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ANU Spring 2021

2021-06-01 · Australia · BP

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The field

Ultra Premier

Expect the absolute best in the world to attend.

85 teams (This edition)

Motions

ANU Spring 2021 (2021)11 motions
  • Round 1AThis house believes that large companies should be made financially responsible for the pollution caused by sabotage by environmental activists (for example, clean up costs from the sabotage of oil pipelines)
  • Round 1BThis house supports the manufacture of cheap, generic versions of medications and vaccines, in violation of western patents.
  • Round 2This house prefers the holistic education model to systems of student choice.
  • Round 3This house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture.
  • Round 4This house, as China, would abandon Wolf-Warrior diplomacy.
  • Round 5This house supports norms and institutions which give significant political power to opposition parties (for example, a norm of bipartisan coalitions, appointment to powerful roles in the Executive)
  • QuarterfinalsThis house would impose B-Corporation requirements into the governing constitutions of all large companies.
  • SemifinalsThis house opposes the ascension of Naftali Bennet to the Israeli premiership.
  • ESL Grand FinalThis house believes that journalists who support a Palestinian state should deprioritise Hamas' role in the escalation of the conflict.
  • Novice GFThis house believes that religious leaders should abandon the use of the narrative of "test of God" in religious preachings.
  • Grand FinalThis house supports the use of ‘right to privacy’ arguments to advance social causes (for example, the decriminalisation of abortion and homosexuality).

What gets set here

Politics18%
Environment9%
Health & Medicine9%
Education9%
Social & Identity9%
International Relations9%

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Practice Politics 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.

  • Politics · 18% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Environment · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Health & Medicine · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Education · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Social & Identity · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 9% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

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Breaking here

19% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 79.7.

Last edition: 16 of 85 teams broke.

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Break categories

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

  • Open break16 teams
  • ESL break6 teams
  • Novice break5 teams

How scoring works here

77.2 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 74.0 and 80.4.

This is 0.1 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 84.0

Top-10 pace 81.4

Top-20 pace 80.2

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

Comparable: Vienna Pre-EUDC 2026 (77.2), LSE Open 2021 (78.3)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
🇦🇺 Amrit A.GWThis house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture.86
Dom G.MGThis house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture.85
Oliver C.MGThis house, as China, would abandon Wolf-Warrior diplomacy.84
🇵🇭 David A.MOThis house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture.84
Dom G.DLOThis house supports norms and institutions which give significant political power to opposition parties (for example, a norm of bipartisan coalitions, appointment to powerful roles in the Executive)84
🇦🇺 Madeleine B.GWThis house, as China, would abandon Wolf-Warrior diplomacy.84
Oliver C.LOThis house prefers the holistic education model to systems of student choice.84
🇵🇭 Ignacio V.PMThis house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture.84
🇦🇺 Daniel Y.PMThis house prefers the holistic education model to systems of student choice.84
🇦🇺 Seamus D.DPMThis house prefers the holistic education model to systems of student choice.84
🇵🇭 Luigi A.OWThis house believes prominent male feminists should actively encourage cis-straight men to participate in drag culture.84
🇦🇺 Amrit A.OWThis house, as China, would abandon Wolf-Warrior diplomacy.84

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