Skopje Open 2026
What it took to break here, what gets set, and a plan for the week before.
Sat 17 Oct 2026in 9 days
From 1 tab, newest Skopje Open 2025.
How many points to break?
10points were safe
last time
The last team in averaged 77.6 speaks in 2025.
What will they set?
Out of 8 past motions with a topic, from 1 edition.
How many teams, and how many break?
8of 33 teams made the open break
in 2025
Field strength: Below Average in 2025, from the ratings of the debaters who went.
What should you do first?
Work through “Generating arguments”
Your prep week starts 6 days before the tournament. 6 tasks in the plan below.
Your chance of breaking here and your average on each topic this tournament sets, from your own tab.
Import a tabYour prep week
Built on the topics set most here. Import your tab and it switches to your weakest topics.
0 of 6 done. Ticks save on this device.
- For Politics motions, the topic set most here.Open the lesson
- Mechanism, actors, weighing. Use the prep timer below.Pull a motion
- Start with: This House would elect university rectors and deans through a vote of students and academi...Past motions
- Ask for a Politics motion on your weaker position.
- Check the schedule and the break line. No new material the night before.Tournament info
Prep timer
Past motions
1 edition with motions on record, newest first.
Skopje Open 20258 motions
- Round 1This House Regrets the rise of mixed martial arts.Practise this motion
- Round 2This House would elect university rectors and deans through a vote of students and academic staffPractise this motion
- Round 3This House regrets the emergence of music streaming platforms (e.g. Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer,...).Practise this motion
- Round 4This House Believes That post conflict governments should recruit rebel soldiers into state armies.Practise this motion
- Round 5This House Believes that excluding countries from international cultural and sporting events due to their governments’ actions does more harm than goodPractise this motion
- SemifinalsThis House Prefers a world without the smartphonePractise this motion
- Grand FinalThis House Predicts That global Gen-Z protests (e.g. Nepal, Madagascar, Indonesia) against repressive regimes will do more harm than goodPractise this motion
- Novice FinalThis House Believes That, when allocating resources to their children, working class families should allocate most of their resources to support the most talented child in the familyPractise this motion
The break, year by year
The points that were safe, the last team in and how many broke, at each edition with results.
Every break in 2025
- Open break8 teams
- Novice break4 teams
How speakers score here
Speaker averages and what finishing high has taken.
- average speaker score, 1 edition
- 75.1
- where most speakers land
- 72.4 to 77.8
What finishing high has taken
- Top speaker79.6
- 10th speaker78.0
- 20th speaker77.0
Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.
Prep these too
Coming up, and their past motions cover the same topics. Topic match is how alike the two topic mixes are: 100% would be the same mix.