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Unity Cup 2025

Oct 25, 2025 · BP

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The field

Below Average

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

24 teams (This edition), 13 teams (2024)

Motions

Unity Cup 2025 (2025)8 motions
  • Round 1This House Believes That American Universities should attempt to correct the significant Liberal bias among professors.
  • Round 2This House Prefers a world where modern policing follows the “mercenary police model.”
  • Round 3This House Hopes for an increase in vigilante attacks on factory farms
  • Round 4This House Opposes the narrative that individuals should not settle in their romantic relationships
  • Round 5Provided he wins, This House Believes That Zohran Mamdani will do more good than harm.
  • SemifinalThis House Opposes the recent West African coups
  • Grand FinalThis House Prefers a world where the gnostic conception of Christianity became the dominant form of Christianity.
  • Novice FinalsThis House Believes That the Martin family should go to London over Tanzania.

What gets set here

Social & Identity25%
Education13%
Law & Crime13%
Politics13%
International Relations13%
Religion13%

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Practice Social & Identity motions ›Read: Generating arguments

You vs this tournament

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

  • Social & Identity · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Education · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Law & Crime · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Politics · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Religion · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

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Breaking here

33% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 75.9.

Last edition: 8 of 24 teams broke.

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Break categories

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

  • Open break8 teams
  • Novice break4 teams

How scoring works here

74.5 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 71.9 and 77.0.

This is 0.3 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 80.4

Top-10 pace 76.6

Top-20 pace 74.4

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
🇨🇦 Andrew L.OWThis House Hopes for an increase in vigilante attacks on factory farms82
Edward W.MOThis House Opposes the narrative that individuals should not settle in their romantic relationships82
Ashlyn L.MOProvided he wins, This House Believes That Zohran Mamdani will do more good than harm.81
🇨🇦 Sherry S.MOProvided he wins, This House Believes That Zohran Mamdani will do more good than harm.81
Edward W.DPMThis House Prefers a world where modern policing follows the “mercenary police model.”81
🇨🇦 Sherry S.MOThis House Prefers a world where modern policing follows the “mercenary police model.”81
Aarian B.DLOThis House Hopes for an increase in vigilante attacks on factory farms81
🇨🇦 Andrew L.PMThis House Prefers a world where modern policing follows the “mercenary police model.”81
🇨🇦 Hamza A.DLOThis House Opposes the narrative that individuals should not settle in their romantic relationships81
Edward W.MGThis House Believes That American Universities should attempt to correct the significant Liberal bias among professors.81
🇨🇦 Andrew L.OWThis House Opposes the narrative that individuals should not settle in their romantic relationships80
🇨🇦 Bill L.OWProvided he wins, This House Believes That Zohran Mamdani will do more good than harm.80

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