Earlsfort Open 2025

2025-10-25 · Ireland, In person · BP

The field

Below Average

A smaller or newer tournament. Good for building confidence and getting reps.

34 teams (This edition), 40 teams (2024), 54 teams (2023), 33 teams (2021)

Motions

Earlsfort Open 2025 (2025)8 motions

Round 1THR the rise of online streamers
Round 2THW release the virus
Round 3THBT Ireland should implement Third Party Litigation Funding
Round 4THBT the increasing prominence of progressive challengers (Zohran Mamdani, Graham Platner, Omer Fateh) in primary elections is in the interest of The Democratic Party.
Round 5This house believes that developing states which hold globally significant proportions of critical resources (e.g. energy resources, rare earth minerals, agricultural goods, ores, fresh water) should form resource cartels
SemifinalsTHBT the US Government Should Introduce Its Own Government-Backed Cryptocurrency Rather Than Regulating the Current Cryptocurrency Market.
Novice FinalTHS the decision to select Bad Bunny to perform at the Super Bowl Half time show
Grand FinalAssuming you are an individual born in 2025 in the West, THP to be born into a moderately religous family as opposed to a non-religious one.

What gets set here

Economics25%

Media13%

Abstract13%

Law & Crime13%

Politics13%

Pop Culture13%

Practice Economics 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.

Economics · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Media · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Abstract · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Law & Crime · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Politics · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Pop Culture · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

Built from what this tournament sets most. Import more tabs and this plan tunes itself to your weak spots.

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T-7Read the roomGo through this page once so nothing on the day surprises you.
T-6Work through "Generating arguments"Foundations for Economics motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-5Prep sprint: one Economics motion, 15 minutes, full caseMechanism, actors, weighing. Time it like the real thing.Pull a motion ›
T-4Case-prep past motions this tournament actually setStart with: THR the rise of online streamersMotion archive below ›
T-3One practice round with a partner or clubmateAsk for a Economics motion and your weaker bench.
T-2Second sprint: MediaPull a motion ›
T-1Light review and logisticsReread the numbers above, check the schedule, sleep. No new material the night before.

Breaking here

26% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 76.9.

Last edition: 9 of 34 teams broke.

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Break categories

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

Open break9 teams
Novice break6 teams

How scoring works here

73.8 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 69.9 and 77.7.

This is 0.4 points below tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 80.2

Top-10 pace 77.6

Top-20 pace 76.2

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

Comparable: Macau Debate Open 2026 (75.6), QMUL Open 2026 (72.9)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

Debater	Speech	Motion	Score
🇲🇾 Chris C.	GW	THW release the virus	85
Dhivyah C.	MG	THW release the virus	84
🇮🇪 Rob F.	PM	THR the rise of online streamers	82
🇮🇪 Rob F.	LO	This house believes that developing states which hold globally significant proportions of critical resources (e.g. energy resources, rare earth minerals, agricultural goods, ores, fresh water) should form resource cartels	82
Séb F.	MG	THBT the increasing prominence of progressive challengers (Zohran Mamdani, Graham Platner, Omer Fateh) in primary elections is in the interest of The Democratic Party.	82
Redacted	DPM	THBT the increasing prominence of progressive challengers (Zohran Mamdani, Graham Platner, Omer Fateh) in primary elections is in the interest of The Democratic Party.	82
🇮🇪 Adrianna M.	DLO	THW release the virus	82
🇮🇪 Rob F.	LO	THW release the virus	82
Ziyad A.	DPM	THW release the virus	82
🇮🇪 Anna S.	GW	THBT the increasing prominence of progressive challengers (Zohran Mamdani, Graham Platner, Omer Fateh) in primary elections is in the interest of The Democratic Party.	82
🇮🇪 Adrianna M.	DPM	THR the rise of online streamers	81
🇮🇪 Matthew O.	MO	THW release the virus	81

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