Tournaments
Winter Debate Symposium 2025
What it took to break at this edition, what was set and who set it.
Sat 11 Jan 2025
From 1 tab, newest Winter Debate Symposium 2025.
How many points did it take?
8points were safe
in 2025
The last team in averaged 77.8 speaks in 2025.
What will they set?
- Social & Identity2 of 9
- Law & Crime2 of 9
- Abstract2 of 9
- Economics2 of 9
Out of 9 past motions with a topic, from 1 edition.
Practise Social & Identity motionsLesson: Generating arguments
How many teams, and how many break?
13of 69 teams made the open break
in 2025
Field strength: Average in 2025, from the ratings of the debaters who went.
Who has set the motions?
- Prosper M.
- Taha M.
- Kaushiki I.
- Shahjehan T.
- Abel K.
Chief adjudicators in 2025, the newest tab that lists them.
Past motions
1 edition with motions on record, newest first.
Winter Debate Symposium 20259 motions
- Round 1Round 1: This house supports the trend of adult children going no contact with their parents.Practise this motion
- Round 2THW allow convicted criminals to opt for the Cognify Prison Model as an alternative to serving their prison sentencePractise this motion
- Round 3TH supports the release of the pathogen.Practise this motion
- Round 4Context: Investment loans refer to loans taken for long term investment purposes such as education,infrastructure, inducing FDI, etc. Consumption oriented loans refer to loans taken for consumption purposes such as Food distribution, Healthcare, Agricultural imports, retirement benefits, cash grants, etc. MOTION: TH as the government of a failing economy would choose to undertake investment oriented loans for lower interest as opposed to consumption oriented loans for higher interest.Practise this motion
- Pre-Semi FinalsTHR narratives that claim that history inevitably moves towards a particular end (e.g. Fukuyama's "end of history", Marx's "global revolution")Practise this motion
- Semi FinalsThis house prefers the main banking system to dominantly shareholder based聽investmentsPractise this motion
- Grand FinalTHP a world where all people have complete, perfect memory of everything they've experiencedPractise this motion
- Pre-Novice FinalsIn areas with high crime rates, THW relax enforcement of privacy rights (allowing phone tapping, government surveillance, etc.)Practise this motion
- Novice FinalsIn multiethnic states, THP the use of devolved governments as opposed to centralized governmentsPractise this motion
The break, year by year
The points that were safe, the last team in and how many broke, at each edition with results.
Every break in 2025
- Open break13 teams
- Novice break10 teams
Who sets the motions
Chief adjudicators by edition, where the tab lists them.
- 2025Prosper M., Taha M., Kaushiki I., Shahjehan T., Abel K.
How speakers score here
Speaker averages, what finishing high has taken, and the top speeches at this edition.
- average speaker score, 1 edition
- 75.8
- where most speakers land
- 74.3 to 77.4
- average at tournaments of similar strength
- 75.2
What finishing high has taken
- Top speaker80.0
- 10th speaker77.8
- 20th speaker77.0
Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.
Similar-strength tournaments
- Meta Open 202674.8
- Malaysia IV 202676.3
Top speeches
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Darin M. | CGMG | Round 1: This house supports the trend of adult children going no contact with their parents. | 82 |
| Laura S. | CGGW | Round 1: This house supports the trend of adult children going no contact with their parents. | 81 |
| Avaneesh P. | OGDPM | THW allow convicted criminals to opt for the Cognify Prison Model as an alternative to serving their prison sentence | 81 |
| Edward S. | OODLO | Round 1: This house supports the trend of adult children going no contact with their parents. | 81 |
| Shuga D. | OODLO | THW allow convicted criminals to opt for the Cognify Prison Model as an alternative to serving their prison sentence | 81 |
| Laura S. | COOW | TH supports the release of the pathogen. | 81 |
| Advaith G. | OGPM | THW allow convicted criminals to opt for the Cognify Prison Model as an alternative to serving their prison sentence | 81 |
| Mainak B. | CGGW | THW allow convicted criminals to opt for the Cognify Prison Model as an alternative to serving their prison sentence | 81 |
| 馃嚭馃嚫 Cayden P. | CGMG | TH supports the release of the pathogen. | 80 |
| Lorrhaine B. | OGPM | TH supports the release of the pathogen. | 80 |
| Kristen Q. | OGDPM | Round 1: This house supports the trend of adult children going no contact with their parents. | 80 |
| 馃嚢馃嚪 Seungjae H. | OOLO | THW allow convicted criminals to opt for the Cognify Prison Model as an alternative to serving their prison sentence | 80 |