Tournaments
Mahaffey Memorial @ Linfield University
A plan for the week before, and past motions from tournaments like it to practise on.
Sat 14 Nov 2026in 37 days
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Work through “Generating arguments”
Your prep week starts 6 days before the tournament. 6 tasks in the plan below.
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- A method for the moment a motion leaves you blank.Open the lesson
- Mechanism, actors, weighing. Use the prep timer below.Pull a motion
- Start with: This House Prefers significantly fewer Americans going to collegeThe motions
- Ask for a motion neither of you has prepped.
- Check the schedule. No new material the night before.
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Tournaments like it
Each is coming up and has past tabs here. The motions are from its newest one.
- Yale IV 2026Sat 31 Oct 2026 · In person, New Haven, CTAlso in North America
- 2025, Round 1This House Prefers significantly fewer Americans going to collegePractise this motion
- 2025, Round 2This House Regrets the rise in content warningsPractise this motion
- Hart House IV 2026Fri 16 Oct 2026 · In person, Toronto, CanadaAlso in North America
- 2025, Round 1This house supports widespread social and legal norms against artistic interpolation.Practise this motion
- 2025, Round 2From behind a veil of ignorance, this house would choose to be born into old money rather than as someone who will become new money in their twenties.Practise this motion
- Ottawa WUDC 2027Sun 27 Dec 2026 · In person, Ottawa, ON, CanadaAlso in North America
- 2026, Round 1This House believes that Bulgaria should adopt a progressive tax systemPractise this motion
- 2026, Round 2This House prefers a world where all religions prohibited visual depictions of the divine over a world where such depictions were central to all religionsPractise this motion
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