UNSW Sports IV 2025

2025-11-08 · Australia, Online · BP · Online

Average

A standard open. Solid competition with a mix of experience levels.

35 teams (This edition)

UNSW Sports IV 2025 (2025)7 motions

Round 1This house regrets the rise of GOAT debates in sports media
Round 2This House believes that the WNBA and NBA players' associations should combine into a single union
Round 3This House predicts that, in the next decade, sport will become more violent
Round 4THR the increasing entanglement of politics and sports.
Round 5THP the Māori All Blacks model of indigenous representation to the Haudenosaunee National model.
SemifinalsThis house, as a Christian football-loving politician in the the USA, would prefer to use our final Sunday before election day attending a local NFL game rather than attending a local Christian Church
Grand FinalThis house believes that sport does and has done more harm than good for the working class

Sport86%

Social & Identity14%

What gets set here, next to how you have scored on each category across your own imported rounds.

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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 Sport motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-5Prep sprint: one Sport 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: This house regrets the rise of GOAT debates in sports mediaMotion archive below ›
T-3One practice round with a partner or clubmateAsk for a Sport motion and your weaker bench.
T-2Second sprint: Social & IdentityPull a motion ›
T-1Light review and logisticsReread the numbers above, check the schedule, sleep. No new material the night before.

34% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 8 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 78.3.

Last edition: 12 of 35 teams broke.

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??.?–??.? estimated speaker score

77.7 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 75.2 and 80.1.

This is 2.6 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 81.8

Top-10 pace 80.4

Top-20 pace 78.2

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

Comparable: Tilburg Open 2026 (75.3), Munich Open 2026 (73.6)

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

Debater	Speech	Motion	Score
🇦🇺 Jordyn G.	LO	This House predicts that, in the next decade, sport will become more violent	87
🇦🇺 Elanor P.	DLO	This House predicts that, in the next decade, sport will become more violent	84
🇦🇺 Udai K.	DPM	This house regrets the rise of GOAT debates in sports media	83
🇦🇺 Dhruv H.	LO	THR the increasing entanglement of politics and sports.	83
Speaker B.	MG	THR the increasing entanglement of politics and sports.	83
🇦🇺 Ally P.	DPM	THP the Māori All Blacks model of indigenous representation to the Haudenosaunee National model.	83
🇦🇺 Maya A.	MO	This House predicts that, in the next decade, sport will become more violent	83
🇦🇺 Felix G.	OW	This House predicts that, in the next decade, sport will become more violent	83
🇦🇺 Guy W.	LO	This House predicts that, in the next decade, sport will become more violent	83
🇦🇺 Lachie D.	OW	This House predicts that, in the next decade, sport will become more violent	83
🇦🇺 Elanor P.	DPM	THR the increasing entanglement of politics and sports.	83
🇦🇺 Maya A.	MG	This house regrets the rise of GOAT debates in sports media	82

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