ANU Spring 2026

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Part of the ANU Spring series →

The field

Premier

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

Based on the 2025 edition. This year’s field isn’t rated yet.

54 teams (2025), 45 teams (2023), 85 teams (2021)

Motions from this series

ANU Spring 2025 (2025)8 motions

Round 1This house supports the use of welfare systems to promote socially utile choices in people's personal lives (e.g. decisions about relationships, fertility and living arrangements)
Round 2This house believes that Australia should nationalise its struggling heavy industrial plants rather than subsidising private owners to run them
Round 3This house, as the Catholic Church, supports the growing number of conversions inspired by right-wing online “Trad Cath” communities
Round 4This house supports the academisation of creative arts
Round 5This house supports the establishment of government run grocery stores in urban food deserts
SemifinalsThis house supports the sex exceptionalist view of sexual harm
Novice FinalThis house believes that history is thick rather than thin
Grand FinalThis house believes that the US rescue package for Argentina is in the interests of the Trump administration

What gets set here

Politics25%

Economics13%

Religion13%

Education13%

Law & Crime13%

Philosophy13%

Practice Politics 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.

Politics · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Economics · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Religion · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Education · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Law & Crime · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Philosophy · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet

This week's plan

Built from what this tournament sets most. Import more tabs and this plan tunes itself to your weak spots.

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T-7Read the roomGo through this page once so nothing on the day surprises you.
T-6Work through "Generating arguments"Foundations for Politics motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-5Prep sprint: one Politics motion, 15 minutes, full caseMechanism, actors, weighing. Time it like the real thing.Pull a motion ›
T-4Case-prep past motions this tournament actually setStart with: This house supports the use of welfare systems to promote socially utile choices in people...Motion archive below ›
T-3One practice round with a partner or clubmateAsk for a Politics motion and your weaker bench.
T-2Second sprint: EconomicsPull a motion ›
T-1Light review and logisticsReread the numbers above, check the schedule, sleep. No new material the night before.Tournament info ›

Breaking here

20% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 10 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 79.8.

Last edition: 11 of 54 teams broke.

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Break categories

This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:

Open break11 teams
Novice break6 teams

How scoring works here

77.6 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 75.3 and 79.8.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 82.3

Top-10 pace 80.5

Top-20 pace 79.5

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

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Prep with these too

Same kind of motions, same kind of field. Worth running through their past motion sets too.

Amsterdam Open 202582% topic match
Oxford Brazil 202673% topic match
DTU Monsoons Pre-ABP71% topic match
Vivaatam Pre-ABP 202670% topic match
Dutch EUDC 202670% topic match