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Sydney Mini 2025
2025-12-12 · Australia, In person · BP
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 ›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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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 |
| 🇦🇺 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 |
| 🇦🇺 Udai K. | DPM | 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. | GW | THS the decision to build Simandou | 84 |
| 🇦🇺 Oliver B. | DLO | THS the decision to build Simandou | 83 |
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