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USC IV 2026

Apr 25, 2026 · BP

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The field

Average

A standard open. Solid competition with a mix of experience levels.

37 teams (This edition), 50 teams (2022), 69 teams (2021)

Motions

USC IV 2026 (2026)8 motions
  • Round 1This house prefers a world without the existence of marijuana
  • Round 1This house prefers Feminist Sexual Ethics to Libertarian Sexual Ethics
  • Round 1This House would replace the Provincial System of wildlife management with the Nunavut System in all Canadian territories and northern regions with Indigenous populations (e.g., Northwest Territories, Yukon)
  • Round 1This house believes that The Lord of the Rings is a better depiction of Christian Values than The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
  • Round 1This house regrets the U.S.-Israeli intervention in the Black September Crisis
  • Round 1THR the resurgence of Eastern Orthodoxy in post-Soviet states
  • Round 1THS the revolutionaries
  • Round 1THPAW where the KMT came into power over the CCP after the Chinese Civil War (1927-1949)

What gets set here

Health & Medicine13%
Social & Identity13%
Philosophy13%
Environment13%
Fiction13%
International Relations13%

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You vs this tournament

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

  • International Relations · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • History · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Health & Medicine · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Social & Identity · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Philosophy · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Environment · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

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Breaking here

22% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 78.5.

Last edition: 8 of 37 teams broke.

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Break categories

This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:

  • Open break8 teams
  • Novice break6 teams

How scoring works here

76.3 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 74.2 and 78.5.

This is 1.3 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 83.2

Top-10 pace 78.4

Top-20 pace 76.6

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
🇺🇸 Tejas S.DLO—84
🇺🇸 Tejas S.DPM—83
🇺🇸 Bilal N.DPM—83
🇺🇸 Tejas S.OW—83
🇺🇸 Tejas S.GW—83
🇺🇸 Tejas S.DLOThis house prefers a world without the existence of marijuana83
🇺🇸 Seamus A.LO—83
Lavanya P.PM—82
🇺🇸 Elizabeth L.PM—82
🇺🇸 Elizabeth L.MG—82
Thej M.LO—82
🇺🇸 Seamus A.PM—82

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