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Macquarie Commonwealth DC 2026

2026-02-07 · Australia, In person · AP

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10 teams (This edition)

Motions

Macquarie Commonwealth DC 2026 (2026)18 motions
  • Round 1That we oppose the NCAA's decision to allow colleges to pay student athletes.
  • Round 1That, as the young swimmer, we would participate in the enhanced games.
  • Round 1That we should allow countries to set their own time zones rather than forcing countries to abide strictly by time zones set by longitude
  • Round 2That, as the Democrats, we would make abolishing ICE a key part of our mid-term election campaign
  • Round 2That we believe that the election of Donald Trump in 2024 was not in the interests of these business leaders
  • Round 2That we prefer a world where US political parties had much higher levels of discipline and organisation
  • Round 3That it was morally wrong for parents to accept confidential settlements from the Catholic Church on behalf of their children for abuse committed by clergymen
  • Round 3That we would have a child rather than donate a kidney
  • Round 3That we regret Julia Gillard's 2012 Misogyny Speech
  • Round 4That we should criminalise sex-by-deception
  • Round 4That we prefer the use of entertainment bans rather than community service orders for sentencing low-level violent offenders (e.g assault)
  • Round 4That Australian defamation law should apply a fault-based standard rather than a strict liability standard
  • Round 5That we should give the Reserve Bank of Australia the power to raise or lower the proportion of your pay package that is mandatorily contributed to superannuation
  • Round 5That we support re-establishing the Loan Council in Australia
  • Round 5That Sussan Ley will still be Opposition Leader in a month
  • Grand FinalThat we oppose the deal between Sanchez and the Catalan nationalist parties
  • Grand FinalThat Nigel Farage will not be the next Prime Minister of the UK
  • Grand FinalThat Ayatollah Khamenei will no longer be the Supreme Leader of Iran by 2027

You vs this tournament

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  • Philosophy · 39% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Politics · 22% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Law & Crime · 22% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Technology · 17% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Education · 6% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
  • Sport · 6% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

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Breaking here

20% of teams break

Break on speaks? Average at least 77.1.

Last edition: 2 of 10 teams broke.

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How scoring works here

76.0 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 74.7 and 77.3.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 78.2

Top-10 pace 76.6

Top-20 pace 75.8

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

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