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Chancellor's Cup 2025

What it took to break here, the topics that come up, and every past motion.

Nov 8, 2025BP1 edition with resultsField: Average

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Breaking here

of teams broke in 2025 (8 of 44)
18%
safe on
11 pts
average speaks of the last team in, 2025
77.1
teams in 2025
44

Your break chance here

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Break categories, 2025

  • Open break8 teams
  • Novice break5 teams

What gets set here

Share of 8 categorised motions across 1 edition. Bars run to 100%.

Practise Media motionsRead: Generating arguments

Your average on each of these topics

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Past motions

2025Chancellor's Cup 20258 motions
  1. Round 1In partnerships without equal affection, THW prefer to be the more loving one in a relationship
  2. Round 2THBT developing countries should actively encourage the development of sin cities
  3. Round 3THR the decline of Catholicism in Latin America
  4. Round 4TH prefers for queer narratives in popular media to primarily center around the present (ex. Heartstopper, Bottoms, Love, Simon, Twinless) rather than the past (ex. Boots, Queer, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Brokeback Mountain).
  5. Round 5THS the growing role of private equity in online content creation
  6. SemifinalsTHS the creation of legal cyber-arms markets
  7. Grand FinalTHO linguistic nationalism
  8. Novice Grand FinalsTHH that humanity develops the technology to create simulated universes

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The field and the judges

Field

  • Field strengthAverage
  • Teams, 202544
  • Teams, 202443
  • Teams, 202341
  • Teams, 202232
  • Teams, 202117

How speakers score here

average speaker score, 1 edition
74.9
where most speakers land
72.3 to 77.4
average at tournaments of similar strength
75.1

What finishing high has taken

  • Top speaker80.4
  • 10th speaker77.8
  • 20th speaker76.8

Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.

Similar-strength tournaments

  • Munich Open 202673.6
  • Malaysia IV 202676.3

Top speeches

The highest speaker scores at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
🇨🇦 Eve P.COMOTHBT developing countries should actively encourage the development of sin cities83
🇨🇦 Vijay T.COOWTHBT developing countries should actively encourage the development of sin cities83
🇨🇦 David Z.OOLOIn partnerships without equal affection, THW prefer to be the more loving one in a relationship83
🇨🇦 William S.OGPMTHBT developing countries should actively encourage the development of sin cities82
John W.OGDPMTH prefers for queer narratives in popular media to primarily center around the present (ex. Heartstopper, Bottoms, Love, Simon, Twinless) rather than the past (ex. Boots, Queer, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Brokeback Mountain).82
🇨🇦 Andrew L.COOWTHS the growing role of private equity in online content creation82
🇨🇦 Sherry S.COMOIn partnerships without equal affection, THW prefer to be the more loving one in a relationship82
Nyx K.COMOTHR the decline of Catholicism in Latin America82
Simon Y.OODLOTHS the growing role of private equity in online content creation82
🇨🇦 Ted R.OODLOIn partnerships without equal affection, THW prefer to be the more loving one in a relationship82
Jonathan L.COOWTHR the decline of Catholicism in Latin America81
Evan P.OGDPMTHR the decline of Catholicism in Latin America81

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