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Summer Debate Symposium 2025
Jul 5, 2025 · BP
Motions
Summer Debate Symposium 2025 (2025)11 motionsCA: Kaushik D., Ali N., Pinelle B., Shuvajyoti K., Ogundare T., Ayodele S., Debadrita D.
- Round 0TH, as a financially desperate player, would have chosen to return to the game after the initial vote to leave.
- Round 1THBT Victor Frankenstein should have created a bride for his monster.
- Round 2THBT religious institutions should focus on preaching about justice over forgiveness in areas with high rates of sexual violence
- Round 3THS the expropriation of private land for rewilding.
- Round 4TH, as a financially desperate player, would have chosen to return to the game after the initial vote to leave.
- Round 5THO a world where the Military-Industrial Complex exists.
- Pre-Semi FinalsTH will prefer a world without family based upbringing of children to communal upbringing of children.
- SemifinalsThis house would not allow pharmaceutical companies to financially settle private lawsuits
- Grand FinalTHP a world where the death calculator exists
- Novice SemifinalsTH will prefer a world without family based upbringing of children to communal upbringing of children.
- Novice FinalsTHW prohibit pharmaceutical companies from donating to universities
What gets set here
Fiction27%
Social & Identity18%
Religion9%
Environment9%
International Relations9%
Law & Crime9%
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17% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 76.4.
Last edition: 13 of 78 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break13 teams
- Novice break14 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇩🇰 Darin M. | LO | THS the expropriation of private land for rewilding. | 80 |
| Neity P. | DPM | TH, as a financially desperate player, would have chosen to return to the game after the initial vote to leave. | 80 |
| M.N. H. | LO | THBT religious institutions should focus on preaching about justice over forgiveness in areas with high rates of sexual violence | 80 |
| Sib | PM | THS the expropriation of private land for rewilding. | 79 |
| Devanshi S. | PM | THS the expropriation of private land for rewilding. | 79 |
| Zarbakht A. | PM | THBT religious institutions should focus on preaching about justice over forgiveness in areas with high rates of sexual violence | 79 |
| Allain C. | MG | THBT religious institutions should focus on preaching about justice over forgiveness in areas with high rates of sexual violence | 79 |
| Mian S. | GW | THO a world where the Military-Industrial Complex exists. | 79 |
| Muhammad A. | MO | THBT Victor Frankenstein should have created a bride for his monster. | 79 |
| Ria G. | DLO | THBT religious institutions should focus on preaching about justice over forgiveness in areas with high rates of sexual violence | 79 |
| Speaker S. | DPM | THBT religious institutions should focus on preaching about justice over forgiveness in areas with high rates of sexual violence | 79 |
| Rida A. | MG | THO a world where the Military-Industrial Complex exists. | 79 |
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