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The 14th NALSAR Debating Championship 2024

Sep 20, 2024 · BP

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The field

Average

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

92 teams (This edition)

Motions

14th NALSAR Debating Championship 2024 (2024)10 motionsCA: 🇦🇺 Isabella F., 🇬🇧 Chris M., 🇮🇳 V. S., 🇮🇳 Mahor N., Namita P., Himan N.
  • Round 1This House Believes That university undergraduate curricula should exclusively focus on industry training, rather than exclusively focusing on academic development.
  • Round 2This House Believes That the feminist movement should support the commercialisation of reproduction (e.g. sale of ova, commercial surrogacy, etc.).
  • Round 3This House Opposes the rise of the shadow banking sector in developing nations
  • Round 4This House, as a political artist living in a post-conflict state, would create art exclusively with messages of unity and inspiration, rather than exclusively create art depicting previous or ongoing suffering
  • Round 5 (Silent)This House Would forbid religious leaders from publicly expressing opinions on political matters
  • QuarterfinalsThis House Supports the substantive review of constitutional amendments by the courts.
  • SemifinalsThis House, as the Chinese Communist Party, Would support the Three Brotherhood Alliance against the military junta.
  • Grand FinalThis House Prefers a World with widespread belief in the doctrine of original blessing over a world with widespread belief in the doctrine of original sin.
  • Novice SemifinalsThis House Opposes the societal expectation that one should strongly identify with the culture of one's ancestry (e.g. if you are ethnically Chinese, identifying strongly with Chinese culture)
  • Novice FinalsThis House, as a contestant entering this reality TV show, Would choose to portray themselves as a villain rather than a hero.

What gets set here

Social & Identity30%
Religion20%
Education10%
Economics10%
Arts & Culture10%
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 · 30% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Religion · 20% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Education · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Economics · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Arts & Culture · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Law & Crime · 10% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

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Breaking here

17% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 76.1.

Last edition: 16 of 92 teams broke.

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Break categories

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

  • Open break16 teams
  • Novice break12 teams

How scoring works here

73.2 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 70.0 and 76.3.

This is 1.5 points below tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 80.8

Top-10 pace 77.4

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
🇬🇧 Shaurya C.DPMThis House Opposes the rise of the shadow banking sector in developing nations83
Samyukta M.MGThis House Opposes the rise of the shadow banking sector in developing nations83
🇬🇧 Shaurya C.MGThis House, as a political artist living in a post-conflict state, would create art exclusively with messages of unity and inspiration, rather than exclusively create art depicting previous or ongoing suffering82
🇮🇳 Vansh C.PMThis House, as a political artist living in a post-conflict state, would create art exclusively with messages of unity and inspiration, rather than exclusively create art depicting previous or ongoing suffering82
🇮🇳 Vansh C.DLOThis House Would forbid religious leaders from publicly expressing opinions on political matters81
🇮🇳 Vansh C.DLOThis House Opposes the rise of the shadow banking sector in developing nations81
Archit L.GWThis House, as a political artist living in a post-conflict state, would create art exclusively with messages of unity and inspiration, rather than exclusively create art depicting previous or ongoing suffering81
🇮🇳 Vansh C.MGThis House Believes That the feminist movement should support the commercialisation of reproduction (e.g. sale of ova, commercial surrogacy, etc.).81
🇮🇳 Aditya J.GWThis House Would forbid religious leaders from publicly expressing opinions on political matters80
🇬🇧 Shaurya C.DPMThis House Would forbid religious leaders from publicly expressing opinions on political matters80
Shashwat D.LOThis House Would forbid religious leaders from publicly expressing opinions on political matters80
Archit L.LOThis House Believes That university undergraduate curricula should exclusively focus on industry training, rather than exclusively focusing on academic development.80

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