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FAST IV 2025

2025 · BP

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The field

Below Average

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

36 teams (This edition)

Motions

FAST IV 2025 (2025)9 motionsCA: Chris H., Abid Z., Hamzah A.
  • Round 0This House Regrets the increasing prevalence of online cancel culture against public figures
  • Round 0THW reduce the sentence for offenders committing serious economic crimes if they can compensate the victims' losses.
  • Round 1This house regrets the increasing prevalence of online cancel culture against public figures.
  • Round 1THBT hospitals should have the power to remove patients from the care of their legal guardians in suspected 'medical negligence' cases.
  • Round 1THW reduce the sentence for offenders commiting serious economic crimes if they can compensate the victims' losses.
  • Round 1This house believes that the increasing military securitization of Australasia is good for regional peace
  • Round 1This house prefers a world where the US had aggressively pushed for total global nuclear disarmament at the end of the Cold War
  • Round 1This House Predicts that Donald Trump will be impeached again.
  • Round 1TH, as a religious leader, Would prohibit the use of AI for religious purposes (interpretation of scripture, spiritual guidance, and religious decision-making.)

What gets set here

Law & Crime22%
Social & Identity11%
International Relations11%

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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.

  • Technology · 33% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Law & Crime · 33% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Social & Identity · 22% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 22% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Economics · 11% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

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Breaking here

22% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 8 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 77.5.

Last edition: 8 of 36 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 break9 teams

How scoring works here

76.0 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 74.6 and 77.5.

This is 1.7 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 79.3

Top-10 pace 77.3

Top-20 pace 76.8

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

Comparable: Macau Debate Open 2026 (75.6), QMUL Open 2026 (72.9)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
Yuta H.GWThis house regrets the increasing prevalence of online cancel culture against public figures.82
🇯🇵 Aya K.MGThis house regrets the increasing prevalence of online cancel culture against public figures.81
Kelvin L.PM—81
Carlos E.OW—81
Zayan F.OW—81
🇺🇸 Ayuki I.DPM—81
🇯🇵 Ryunosuke G.PM—80
Bianca S.DPM—80
Troy S.LOThis house regrets the increasing prevalence of online cancel culture against public figures.80
Carlos E.LO—80
🇬🇧 Hamza N.DPMThis house regrets the increasing prevalence of online cancel culture against public figures.80
🇺🇸 Ayuki I.DLO—80

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