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Sydney Mini 2023
2023-06-01 · Australia · BP
Motions from this series
Sydney Mini 2023 (2023)9 motions
- Round 1aThis house, as a parent of minority children, would teach their child to prioritise being self sufficient over community-reliant
- Round 1bAs a woman, This house would embrace being successful but intensely disliked, over attempting to achieve community success and approval
- Round 2As an alternative to multilateral institutions, THS the increasing use of third party intermediaries as a means of conflict resolution.
- Round 3THR the institutionalisation of social justice organisations
- Round 4THBT it is in the interest of Bongbong Marcos to take a position of strategic ambiguity with respect to defending the Philippines' territorial claims on the South China Sea.
- Round 5This House supports the promotion of collective guilt after large scale crimes against humanity
- Partial Quarter-FinalsThis House Supports widely adopting citizen enforcement.
- Semi-FinalsTHBT the increasing military securitisation of Australasia is good for regional peace.
- Grand FinalThis house supports the decline of geopolitical alliances based on cultural identity.
Sydney Mini 2022 (2022)7 motions
- Round 1This house supports allowing the estates of individuals who die due to outbreaks of infectious disease to sue national health authorities for negligence
- Round 2This house supports the governments of developing nations offering negative interest loans to domestic businesses
- Round 3This house, as Nepal, prefers strengthening our long-term relationship with China rather than India
- Round 4This house believes that joining or attempting to join a terrorist organisation should not be a crime in and of itself
- Round 5This house would abolish political parties in local government
- SemifinalsThis house regrets the decline of the Catholic Church's art patronage
- Grand FinalThis house would give the Romani people of Europe full representation in the European Union
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
Social & Identity20%
Politics20%
International Relations17%
Law & Crime17%
Economics9%
Arts & Culture9%
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Practice Social & Identity motions ›Read: Generating arguments ›Breaking here
34% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 14 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.4.
Last edition: 12 of 36 teams broke.
- 20189 pts · 79.6 speaks16/40
- 201927 pts · 79.4 speaks17/42
- 202210 pts · 79.2 speaks8/35
- 202310 pts · 79.5 speaks12/36
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Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Daniel Y. | MO | THR the institutionalisation of social justice organisations | 85 |
| 🇦🇺 Eugene B. | DLO | THBT it is in the interest of Bongbong Marcos to take a position of strategic ambiguity with respect to defending the Philippines' territorial claims on the South China Sea. | 85 |
| 🇦🇺 Sophie S. | OW | THR the institutionalisation of social justice organisations | 85 |
| Chuck R. | OW | THBT it is in the interest of Bongbong Marcos to take a position of strategic ambiguity with respect to defending the Philippines' territorial claims on the South China Sea. | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Sam T. | MG | This House supports the promotion of collective guilt after large scale crimes against humanity | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Udai K. | PM | THR the institutionalisation of social justice organisations | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Matthew T. | MO | THBT it is in the interest of Bongbong Marcos to take a position of strategic ambiguity with respect to defending the Philippines' territorial claims on the South China Sea. | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Katarina K. | DPM | This house, as a parent of minority children, would teach their child to prioritise being self sufficient over community-reliant | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 William P. | PM | This house, as a parent of minority children, would teach their child to prioritise being self sufficient over community-reliant | 84 |
| Ben D. | OW | This house, as a parent of minority children, would teach their child to prioritise being self sufficient over community-reliant | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Sam T. | MO | This house, as a parent of minority children, would teach their child to prioritise being self sufficient over community-reliant | 83 |
| 🇦🇺 Oscar C. | MG | This house, as a parent of minority children, would teach their child to prioritise being self sufficient over community-reliant | 83 |
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