Stratford Spartan Invitational

2025 — Houston, TX/US

Topics, Breaks and Other Stuff

TOPICS:

LD – Resolved: In the United States criminal justice system, plea bargaining is just.

PF – Resolved: The United Kingdom should rejoin the European Union.

CX (Policy) – Resolved: The United States federal government should significantly increase its exploration and/or development of the Arctic.


Congress Docket – (randomize with wheelspin)

Prelims: 4, 2, 1, 3, 5

Semis (if necessary): 14, 15, 11, 12, 13

Finals: 6, 8, 10, 7, 9

Worlds School Motions –

Round 1: IMPROMPTU

Round 2: This House, as a democratic government, would ban political advertising on social media platforms.

Round 3: (flip sides) This House, as a democratic government, would ban political advertising on social media platforms.

Round 4: IMPROMPTU

Elim 1: This House, as a government, would prioritize financing space exploration over financing deep-sea exploration.

Elim 2: IMPROMPTU

Elim 3 (if necessary): This House regrets the decline of labor unions.

Tentative Breaks based on LAST year's entries.

LD/PF – We anticipate that we will break into Quarters. (Brackets will NOT be broken)

CX/WSD – We anticipate that we will break to Semis.

Congress – We anticipate 4 prelim chambers with top 4 breaking to a finals chamber of 16

Speech –
All IEs will have 3 prelims. After prelims, events with 21+ entries will break to Semis, events below that number will break straight to finals.