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Sydney Mini 2025

2025-12-12 · Australia, In person · BP

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The field

Premier

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

24 teams (This edition), 44 teams (2024), 36 teams (2023), 35 teams (2022), 42 teams (2019)

Motions

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

What gets set here

Law & Crime25%
Economics25%
Religion13%
Technology13%
Social & Identity13%
International Relations13%

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Practice Law & Crime motions ›Read: Linear flow

You vs this tournament

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

  • Law & Crime · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Economics · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Religion · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Technology · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Social & Identity · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • International Relations · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

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Breaking here

33% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 9 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 80.5.

Last edition: 8 of 24 teams broke.

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How scoring works here

79.2 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 77.5 and 80.9.

This is 2.6 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 82.4

Top-10 pace 80.8

Top-20 pace 79.6

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
🇦🇺 Ally P.DPMTHS the decision to build Simandou87
🇦🇺 Jordyn G.DPMTHBT the Dalai Lama should have announced his succession through emanation into an adult rather than through reincarnation.86
🇦🇺 Dhruv H.PMTHS the decision to build Simandou85
🇦🇺 Bennett R.PMTHBT the Dalai Lama should have announced his succession through emanation into an adult rather than through reincarnation.85
🇦🇺 Jehiel P.OWTHBT the Dalai Lama should have announced his succession through emanation into an adult rather than through reincarnation.84
🇦🇺 Neva M.DLOTHW ban advertising aimed at people in periods of acute vulnerability (e.g. those close to death from terminal illness, those experiencing substantial grief)84
🇦🇺 Udai K.DPMTHS the decision to build Simandou84
🇦🇺 Jack S.PMTHS the decision to build Simandou84
🇦🇺 Oliver B.MOTHBT the Dalai Lama should have announced his succession through emanation into an adult rather than through reincarnation.84
🇦🇺 Archie W.MGTHS the decision to build Simandou84
🇦🇺 Neva M.GWTHS the decision to build Simandou84
🇦🇺 Oliver B.DLOTHS the decision to build Simandou83

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