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2025.12.13 Aurgumentum Novice 2025 - English

Dec 13, 2025 · BP

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The field

Below Average

A smaller or newer tournament. Good for building confidence and getting reps.

62 teams (This edition)

Motions

2025.12.13 Aurgumentum Novice 2025 English (2025)11 motions
  • Round 1This house would require influencers who discuss certain topics (e.g. finance, health, and law) to hold relevant degrees.
  • Round 1This house believes that it is within an author's interest to reject literary estates.
  • Round 1This house supports the decline of military interventions by the United Nations.
  • Round 1This house prefers the widespread practice of humanistic therapy over cognitive behavioural therapy.
  • Round 1In tackling climate change, This house regrets the emphasis placed on transitioning towards EVs over the promotion of public transport.
  • Round 1This house, as the Indonesian feminist movement, would establish a single-issue party centered around the advocacy of women's issues.
  • Round 1This house would humanize infidelity.
  • Round 1This house would welcome the three Ghosts of Christmas.
  • Round 1This house regrets the prevalence of fandom culture.
  • Round 1This house believes that China’s policy of aggressively recruiting foreign students does more harm than good.
  • Round 1This house opposes the notion that closure is the prerequisite to moving on.

What gets set here

Social & Identity27%
Media9%
Arts & Culture9%
Health & Medicine9%
Environment9%
Politics9%

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Practice Social & Identity motions ›Read: Generating arguments

You vs this tournament

What gets set here, next to how you have scored on each category across your own imported rounds.

  • Social & Identity · 36% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Philosophy · 18% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Media · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Arts & Culture · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Health & Medicine · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

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Breaking here

45% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 73.2.

Last edition: 28 of 62 teams broke.

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How scoring works here

73.5 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 71.8 and 75.2.

This is 1.5 points below tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 76.2

Top-10 pace 75.0

Top-20 pace 74.8

Median average speaks at each finishing spot, across 1 edition.

Comparable: Tilburg Open 2026 (75.3), Munich Open 2026 (73.6)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
Valencia K.DLO78
Zahava A.MO78
Joshua W.MG78
Carlos V.OW78
Mikayla W.MO78
Zahava A.DLO77
Aisy Z.PM77
Mikayla W.LO77
Andi F.OW77
Lutfatul A.LO77
Kafka Y.MO77
Daud R.DLO77

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