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Manchester Novices 2025

2025-12-06 · England, In person · BP

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The field

Below Average

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

44 teams (This edition), 37 teams (2024)

Motions

Manchester Novices 2025 (2025)7 motions
  • Round 1This House would abolish trial by jury.
  • Round 2This House opposes the narrative that love is sacrifice.
  • Round 3This House would allow workers providing public services (e.g. doctors, teachers, train drivers, bin collectors) to be terminated for going on strike.
  • Round 4This House believes that feminists in China should try to popularise ‘leftover man’ as an equivalent to 'leftover woman'.
  • Gold FinalThis House regrets the de-industrialisation of the United Kingdom.
  • Silver FinalsThis House prefers to be Elsa as opposed to Lena.
  • Non-schools FinalsThis House predicts that Reform UK will be in government after the next UK general election.

What gets set here

Law & Crime29%
Social & Identity29%
Economics14%
Abstract14%
Politics14%

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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.

  • Law & Crime · 29% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Social & Identity · 29% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Economics · 14% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Abstract · 14% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Politics · 14% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

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Breaking here

27% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 72.8.

Last edition: 12 of 44 teams broke.

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How scoring works here

72.0 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 70.0 and 74.1.

This is 1.6 points below tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 76.0

Top-10 pace 74.3

Top-20 pace 73.3

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

Comparable: QMUL Open 2026 (72.9), NUDC Untan 2026 (70.8)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
Adrian K.DLOThis House opposes the narrative that love is sacrifice.79
India H.MGThis House would abolish trial by jury.78
Hubert S.LOThis House opposes the narrative that love is sacrifice.78
Victoria B.DPMThis House opposes the narrative that love is sacrifice.78
Kevin Z.LOThis House believes that feminists in China should try to popularise ‘leftover man’ as an equivalent to 'leftover woman'.78
Oliver R.PMThis House opposes the narrative that love is sacrifice.77
Daniel R.DLOThis House would abolish trial by jury.77
Evelyn F.LOThis House would abolish trial by jury.77
Dominic L.LOThis House opposes the narrative that love is sacrifice.77
India H.MOThis House opposes the narrative that love is sacrifice.77
Eito S.PMThis House would abolish trial by jury.77
Yiya Z.MGThis House opposes the narrative that love is sacrifice.77

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