UBC IV 2025

Oct 4, 2025 · Canada · BP

Below Average

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

Based on the 2024 edition. This year’s field isn’t rated yet.

17 teams (This edition), 18 teams (2024)

UBC IV 2025 (2025)6 motions

Round 0THBT charities and campaigning organizations should not use graphic images of suffering in their advocacy.
Round 1THR the rise of art centered around reconciliatory narratives between oppressors and victims
Round 2This house regrets the rise of "cut-off culture"
Round 3TH, as a prominent public health official, W adopt a confrontational rather than a political approach to advocacy
Round 4THBT the Canadian government should lift all tariffs on China.
Grand FinalTHO the rise in online Islamic scholarship

Social & Identity17%

What gets set here, next to how you have scored on each category across your own imported rounds.

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T-7Read the roomGo through this page once so nothing on the day surprises you.
T-6Work through "Weighing arguments"Foundations for Health & Medicine motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-6Work through "Generating arguments"Foundations for Politics motions, the biggest slice of what gets set here.Open the lesson ›
T-5Prep sprint: one Health & Medicine 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: THBT charities and campaigning organizations should not use graphic images of suffering in...Motion archive below ›
T-3One practice round with a partner or clubmateAsk for a Health & Medicine motion and your weaker bench.
T-2Second sprint: PoliticsPull a motion ›
T-1Light review and logisticsReread the numbers above, check the schedule, sleep. No new material the night before.

29% of teams break

Teams usually guarantee their break on 7 points.

Break on speaks? Average at least 74.5.

Last edition: 5 of 17 teams broke.

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74.8 avg speaker score

Most speakers land between 72.8 and 76.9.

What finishing high has taken:

Top speaker pace 79.5

Top-10 pace 73.3

Top-20 pace 75.0

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

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Same kind of motions, same kind of field. Worth running through their past motion sets too.