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McGill IV 2025

Mar 14, 2025 · Canada, In person · BP

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The field

Average

A standard open. Solid competition with a mix of experience levels.

68 teams (This edition), 85 teams (2024)

Motions from this series

McGill IV 2025 (2025)9 motions
  • Round 1This House regrets the recent rise of works about radical class subjugation
  • Round 2This House would require medical centers to document and publish the findings from their morbidity and mortality conferences
  • Round 3This House, as Alberta, prefers a world where Quebec successfully seceded from Canada in 1995
  • Round 4This House regrets the shift in consumption from offline, single-player video games (e.g., God of War, Grand Theft Auto V, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim) to online, multiplayer video games (e.g., Rust, Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto Online)
  • Round 5This House believes that the United States should legalize cocaine
  • QuarterfinalsThis House prefers the fundholder-owned model to the shareholder-owned model in investment management firms
  • Semifinals[Redacted]
  • Grand FinalThis House believes that it would be unethical for you to press the button
  • Novice FinalsThis House regrets the trivialization of young love
McGill IV 2024 (2024)9 motions
  • Round 1This House opposes the stigmatisation of esotericism (e.g. tarot reading, astrology, witchcraft).
  • Round 2This House believes that governments should introduce the “Zombie Voting System” for firms that receive significant assistance during financial crises.
  • Round 3This House regrets the addition of Prolonged Grief Disorder to the DSM.
  • Round 4This House opposes the expectation of prominent Muslims in Western Liberal Democracies (WLDs) to condemn problems in Muslim countries e.g. terrorism, women's rights, LGBT discrimination.
  • Round 5This House believes that peak globalization has already been reached.
  • QuarterfinalsAssuming feasibility, This House prefers a world with the TrustHuman system.
  • SemifinalsThis House prefers atomic communitarianism to contemporary liberal democracy.
  • Grand FinalThis House believes that a US-recognized independent Palestinian state will exist within 15 years.
  • Novice FinalsThis House believes that all legal proceedings (both civil and criminal) directly involving Donald Trump should be televised.

What gets set here

Social & Identity22%
Economics17%
Health & Medicine11%
Politics11%
Law & Crime11%
Comedy & Novelty11%

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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.

  • Social & Identity · 22% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Economics · 17% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Health & Medicine · 11% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Politics · 11% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Law & Crime · 11% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Comedy & Novelty · 11% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

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Breaking here

21% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 78.7.

Last edition: 16 of 68 teams broke.

  • 202411 pts · 79.2 speaks16/85
  • 202510 pts · 78.2 speaks16/68
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Break categories

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

  • Open break16 teams
  • Novice break7 teams

How scoring works here

75.8 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 73.0 and 78.5.

This is 0.9 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 83.2

Top-10 pace 80.6

Top-20 pace 78.8

Median average speaks at each finishing spot, across 2 editions.

Comparable: Tilburg Open 2026 (75.3), Munich Open 2026 (73.6)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
🇨🇦 Max W.MGThis House believes that the United States should legalize cocaine84
🇺🇸 Annushka A.GWThis House believes that the United States should legalize cocaine84
Nicholas A.GWThis House believes that the United States should legalize cocaine84
Neil H.OWThis House regrets the recent rise of works about radical class subjugation83
🇨🇦 Adam B.DLOThis House believes that the United States should legalize cocaine83
🇨🇦 Urfaan S.MOThis House regrets the recent rise of works about radical class subjugation83
🇸🇬 Neo D.OWThis House regrets the recent rise of works about radical class subjugation82
🇨🇦 Max W.MOThis House, as Alberta, prefers a world where Quebec successfully seceded from Canada in 199582
🇨🇦 Sherry S.MGThis House believes that the United States should legalize cocaine82
Neil H.DLOThis House, as Alberta, prefers a world where Quebec successfully seceded from Canada in 199582
🇺🇸 Annushka A.PMThis House would require medical centers to document and publish the findings from their morbidity and mortality conferences82
🇨🇦 Hidden debater · 1pv8LOThis House, as Alberta, prefers a world where Quebec successfully seceded from Canada in 199582

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