2022 McGill Central Novice Tournament

Sep 30, 2022 · BP

The field

Below Average

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

48 teams (This edition)

Motions

2022 McGill Central Novice (2022)11 motions

Round 0TH, as a young university graduate, would quiet quit at their day job.
Round 1THBT make up has done more harm than good.
Round 2THO strong party discipline
Round 3THW temporarily and significantly relax minimum labour standards in times of unusually high unemployment, including workplace health and safety standards, minimum wage, working hours restrictions etc.
Round 4THBT the LGBTQIA+ community should actively de-glamorise coming out.
Round 5THW ban copyright assignments.
Round 6TH, as a young university graduate, would quiet quit at their day job
QuarterfinalsTHW host Central Novice at McGill University every year instead of other institutions
SemifinalsTHBT post-colonial African states should implement policies to abandon the use of colonial languages (French, Portuguese, English) in education and government in which larger percentages of the population are literate, in favor of indigenous languages in which literacy rates are substantially lower.
Grand FinalTHP a world in which humans cannot experience aesthetic beauty
No HS experience FinalsTHBT Bruce should become a masked vigilante.

What gets set here

Social & Identity27%

Economics18%

Politics9%

Meta-Debate9%

Education9%

Abstract9%

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 · 27% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Education · 18% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Economics · 18% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Politics · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Meta-Debate · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Abstract · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

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T-7Read the roomGo through this page once so nothing on the day surprises you.
T-6Work through "Generating arguments"Foundations for Social & Identity motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-5Prep sprint: one Social & Identity motion, 15 minutes, full caseMechanism, actors, weighing. Time it like the real thing.Pull a motion ›
T-4Case-prep past motions this tournament actually setStart with: TH, as a young university graduate, would quiet quit at their day job.Motion archive below ›
T-3One practice round with a partner or clubmateAsk for a Social & Identity motion and your weaker bench.
T-2Second sprint: EducationPull a motion ›
T-1Light review and logisticsReread the numbers above, check the schedule, sleep. No new material the night before.

Breaking here

58% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 9 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 76.4.

Last edition: 28 of 48 teams broke.

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Break categories

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

Open break28 teams
No Highschool Experience break5 teams

How scoring works here

76.1 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 74.3 and 77.8.

This is 2.1 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 81.8

Top-10 pace 79.0

Top-20 pace 77.0

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

Comparable: Macau Debate Open 2026 (75.6), Liverpool IV 2026 (74.8)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

Debater	Speech	Motion	Score
Max W.	DPM	THBT the LGBTQIA+ community should actively de-glamorise coming out.	84
Stellar Z.	GW	TH, as a young university graduate, would quiet quit at their day job	83
Asia N.	MG	TH, as a young university graduate, would quiet quit at their day job	82
🇨🇦 Claire C.	GW	THW temporarily and significantly relax minimum labour standards in times of unusually high unemployment, including workplace health and safety standards, minimum wage, working hours restrictions etc.	82
🇨🇦 Halina L.	MO	THW ban copyright assignments.	82
Stellar Z.	DPM	THO strong party discipline	82
Anais O.	MO	THW temporarily and significantly relax minimum labour standards in times of unusually high unemployment, including workplace health and safety standards, minimum wage, working hours restrictions etc.	82
🇨🇦 Larry L.	MG	THO strong party discipline	82
Max W.	DLO	THO strong party discipline	82
Max W.	GW	THW temporarily and significantly relax minimum labour standards in times of unusually high unemployment, including workplace health and safety standards, minimum wage, working hours restrictions etc.	82
Stellar Z.	GW	THW ban copyright assignments.	82
Max W.	OW	TH, as a young university graduate, would quiet quit at their day job	82

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