, THW institute a superhero register |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | There is a zombie outbreak where 1% of the world is infected. They are all kept in a pen at great expense. We have a vaccination, and the other 99% are vaccinated - they will not be zombified, but the 1% are still dangerous, and there is no cure. Motion: THW kill the 1% |
| 2014-03-16 | Royal Holloway Open | Open_Final | TH prefers the abolition of pornography to the nationalisation of pornography. |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THW ban teenagers from using Facebook |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THW choose immortality over fertility |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THBT Simba should not go back |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THBT Bilbo should have killed Gollum when he had the chance |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THBT all politicians should be celibate |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THW ban advertising |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THBT charity is immoral |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 1 | THW kill its best friend when s/he is about to become a zombie |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THW build a second Deathstar |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THBT children under 18 with close relatives who are victims of FGM should not be allowed to travel outside the EU |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THW ban Google Glasses |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THW discourage people with genetic diseases from having children and prioritise them in terms of adoption |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THW replace juries with panels of philosophers who will decide cases purely on utilitarian grounds |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THW not give aliens the vote (aliens live alongside humans 1 year from now) |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THB feminists should oppose capitalism |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 2 | THBT the feminist movement should oppose the banning of the burqa |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | THBT the Pope Francis should make an ex-cathedra statement to the effect that all Catholics must support socialism |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | THW give the Roma a homeland |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | THW build a deathstar |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | As an omipotent, omniscient god, THW smite people who commit serious crimes and who we know will feel no remorse |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | THW bring back public corporal punishment for smaller crimes |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | THW make higher education free |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | THW abolish the speaker tab |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 3 | THW fully replace agriculture and fishing with stem cell production to produce food |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | THW require priests to report confessions that lead to criminal convictions |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | You are an Israeli nuclear submarine commander. You learn that Israel has been wiped out by an iranian nuclear strike. THW return Fire |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | THW link Job Seekers Allowance to previous income |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | THW not become a superhero |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | THW encourage replacing human body parts with advanced robotic counterparts |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | THW build 500,000 social homes in the London Greenbelt |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | THW wipe the memories of those convicted very serious crimes and replace them with more positive memories |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | 4 | THW require universities to increase funding for classics and deprioritise funding for popular culture choices |
| 2013-03-17 | Royal Holloway Open | Open_Final | In world that has eradicated racism, THW prefer that people were/were not able to recognise differences in physical appearance |