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Sydney Mini 2019
2019-06-01 · Australia, In person · BP
Motions from this series
Sydney Mini 2019 (2019)9 motions
- Round 1 (Friday)This House supports policies and norms which require public servants to be apolitical.
- Round 1 (Saturday)This House would ban former politicians from taking up lobbyist roles.
- Round 2This House regrets the tendency to shield children from death.
- Round 3This House believes that developed nations should adopt bail-ins instead of bail-outs as their primary means of rescuing distressed financial institutions.
- Round 4This House regrets the revival of Confucianism in China.
- Round 5This House prefers a world where co-parenting is primarily non-romantic (ie. conducted by consenting partners who have no romantic or sexual relationship, eg. friends).
- QuarterfinalsThis House supports the National African American Gun Association.
- SemifinalsThis House supports Mohammad bin Salman’s leadership.
- Grand FinalAssuming feasibility, This House would allow people to sell their happiness to others.
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
Politics26%
Social & Identity21%
Economics11%
Law & Crime11%
Arts & Culture11%
Comedy & Novelty5%
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Practice Politics motions ›Read: Generating arguments ›Breaking here
40% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 18 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.5.
Last edition: 17 of 42 teams broke.
- 20189 pts · 79.6 speaks16/40
- 201927 pts · 79.4 speaks17/42
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Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Bostan N. | DPM | This House prefers a world where co-parenting is primarily non-romantic (ie. conducted by consenting partners who have no romantic or sexual relationship, eg. friends). | 86 |
| 🇦🇺 Connor O. | GW | This House believes that developed nations should adopt bail-ins instead of bail-outs as their primary means of rescuing distressed financial institutions. | 85 |
| Andreas O. | MG | This House prefers a world where co-parenting is primarily non-romantic (ie. conducted by consenting partners who have no romantic or sexual relationship, eg. friends). | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Thomas S. | DPM | This House regrets the tendency to shield children from death. | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Dominic G. | MG | This House regrets the revival of Confucianism in China. | 84 |
| Benjamin J. | GW | This House regrets the revival of Confucianism in China. | 83 |
| Tim J. | MG | This House regrets the tendency to shield children from death. | 83 |
| John P. | PM | This House prefers a world where co-parenting is primarily non-romantic (ie. conducted by consenting partners who have no romantic or sexual relationship, eg. friends). | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Imogen H. | MG | This House believes that developed nations should adopt bail-ins instead of bail-outs as their primary means of rescuing distressed financial institutions. | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Connor O. | DLO | This House would ban former politicians from taking up lobbyist roles. | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Bostan N. | DLO | This House regrets the revival of Confucianism in China. | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Stuart D. | MG | This House believes that developed nations should adopt bail-ins instead of bail-outs as their primary means of rescuing distressed financial institutions. | 83 |
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