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Macquarie Pro-Am 2025

2025-10-18 · Australia, In person · BP

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The field

Premier

One of the strongest fields in the circuit. Multiple nationally-ranked teams attend.

23 teams (This edition)

Motions

Macquarie Pro-Am 2025 (2025)7 motions
  • Round 1This House opposes the norm that young adults should move out of home in their youth.
  • Round 2This House regrets the international pressure placed on developing countries to adopt free-market policies in their agricultural industries (e.g. through IMF structural adjustment programs, or WTO negotiations).
  • Round 3This House supports constitutions enshrining positive socio-economic rights (e.g. right to housing, healthcare, education, the enjoyment of the environment, cultural heritage, etc.).
  • Round 4This House prefers the narrative that sexual preferences are conscious choices to the narrative that they are largely out of our control.
  • Round 5This House would require all large companies (e.g. firms with an annual global revenue of more than US$1 billion) to be fully publicly listed on a stock exchange.
  • SemifinalsThis House believes that it is in the interests of the Taliban to crack down on foreign terrorist organisations in Afghanistan.
  • Grand FinalThis House regrets the glorification of religious conversion as a solution to caste discrimination.

What gets set here

Social & Identity29%
Economics29%
Law & Crime14%
International Relations14%
Religion14%

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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 · 29% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Economics · 29% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Law & Crime · 14% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 14% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Religion · 14% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

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Breaking here

35% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 9 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 78.4.

Last edition: 8 of 23 teams broke.

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How scoring works here

78.1 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 75.8 and 80.4.

This is 1.7 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 82.6

Top-10 pace 79.0

Top-20 pace 77.8

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

Comparable: St Andrews Pre-EUDC Part 1 (77.2), UCLA IV 2025 (76.7)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
🇦🇺 Jehiel P.MOThis House supports constitutions enshrining positive socio-economic rights (e.g. right to housing, healthcare, education, the enjoyment of the environment, cultural heritage, etc.).86
🇦🇺 Arwyn S.LOThis House regrets the international pressure placed on developing countries to adopt free-market policies in their agricultural industries (e.g. through IMF structural adjustment programs, or WTO negotiations).85
🇦🇺 Ellie S.MGThis House would require all large companies (e.g. firms with an annual global revenue of more than US$1 billion) to be fully publicly listed on a stock exchange.84
Will E.OWThis House regrets the international pressure placed on developing countries to adopt free-market policies in their agricultural industries (e.g. through IMF structural adjustment programs, or WTO negotiations).84
🇦🇺 Brendon C.DLOThis House would require all large companies (e.g. firms with an annual global revenue of more than US$1 billion) to be fully publicly listed on a stock exchange.83
🇦🇺 Jordyn G.MOThis House would require all large companies (e.g. firms with an annual global revenue of more than US$1 billion) to be fully publicly listed on a stock exchange.83
🇦🇺 Arwyn S.MOThis House opposes the norm that young adults should move out of home in their youth.83
Keika Y.DLOThis House regrets the international pressure placed on developing countries to adopt free-market policies in their agricultural industries (e.g. through IMF structural adjustment programs, or WTO negotiations).83
🇦🇺 Bennett R.MOThis House regrets the international pressure placed on developing countries to adopt free-market policies in their agricultural industries (e.g. through IMF structural adjustment programs, or WTO negotiations).83
🇦🇺 Arwyn S.MGThis House prefers the narrative that sexual preferences are conscious choices to the narrative that they are largely out of our control.83
🇦🇺 Eugene B.GWThis House regrets the international pressure placed on developing countries to adopt free-market policies in their agricultural industries (e.g. through IMF structural adjustment programs, or WTO negotiations).82
🇦🇺 Maya A.DPMThis House opposes the norm that young adults should move out of home in their youth.82

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