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Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championship (Australs)

The Australasian university championship.

Editions

What gets set here

The topic mix across 11 analysed editions. Tap a year to see that edition alone.

465 categorised motions across all editions.

Philosophy30%
Law & Crime17%
Technology17%
International Relations15%
Social & Identity12%
Politics12%
Grand final motions, year by year
  • 2025That we support the decline of Traditional News outlets in favour of New Media · Media, Social & Identity
  • 2024That the National Semiconductor Strategy is in the interests of Malaysia. · International Relations
  • 2023That as a young woman with feminist beliefs, we would embrace a dissociative feminist persona [dissociative feminist] · Social & Identity
  • 2022B: That we support the Campbelltown value system · Philosophy
  • 2021A: That, as a person who emigrated from a poor nation to a wealthy nation and then becomes highly successful (for instance, Enis Kantor, Elon Musk, Isabel Allende, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Salman Rushdie), we would vocally encourage other people from our homeland to also emigrate · International Relations, Economics, Health & Medicine
  • 2020That, as environmentalists, we would choose a strategy of working closely with corporations. · Economics, Environment
  • 2019That we regret the belief that there is inherent value in martyrdom. · Philosophy
  • 2017That we support the creation of autonomously governed ocean-based communities (ie. seasteading) · Philosophy
  • 2016That the modern breast feeding movement has done more harm than good · Philosophy
  • 2015That we regret the commercialisation of Pride · Philosophy

What it takes to break here

  • 20157 pts19/78 broke
  • 20167 pts18/74 broke
  • 20177 pts21/79 broke
  • 2018cut unknown25/90 broke
  • 20197 pts · 77.3 speaks22/76 broke
  • 20208 pts · 77.3 speaks29/135 broke
  • 20217 pts · 77.0 speaks25/110 broke
  • 20227 pts · 77.2 speaks12/46 broke
  • 20236 pts · 77.6 speaks18/58 broke
  • 2024cut unknown · 77.2 speaks19/62 broke
  • 20257 pts · 77.1 speaks12/50 broke

7 points has guaranteed the break in 7 of 11 editions with break data.

How scoring works here

Field average 76.1 across 8 scored editions.

  • Top speaker pace78.8
  • Top-10 pace78.1
  • Top-20 pace77.6

Median average speaks at each finishing position, across 8 editions.

Records

  • Best speaker average78.9 🇦🇺 Udai K., 2023
  • Biggest field135 teams 2020

Top speakers in this series

The highest speaker averages recorded across every analysed edition.

  1. 1🇦🇺 Udai K. · 5 editions78.9
  2. 2Oliver C. · 3 editions78.8
  3. 3🇦🇺 Imogen H.78.8
  4. 4🇦🇺 Connor O. · 2 editions78.8
  5. 5🇦🇺 Sophie S. · 4 editions78.7
  6. 6🇦🇺 David W. · 3 editions78.7
  7. 7🇦🇺 Bostan N.78.6
  8. 8🇦🇺 Eden B. · 2 editions78.6
  9. 9🇧🇩 Sourodip P. · 3 editions78.6
  10. 10🇵🇭 Mikko V. · 3 editions78.6
  11. 11🇲🇾 Ploopy78.6
  12. 12🇦🇺 Callum D.78.6
  13. 13🇦🇺 Kevin L. · 2 editions78.5
  14. 14🇵🇭 Ignacio V. · 2 editions78.5
  15. 15🇲🇾 Har S.78.5

Who chairs it

Adjudication-core members from the editions where we know the panel.

  • 🇦🇺 Daniel D.1 edition
  • 🇦🇺 Jessica M.1 edition
  • Mohammed K.1 edition
  • Mifzal M.1 edition
  • Vihasini G.1 edition
  • Vinodhan K.1 edition
  • 🇦🇺 Ben J.1 edition
  • 🇦🇺 Dominic G.1 edition
  • Alice S.1 edition
  • Yarn S.1 edition
  • Mika F.1 edition
  • Mubarrat W.1 edition

We only know the panel for 7 of 12 editions. Know who chaired another year?