Berlin 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 2 tabs, newest Berlin Open 2025.
How many points to break?
11points were safe
last time
The last team in averaged 78.4 speaks in 2025.
What will they set?
Out of 15 past motions with a topic, from 2 editions.
How many teams, and how many break?
8of 47 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 “Weighing arguments”
Your prep week starts 6 days before the tournament. 7 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 7 done. Ticks save on this device.
- For Philosophy motions, the topic set most here.Open the lesson
- 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 Supports friends-with-benefits relationshipsPast motions
- Ask for a Philosophy motion on your weaker position.
- Check the schedule and the break line. No new material the night before.Tournament info
Prep timer
Past motions
2 editions with motions on record, newest first.
Berlin Open 20258 motions
- Round 1This House Would break up LVMHPractise this motion
- Round 2This House Would provide welfare in terms of goods and services rather than paychecksPractise this motion
- Round 3This House Supports vigilante paramilitary groups fighting drug cartels in Latin AmericaPractise this motion
- Round 4This House Would create a Balkan Football LeaguePractise this motion
- Round 5This House Prefers peer-to-peer therapyPractise this motion
- SemifinalsThis House Supports friends-with-benefits relationshipsPractise this motion
- Grand FinalThis House Believes That we have no obligation to the deadPractise this motion
- Novice FinalThis House Would ban reality TV (e.g. Keeping up with the Kardashians, America's got Talent, Love is Blind, Survivor etc.)Practise this motion
Berlin Open 20237 motions
- Round 0THW teach children to have a logical approach to life, even at the expense of reducing their emotional bandwidth (e.g. trying to react in less emotional ways, prioritising logic over emotions when approaching problem-solving, etc.).Practise this motion
- Round 0THR the promotion of religion in former communist countries in Eastern Europe.Practise this motion
- Round 0THR YouTube's policy to not monetise 'advertiser-unfriendly' contentPractise this motion
- Round 0THBT the European Central Bank should not continue to increase interest ratesPractise this motion
- Round 0THP a world where the domiant narrative is that one should maximise productivity to one where the dominant narrative is that one should maximise leisure.Practise this motion
- Round 0TH, as the EU, would remove the requirement that Serbia recognises Kosovo.Practise this motion
- Round 0THBT that the use of identity politics as a central campaign tenant by left wing parties in liberal democracies does more harm than goodPractise 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
- 72.2 to 78.1
What finishing high has taken
- Top speaker81.4
- 10th speaker79.2
- 20th speaker77.4
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.