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Summer Debate Symposium 2025

Jul 5, 2025 · BP

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The field

Below Average

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

78 teams (This edition)

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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You vs this tournament

What gets set here, next to how you have scored on each category across your own imported rounds.

  • Fiction · 27% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Social & Identity · 18% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Religion · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Environment · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Law & Crime · 9% 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 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

How scoring works here

75.7 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 74.5 and 77.0.

This is 1.2 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 78.2

Top-10 pace 76.8

Top-20 pace 76.6

Median average speaks at each finishing spot, across 1 edition.

Comparable: Macau Debate Open 2026 (75.6), Tilburg Open 2026 (75.3)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
🇩🇰 Darin M.LOTHS the expropriation of private land for rewilding.80
Neity P.DPMTH, as a financially desperate player, would have chosen to return to the game after the initial vote to leave.80
M.N. H.LOTHBT religious institutions should focus on preaching about justice over forgiveness in areas with high rates of sexual violence80
SibPMTHS the expropriation of private land for rewilding.79
Devanshi S.PMTHS the expropriation of private land for rewilding.79
Zarbakht A.PMTHBT religious institutions should focus on preaching about justice over forgiveness in areas with high rates of sexual violence79
Allain C.MGTHBT religious institutions should focus on preaching about justice over forgiveness in areas with high rates of sexual violence79
Mian S.GWTHO a world where the Military-Industrial Complex exists.79
Muhammad A.MOTHBT Victor Frankenstein should have created a bride for his monster.79
Ria G.DLOTHBT religious institutions should focus on preaching about justice over forgiveness in areas with high rates of sexual violence79
Speaker S.DPMTHBT religious institutions should focus on preaching about justice over forgiveness in areas with high rates of sexual violence79
Rida A.MGTHO a world where the Military-Industrial Complex exists.79

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