Berlin Open 2026

54 days away · In Person, Berlin, Germany · BP

The field

Below Average

A smaller or newer tournament. Good for building confidence and getting reps.

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

47 teams (2025)

Motions from this series

Berlin Open 2025 (2025)8 motions

Round 1This House Would break up LVMH
Round 2This House Would provide welfare in terms of goods and services rather than paychecks
Round 3This House Supports vigilante paramilitary groups fighting drug cartels in Latin America
Round 4This House Would create a Balkan Football League
Round 5This House Prefers peer-to-peer therapy
SemifinalsThis House Supports friends-with-benefits relationships
Grand FinalThis House Believes That we have no obligation to the dead
Novice FinalThis House Would ban reality TV (e.g. Keeping up with the Kardashians, America's got Talent, Love is Blind, Survivor etc.)

What gets set here

Economics25%

Social & Identity25%

International Relations13%

Sport13%

Health & Medicine13%

Media13%

Practice Economics 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.

Economics · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Social & Identity · 25% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
International Relations · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Sport · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Health & Medicine · 13% of motions hereno rounds on record yet
Media · 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 Economics motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-5Prep sprint: one Economics 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 Would break up LVMHMotion archive below ›
T-3One practice round with a partner or clubmateAsk for a Economics motion and your weaker bench.
T-2Second sprint: Social & IdentityPull a motion ›
T-1Light review and logisticsReread the numbers above, check the schedule, sleep. No new material the night before.Tournament info ›

Breaking here

17% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 11 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 78.4.

Last edition: 8 of 47 teams broke.

~??% estimated break chance

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Break categories

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

Open break8 teams
Novice break4 teams

How scoring works here

75.1 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 72.2 and 78.1.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 81.4

Top-10 pace 79.2

Top-20 pace 77.4

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

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