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Yale IV

The Yale Intervarsity, a flagship of the North American BP circuit.

Editions

Greyed years are editions we don’t have a tab for yet. Know where one is?

Field strength over the years

How strong each edition’s field was, on the cross-tournament strength scale.

Older editions predate a lot of the rating data we hold, so early years can read lower than they really were.

  • 2021Above Average
  • 2022Above Average
  • 2023Above Average
  • 2024Above Average
  • 2025Average

What gets set here

The topic mix across 6 analysed editions. Tap a year to see that edition alone.

61 categorised motions across all editions.

Economics21%
Social & Identity16%
Law & Crime10%
Education8%
International Relations7%
Technology7%
Grand final motions, year by year
  • 2025This House Believes That professional sports should adopt the athlete control model · Sport
  • 2024THBT college graduates should prioritize their working environment (e.g. types of colleagues, team v individual work, etc.) over the content of their work for their first job after graduation. · Social & Identity
  • 2023THS a world where "Upload" exists and is widely accessible. · Fiction
  • 2022THBT the environmental movement should advocate for adaptation to the effects of climate change over mitigation of the effects of climate change · Environment
  • 2021THP undergrad programs (BA) that follow the holistic education model to ones that follow the specialisation model · Education
  • 2019THBT it is preferable to pursue civil rights protections via the legislative process rather than the legal system. · Law & Crime

What it takes to break here

  • 2019cut unknown20/178 broke
  • 202111 pts · 79.0 speaks24/134 broke
  • 202211 pts · 79.4 speaks17/121 broke
  • 202311 pts · 79.0 speaks16/103 broke
  • 202411 pts · 80.3 speaks16/140 broke
  • 202511 pts · 79.9 speaks16/120 broke

11 points has guaranteed the break in 5 of 6 editions with break data.

How scoring works here

Field average 76.1 across 5 scored editions.

  • Top speaker pace82.4
  • Top-10 pace80.4
  • Top-20 pace79.6

Median average speaks at each finishing position, across 5 editions.

Records

  • Best speaker average83.4 🇺🇸 Ryan L., 2025
  • Biggest field178 teams 2019
  • Strongest field2021 Above Average

Top speakers in this series

The highest speaker averages recorded across every analysed edition.

  1. 1🇺🇸 Tejas S. · 5 editions83.4
  2. 2🇺🇸 Ryan L. · 3 editions83.4
  3. 3🇭🇷 Tin P.82.4
  4. 4🇺🇸 Will R. · 2 editions82.2
  5. 5🇵🇭 David A.82.0
  6. 6🇺🇸 Xiao-Ke L. · 2 editions82.0
  7. 7🇬🇧 Matt C.81.8
  8. 8🇨🇦 Naomi P.81.8
  9. 9🇺🇸 Manuel M. · 2 editions81.8
  10. 10🇺🇸 Elizabeth L. · 3 editions81.8
  11. 11🇺🇸 Greg W.81.6
  12. 12🇺🇸 Benny N. · 2 editions81.6
  13. 13🇺🇸 Thej M.81.6
  14. 14🇬🇧 Ahmed S.81.4
  15. 15🇨🇦 Jacob S. · 2 editions81.4

Who chairs it

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

  • Lior S.1 edition
  • 🇦🇺 Jessica M.1 edition
  • 🇮🇱 Hadar G.1 edition
  • 🇺🇸 Aditya D.1 edition

We only know the panel for 1 of 6 editions. Know who chaired another year?