Tournaments
Dennings Debating Championship 2026
What it took to break at this edition, what was set and who set it.
Fri 7 Aug 2026
From 1 tab, newest Dennings Debating Championship 2026.
How many points did it take?
4points were safe
in 2026
The last team in averaged 71.0 speaks in 2026.
What will they set?
- Philosophy2 of 8
- Social & Identity2 of 8
- Sport1 of 8
- Technology1 of 8
Out of 8 past motions with a topic, from 1 edition.
How many teams, and how many break?
8of 28 teams broke
in 2026
Past motions
1 edition with motions on record, newest first.
Dennings Debating Championship 20268 motions
- Round 1As an aspiring athlete, this house prefers “to burn bright and short” than to “go slow and steady”Practise this motion
- Round 2THBT Western governments should implement strict capital requirements on AI firms (e.g loan-to-value limits, selective monetary tightening, setting balance sheet stress tests, capital adequacy requirements)Practise this motion
- Round 3This house believes that Pakistan should aggressively expand Special Economic Zones.Practise this motion
- Round 4This house, as the environmental preservation movement, would prioritize advocating for efforts to protect keystone species over endangered speciesPractise this motion
- Round 5THP a world without (the concept of) intellectual propertyPractise this motion
- QuarterfinalsThis house, as the feminist movement, supports the rise of extreme satirical misandry in pop musicPractise this motion
- SemifinalsThis House Prefers a World where friendship groups widely use and implement social courtsPractise this motion
- Grand FinalThis house Predicts a world war between major global powers will occur within the next fifteen yearsPractise this motion
How speakers score here
Speaker averages and what finishing high has taken.
- average speaker score, 1 edition
- 69.9
- where most speakers land
- 68.3 to 71.4
What finishing high has taken
- Top speaker73.2
- 10th speaker71.5
- 20th speaker70.8
Median speaker average at each finishing spot, 1 edition.