Tournaments
Queens Holiday Open 2025
What it took to break at this edition, what was set and who set it.
Fri 5 Dec 2025
From 1 tab, newest Queens Holiday Open 2025.
How many points did it take?
10points were safe
in 2025
The last team in averaged 78.4 speaks in 2025.
What will they set?
- Education2 of 11
- Social & Identity2 of 11
- Economics2 of 11
- Environment1 of 11
Out of 11 past motions with a topic, from 1 edition.
How many teams, and how many break?
24of 92 teams made the open break
in 2025
Who has set the motions?
- 🇨🇦 Vijay T.
- 🇨🇦 Nimai K.
- 🇨🇦 Annika F.
Chief adjudicators in 2025, the newest tab that lists them.
Past motions
1 edition with motions on record, newest first.
Queens Holiday Open 202511 motions
- Round 1This House supports providing short-term financial incentives for students to achieve or exhibit certain behaviors correlated with student achievementPractise this motion
- Round 2This House believes that the environmental movement should prioritize anthropocentric messaging over ecocentrismPractise this motion
- Round 3This House prefers the narrative that personal growth requires struggle over the narrative that it requires acceptancePractise this motion
- Round 4This House supports the rise in drone usage for warfarePractise this motion
- Round 5This House prefers the use of realism over absurdity in media depictions of the workplacePractise this motion
- Partial OctofinalsThis House would implement global molasses measures on firms building AI models (e.g. Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek)Practise this motion
- QuarterfinalsThis House Supports the resurgence in “cultural exceptionalism” of non-western cultures in progressive political movements.Practise this motion
- SemifinalsThis House supports the expansion of venture capital funding into university labsPractise this motion
- Grand FinalThis House regrets the narrative that Trump is incompetentPractise this motion
- Junior SemifinalsThis House Supports Build Canada Strong initiativesPractise this motion
- Junior FinalsThis House, as the father, would pull your son out of the conservatory and place him in a local public schoolPractise this motion
The break, year by year
The points that were safe, the last team in and how many broke, at each edition with results.
Every break in 2025
- Open break24 teams
- Junior break11 teams
Who sets the motions
Chief adjudicators by edition, where the tab lists them.
- 2025🇨🇦 Vijay T., 🇨🇦 Nimai K., 🇨🇦 Annika F.
How speakers score here
Speaker averages, what finishing high has taken, and the top speeches at this edition.
- average speaker score, 1 edition
- 76.0
- where most speakers land
- 73.5 to 78.5
What finishing high has taken
- Top speaker82.3
- 10th speaker80.0
- 20th speaker79.0
Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.
Top speeches
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇬🇧 Luke M. | CGMG | This House supports the rise in drone usage for warfare | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Luke M. | OOLO | This House prefers the narrative that personal growth requires struggle over the narrative that it requires acceptance | 84 |
| Valerie F. | OGDPM | This House believes that the environmental movement should prioritize anthropocentric messaging over ecocentrism | 84 |
| 🇬🇧 Luke M. | COMO | This House supports providing short-term financial incentives for students to achieve or exhibit certain behaviors correlated with student achievement | 83 |
| Jared Z. | CGGW | This House supports the rise in drone usage for warfare | 83 |
| Kallie Y. | OOLO | This House prefers the narrative that personal growth requires struggle over the narrative that it requires acceptance | 83 |
| 🇨🇦 Victoria L. | CGGW | This House believes that the environmental movement should prioritize anthropocentric messaging over ecocentrism | 82 |
| Anderson W. | CGMG | This House prefers the use of realism over absurdity in media depictions of the workplace | 82 |
| 🇨🇦 Victoria L. | COOW | This House prefers the narrative that personal growth requires struggle over the narrative that it requires acceptance | 82 |
| Jared Z. | OODLO | This House prefers the narrative that personal growth requires struggle over the narrative that it requires acceptance | 82 |
| 🇨🇦 Kaya P. | COMO | This House prefers the narrative that personal growth requires struggle over the narrative that it requires acceptance | 82 |
| Justin H. | OGDPM | This House supports the rise in drone usage for warfare | 82 |