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Sydney Mini 2018
2018-06-01 · Australia, In person · BP
Motions
Sydney Mini 2018 (2018)10 motions
- Round 1 (Friday)This House opposes the private provision of services generally considered to be public services (e.g. healthcare, education).
- Round 1 (Saturday)This House believes that all universities should be required to decide which students to admit based purely on academic results.
- Round 2This House, as the European Union, would create a standing army.
- Round 3This House supports gritty realism in favour of sanitising historical representation in art (e.g. by including mistreatment of women in pseudo-medieval period pieces like Game of Thrones).
- Round 4This House believes that developed countries should not prosecute companies for engaging in bribery in developing countries, where such practices are common in the course of business.
- Round 5This House, as a low-SES parent of one, would encourage their child of average ability to be content with their circumstances rather than to be ambitious.
- QuarterfinalsThis House prefers sortition elections to elections in which the entire electorate votes.
- SemifinalsThis House regrets the existence of high fashion.
- Grand FinalThis House would constitutionally compel the President of South Africa to form governments including all major political parties, with positions in cabinet allocated proportionately to each party’s vote share.
- Grand FinalThis House believes that all daycare programs should be run by sentient artificial intelligence.
What gets set here
Arts & Culture20%
Politics20%
Economics10%
Education10%
International Relations10%
Law & Crime10%
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Practice Arts & Culture motions ›Read: Generating arguments ›Breaking here
40% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 9 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.6.
Last edition: 16 of 40 teams broke.
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Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel K. | LO | This House, as a low-SES parent of one, would encourage their child of average ability to be content with their circumstances rather than to be ambitious. | 87 |
| Benjamin J. | PM | This House, as a low-SES parent of one, would encourage their child of average ability to be content with their circumstances rather than to be ambitious. | 86 |
| Maddy N. | DLO | This House, as a low-SES parent of one, would encourage their child of average ability to be content with their circumstances rather than to be ambitious. | 86 |
| 🇦🇺 Imogen H. | MG | This House, as a low-SES parent of one, would encourage their child of average ability to be content with their circumstances rather than to be ambitious. | 86 |
| 🇦🇺 Imogen H. | MO | This House believes that developed countries should not prosecute companies for engaging in bribery in developing countries, where such practices are common in the course of business. | 85 |
| 🇦🇺 James S. | GW | This House, as a low-SES parent of one, would encourage their child of average ability to be content with their circumstances rather than to be ambitious. | 85 |
| 🇦🇺 Andrew M. | DLO | This House believes that developed countries should not prosecute companies for engaging in bribery in developing countries, where such practices are common in the course of business. | 84 |
| Benjamin J. | LO | This House opposes the private provision of services generally considered to be public services (e.g. healthcare, education). | 84 |
| Rachael S. | DLO | This House believes that all universities should be required to decide which students to admit based purely on academic results. | 84 |
| Rachael S. | DPM | This House supports gritty realism in favour of sanitising historical representation in art (e.g. by including mistreatment of women in pseudo-medieval period pieces like Game of Thrones). | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Thomas S. | MO | This House, as the European Union, would create a standing army. | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Thomas S. | LO | This House opposes the private provision of services generally considered to be public services (e.g. healthcare, education). | 84 |
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