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Symbiosis Law School Parliamentary Debate, 2026

Feb 27, 2026 · BP

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The field

Below Average

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

55 teams (This edition), 65 teams (2025)

Motions from this series

Symbiosis Law School Parliamentary Debate, 2026 (2026)10 motionsCA: 🇲🇾 Muhyuddin A., 🇮🇳 Vansh C., Minami M., Gaurangi P., Rushdoon A.
  • Round 1THBT treating sobriety as a moral virtue is unjustified.
  • Round 1TH, as a student union leader, W aggressively position themselves as anti-establishment
  • Round 1TH, as the transgender rights movement, W actively decentre the physical body in constructions of identity.
  • Round 1THBT the United States' increasing militarisation of the Gulf is in the interest of non-Iran Gulf States
  • Round 1THS the decline of traditional Catholicism in Latin America
  • Round 1THBT humanity should accept the deal.
  • Round 1TH, as self-made affluent parents, W raise their children with middle class lifestyles (e.g living in modest housing, attending non-elite schools, liminting early access to family wealth, etc.,)
  • Round 1TH, as a mid-tier football club, would refuse acquisition by a multi-club ownership group.
  • Round 1THO the Reserve Bank of India's move to legalise leveraged buyouts.
  • Round 1In states with high levels of incarceration, THW make federal funding for state prisons conditional upon achieving decarceration targets
Symbiosis Law School Parliamentary Debate, 2025 (2025)10 motions
  • Round 1This house supports the establishment of a central authority within social movements.
  • Round 2This house prefers a world where all sports are played in the GAA mode.
  • Round 3This house regrets the prominence of left/liberal views at universities.
  • Round 4This house believes that microcredit does more harm than good.
  • Round 5This house would put a cap on financial and energy capital expenditure each company can allocate to the development of AI.
  • Pre-SemifinalsThis house prefers a world where familial care labour is seen as a distinct service job rather than a personal/private responsibility.
  • Novice SemifinalsThis house, as the World Bank, would aggressively fund models of conservation economics.
  • SemifinalsThis house predicts that China will have the largest economy by GDP in 50 years time.
  • Novice FinalThis house opposes the prominence of heroism as a value in society.
  • Grand FinalThis house would choose to raise your children as strictly Hindus rather than raise them as strictly Muslims.

What gets set here

Social & Identity25%
Economics20%
Sport10%
Politics5%
International Relations5%
Law & Crime5%

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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.

  • Social & Identity · 35% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Economics · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Technology · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Sport · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Politics · 5% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 5% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

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Breaking here

20% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 75.8.

Last edition: 12 of 55 teams broke.

  • 202511 pts · 75.3 speaks12/65
  • 202610 pts · 76.4 speaks12/55
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Break categories

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

  • Open break12 teams
  • Novice break13 teams

How scoring works here

73.3 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 70.4 and 76.3.

This is 0.9 points below tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 80.8

Top-10 pace 77.4

Top-20 pace 75.6

Median average speaks at each finishing spot, across 2 editions.

Comparable: Macau Debate Open 2026 (75.6), Munich Open 2026 (73.6)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
🇮🇳 Raghav D.MG84
🇮🇳 Raghav D.LO84
Shishir J.DLO84
🇮🇳 SakshamMG83
Shishir J.GW83
🇮🇳 Sharun G.DLO83
🇮🇳 Sharun G.GW82
Siddharth S.DPM82
Suchir S.DLO82
🇮🇳 Vishwa R.LO82
RayanLO82
Aashna A.GW81

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