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Sydney Mini 2025
2025-12-12 · Australia, In person · BP
Motions from this series
Sydney Mini 2025 (2025)8 motions
- Round 1aTHBT the Dalai Lama should have announced his succession through emanation into an adult rather than through reincarnation.
- Round 1bTHW require all parties to legal proceedings that require lawyers, whether civil or criminal, to be assigned a government supplied lawyer rather than being able to instruct their own
- Round 2THS the decision to build Simandou
- Round 3THW ban advertising aimed at people in periods of acute vulnerability (e.g. those close to death from terminal illness, those experiencing substantial grief)
- Round 4THBT governments should prioritise regulating the uses of AI over regulating the development and training of AI models
- Round 5THBT developing countries should introduce significant rewards for local officials whose regions achieve high rates of economic growth
- SemifinalsTHO people narrativising their own suffering (i.e. interpreting individual experiences of suffering as part of a overarching story)
- Grand FinalTHBT it is in the interests of the Chinese people for China to form a security for access agreement with Venezuela
Sydney Mini 2024 (2024)10 motions
- Round 1aThis house opposes the expectation to publicly take sides and be vocal on social networks in times of social, economic, or political upheaval
- Round 1bThis house, as a 25-year old woman in the United States, would participate in the 4B movement
- Round 2This house believes that juvenile detention facilities should involve significantly less 'punitive' elements (e.g., comfortable accommodation, access to recreational activities) and have significantly longer sentences
- Round 3This house regrets Operation Just Cause
- Round 4This house believes that it is in the interest of left-wing parties in Europe (e.g., BSW in Germany, the New Popular Front in France, the Left Party in Sweden) to support harsh immigration policies (including but not limited to advocating for limits on legal immigration, stronger penalties for irregular migration, and tighter asylum regulations)
- Round 5This house would abolish income tax and replace it with a property tax
- QuarterfinalsThis house opposes the narrative that hardship builds character.
- SemifinalsThis house believes that antitrust regulators should limit institutional investors to ownership of one firm per concentrated industry
- Grand FinalThis house would establish an international force to arrest those indicted by the International Criminal Court
- Novice FinalsThis house believes that the Biden administration had a more positive impact on the United States than the Obama administration
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 & Identity21%
Law & Crime17%
Politics17%
International Relations15%
Economics13%
Arts & Culture6%
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34% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 12 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 79.6.
Last edition: 8 of 24 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
- 20249 pts · 79.4 speaks16/44
- 20259 pts · 80.5 speaks8/24
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Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 Ally P. | DPM | THS the decision to build Simandou | 87 |
| 🇦🇺 Jordyn G. | DPM | THBT the Dalai Lama should have announced his succession through emanation into an adult rather than through reincarnation. | 86 |
| 🇦🇺 Dhruv H. | PM | THS the decision to build Simandou | 85 |
| 🇦🇺 Bennett R. | PM | THBT the Dalai Lama should have announced his succession through emanation into an adult rather than through reincarnation. | 85 |
| 🇦🇺 Jehiel P. | OW | THBT the Dalai Lama should have announced his succession through emanation into an adult rather than through reincarnation. | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Udai K. | DPM | THS the decision to build Simandou | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Neva M. | GW | THS the decision to build Simandou | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Jack S. | PM | THS the decision to build Simandou | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Oliver B. | MO | THBT the Dalai Lama should have announced his succession through emanation into an adult rather than through reincarnation. | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Archie W. | MG | THS the decision to build Simandou | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Neva M. | DLO | THW ban advertising aimed at people in periods of acute vulnerability (e.g. those close to death from terminal illness, those experiencing substantial grief) | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Oliver B. | DLO | THS the decision to build Simandou | 83 |
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