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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

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

What gets set here

Social & Identity20%
Politics10%
International Relations10%
Sport10%
Economics10%
Law & Crime10%

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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 · 40% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Economics · 20% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Politics · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Philosophy · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Technology · 10% 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 76.4.

Last edition: 12 of 55 teams broke.

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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

73.1 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 69.6 and 76.6.

This is 1.1 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 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
🇮🇳 Raghav D.LO84
Shishir J.DLO84
🇮🇳 Raghav D.MG84
🇮🇳 Sharun G.DLO83
Shishir J.GW83
🇮🇳 SakshamMG83
Vishwa R.LO82
🇮🇳 Sharun G.GW82
RayanLO82
Siddharth S.DPM82
Suchir S.DLO82
Reeva J.DLO81

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