Christmas Holidays IV 2026
What it took to break here, what gets set, and a plan for the week before.
Sat 19 Dec 2026in 72 days
From 1 tab, newest Christmas Holidays IV 2025.
How many points to break?
11points were safe
last time
The last team in averaged 77.7 speaks in 2025.
What will they set?
Out of 8 past motions with a topic, from 1 edition.
Practise Social & Identity motionsLesson: Generating arguments
How many teams, and how many break?
4of 32 teams made the open break
in 2025
Field strength: 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 Social & Identity 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 treat crushes as a valid form of emotional learning rather than trivial i...Past motions
- Ask for a Social & Identity 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.
Christmas Holidays IV 20258 motions
- Round 1This house would treat crushes as a valid form of emotional learning rather than trivial infatuation.Practise this motion
- Round 2This house believes that freedom of speech on social media is primary cause of extreme social division.Practise this motion
- Round 3THP AN EDUCATION SYSTEM THAT HEAVILY EMPHASIZES CULTURAL ASSIMILATION OVER CULTURAL INTEGRATION IN COUNTRIES WITH LARGE ETHNIC MINORITIESPractise this motion
- Round 4This house as African governments would push for capitalist policies over socialist policies.Practise this motion
- Round 5THR the disassociation of the feminist movement with TERFs.Practise this motion
- Novice FinalsTH, as a middle-class individual living in a moral credit society, W sell their moral credits.Practise this motion
- ESL FinalsTH predicts Taiwan will be fully annexed by China within 10 years.Practise this motion
- Open FinalTH, as Todd, W sign the report.Practise 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 break4 teams
- ESL break6 teams
- Novice break8 teams
How speakers score here
Speaker averages and what finishing high has taken.
- average speaker score, 1 edition
- 76.3
- where most speakers land
- 74.6 to 78.0
What finishing high has taken
- Top speaker79.0
- 10th speaker77.6
- 20th speaker76.6
Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.