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Athens IV 2025

2025-12-13 · Greece, In person · BP

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The field

Above Average

A competitive tournament. Good preparation ground for larger events.

40 teams (This edition), 34 teams (2024)

Motions

Athens IV 2025 (2025)8 motions
  • Round 1THO the glorification of stable lifestyles
  • Round 2TH, as Trump, W pursue executive measures to block the release of the Epstien files.
  • Round 3THBT Federal regulators should prevent WB from exiting the acquisition agreement with Netflix.
  • Round 4THP a norm where families place the elderly into care facillities as opposed to a norm where the elderly move into the family home
  • Round 5TH, as New Democracy, would replace lost E.U. subsudies with immediate state subsidies to farmers.
  • Partial QuarterfinalsTHP a conversational to an introspective approach to therapy
  • SemifinalsTHO the rise of debt financing among startups
  • Grand FinalTH, as Clymenestra, W kill Agamemnon

What gets set here

Economics38%
Social & Identity25%
Politics13%
Health & Medicine13%
Fiction13%

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Practice Economics motions ›Read: Generating arguments

You vs this tournament

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

  • Economics · 38% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Social & Identity · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Politics · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Health & Medicine · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Fiction · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

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Breaking here

30% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 9 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 78.1.

Last edition: 12 of 40 teams broke.

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How scoring works here

76.4 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 73.2 and 79.6.

This is 0.5 points above tournaments of similar calibre.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 82.4

Top-10 pace 80.0

Top-20 pace 78.8

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

Comparable: Meta Open 2026 (74.8), Durham IV 2025 (75.5)

Top speeches

The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.

DebaterSpeechMotionScore
🇬🇧 Cassius J.MGTHBT Federal regulators should prevent WB from exiting the acquisition agreement with Netflix.85
🇬🇧 Tanush A.GWTHBT Federal regulators should prevent WB from exiting the acquisition agreement with Netflix.85
🇬🇧 Nicole H.MGTHP a norm where families place the elderly into care facillities as opposed to a norm where the elderly move into the family home85
🇬🇧 Hans D.OWTHP a norm where families place the elderly into care facillities as opposed to a norm where the elderly move into the family home84
🇬🇧 Andy Y.GWTHBT Federal regulators should prevent WB from exiting the acquisition agreement with Netflix.84
🇧🇬 Velina A.MOTH, as Trump, W pursue executive measures to block the release of the Epstien files.84
🇬🇧 Maximus P.OWTH, as Trump, W pursue executive measures to block the release of the Epstien files.84
Aidan W.MGTHBT Federal regulators should prevent WB from exiting the acquisition agreement with Netflix.84
🇬🇧 Zainab S.PMTHP a norm where families place the elderly into care facillities as opposed to a norm where the elderly move into the family home83
🇧🇬 Velina A.MGTHP a norm where families place the elderly into care facillities as opposed to a norm where the elderly move into the family home83
🇬🇧 Maximus P.DPMTHBT Federal regulators should prevent WB from exiting the acquisition agreement with Netflix.83
🇬🇧 Maximus P.GWTHP a norm where families place the elderly into care facillities as opposed to a norm where the elderly move into the family home83

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